Why Germany's Coalition is Reaching Breaking Point

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Scholz's coalition suffered heavily at the recent European elections, winning less than a third of the popular vote collectively. So in this video, we'll look at the results, why the coalition is so unpopular and how tensions might escalate further.
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[@1contrarian]

Olaf already forgot the election results. Nothing to see, business as usual.

[@Luka-el7hs]

😂

[@coall5002]

He can't remember what a chancellor is

[@aminzqrti7672]

Underrated comment

[@nobodyyoushouldknow4705]

Im ashamed by our chancellor

[@oooshafiqooo]

@@nobodyyoushouldknow4705 its because he moved his damn patch!

[@jimanyon8143]

The FDP jumping the coalition is very unlikely, because of their unpopularity they are close to the 5% cutoff to enter the parlament.

[@Flattithefish]

Yup

[@nox5555]

Well there would need to be a major internal break for them to jump coalition, but if that happens they have a chance to get stronger than their partners.

[@Kyravexa]

I think they hope to provoke one of the other two partys into leaving the coalition, so they can stick to their ideology without being responsible for breaking the coalition. Thus they might still gain more than 5% in the next election.

[@Flattithefish]

@@nox5555 I don’t think so, there would not be a reason to that other than creating a “Deutschland-Koalition” (black-red-yellow), which would kinda solve the needs of the greens and the fdp conflicting, but it still would be stupid.

[@oooshafiqooo]

tho, its likely because their ideological differences

[@theconqueringram5295]

Scholz has 69% disapproval? Nice.

[@buddy1155]

He gets 100% approval from Putin.

[@Hardcore_Remixer]

​​@@buddy1155 Let me guess. Whoever isn't green gets 100% aprovement from Put1n?

[@Kundenfurzzz]

Right now you have 69 likes. Nice.

[@TheOmegaXicor]

@@buddy1155 you are confusing Scholz for Orban, I know they look similar but try to keep up

[@buddy1155]

@@TheOmegaXicor Maybe you should keep up, Scholz has been delaying weapons to Ukraine maybe even more as Orban, the difference is that Orban is at least fully transparent about it.

[@chronomatomkairos4874]

Please, please go back to using bar charts or something else. These ring graphs are unclear at best and seem convoluted at worst. It is just not possible to get a good grasp of how much percent one section is out of the total - especially with the grey parts in between (are these spacers? Or are these votes for none of the shown parties? And if that is the case, why are they distributed over the whole ring and are not bunched up in one place?)

[@Thermalions]

Agreed. Ring and Pie charts should be abolished for almost every use case.

[@mario97br]

Maybe it’s used deliberately to disguise the current state.

[@nox5555]

@@Thermalions This would have been a good use case, but this looks like some homework presentation.

[@lastsovietspy]

unwatchable because of the ring charts, such a shame

[@unclepete100]

Yup, crap graphs, displayed for Millie seconds, fail…

[@zeno3007]

Im a big fan of TLDR, but i think you are buying in to much into the whole “the german goverment is going to collapse“. This discusion in the media is pointless, unless something big happens the coalition is going to stick together.

[@edwardrichtofen611]

Yeah, thats a historic german thing. We stick with shit, even if we know that it is shit.

[@fallfountain6038]

They said the military council in israel might collapse and it did so they are right sometimes you know

[@Sneaker3719]

@@edwardrichtofen611 That seems like a gross understatement, considering your history in the 20th century, and its potential of repeating if the AfD wins your next election. Edit: It may also be a reflection of dry humor. Sorry for the presumptuousness.

[@zeno3007]

@@fallfountain6038 Im from germany and my comment was only about germany.

[@annnoying5513]

​@@fallfountain6038 Yeah but that's different. No one in the german coalition wants it to end especially not right now when they are this unpopular. They hope the tides shift a bit in 2025 when our economy is projected to recover a bit more. Not comparable to the war council since that didn't threaten Netanyahu's power.

[@earthmember62]

scholz is a coward, a very passive chanselor.

[@bidzej86]

the whole government seems to be like this - whatever happens, they just try to keep their mouth shut, apart from some generic nonsense from the respective minister.

[@fatman9644]

​@@bidzej86No thats definitely not the case, the greens and the FDP argue about a Lot of things very openly, which harms their quotes, Olaf Scholz is totally unable to unite them and probably forgot that that is Part of His job

[@bidzej86]

@fatman9644 arguing has nothing to do with taking a particular stance, let alone taking action. And that's what's missing. It feels like they try hard not to do their job - and on purpose.

[@theprofessionalfence-sitter]

@@fatman9644 Not only that, but on the issues where they are united, like more support for Ukraine and less surveillance, it is usually the SPD stopping them.

[@Brabour]

He ran on a platform of being invisible and imitating Angela Merkel's stasis. Germans love that shit. Change is scary so they voted for him and he's carrying out that promise

[@kevinkerkhoff6670]

3:44 FYI the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung is a foundation close to the CDU. Now that doesn't mean they are wrong about the exit polls, but I just wanted to let you know that for the future.

[@vags1234]

Not even just close, it's literally associated with the party, i.e. it runs its academic scholarship programme, etc.

[@Luis_Domingos]

The fact that you have to explain that to a "news organisation" is baffling 😅 Of course there might be some bias there, same thing with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung for the SPD

[@peterfireflylund]

The German thing where political parties all “own” friendly foundations is a weird thing that really takes some time to get used to for us non-Germans.

[@Luis_Domingos]

@@peterfireflylund I don't think the concept of party-affiliated think-tanks or economic scientific research is that foreign anymore, and I would expect journalists to know how to vet their sources and account for bias in their reporting (precisely because there's so much lobbying everywhere)

[@peterfireflylund]

@@Luis_Domingos I didn’t know it until my German was good enough for watching Tagesschau.

[@DarkHarlequin]

People are very focused on the AFD and disdain for the greens from the right but the real thing here is that (more than any policy or stance) the AFD managed one feat: they managed to make people who felt ignored and left behind by the mayor parties, feel seen! The SPD used to be the 'workers party' and I'm not sure even they remember that. Blue collar workers no longer feel seen or represented by them. It's less severe but similar for the conservative middle class with the CDU. The world right now is scary and it's changing and people are looking to their leaders for support and solutions. And as long as the mayor parties refuse to accept that the broad 'avoid all hard choices - go with the flow' politics of the last 10-15 years don't make people feel represented, if they don't manage to reconnect with the people they claim to represent, then people will flock to those who to make them feel like they give a sh***! Even if it's just empty platitudes and populist slogans...

[@MarsMellow84]

This is how they enslave us. When citizens feel unseen and unheard. Politicians will capitalize on this. George Owells 1984 is becoming a reality.

[@danielk5780]

The thing is, that the coailition made some hard choices and launched some much needed reforms. They are the antithesis to the status quo government that we had before. The effects will be seen in the coming years.

[@Lockfly]

The effect of taking away nuclear power will hurt Germany for many years because of them ​@@danielk5780

[@aviatorsound914]

Plus far right party had to soften up their platforms if they had a real chance of governing the country.

