they never said you are completely free of consequences
Who are "they"?
argon
joined 10 months ago
american free spech has limits, it really only protects you when criticizing the government
"Free speech only when talking about the government" is very different from "free speech".
I should have been more clear that I'm not talking about a nazi rally in any arbitrary context, but specifically one in nazi germany.
How are the USA gonna implement export restrictions for specific EU countries? It's one market.
Why use it, when you know the response is gonna be about indoctrination/propaganda?
This website is a lot more specific about the data used for fingerprinting.
It also lets you see whether two seperate visits can be correlated (or if your fingerprint is sufficiently randomized each time).
Anti-migration is just a facade they use to hide their racism
How is that contrary to my point? Many people are anti migration and so an anti migration party was founded.
What the reason for being anti migration is, be it racism or something else, doesn't matter here.
how many parties support [stopping weapons trading with Israel]
That's why I explicitly said "popular" topic.
The reason anti-migration found it's way back into the Bundestag is because the voters care about migration policies.
The reason Israel arms deals aren't talked about much is because most voters don't give a fuck about what happens in the middle east.
Die AfAfD
unapologetically
He did apologize
Our leaders are a mix of three different parties because not all German people have the same opinions.
Yes, our leaders are a compromise between left-leaning voters and right-leaning voters. Respecting more people's votes makes the country more democratic, not less.
If your question is about whether the people have free choice or if they can only choose one of the six parties currently in the Bundestag, the answer is the former. Little story:
Under Merkel, all German parties moved to be more migrant-friendly, until even Merkel's conservative party (the most right wing party at the time) was largely okay with migration.
However, there are many anti-migration voters in Germany. So what did they do? Did they say "oh, we only have these five options, guess there's no way I can vote against migration"? No, they founded a new party, the AfD, to be anti migration. This party quickly got into the Bundestag and rose to be a major party now.
Upon seeing the popularity of anti-migration policies, some of the other parties now shift torwards more anti-migration policies, too.
The German people have plenty of choice, and if a popular topic is ever not represented by the popular parties, it can quickly be made represented again.
(The reason I was assuming USA btw, is because another comment mentioned America. Also the USA is an easy example of a less democratic democracy.)
Indeed, since freely speaking had consequences.