Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Locked thread
Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

Germany had an election today.
It didn't go well I think.

:yikes:

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

A Handed Missus
Aug 6, 2012


Piss Tape ist echt :hitler:

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


so if sdp is actually pulling out of coalition this is gonna be funny

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

safely sodomized posted:

so if sdp is actually pulling out of coalition this is gonna be funny

It's going to be a shitshow

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

Lawman 0 posted:

Germany had an election today.
It didn't go well I think.

:yikes:

I understand what all of those acronyms mean and whether or not it's good that those numbers are next to them. But if some hypothetical person didn't know any of that, how would you explain to them what any of that means?

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene
jamaica coalition whatup

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Guy Goodbody posted:

I understand what all of those acronyms mean and whether or not it's good that those numbers are next to them. But if some hypothetical person didn't know any of that, how would you explain to them what any of that means?

cdu is merkel. center right

sdp is center left. previously were in coalition with cdu.

afd are cryptonazi far right. dont like muslims

fdp are "classical liberal" douchebags, libertarians

greens are centrist environmentalists

die linke are leftists

the numbers next to them, along with SDP pulling out of coalition mean no one has reall ywon and things are going to be funny

Dairy Days
Dec 26, 2007

the hitler party got mad seats

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

mormonpartyboat posted:

jamaica coalition whatup

You can't win votes, not as long as I'm wearing these Jamaican colors

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

safely sodomized posted:

cdu is merkel. center right

sdp is center left. previously were in coalition with cdu.

afd are cryptonazi far right. dont like muslims

fdp are "classical liberal" douchebags, libertarians

greens are centrist environmentalists

die linke are leftists

the numbers next to them, along with SDP pulling out of coalition mean no one has reall ywon and things are going to be funny

so nobody won but also all the bad guys did well

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Guy Goodbody posted:

so nobody won but also all the bad guys did well

basically yeah

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

Tired: short-lived Italian governments
Wired: short-lived German governments

Dairy Days
Dec 26, 2007

Guy Goodbody posted:

so nobody won but also all the bad guys did well


:sbahj:

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

The first Lesbian fuhrer

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012


habe ich gewonnen?

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

Plutonis posted:

The first Lesbian fuhrer

AfD is going to make she wolf of the ss real

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

good thing germany has a high electoral threshold of 5% to make sure these extremist parties can't enter the bundestag

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

if only the SDP didn't suck so bad

freckle
Apr 6, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

the bitcoin of weed posted:

if only the SDP didn't suck so bad

they killed rosa, how could they not suck?

cargo cult
Aug 28, 2008

by Reene
so wut does this mean practically?

freckle
Apr 6, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

cargo cult posted:

so wut does this mean practically?

Only registered members can see post attachments!

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

cargo cult posted:

so wut does this mean practically?

merkel's big tent coalition is over, her conservatives are gonna have to make an alliance with the libertarians and greens to govern and that's a clusterfuck

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


cargo cult posted:

so wut does this mean practically?

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

does germany have minority governments or will another election be called if there's no deal reached?

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene

Aliquid posted:

merkel's big tent coalition is over, her conservatives are gonna have to make an alliance with the libertarians and greens to govern and that's a clusterfuck

im intrigued at what could happen with the world's first crystalchain economy

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

mormonpartyboat posted:

im intrigued at what could happen with the world's first crystalchain economy

Healthcare spending drops to 0.1% of GDP

freckle
Apr 6, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

Lawman 0 posted:

Healthcare spending drops to 0.1% of GDP

No real point in spending money on such things once the supercharged jo crystals have cured all diseases.

Lightning Lord
Feb 21, 2013

$200 a day, plus expenses

How can you be an environmentalist and a centrist it's like being a liquid and a solid

I'm guessing they want carbon taxes and lip service

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

Lightning Lord posted:

How can you be an environmentalist and a centrist it's like being a liquid and a solid

I'm guessing they want carbon taxes and lip service

environmentalism is a centrist position in germany, their politics are weird

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
[quote="“the bitcoin of weed”" post="“476716783”"]
environmentalism is a centrist position in germany, their politics are weird
[/quote]

I'm a strong german leftist and I think we should chop down forests... for communism?

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


the best green party is in mexico, where aside for environmentalism its an insane right wing party. their main planks are bringing back the death penalty, criminalizing abortion and banning homosexuality

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

Aliquid posted:

merkel's big tent coalition is over, her conservatives are gonna have to make an alliance with the libertarians and greens to govern and that's a clusterfuck

So citizens will be allowed to shoot anyone they see polluting?

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

safely sodomized posted:

the best green party is in mexico, where aside for environmentalism its an insane right wing party. their main planks are bringing back the death penalty, criminalizing abortion and banning homosexuality

can anyone confirm that? all i've read is that one of their politicians spouted off about that garbage and the party apologized

my friend's dad ran for mayor of his town and he gave me a VERDE backpack but i'm embarrassed to use it

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
environmentally friendly executions

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Aliquid posted:

can anyone confirm that? all i've read is that one of their politicians spouted off about that garbage and the party apologized

my friend's dad ran for mayor of his town and he gave me a VERDE backpack but i'm embarrassed to use it


i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

lmao gently caress

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
yay I always wanted to storm the beaches of Normandy just like my grandpa

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

Aliquid posted:

can anyone confirm that? all i've read is that one of their politicians spouted off about that garbage and the party apologized

my friend's dad ran for mayor of his town and he gave me a VERDE backpack but i'm embarrassed to use it

pvem is basically a feudal possession of the gonzalez family that exists to make them rich and also enable the pri

so, not great

they did get kicked out of the green international for supporting the death penalty lol

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

also did die linke improve on their seat total or lose? they only got like 8% last time

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer
Rip the SPD, if only you didn't put useless neoliberal fuckboi Martin Schulz in charge you might have achieved anything in this election.

  • Locked thread