[@DarkHarlequin]

@@danielk5780 Oh I'm 102% with you that the CDU putting off all hard choices (and lets not let the SPD off the hook, they were a junior government partner too in those years) result in Germany now needing a ton of reforms that will be painful (since they were put off so long) that the current government is trying to make happen. Classic pattern of CDU causing the dmg, blaming the opposition for the pain then claiming the rewards 🙄We arn't good at pinpointing cause & effect in politics. But I think it's not mainly current heatpump or Infrastructure laws that push people towards the AFDs populists. The issue of people just not feeling seen by the political moderates has been around for a long time. And I claim as long as CDU & SPD ignore that the AFD or some version of it is here to stay.

[@catriona_drummond]

It would help the coalition a lot if it actually had a chancellor not this absolute vacuum called Scholz.

[@sebastiansteidle6238]

Just so we are clear. It is imposible to blame old people for these results again. Young people at the age of 16 were also allowed to vote and they also voted for the AfD.

[@Minimmalmythicist]

Age doesn´t seem the biggest factor in AFD support either.

[@Minimmalmythicist]

@@sebastiansteidle6238 and I´m saying I agree with you

[@domninin]

Nobody is saying that age is the biggest factor for the AfD, you're fighting against clouds

[@sondrejohansen48]

Yes but there is also a divide in that age group. Majority of the votes in the 16-18 yo age group were male. Females in that age group lately voted left wing parties like greens. So there is more then just about age and economic conditions, there is also radicalization and extremism of politics, especially amongst young men. I large blame this on social media platforms like KZbin and TikTok

[@AaronOkeanos]

Yes that is a new problem. Social Media and misinformation. If society is not dealing with this quickly Maga level of stupidity and control by emotions like in the US will spread.

[@Phantom-mg5cg]

The FDP is just crazy with their fear of debt. Germany reduced its debt to GDP ratio since 2021 when the last federal elections were from 69% to 64% and it is expected that it goes down to 62% in 2025. Germany has no problem with debt, Germany is de facto reducing its debt. Since the introduction of the debt brake only in 2018 and 2019 the debt to GDP ratio was lower. The last time before it was lower than the current 64% was in 2004.

[@joachimfrank4134]

It's not the FDP's position to decide this. Changing the debt rules would need a supermajority in both houses. The opposition parties have already told the coalition that they won't help them out. So changing the debt rules is off the table regardless of it being reasonable. The current coalition already tried to circumvent the debt rules by some spending outside the normal budget two years ago. They lost in court and had to re-integrate this in 2023's budget and stop all spending which was planned like this for 2024. This blocked many planned investments in infrastructure for 2024. So I don't think they would try it again. The risk of loosing in court is too big. So there would only be higher taxes as a way to increase the budget. But then the push by investment could be countered by the pull of higher taxes.

[@Phantom-mg5cg]

@@joachimfrank4134 There are many ways around the debt brake. The government could easily find a reason for additional spending like the war in Ukraine or climate change. They only lost in court because they used a loan that was intended to be used for fixing the problems with Corona for something else. Back then the government could just have repaid the loan that was taken for Corona and ask the parliament to ignore the debt brake for any reason and then use that money, but the FDP didn´t want this. And this is another argument against the debt brake, it doesn´t make the government taking less loans, but instead it makes the government lying to the parliament and the federal budget plan opaque.

[@davinnicode]

@@Phantom-mg5cg The debt brake was a master move by the CDU back then. The budgets never were the main target. Totally a strategic move to weaken other parties.

[@Schmidtelpunkt]

@@joachimfrank4134 It would push the CDU into a situation where it has to act and to commit. One main flaw of the coalition was to always show their positions while the opposition could stay outside of reality and tell their fairy tales.

[@ekesandras1481]

yet the Maastricht contract only allows 60% debt and the reduction was mainly by inflating out of the debts, not by actually repaying or reducing spending. And don't forget, the ECB holds a huge amount of public debts, that means state bonds that nobody on the free market wanted to buy.

[@1996Horst]

The FDP blocking further spending is actually one of the reasons why some voters ditched them. The FDP is usually voted whenever people want a somewhat diverse coalition (hardline FDP voters are less than 3-4% meaning if noone votes them to form a coalition they do net get into the Bundestag) So the FDP blocking spending on supporting Ukraine or the energy transition is what is driving down their voteshare. People who actually want to votr for less spending vote the AfD, because the "less spending" they want can be directly translated to "let russia have all of ukraine"

[@user78994]

I dont think you really understand the reality of the war if you think Putin has any ambitions to take over Ukraine entirely. This wouldnt even work if he wished so, its not possible to permanently incorporate a large region into your country that really wants nothing to do with you. Realistically the war would and will end in Russia taking the southeastern regions of Ukraine. The war continuation is risking world peace and spending human lives in order to hopelessly try to keep a handful regions Ukrainian, when a lot of people living there dont even want that themselves.

[@marseldagistani1989]

Isn't the AfD leader somehow connected to Putin?

[@1996Horst]

@@marseldagistani1989 both are, Alice Weidel, the main one for a while now has confirmed connections, but if money is in the deal is not known, and the extent of the connectin is also not really known. But the entire party is made up of russian and chinese sympathisers and spies. Just in the past 3 or so months there have been multiple high profile cases of russian and chinese spies working in the party. Worst, all of them just had the german citizenship and were born in germany. So the main motivation was definetly personal gain in whatever form. The most high profile, and recent, case would probably be the one of the main AfD candidate for the Eu election. His advisor was handing highly sesnitive information as well as trade secrets to the chinese. Btw the main guy had to step down and has since left the AfD after he told the italien Pm that "SS members were not allways criminals" and "Not all SS members were criminals" So overall a pleasant bunch. Edit: I have to specify. Finding chinese or russian spies in political parties, in general but in germany specifically, is not unheard off. The CDU, SPD and even Greens had such cases in recent years. The Left (Die Linke) also had multiple such cases over the years. The AfD is just special in that it has quite a few cases, even for a young party which is naturally more suceptible for such things. The BSW leader Sahra Wagenknecht is getting money driectly from russia. So it is clear where that "new" party stands as well

[@davinnicode]

Don't let you ideology do your analysis. It's so incredibly wrong. Majority of FDP voters are the complete opposite. The FDP itself just made a massive mistake forming a coalition with the Greens and the SPD. Only the attraction of power made them go in that direction since their policies will never them gain them much voters anyway. One would also say that they sold their soul.

[@Valaki-fi2gl]

It is important to say that the AfD actually was polling at around 25 percent at their height but they dropped in the polls until they reached their current result. They’d have come 3rd if the coalition, and by extension SPD wasn’t so unpopular. Reaching 2nd place isn’t the AfD’s own success but arguably a result of the SPD’s unpopularity.

[@captainvanisher988]

The AfD was highly attacked and disparaged by the government and the media which obviously resulted in less voters for it. Despite all their shortcomings they won all of East Germany, if that is not "success" then idk what is.

[@neodym5809]

@@captainvanisher988 they won all of east Germany? Didn’t get a majority in any state.

