[–] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

Welcome to the German gerontocracy. The obsolute majority gives a fuck about anything other than living their remaining years as well as possible, conservative politicians have completely abondoned actual topics, positions and discussions for the most rediculous culture war bullshit imaginable and the media is parroting their narratives 24/7.

Any actual progress is drowned in propaganda to reverse its effect (for example the law change to reduce co2 in the heating sector managed -after months of lies and desinformation- to create a massive boom in gas-heating instead).

And just yesterday the CDU in opposition (and biggest party by polls) demanded to revert the EU's ban on combustion engines (that doesn't exist in the first place but is just a conclusion following co2 reduction goals) and other climate goals (including those implmentd by them years ago) because we can't strain German people and the economy with "EV madness"...

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Why are the AfD's actual narratives and goals still sugar-coated in every international retelling?

    No they did not "discuss expelling immigrants from the country".

    The discussed nothing less than the deportation of immigrants, German citizens with a generational immigration background and for good measure also adding German citizens not agreeing to that.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Behind closed doors in the actual workings of the EU things are different.

    But there is an universal law that you can always dress unpopular but neccessary EU decisions or compromises as "Germany made us do it" at home and can always get bonus points if you tell the story how you bravely fought Germany to push through a popular EU decision.

    Basically the same propaganda for domestic a audience in slightly modified form that Orban has made an art form in Hungary.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    and falsely imply that they are being

    antisemitic

    No, in the majority of cases this is not a false implication but a documented fact. And even if they are not antisemites themselves those people are always happy to stand side-by-side with antisemites if those amplify their messaging, but out of the completely wrong reasons.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    That already happened a long time ago.

    On one hand nazi is just a meaningless word for "I don't agree with them" but on the other hand the actual risk are all those left-green fascist degenerates trying to destroy the country... Why would the fascists have called themselves national socialists if they weren't left. *wink wink*

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Germany actually has a stricter domestic law already than what the EU is doing here.

    But reality of course never matters. As long as Europeans can tell themselves the fairy tale of how they successfully fought those bad Germans for every slightly positive achievement, they are happy. Even if it's actually too little or meaningless or just virtue-signaling. Or several of those things combined...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Rechtsextreme Straftaten steigen massiv -> die Gesamtmenge an Straftaten in der Statistik steigt -> "Wir müssen endlich die ganzten kriminellen Ausländer abschieben, um Deutschland wieder sicher zu machen!" -> und wieder zurück zu Schritt 1...

    Scheint doch alles wie am Schnürchen zu laufen.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago*

    Nope, this is "Your system ran out of memory and now this program isn't reacting anymore (it's trying to allocate memory but there is no free memory left). Please stop the program or try to get rid of some of its subprocesses to free up memory."

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Nope, it needs governmental regulations.

    Financing-wise renewable energy has long surpassed fossil fuels. It's not capitalists in general blocking the change as they would make a lot of money. This is very specifically about a small amount of individuals making their money in fossil fuels and spending a lot on lobbying to slow the transition down as they try to squeeze as much out of their business model as possible before it runs against a wall they can already see (but try to hide from the consumer).

    The same is true in other sectors, for example in traffic where totally insane bullshit gets pushed (hyper-loops, air taxis etc.) as magical alternatives to actually working public transport. That's also not some business that will ever make money. It's a diversion by people who want to keep making money in a very specific field (CE cars) before that whole sector also dies off. Also the scaling effect in EV production as well as improvements and development still have a massive potential with much money to be made by the people investing into a still developing and growing market. Unlike the dying market of combustion engines that competes on miniscule optimisations of the status quo still possible. Yet the very same companies knowing that combustion engines are dead and not even working on developing a next line but instead focusing on electric drives, still do marketing like the opposite would be true so they can sell that trash with no future perspective as long as possible.

    There is quiet a lot to say against capitalism, but at the moment we don't have a capitalism problem (at least not where climate action is involved) but one of corruption that helps a few people to keep failing businesses alive a bit longer at the expense of everyone including capitalists in the future businesses that will replace them.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Obviously the emissions are the controllable. Blaming this on El Niño [...]

    Nobody is actually blaming anything on El Niño. El Niño simply covered up how bad it was already for some time.
    Which also means those emissions are indeed not controllable. Because they have happened years ago and we still can't do time travel. That's the whole actual point of talking about El Niño here.

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