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German Federal Election 23rd February 2025

Started by Zanza, November 12, 2024, 02:53:24 PM

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Who do you vote for?

2 (10%)
2 (10%)
2 (10%)
5 (25%)
6 (30%)
3 (15%)

Total Members Voted: 20

Admiral Yi

Voted 6.  Least angry looking.  Bald Poindexter is 2nd.  #4 looks like the first female Bond villain.

Zanza

#1 is Olaf Scholz, the current chancellor, from the Social Democrats. This party has been in government for 22 of the last 26 years. The true conservative party closest to the status quo.
He is a poor communicator, was not able to reign in his coalition so they fought from day one. Has partial dementia about his role in a big tax heist when he was finance minister.

#2 is Friedrich Merz, Leader of the Conservatives. He was Merkel's big competitor in the early 2000s, but she won and he left for twenty years. He worked at Blackrock, earning millions, but still considering himself middle class. His policy is actually reactionary - go back to the 80s/90s. Almost certainly the next chancellor, but he will have a hard time to form a majority.

#3 is Robert Habeck, from the Greens, the woke party. They lost massively in popularity as people find climate change important, but are not willing to pay for avoiding it. Also the Greens engage a lot into wokemess and are pro-refugees, which has become very unpopular. Himself a talented communicator, but could in the end not convince people.

#4 is Alice Weidel, leader of the AfD, the fascist party. The AfD is for authoritarian rule, against immigrants, likes Argentina's Milei's ideas about the economy and is pro-Putin. Unlike other such parties in Europe, they are not moderating to be able to govern, but rather move towards being a full-blown Nazi party. Their leader Weidel is a lesbian married to a migrant and lives in Switzerland.

#5 is Sarah Wagenknecht, her party is named after her and split off from the Left (former GDR ruling party) last year. Enigmatic program, but seems to confirm the horseshoe theory. Against immigrants, against American influence, pro-Putin, was founded by millionaires, but used to be a convinced Stalinist.

#6 is Christian Lindner, former Finance minister, of the Liberals. His party has a fetish for fiscal austerity, wants to lower taxes for the one percent and has very rarely still some other liberal ideas, e.g. on civil liberties. Very weakened, will probably not get into parliament anymore.


Maladict

Great, so even Languish is voting fascist now.

celedhring

So all the girls are fascy? Damn, that limits my options. :(

I'll go green I guess. I recall they were pro-Ukraine.

Tonitrus

Quote from: Maladict on November 13, 2024, 01:13:55 AMGreat, so even Languish is voting fascist now.

Languish has always had that "She-Wolf of the SS" fetish.

Crazy_Ivan80

Quote from: Zanza on November 13, 2024, 12:11:30 AMThe listing...

Heh, looks I did pay just enough attention to get enough of them right.  :)

Syt

Except Habeck I find all the persons shown there reprehensible in one way or other.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Zanza

Quote from: Syt on November 13, 2024, 02:07:26 AMExcept Habeck I find all the persons shown there reprehensible in one way or other.
Same.

Barrister

Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Duque de Bragança

Quote from: Tonitrus on November 13, 2024, 01:52:35 AM
Quote from: Maladict on November 13, 2024, 01:13:55 AMGreat, so even Languish is voting fascist now.

Languish has always had that "She-Wolf of the SS" fetish.

Well, since no shown candidate is filling Dyanne Thorne's... shoes it will remain just a fantasy I guess.  :P

Grey Fox

Quote from: Maladict on November 13, 2024, 01:13:55 AMGreat, so even Languish is voting fascist now.

I mean, aren't you voting based on looks & if you would like to see the candidates naked?
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

viper37

I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

Habbaku

I knew who all but one of them were, so made my vote in an informed manner. :pickelhaube:
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

Admiral Yi

I was hoping for some props for spotting Elsa.  <_<