[@cesare4926]

Wow almost like the entire media, political & corporate establishment being against you lowers the amount of people who will vote for you. Only in Germany would the 2nd largest party in the country be actively trying to be banned by the entire establishment. Democracy is a joke

[@eddgar-ce3md]

AfD and the other extremist parties are a barometer of people's discontent with the mainstream parties. If the mainstream politicians realize what that discontent is, they would know what to do. The problem is that politicians are stupid, they don't know that AfD voters are just the tip of the iceberg , because in reality many more are discontent , but only the ones that have reached the breaking point are voting with AfD and the other extremist parties. . In short, stop the uncontrolled migration, that's the root of all EU's recent problems.

[@manueldi2990]

It dropped before mostly because of a Public Media campaign. It's already rising again it seems, because the many Problems we're facing here are not going away from that..

[@danielstewart8339]

Logic for why FDP would be ‘better off ditching’? Why would it be better being a small, irrelevant party out of government than a small, relevant party in government?they would lose all influence for their policies…

[@danielstewart8339]

@@User-qv4lg for sure, but leaving over policy is different than leaving to be ‘better off’. All their leverage is gone if they are out of government. Just makes another grand coalition between CDU/SPD more likely unless CDU caves and governs with AFD.

[@theemperororsomethingidont6897]

A lot of former FDP voters ditched the FDP because they went along with a lot of the SPD's and green's policies like the heat pump law or the "self determination law" which are both very much against their liberal values. So ditching the coalition might Show the voters that the FDP still got balls and might in turn make some former voters return to them

[@Jonas_M_M]

They have no influence.

[@herroberbesserwisser7331]

​@theemperororsomethingidont6897 how is the self determination law against the fdp? Is objectively a good law! And the heat pump law was absolutely needed. Lots of young voters left the fdp because their blockade of reasonable policy of the spd and green stuff is not helping anyone except the top 1%.

[@theemperororsomethingidont6897]

@@herroberbesserwisser7331 literrally a direct assault on freedom of speech, it's one the most illiberal laws bc u have to pay 10k to a person for expressing honestly expressing ur opnion about transgenderism

[@WadeHutchinson_]

As popular as Rishi Sunak? As a German, that's not something to be celebrated.

[@tkc5980]

It is to be celebrated just as Rishi's Unpopularity is to be celebrated, they have both utterly failed as leaders, it is good that the people recognize that.

[@EllieD.Violet]

Well, unlike Fishy Rishi Scholz is ruled in by Habeck and Lindner. Thanks to PR.

[@jadnb]

The CDU did not win in every west German state. Hamburg and Bremen are also states and those were won by SPD and The Greens respectively

[@gcxs]

the elites are living there, no wonder

[@AaronOkeanos]

I think they forgot that Germany has PR and unless you have 50% it doesn't matter that you have the most votes. If you are unable to build a coalition you are powerless.

[@gcxs]

🤔🤔

[@karelkieslich6772]

@@AaronOkeanosi’m a big fan of this channel but sometimes they don’t take into account that different countries have vastly different political systems

Hamburg hat halt noch nicht so viele Ausländer

[@ArmchairMagpie]

The FDP has been Germany's most fervent opposition party this term. After the next election, they can continue this newfound tradition by joining the extra-parliamentary opposition (also called APO in German). Also, as an East German I can tell that people never really liked the coalition to begin with, and after the pandemic and the Ukraine war things went very south. The Green party's agenda hasn't ever been popular here, so it doesn't surprise me that in the face of the recent crisis, their issues are even less popular now. Let's face it, this election has also been an election against climate change related policies. As far as it concerns this topic, things will be dead in the water for at least the next four years now. An existential issue has been reneged down to optionality, and it didn't help that the Green party took every bait thrown by the FDP. They communicated their policies poorly and made some significant procedural errors on the way when it came to the Buildings Energy Act - also in part due to the FDPs campaign against, in addition to some staff-related scandals that wouldn't have been an issue if it happened to a conservative party. However, the thing that is even more shocking is that the SPD is losing massively with workers now, and historically, it has never been a good sign when workers turn towards the far-right. The AfD is against every policy that is in place to protect them and the even more poor, yet it is a sign of how bad the SPD actually has become in convincing their core clientele. The SPD itself has become way more conservative during the Merkel era due to the political emergence of the conservative Seeheim Circle within the party. The irony is, many problems that were attempted to be fixed were the results of a one and a half decades of conservative dragging of feet and sitting out crucial problems. Yet, they were so complex and intertwined with contemporary crisis that it was an uphill battle from the start. The CDU denied their own statements, political comments and demands they made in the past and went to the election campaign with it. But it is, as they say, in Germany being conservative is a baseline stance. There isn't a point where you have to apologize or correct your course, you don't need to pay high social capital to push through even the most controversial policies and disastrous decisions. People could be drowning in their houses because of their government denying spending money for flood protection, and they would still vote their own executioners into office. It is also the same silly austerity policies, that the EU South learned to love-hate under Merkel, that hamstrings the current coalition. It's like economic liberals have a mortal fear of running big investment programs in fear of losing bond credibility. As if that would ever happen.

[@aturchomicz821]

Truly economic liberals will doom us all...

[@kosinusify]

Are they, though? The coalition has been in crisis mode ever since the sunmer of 2022. They're used to it.

[@neodym5809]

No. The European Parliament election will not decide on the coalitions future. And Germany values stability, parties calling snap elections are seen negatively. The FDP would not get in next parliament if they jump ship. Fun fact: Merz, the leader of the CDU, is even more unpopular than Scholz.

[@maxmichalik4938]

Yep. Voters currently prefer the CDU as a whole, but once Merz officially runs as Chancellor candidate I predict a dip in their polling.

[@domninin]

​​@@maxmichalik4938 Which is not necessarily a good thing though. If the SPD announces Scholz as their chancellor candidate and the CDU announces Merz, the AfD will become even stronger than they are now.

[@error_nr-1232]

I agree on the first part. But as reported from the Tagesspiegel yesterday, Merz is slightly more popular than Scholz. Which definitely isn't any good.

[@danielk5780]

There is also the issue that with current polling: There is no conceivable majority-coalition. The FDP might not be able to win enough votes to get into the Bundestag again, and without them, no coalition more stable than the one right now can form. The only option would be Greens, Social Democrats and the CDU. The Social Democrats don't want to give up the chancellorship, the FDP don't want to give up their spot in the government (and potentially all their seats in the Bundestag) and the Greens, that poll somewhat similarly to their election results in 2021 probably prefer to work with weak Social Democrats instead of strong Conservatives from the CDU. And while the Free Democrats are blocking a lot of good proposals, they are at least in favor of social progress and modernization, unlike the conservatives.

[@domninin]

@@danielk5780 CDU and SPD have formed a coalition many times already, so CDU/SPD/Greens is actually pretty likely. Also with current polling, CDU/SPD would have a majority without the Greens already if Linke doesn't make it into Bundestag, and CDU/Greens would have a majority if FDP doesn't make it into Bundestag as well.

[@neon-kitty]

The CDU didn't win in every West German state. Even your own map shows that the SPD won in Bremen and the Greens won in Hamburg.

[@AncientKing9197]

Not only the coalition but the whole country

[@anuragsinha2013]

We have never had such an out of touch and disconnected media.

