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[–] 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

At this point we have to contend with small wins like Die Linke getting almost 10% of the vote in Germany, Elon Musk getting bullied out of politics, and Carney winning in Canada.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Unfortunately Musk didn't get bullied out of politics, his office was always meant to expire at the beginning of May. He achieved what he set out to do: dismantling federal government completely to make deruglation, tax avoidance and corruption much easier.

    This is just him doing the typical right wing martyrdom whining whenever somebody criticises them.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Die Linke (Formel SPD) used to be close to a majority in our parents time.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Idk what you mean by that, the SPD was always centre left, at least since Bismarck times. Sure, they moved to be basically no-opinion-at-all centrism recently, but it is not like they were the shining sunshine of socialism before.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    The Die Linke of today is popular for the positions of the SPD of the past.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Maybe you are older than me. In the last ~20 years that I was old enough to understand the news, the SPD was always the center-left party and the Left/PDS the far left (for a non-fringe party) one. Fugging hell, my conservative grandma voted SPD because she dislikes Merz for his AfD bullshit back in January, and she is everything but left-wing.

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