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.

  • Pezevenk [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    it’s germanys bernie moment for all it’s worth

    It definitely isn't.

    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

    Doesn't matter. If you wouldn't even vote for Die Linke over the greens you are turbolib.

    • 5bicycles [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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

      • Pezevenk [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        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...

        • 5bicycles [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          But eh alright perhaps it might be marginally better

          Yeah, which is where all my optimism comes from.

          being Greek and all…

          Sorry n' all, I swear I didn't vote for these ghouls.

          • Pezevenk [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            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.

            • 5bicycles [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Incidentally nationalists here don’t like Die Linke but they like the greens

              fucking cringe, couldn't be me

              Meanwhile Die Linke is the only major German party that (to my knowledge) has advocated for paying proper reparations to Greece for WWII.

              This isn't an attack against you BUT BOY HOWDY WONDER WHY THE FUCK THAT IS JESUS FUCKING CHRIST :knifecat:

              • Pezevenk [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                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?