"FDP" means "SOB" in Portugueses and that's wonderful

[@jerrymiller9039]

Because it is anti German

[@caseclosed9342]

You know, I didn’t even know the AfD’s name was a play on a Merkel quote until I read the TooLong newspaper…

[@oventuno]

the ascension of far-right parties is due to austerity policies and degradation of standard of living.

[@Phantom-mg5cg]

3:00 No, in Bremen won the SPD and in Hamburg the Greens.

[@JMWZ_E]

4:35 After the last general election, there have been 3 coalition options: the traffic light coalition (red-green-yellow, as seen at this timecode), a conservative-lead Jamaica coalition (black-green-yellow, as in the Jamaican flag) or another grand coalition. The grand coalition was ruled out by both parties, as there had been too many recently (3 of 4 Merkel cabinets) and both parties become less distinguishable and lose voters during grand coalitions. Jamaica did not become a reality because the Greens are larger than the FDP and they prefer the social-democrats as a partner over the christian-democrats ... however, explorational talks between Jamaica parties were held and due to heavy infighting within the CDU, almost every detail of the talks became public. The CDU was blamed for that, and the decision to start coalition talks for a traffic light was finalized. Switching coalitions within the parliamentary term is technically the easier way of ending a coalition. In 1983 the social-liberal coalition collapsed, when liberal ministers resigned collectively, after negotiations with the Christian Democrats, the Liberals decided to back a vote of no-confidence that brought Helmut Kohl to power. This is difficult to repeat, because this time the Greens would also have to switch their allegiance ... which is almost impossible, because they naturally prefer the SPD as a partner. Only a very favorable agreement with the CDU could change that - but opposition leader Friedrich Merz already defined them as the main opponent within the current coalition. Switching to a grand coalition is technically easier: Chancellor Scholz could fire green and liberal ministers and appoint CDU/CSU ministers - as the larger party in parliament, the Social-Democrats would still have the position of chancellor on their side. However, CDU/CSU has become twice as large as the SPD in the polls and would not accept such a deal. Snap elections are quite difficult on a federal level. First, the chancellor would trigger a Question of Confidence vote; after losing this vote [though his coalition still has a majority], he can ask the president to dissolve parliament. The president can deny this. This has happened 3 times in the Federal Republic (= post-war politics): in 1972 Willy Brandt had survived a vote of no confidence with a tiny margin and could strengthen his majority, in 1983 Helmut Kohl won such a vote but his liberal coalition partner had heavy infighting over the chance of allegiance, in 2005 Gerhard Schröder used this Question of Confidence vote after his party lost an important governorship after decades. The use of the Question of Confidence is considered legitimate if the parliamentary majority is narrowed by collapse of coalition, crossing the floor or [in the past] the loss of "Überhangmandat" [e.g. if party X deserved 10 seats in state Y by the share of proportional votes, but won 12 constituencies, it would recieve the 2 extra seats; but the first two MPs from that state party that die or resign would have no replacement; this rule has become mostly irrelevant since most overhang seats are compensated]. Coordinating unreal mistrust among MPs who after the snap election want to continue the same coalition is considered manipulative and almost unconstitutional - in 2005 the president needed the whole two weeks to investigate, whether snap elections are constitutional.

[@iGamezRo]

Fun fact: the SPD is the oldest Social Democratic Party in the world. It was the main pro-paliamentarianism voice in the Reichstag of the Kaiserreich and were the architects of the Weimar Republic, which they dominated for about 10 years. When the SPD got a free hand at rewriting the German Constitution, they made the Weimar Constitution, it was the most liberal one in the world. Universal and equal suffrage, political rights, strong parliament, etc. This political liberalism of the SPD is what pushed all the conservative and extremist parties to an even bigger extreme. The conservatives were mad that the aristocratic monarchy was abolished and a free system put in place, the communists were mad because they couldn't claim to liberate the already very free and happy workers, the mustache man was mad because the SPD signed Versailles and made a liberal democracy. Basically, what I am trying to say is that the SPD upset every non centrist political power in the Weimar Republic and left a free for all where the "best" one won.

[@charles___]

So you're saying that SPD is a unsung hero all along and the current SPD who rules germany never made a single stupid decision or policies am i right ?

[@Arminius1901]

Doesn't matter. The Weimar Republic fell anyway because the SPD was a weak party, unable to regain former german territories on a peaceful way. Neither Austria, nor Danzig, nor Memelland were re-annexed which wasn't completely impossible. By 1935 and 1936 the NSDAP was already in power and then they finally re-annexed the Saarterritorium, they remilitarized the Rhineland, they annexed Memelland, Austria and the Sudetenland. The SPD was a weak party without any german patriots. Just "Social-Democrats" who never worked once in their lifes, just like modern Social Democrats. They just made the welfare state of the WR bigger every year. We need new elections ASAP

[@OrionTails]

​@@charles___ here we go again with professional victims making bad faith interpretations that purposefully offend them.

[@goughrmp]

Weimar Republic was soo stable and prosperous and nothing bad ever came out of it. Yea I don’t buy it

[@smashwombel]

Kind of: Both the far-right and the far-left made temporary alliances with the SPD during the early years to defeat the other. Things calmed down during the 1920s, when right wing parties took part in the government, but the far-right reradicalised after the financial crash. The Weimar constitution was very liberal, but allowed the government extensive emergency powers, which Hitler used to bring it down. Many laws were also unenforcable because of the conservative bureaucracy and German federalism. The communists were less relevant in the later years, because they quickly degenerated into Stalinist puppets.

[@irishpsalteri]

Thanks for this.

[@hendrikdewilde-geisler5859]

What I'm missing here is that the worst problems this coalition has to wrestle with find their roots in the 16 years before this coalition, when the CDU was always the dominant party in the coalitions Germany had then. From my POV, this coalition functions above the sum of the individual parties. A major problem is that most liberal voters don't know the difference between micro -and macroeconomics, which raises pressure on the FDP, the weakest party.

[@nox5555]

The FDP is just a failure. they are incredible weak in the coalition and the only Person that is in the Media all the time is a very unlikeable warhawk.

[@thesjkexperience]

Again proving that those that want power are the ones who should never get it!

[@Dara-wk5ty]

No, they could have 20% together and still rule

[@Hardcore_Remixer]

Rule with 20% together? Doesn't Germany have PR?

[@MellonVegan]

@@Hardcore_Remixer Yeah but we didn't have a national election. This is just an approval number. They have more than 50% of the votes in parliament until we hold our next elections, next year. European elections don't change national governments or parliaments. You can even rule with an approval rating of 0%.

[@erikmoore-]

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[@michaeldpa1333]

Parliamentary Democracy's are rather complicated.

[@Timey254]

FYI the CDU, SPD and FDP had become OBSESSED with national debt in the Merkel years (calling it "the black zero", no new debts taken) and passed a *constitutional amendment* that basically made it illegal to borrow money and essentially making austerity constitutional law. This decision had even then been HEAVILY criticized by economists and that criticism has only grown louder since because you can not develop the country based on taxes alone. Eventually you have to borrow to make developments that will eventually result in MORE taxes. But Germany can not do that. It can only pass a budget that makes the country "truck along somehow" but nothing that makes the country actually advance. Because at the end of the day, national debt is different to company debt which is different yet again to personal debt. But the government treats it as if they're all the same.

