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I think the dems should rather focus on actually making good policy that mobilizes people to go out and vote rather than try to kick political opponents off the ballot (which is fairly undemocratic)

I find it hilarious how democrats would rather go on a pathetic smear campaign against Jill Stein instead of actually making real concessions and bringing people back to vote for Kamala. I, as a European, hope your democracy works exactly as designed. Maybe you'll wake up that way.

Thanks for pointing out the “Persilscheine”. Despite the tremendous amount of “Nazis evil”-content in school, especially in history classes, this wasn’t a topic. An educational gap I’m eager to fill soon.

Persilscheine are barely scratching the surface. They're honestly the "paradebeispiel" of failed German denazification. Germany had full on SA NSDAP members in government in its first government after WW2. I invite you to read more on Theodor Oberländer. Actually, I invite you to read more on everyone involved in German politics up until the 80s, especially German diplomats. Most of them have some very, very disturbing skeletons in their closets, the people we praise as the founders of German democracy nowadays.

You’ll probably notice as well that this was a rather minor phrasing. No, I don't. I do watch most of the conferences, "generaldebatten", and speeches given by members of our parliament, and especially members of our government. I also religiously watch all of our Regierungspressekonferenzen. For someone like me, that has had family members die in german concentration camps, that's the last kind of rhetoric and wording I want to hear from a German. I couldn't care less what her intentions are. Her right to go with that kind of wording has been lost 80 years ago.

Most progress was achieved in domestic affairs. I have issued way too many "freedom of information act" requests through Frag den Staat at this point and I'm still waiting for this government to enshrine LGBT protections in our constitution (https://fragdenstaat.de/koalitionstracker/ampelkoalition-2021/vorhaben/gleichbehandlungsartikel-im-grundgesetz-reformieren/). But our state is somehow more concerned with helping neonazis march under police protection behind pride parades to intimidate the queer community, the same community that has been historically ravaged and exterminated by the Nazis not even a few generations ago.

I have voted for the greens. I will never vote for them ever again. I'm tired of the bullshit they've been spewing, especially lately. I voted for a progressive agenda, not for our foreign minister to lie about Palestinian deaths, and her goons downplaying it. I'm tired of her virtue signalling and her """feminist""" foreign policy on which she very, very selectively delivers. I'm tired of our minister of education and research trying to cut funding to scientists criticizing police violence on campuses, actively trying to suppress them. I'm tired of our chancellor talking about mass deportations. These are things a German should absolutely never do, let alone so called progressive ones. I haven't voted for AfD light, and I surely haven't voted for them to normalize far-right ideas.

Bit by bit, Taiwan will be slowly sold off to China once they no longer hold the last thing that made them worthy of Western protection. Of course, there will be some harsh words of condemnation, but that's it. That's my theory. Sad but true.

Then I guess y'all should starting reworking how your system works, because it doesn't sound like a democracy at all if you can't vote for what you actually believe in.

The fire has started in 1948.

Oh no, they'll probably just plant detonation devices™️ in areas where IDF servicemen usually are and hope that no collateral civilian casualties™️ happen. After all it's a very genuine war tactic and definitely not a terrorist attack

And obviously it becomes a war only when we (the collective West) label it as such, otherwise it's still just terrorists. They become soldiers only when it's convenient for us.

Call it for what it is, a terrorist attack.

Then I guess Hezbollah attacking IDF servicemen wherever they might be, including civilian areas in Tel Aviv, is completely okay. Even if it comes to some civilian casualties.

Maybe they should stop their genocide in Palestine. Hesbollah has said on multiple occasions that they'll stop any hostilities if a permanent ceasefire is implemented.