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Conservatives head for German election victory but far-right AfD set for second place, exit polls say (www.bbc.com)

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The conservative CDU/CSU party is expected to be the largest party in the next German parliament with 30% of the vote, according to the first two exit polls Friedrich Merz, 69, is in pole position to become Germany's next chancellor The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is set to become the second biggest force in the country, with a record 20% of the vote, according to exit polls

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At least it's not AfD, not much better but not the worst possible outcome. WTF though Germany?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Similar to US, Germany is very popular with immigrants. Since 1989, there's been a constant flow of people heading towards it.

Also similar to US, most of those immigrants made a home for themselves in Germany. And having built a sense of stability and security for themselves, they felt reluctant to lose it in favour of less friendlier later arrivals.

Germany itself can't provide or accommodate fast enough for the waves of destitute immigrants that were led (intentionally or not) within its borders, so a lot of small crime went unpunished.

Eventually, circumstances led to a much more fearful local populace that are desperate enough to vote for anyone promising them some peace and quiet, at almost any cost.

And a fearful voter is a despicable politician's wet dream.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

According to a small survey done among gay men, AfD was their choice, specially among young gay men.

https://www.romeo.com/en/blog/election-survey-results/

Were honestly so screwed.

[–] RamblingPanda 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We really need to invest in education. Twenty years ago. Maybe thirty.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Education is not the problem. It's painfully obvious that big tech is colluding with oligarchs and their corporations/lobbyists to brainwash their user base with disinformation.

We need to invest in outlawing surveillance capitalism, along with all the psychological profiling, warfare, and information islands/bubbles it is designed to amplify.

[–] RamblingPanda 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Something shielded me from it, and I basically live in the internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I do too, but I don't use conventional social media so I'm not spoon fed information based on some algorithm of my historic activity. I actively avoid using "accounts" pretty much everywhere until I need to buy something.

The way I receive information is more like RSS and crowdsourcing.

Either way, they don't need to target everyone. They just need to target the most ignorant subset of the population.