[@FranoGames]

as long as there is no majority in the bundestag, the chancelor can not be replaced. its very unlikely for a different coalition with majority to form because it'd have to be a very big coalition (cdu, greens, spd...) because most bigger parties refuse to work with the afd.

[@EP-ef7gl]

Greetings from Freiburg

[@MetallicReg]

You have a great town… but please tell them that your „Greens“ have absolutely nothing to do with the national party of Greens.

[@aturchomicz821]

​@@MetallicRegNo??

[@Phantom-mg5cg]

I think, if the parties in the German government were doing better in the polls, the government would already have blown up. The FDP and the SPD can´t afford re-elections and the Greens wouldn´t have better options either. I expect to see the government continue until the regular elections in September 2025, earlier re-elections would surprise me.

[@acul_nick9131]

Freiburg mentioned💪💪💪

[@kfiraltberger552]

Hoping the FDP will do the smart thing, jump ship and rejoin the CDU, otherwise the AFD will be too strong in the next government. At least that way, they could find a more centrist coalition and garner support for not selling out their ideals

[@paul1979uk2000]

At a time when there's a war going on and strong leadership is needed and usually many countries in the EU look up to Germany for that, Scholz has actually been really poor and indecisive, Germany needs stronger leadership in these times and Scholz doesn't seem to be the one for the job.

[@Minimmalmythicist]

Well, this war is totally unecessary, both sides could have avoided the Russia-Ukraine conflict if they weren´t so damned greedy. There were several opportunities for Germany, France, the USA and Russia to avoid it. Unfortunately it´s the poor people who are paying for it and not the elites.

[@neodym5809]

@@MinimmalmythicistRussia could have avoided it. They were the ones attacking Ukraine unprovoked.

[@Minimmalmythicist]

@@neodym5809 Again, you can´t just start in 2022, you have to look at things like the dodgy Euromaiden coup. This is exactly what is wrong, people who only look at the facts that support their case and don´t try to get an overall picture.

[@Joshi_421]

@@Minimmalmythicist I mean we could start in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea just for the sake of it. Or before when russia was meddling in the Ukraine elections. Russia is a 100 at fault

[@Minimmalmythicist]

@@Joshi_421 I think you win the prize for missing the point don´t you, namely that you can´t judge a situation just by pointing at the things ONLY ONE of the parties has done. That´s called being very very biased. Being one-sided isn´t actually a virtue, I know this day and age a lot of people confusingly think it is. I could reel off a tonne of shitty things right now that France, Germany, the USA and the Ukranian government have done in this conflict. It wouldn´t mean the Russians haven´t done anything shitty. Similarly, just reeling off the shitty things the Russians have done, doesn´t mean we get to ignore the things the other side has done. Seriously, it amazes me that anyone can graduate high school without realising this.

[@aidensam6071]

TLDR is avoiding talking about the main issue which is immigration. The only reason why right-wing parties are winning all across the western world is not because of policies and budgets, it might be partly because of policies and budgets but it’s mainly because of all sorts of immigration. Native people are afraid of losing their culture and history to the huge numbers of foreigners coming in and absolutely not integrating. From now on as long as immigration is allowed, the right-wing parties will be doing pretty good in most of the elections, especially in Europe. So the parties in the center will have to decide, either the people will vote them to oblivion or they’ll have to actually start understanding the feeling and thinking of the ordinary citizens.

[@crocodileguy4319]

The traffic light coalition dying? NOoOOOOoOOooooooooooo

[@OrionTails]

Who thought having an environmentalist, pacifist party; a neoliberal, anti-spending pro-corporation party, and; a pro-Ukraine, pro-Israel, social democratic party could govern well together?

[@naapsuvaimne740]

@@OrionTails they all left and far left

[@beepoboopo546]

​​@@naapsuvaimne740Lmao the FDP are basically right-libertarian they are not left in the slightest. Scholz is also a very centrist SPD leader

[@soundscape26]

@@naapsuvaimne740 The far left is Die Linke.

[@potato_nugget]

​@@naapsuvaimne740you're delusional

[@nostro1940]

Daily reminder that there are over 7 million Turks in Germany

[@julianosvonskingrad7009]

Interesting to mention: The eastern German constituencies with the lowest incomes were ~2/3 won by the AfD. The eastern German constituencies with a high unemployment rate were ~50% won by the AfD. The wealthiest constituencies and those with the lowest unemployment rates did not go to the AfD even once. However, this is also because not a single one of them is in eastern Germany. A friend of mine is a hairdresser. She had a lot of young people between 18 and 28 in her store who said: "I'm voting AfD" and the reason was always: the money. Costs have been exploding in Germany since the 2000s. Electricity prices? Steeply upwards. Gasoline prices? Steeply upwards. Gas price? Steeply upwards. Social Security? Steeply upwards. Insurance costs? Steeply upwards. Then the Greens demand extremely expensive environmentally friendly conversions of everything and the rest is a logical conclusion.

[@J_GamerSP]

The left has failed them. Both the "centre-left" and "far-left" don't seem to offer solutions to enough people. And the FDP (but also CDU/CSU) just tubocharge this disaster

[@aturchomicz821]

I too love voting for the Neoliberal AgD because I want better wages, im so smart!

[@MellonVegan]

I keep being amazed by how the AfD, a party for the rich if you look at their tax policies for example, has managed to dupe the poor into thinking the AfD is their best bet.

[@julianosvonskingrad7009]

@@aturchomicz821: What is that supposed to tell us? And what is the "AgD"?

[@juergenlohse6902]

Let's hope for the best!

[@Chebka_]

And what is the best?

[@adrianchezorts]

@@Chebka_ the ultra-nationalists not growing anymore, preferably ditching into non-existence, and absolutely not entering even a single Government never ever.

[@BunjiKugashira42]

The coalition will not collapse for a simple reason: Calling snap elections is almost impossible in Germany. If the current coalition were to dissolve, a new coalition would have to emerge from the current distribution of seats in the Bundestag. And that coalition would only last until the next scheduled general election, which is next year.

[@danielk5780]

Coalitions have crumbled in the past, with members defecting to other parties. Especially with the resurgence of the BSW, it is entirely possible that the Greens and SPD lose sitting members of the Bundestag on their left wing to them, while members of the FDP desert to the CDU on the promise of being put high enough on the lists to remain in the Bundestag after the election. And when there are not enough votes for must-pass legislation, the last resort of the chancellor is to call the "Vetrauensfrage" - challenging the Bundestag to either vote for the bill before or go for new elections. It's obviously a last resort and a gamble and right now the coalition is banking on at least lasting until the next elections and for the much-needed reforms they started to show results in the year that remains for their polling to improve.

