Here is the best article I could find on this.
The Greens' surge in popularity comes after the party on Monday named co-chair Annalena Baerbock, 40, as its first candidate for chancellor. The nomination of Ms Baerbock, a centrist who advocates a greener economy and a tougher foreign policy stance on Russia and China, has been widely praised.
Hopefully the Christian Democrat Union won't be on top any more.
I'll accept everyone calling me an incrementalist :LIB: and if the Greens win you won't find me celebrating, but jesus fucking christ it'd still be such a step up from the current state of affairs if only for the fact that they'd do green capitalism.
It's been 16 FUCKING years of nothing being changed. Literally my entire conscious life the government has been blocking any changes into any direction. I'm not going to go celebrate if the greens win, but if they do they might bring about an understanding that the government can actually fucking change things because in general, people here have forgot that this is an option. I don't even know how to articulate this to people of other nations that we've had a government of 16 years which ran (and won) on the basis of "Let's pretend it's 1991" and nothing fucking else.
I'm not advocating to vote for the greens. But fucking hell, it's germanys bernie moment for all it's worth. It ain't good, but it's better.
Yeah of course, the stance on Russia and China is fucking bad. You won't find any better stance with any party except Die Linke which has no realistic chance of being anything but a minor coalition partner or the AfD (the nazi party) which isn't against russia, but for the wrong reasons.
It definitely isn't.
Doesn't matter. If you wouldn't even vote for Die Linke over the greens you are turbolib.
Good god man, I'm not voting for the green capitalists but against the backdrop of 16 years of inaction you can still be slightly optimistic that they'd at least do literally anything
Alright I misinterpreted that comment. But eh alright perhaps it might be marginally better. I mean I definitely prefer just about anyone to Merkel, being Greek and all...
Yeah, which is where all my optimism comes from.
Sorry n' all, I swear I didn't vote for these ghouls.
Incidentally nationalists here don't like Die Linke but they like the greens because they think they'll grind their teeth at Turkey or whatever. Meanwhile Die Linke is the only major German party that (to my knowledge) has advocated for paying proper reparations to Greece for WWII. It's very funny because more than 10% of all people in Greece died, 80% of all industry, 90% of ports, roads, railways and bridges and 28% of infrastructure was destroyed, AND the central bank was forced to give a zero interest loan to the Nazis which came at about half a billion marks, and after all that Greece received a bit more than 100 million marks in the 60s and that was supposed to be decent reparations.
fucking cringe, couldn't be me
This isn't an attack against you BUT BOY HOWDY WONDER WHY THE FUCK THAT IS JESUS FUCKING CHRIST :knifecat:
I wanted to say, I don't even think it's reasonable to ask for whatever insane figure some board here came up with a few years ago (I think it was more than 200 billion) but like, come the fuck on. Even symbolically it's just pathetic to not even return the total amount that was stolen when the country is the biggest economy in the entire Europe and clearly able to do so. Like, even leaving aside the incredible loss of life and infrastructural devastation, that's just clown shit. I usually roll my eyes when people here go on and on about x stupid thing that is supposed to be a super strong argument for other countries to just write off our debt or whatever but when I researched the reparations thing I was like wtf how is this real?