Just go the vote, and make sure your family and friends go to give their votes.
I’m not local, I cannot vote over here, but had seen multiple times in modern times voter suppression has been a big deal, it’s easier to make you not to bother to vote than change your mind who to vote.
I had worked brexit UK, where people voted it due they weren’t happy about the PM. As it was good time to vote against him. Without thinking what brexit actually was. So use your voice by voting. What do you wish the future of country will be in this new era.
I know German has issues, as every Europe union contries. If the problems are easy to solve they would have been solved already, don’t belive one tag line promises.
I’m just wanna say, as a fellow user. Just go to vote.
It is done. 🧞♂️😤👌
Geht wählen ihr Luschen!
Please go vote. Don’t join the US and Russia axis.
as an American. vote like your life depends on it.
because it does.
not only that, make sure that none of your voting locations are using starlink internet access.
make sure that none of your voting locations are using starlink internet access
? Germany is old-fashioned and when it comes to elections I’m happy that we’re sticking to pen and paper. And actual humans doing the counting.
On a sidenote - Starlink isn’t that big in Germany. I don’t think I’ve ever read/heard about any public authorities using it.
Yeah, voting is essential.
But don’t worry about starlink, the German voting process happens on paper sheets. The voter has to be identified before the vote. Then all votes get counted by hand and multiple times, submitted by fax and telephone.
We had electronic voting, but it was gone as fast as it came. I voted electronic once in a local election in the early 2000s
Please. We need sense to win
please don’t fuck up like us americans just did. I mean I did not but ugh, an aweful lot did.
*November 2024* Germans to Americans:
- Don’t fuck up as we did in 1933
*February 2025* Americans to Germans:- Don’t fuck up as we did in November
AfD declared class war… on the working class. So if you don’t go and vote, there’s a big risk of that coming to you.
I’m an American. Germans, please don’t do to yourselves what we did. Keep AfD as far from power as possible.
The AfD will likely get about 20% (I haze it, but its the reality we live in), but what is also great is, that our leftist party will get about 8%. They won’t be in the government, but they for sure will annoy the hell out of them. They will also pressure the more left leaning parties to not do everything our conservatives want to do. They also promised that they want to push to forwards to the so called “Mietendeckel” (rent lid) to end the raising of rent prices which means more stability for about 46% of people. I am optimistic, that they can do this. They have completely rearranged themselves and skyrocketed from about 2.5% a few months ago to now 8% in the polls. We didnt have so many members in the left party in 15 years. The left party has also been responsible for the crarion of the minimum wage in Germany without being part of the government.
Even tho that the government will be ass, I hope for our left party do actually change something. Even tho we aren’t part of the government we already won this election.
Good luck from Spain, a friend of mine is in Berlin with your party, has worked very hard theses days, and hopes you can get a good result. Go ahead!!!
Please go vote, Germans! We are in pain and it’s going to get worse. Don’t be stupid. Look at us and see why it’s so important for you to go vote.
Unless you were planning to vote for afd. Then you should kys.
Follow dear leader’s example
One exception: if you plan to vote AfD… Maybe don’t vote.
If you want to vote AfD you should put a Hakenkreuz. This way the vote is counted twice.
And don’t forget to sign the paper with your full name
Or for the CDU. They are the ones that will enable the AfD to rise even more and I am already betting, that if nothing changes fundamentally, they will work together with them in 4 years.
No no no, but if you vote AfD it is very important to sign your vote
Lots of politicians would be jailed, if it would be that easy …
Hungarian here, please, don’t repeat our mistake from 2010!!!
The media might say that things are bad, but looking bad, the media exaggerated a lot of things. They tried to report as much crime committed by Roma as it was possible (even remembering the anniversaries of some of the cases), and so on. Then we had to realize “Roma crime” was on the decline, and Fidesz dismantled the laws that were responsible for the very decline (raising the mandatory school age to 18, now it’s lowered to 15). “Fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to destruction.”
Please do vote, Germany. Learn from the US and reject this evil disease
I think it’s important nowadays to have faith in your government and democracy. You definitely should vote and you can be proud to help put your country into a direction you feel is best. This post seems to convey the message that you should vote to save democracy. This fear of the end of democracy might just end up increasing the influence of extreme political parties. In the US election both parties warned it will be the last vote.
German polls seem to indicate that CDU/CSU will be the strongest party and they will most likely not go into coalition with AfD, so the AfDs influence will not be much but they will probably get a lot of votes anyways. And even though I do not like the idea of a chancellor Merz due to him being very polarizing, I think Germany got this.
Don’t panic C:We’re very sceptic about the rigidity of the so called firewall (the confession of the big parties, especially CDU/CSU to form a coalition with the neo nazis). The chancellor candidate Merz (aka Mr. Burns) already jackhammered it by voting together with AfD against migration. Just yesterday he denounced millions of people who are protesting since the beginning of 2024 against the move of politics to the far right by asking where they were when Walter Lübcke a CDU governour fighting for migrants was murdered by a nazi in 2019. They were protesting in the thousands and the Antifa was investigating the backgrounds of groups like hammerskins, combat 18 or NSU. Mr. Burns yesterday also called lefts and greens “Spinner” (crazies) and was rewarded with frenetic applause by the bavarians to whom he was holding his speech. There are a few CDU politicians saying out loud that the firewall is history and they should work together with AfD.
Given Merz’ right-wing rhetoric (incl. literally calling anyone who doth protest his behavior a “a green or leftist crackpot”; or pronouncing that “left-wing politics are over”), his playing-off of parts of society, his choleric antics, and his closeness to Maga-friendly figures like Spahn … Yeah, no. Merz is danger.
Should Americans have faith in their government and democracy?
The American system of democracy is fundamentally flawed and has been even before the Republican success in the election. In Germany, there are a variety of parties to vote for that vary across the political spectrum- there is a multi-party system, the American democracy is a decision between right and alt-right, a heavily skewed two party system. I see your point, but this is a false equivalency and a bad analogy
What analogy?
The comment I replied to mentioned USA.
as a fellow reddit user
Hnmm…
But yeah its not just a privilege but a duty to vote.
Fixed. Funny how that post got removed on any reddit subs. I had tried to figure out why was that. Like just mod removed. And nothing else.
I just fucking hope those polls were just more of the corporate right wing propaganda we see everywhere. I can’t imagine voting right after seeing all of the conservative incompetence in recent years.