[@MJODENG]

It has allready collapsed

[@luzie3317]

I feel like the Coallitions decline is stemming more from optics faliures than policy faliures. For example, a research paper released around the middle of the current legislative periode revealed that the Ampel had managed to push through and work on way more of their coallition promises and goals then the previous government (having tackled at least half of their promises/goals in some way) did at in the same time frame (and with the previous government having had less promises in the first place). When voters were asked however, it was revealed that the vast majority believed the government to have achieved very little previously set out goals or none at all. Looking at the data, the policy-level work isn't failing at all. It's how the public percieve it and the government. A failure of optics.

[@mimamo]

Failure of optics? In what reality are you living? Yeah, they sure were able to pass plenty new laws through parliament, but the majority of people oppose what laws they passed: Heizungsgesetz, Chancen-Aufenthaltsgesetz, Selbstbestimmungsgesetz, Cannabisgesetz and so on. Terrible, poorly written laws that the next CDU-lead government will all revoke immediately.

[@neodym5809]

@@mimamo a cdu lead coalition can not revoke them immediately. They will be either in a coalition with the spd or greens.

[@uweinhamburg]

I am German. Thank you, France, for taking all the focus after the EU elections 🤣🤣😉 Chancellor Scholz has been a pretty good politician on a local level. As a national politician, he is out of his comfort zone and simply doesn't deliver. The so-called traffic light coalition doesn't work. Like at a real world traffic light, it is either red or green or yellow, but not a combination of them at the same time.

[@mr.neworld2031]

He is corrupt and it's a shame he is still in a power position. Every normal citizen would be arrested!

[@neodym5809]

I disagree. Considering the challenges and predictions, especially with the forced decoupling of Russian gas, the coalition has worked surprisingly well and already delivered some major reforms ( increase of minimum wage, new citizenship law, hospital reform)

[@Hardcore_Remixer]

​​@@neodym5809 New citizenship law? Last I checked it makes it easier for 1ll3gal 1mm1grant5 to get citizenship. It just means AfD will have a lot to deport.

[@richardnebelheim9127]

how is saying that not every member of a criminal Organisation that has recruited people against their will and under coercion at several points in time is necessarily a criminal themself controversial?

[@peterfireflylund]

It isn’t. Germany is just a sick country dominated by communists who are still fighting the “good” fight against “Nazis” (anyone they don’t like).

[@bananenmusli2769]

The SPD defence minister is by far the most popular politician in Germany. If the SPD scrap Scholz and go with Pistorius at the next election, they will easily win.

[@karankapoor2701]

Easily 😅

[@bananenmusli2769]

@@karankapoor2701 I mean that was exactly what the SPD did in 2021. Nobody thought they could win but Scholz was so much more popular than the others that he won the election. And the SPD was also in an unpopular coaltion back then.

[@domninin]

​@@bananenmusli2769 don't sell it like that, Scholz was incredibly unpopular, the only reason he won was because his opponent was Laschet.

[@sergioleone8592]

the people is simply ... if military leaks, Russian espionage incident let pass without political sanction.

[@baumloserwald]

He is also more on the Conservative wing of the SPD

[@TobiasSchulz1]

As a german I love TLDR for the insight you give into other countries's politics. However, you get so much wrong here, which makes me question how accurate your other videos are....

[@knightshade2654]

4:17 Is Kishida personally unpopular, suffering from the bevy from LDP scandals, or both?

[@naapsuvaimne740]

lets hope

[@punishedpinecone4772]

I've been to Freiburg, it has the best public transport system for any town of its size. Maybe that's why they love government so much

[@DennisTheZZZ]

Next year’s federal election will be both interesting and ugly. Germany might be ruled by a four-way coalition, and the current three-way coalition rule is declining as the European Parliament votes showed.

[@J_GamerSP]

Unlikely. If neither Die Linke nor FDP get into the Bundestag, there won't even be 4 coalition-viable parties O.o Also, I don't see any realistic 4-way coalition. If the Greens go together with the FDP again, they're plain stupid. If they go with BSW, they'll irritate the left

[@neodym5809]

I doubt that. Either the SPD turns the polls around like last time (Merz is rather unpopular), or we will end up with another CDU/SPD coalition. Die Linke will be replaced by Sarah Wagenknechts party, the greens will suffer, the FDP may be out of parliament altogether. AFD will be somewhere in the 10-20%, unpleasant, but not unmanageable.

[@edwardkornuszko4083]

We can only pray.

[@charlesiragui2473]

The single biggest political question in Europe today, Ukraine, was not mentioned in this video. My understanding is that views on the conflict are heavily split by region, with former East Germans showing sympathy for Russia (supporting an AfD vote). Also, the SWB is specifically a peace party opposed to the war and has quickly gotten above the 5% threshold for representation in the Bundestag. The CDU's Merz has made comments about the need to begin negotiations with Russia, move to end the conflict. Finally, it is notable that the party most associated with the war, the Greens, has done particularly badly and has suffered among youth.

[@martinaltmann4031]

Remember that in 2021 the SPD was only ahead for about 3-4 months, in which the election happened to lie.

[@nekkratal3488]

no

[@razabadass]

Thanms

[@ricardomews3597]

RAUS!!!!!

[@broreece]

Europe has been moving towards the right, this was just bound to happen due to the poor handling of the immigration crisis and growing negative outlook towards the consequences of this crisis.

[@brendanriley2908]

This TLDR seems to have a variety of young men presenting the shows, but they all seem to have the same voice? Are these real people, or are they AI cartoons?

[@crapmalls]

Poorer regions? Bruh that's all of East Germany. Did they already experience communism or something?

[@neodym5809]

Yes? East Germany was a separate socialist republic until 1991?

[@2Links]

​@@neodym5809they have to be joking, surely?

[@AaronOkeanos]

It is 30 years in the past, but the 40 years of Russian-style economics before that can still be seen and felt today. Although it's spotty there are areas where you can see it and than there are booming areas where all is shiny new and tidy and the west is starting to dislike the east because they get all the new stuff and their side feels neglected and rundown.

[@Kinesis007]

@TLDR love a doom loop 😂

[@oliverschmidt1988]

Olaf would never think about snap election. he is such a wuss

[@DerPijO]

Still not as bad as voting far right. But people gonna do it anyways, natural born N*zis.

[@aceyage]

Sociopath is what he is.

[@joachimfrank4134]

There is no obvious way to snap elections in Germany. If the parliament doesn't like to have the current chancelor any more, they have to find someone to replace him. There were some cases in the past, where this process has lead to snap elections, by finding no replacement for a chancelor who has lost majority support. But the president could choose to call for elections or to tell the chancelor to stay in office in this case. There are still discussions if these snap elections were constitutional. So there's a possibility that there won't be snap elections even if Olaf Scholz loosed a confident vote.

[@theamazingmarlbito6293]

It's so funny watching every country make fun of the states for the rise of it's right win, acting like it would never happen anywhere else, have those same problems notw 😂😂😂

[@catmonarchist8920]

The AfD came second but with 16% of the vote which is considerably less than the US republicans get over 40%)

[@theamazingmarlbito6293]

@@catmonarchist8920 Hilarious. This is exactly what I mean 😂. And coalition of AFD and SDP have 78 and 207 seats of the Bundestag. But you keep using EU Parliament elections. Now do Italy, and the UK, and Poland, and Turkey, and Canada, and ...

[@catmonarchist8920]

@@theamazingmarlbito6293 Italy where the far right gets a 1/3 of the vote? The UK and Canada where the far right gets in the teens at most and normally fails to get any seats? You have Turkey, Poland and other countries that have been democracies for less than 40 years to put the US with to show how ordinary you are 😂😂😂

[@theamazingmarlbito6293]

@@catmonarchist8920 Who is Italy's prime minister? So you're just gonna sidestep the German Parliament and the UK then? I could also include France and India, but you'd just sidestep them too 😘

[@catmonarchist8920]

@@theamazingmarlbito6293 I mentioned the UK in what you're responding to and you've already agreed that the AfD has about 10% of the German parliament (but it's a.big scary number because the German parliament is so large). The far right in Italy has to work with non far-right parties which has made them govern in a far more moderate way that Trump's America on its most conciliatory day. Nothing has been sidestepped 🙈

[@dutchuncle3310]

Comparing the EU elections to the national elections gives little more indication then polls. The EU parliament doesn’t even have the last word in the EU a well known fact.

[@lukasw9067]

I hate that title. Its not what the video is about and its simply not true. Thats just clickbait (and not the okay type). Do better

[@vardekpetrovic9716]

How is it controversial that some of the people of the SS was not genocidal maniacs? Most of the lost wemach was integrated into the SS by 1944. Yeah they fought fr the gmeran reich, but saying that the guy that swwpt the floor of the army headquarters or a hangar was a war criminal it indeed taking it too far. What could they have said? Nah, and gotten a bullet in the head instead?SS was a horrid organization, do not get me wrong, but out of the 1.2 million people that had to join in 1944, not all was evil, they were just out of options. Are you going to claim that the volksturm people of 1945 is also evil? Old men and kids with nothing but a single pansarshrek per 30 people. Yeah most died, but are they evil?

[@louistan7560]

The German public definitely deserves better than this lot.

[@harz632]

1:41 I love how people are losing their mind over it, I personally don't like him, he looks slimy and what he said was at best stupid as it was right before a election, making him unfit to be a Politian. Or just a thought, he did it deliberately to hurt the AfD, now that is just speculation, but again, saying something like that right before an election is either stupidity or with bad intentions. But I also feel like this is blown way out of the water, I don't know what he thought when saying it, but he is technically correct, not everyone recruited to the SS did or had the chance to do something horrible, that 14 year old boy force recruited into the SS 2 days before Germanies surrender didn't have the time or even will to commit a war crime what people also believe is that the SS is some pure German ahrian unit, but out of the 900.000 Soldiers only half were actually German, there were quite the number of Men that joined the SS to get a chance to fight the communists, not for some racial ideal from Germany but to take revenge on what the communists did to them, like Estonians, Ukrainians, Romanians etc. And this is where we come to his statement, where he technically speaking is correct, while the SS is a disgusting organization that committed countless unspeakable crimes as a whole, not every single person inside of it took part in them. even if we are just talking about maybe a handful of people that fit into the category.

[@petermuller7681]

And don't forget that the SS was the first and only european army. At the end more than 30% of Waffen SS soldiers were not German. The last defenders of the Reichskanzlei in Berlin angainst Red Army were French SS volunteers!

[@HS-hx8ti]

Imagine suggesting that among the hundreds of thousands of SS-members (many among whom were drafted children) there were at least one that weren't evil.

[@lynox172]

One important note that wasn’t mentioned. The biggest scandal of the Koalition (At least for the „traditional right“) was the interduction of „Bürgergeld“ which was an increase of money for poor people and people without a job. It is for this reason why the FDP wants to cut spending as the spending to many right win voters makes working unprofitable.

[@AaronOkeanos]

Why do you blame people who having even less money than you for your low income/financial problems? And no it is not a comfortable living on benefits it is survival at best.

[@lynox172]

@@AaronOkeanos I haven’t said that I support this opinion. The argument goes that it is already extremely close to the minimum wage and as such is unfair due to Germanys tax system.

[@bobsemple9341]

Calling everyone right of centre far right? Embarrassing

[@thematthew761]

The AFD is pretty radical

[@Elucidator-]

Far right is still pretty friendly of a term. 'Extreme right' is much more negative, downright insulting. Far right / populist right is more descriptive, so TDLR did right with that. Note: I voted 'far right' recently.

[@bobsemple9341]

@@thematthew761 examples?

[@bobsemple9341]

@@Elucidator- far right is still insulting though. They are right wing parties. No one can point to anything far right about them.

[@thematthew761]

@@bobsemple9341 Their lead candidate was an apologist for the SS

[@shriharshbankapur9666]

Right seems to be on the rise.

[@keterscp1064]

Not really, in France the difference between far right and left is super small and it's actually going to go in left favor in the up coming days , so don't worry even in the Germany, left is going to win next year, people that voted for the right did it to show there disapproval but are so scared to do in on a national level because they know there raciest, fascist and religious ideas will not work on a government level , they did it on EU level to maybe stop the greens deal nothing but fortunately that's not going to happen (I hope that Hungarian dictator don't do something crazy that we all going to regret)

[@shriharshbankapur9666]

@@keterscp1064 Hey thanks for sharing your point of view. I'm planning to come to Germany in a couple of years unless of course AfD forms a govt and goes bat shit crazy on skilled immigrants. The energy crisis indeed are worrying and could have been avoided if nuclear plants hadn't been shut down. Let's see what all happens on the ground and how the people actually vote in general elections after this reprimand to the ruling coalition on the European level.

[@keterscp1064]

@@shriharshbankapur9666 don't worry 😉 french elections will show you everything you need to know, Trump literally was the worst thing that happened to this world, those brainwashed uneducated white christian want him to be there global leader to fight something that doesn't exist, thankfully young people, me excluded don't believe I'm fairy tails , so as long as Europe stand , we are not going back to dark ages and if you're going to legally go to Europe then try Spain and Italy for a fast entry since Germany need you to have at least B1-B2 I'm the language which is not easy to say the least but try your best 😊 have good day and don't worry about anything since if far right took over Europe, just like WW2, Europe educated people will just go to another country to live freely (we aren't nationalist to care what happen to Europe next but their economy will worst than that of any other countries in the world, so no one is brave enough to piss their educated people)

[@neodym5809]

@@shriharshbankapur9666 the nuclear reactors were out of fuel and beyond their lifetime.

[@peterfireflylund]

@@neodym5809not really (and they could have been refueled)and no. Old fuel still works, it is just less efficient. There was plenty of life left in the reactors. The initial approved lifetime was running out but they still worked fine. We do the same thing with bridges: design for a given lifetime, certify them for a shorter lifetime, continuously maintain and inspect them, and extend the certification if the bridges are still fine. Take your “green” propaganda elsewhere, please.

[@giovannifrrri5495]

The only thing missing from the European union is actual unity 😂😂😂

[@soundscape26]

It would be almost impossible to be more united when you take into consideration you are talking about grouping 27 countries under the same roof. Even with disagreements the EU is still a major achievement not replicated anywhere else in the world.

[@ludwigwinter6795]

The EU is still the most outstanding project of international cooperation in the world. It's easy to forget how unique it is.

[@maxmichalik4938]

What federal democracy that's not a one-party state has the kind of unity you speak of?

[@Blechinstrument]

The purpose of the European union is not to end disagreements, but to provide a peace- and lawful framework for settling those.

[@waldothewalrus294]

It's almost like democratic frameworks depend on productively working on disagreements and conflicts without resorting to force so quickly

[@ThomasBoyd-gx9wr]

George from Ireland Eton college upset with it. Better him saying it politically Thomas. Help British Labour party in England London Britain.

[@Mackaiin]

The Christian Democrats did not win in "every" West German state. Hamburg and Bremen are City-States and were won by the Social Democrats and the Greens not by the Conservatives. If you advertise your journalism, I would at least expect some fact-checking before the video goes live. Though of course, this is only a minor detail. Overall, your videos are good.

[@Skoell1983]

Hahahaha… Nein!

[@univeropa3363]

Schulz must go.

[@alessandrorossi7135]

Something worth pointing out: all of these results aren't as definitive as they seem. Voter turnout was around 50%, which says more about how we feel about the EU instead of our national governments

[@ludwigwinter6795]

Turnout was about 65% in germany

It was more than 60% wich is an above average turnout.

[@golonawailus4312]

What is wrong with this channel, my comments aren’t showing

[@duckdeity9450]

KZbin’s fault

[@AaronOkeanos]

The FDP is acting like a trojan horse of the corporate-guys, billionaires and conservatives. But I would not throw them out now because it will change nothing in parliament but the blame will no longer be put on the FDP although they are largely responsible. And if the FDP leaves I would call elections to make sure they are blamed and potentially disappear altogether landing below 5%. Besides: Keep in mind people vote differently for the EU than for national parliament.

[@honnebombll]

The Coalition is like an elderly couple that only doesnt divorce knowing they wouldnt get someone else.

[@robinstevenson6690]

Why did you chose to highlight the AFD (only 16%) results while completely ignoring the fact that 75% of the German EU seats went to the EPP, SD, Renew, Green, and Left parties? The 3-party EU governing coalition did PARTICULARLY well in Germany. Why didn't you at least mention this fact? Why dramatize the AFD results, when they're only a distraction from the major point (i.e. "the center holds strongly" in Germany)?

[@PlanetTrendy]

The 2020s are mirroring the 1920s in the best ways

[@diogorodrigues747]

The 1920s and the 1930s at the same time.

[@dynamicwarfare]

@@diogorodrigues747 The latter comes later.

[@enesutkuozdemir7335]

From roaring twenties to conservative revolution...

[@diogorodrigues747]

@@dynamicwarfare But in this case it's happening in the same decade.

[@gegenschau2007]

Ich verrate es euch: Nein !

[@lemmyboy4107]

Absolute bs typicall tldr populism. The coalition will finish its term thats in the intrest of every party. Simply because 1. They made insane progress and past more laws then the goverments before which will take effect in comming years 2. Its expected that we have a economy rise again, this means good economy numbers = people more happy. Completly diffrent situation to uk and France.

[@user78994]

This is pretending the main reason of discontent is economic, which isnt really even true anymore. Whereever people are asked by pollers about what they perceive the most important topics at the time, the top of the list is almost always immigration. This is where this coalitions certainly fails and the reason that all winning parties in the EU election have been antiimmigrationist ones.

[@nox5555]

there will be no economic rise soon because of the laws they passed.

[@DontKnow-hr5my]

Wenn die Ampel nicht mehr funktioniert, gilt rechts vor links

[@mikesrandomchannel]

This deserves more upvotes. It's not only knee-jerk funny but also, on deeper reflection (coalition = any parties working together), objectively true and not just in Germany.

[@IchWillNichtMehr853]

Dumme Aussage, selbst wenn es ein Witz ist. Diese Aussage und andere wie "Sei schlau, wähl blau" sind blau-braune Propaganda-Sprüche ohne jeglichen Inhalt. Social Media ist voll damit und es ist eine Plage. Selbst wenn man unzufrieden ist, ist es eine schlechte Idee eine Partei zu wählen, die N*zis, Rechtsextreme und Rassisten in ihren Reihen hat.

[@steele0strella]

Vote SPD.

[@heilong79]

We need the EU to tilt more right as the way it is at the moment is a mess and forcing unwanted immigration and green taxes is have a bad effect on us.

[@user-fn5lq6eu1q]

Very good for the world and EU,,, EU top counter's like German, French , UK,poloand,,,needs new leaders whom will Act as independent nations,, but not as American puppy,,,,,far right is good to go,,,,,vote ,,,far right,,,

[@Snufflegrunt]

Is it me, or is there a slight bias towards the Greens in this video? Bringing this up as I believe TLDR tries to be as impartial as possible (within reason). This comment should not be taken as a message of support for any party.

[@rjohnm666]

TLDR is left, it only comes out occasionally but they are definitely left

[@kaparg]

@@rjohnm666 They are a bootleg copy of mainstream media outlets in a digital format, they do nothing but repeat what every "reputable" channel/newspaper has already said.

[@XY-uc1tw]

TLDR is extreme left oriented and they also support massively Greens

[@mycodingchannel9690]

@@XY-uc1tw extreme left? Ok buddy whatever makes you sleep better.

[@Snufflegrunt]

@@rjohnm666 Yeah I always got that vibe but they also say that they want to be impartial so… felt like I should say I especially noticed it in this video as constructive feedback. Got a good laugh from the guy who called them “extreme left” lol. Russian by any chance?

[@simonsaysno]

Ampel, a whopping 12% in Saxony😂🤣😂

[@MellonVegan]

Well, it's Saxony

[@grimaffiliations3671]

thats what austerity gets you

[@icephoenix5466]

? the SPD specifically said they WONT decouple from china and have Bet in chinese resurgence?

[@surfacepro3328]

Someone gets it, austerity is and has always been the worst policy and has created so many problems. What did the 3 undemocratic governments before Hitler do? Cut cut and cut spending. See any parallels to this

[@clownofthetimes6727]

Are we seeing EU elections becoming more powerful than national elections?

[@kianlakchi7182]

In certain Eastern European countries it sometimes already seems that way ( on certain subjects)

[@AaronOkeanos]

This question makes no sense at all because these are two different institutions and there are limits to what each is allowed to regulate. EU policies overwrite national policies but there are limits to what policies they can make. Usually the EU deals only with stuff all EU members affects and the outside, e.g. trade, security, regulations. But nothing only the member itself effects, e.g. taxes, healthcare, education, etc.

[@soundscape26]

They aren't... some of the most important policies are still decided internally by each country.

[@clownofthetimes6727]

@@AaronOkeanos And yet in France the EU election has forced a general election. Germany may follow and who else resigned? I can`t keep up. My point is that an EU election has over ridden the results of a national election. Is that he way it is meant to work?

[@AaronOkeanos]

@@clownofthetimes6727 Macron choose that as political strategy and to maintain his own power in 2 years when he is up for election. If it works or not remains to be seen it's a big gamble. EU elections are seen as a poll on national opinions. And some countries might decide to change strategy.