Bonifratz

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[–] Bonifratz@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Small title correction: it's 1902 and 2015, not 2025.

[–] Bonifratz@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

Your list is pretty wild. If you're serious about #2, please talk to a mental health professional if you haven't done so yet. And if you seriously put #4 ahead of, like, cancer or infectious diseases, you should definitely consider leaving for another country.

As for me, I live a relatively normal life in a relatively peaceful environment. I'd put my money on cancer.

[–] Bonifratz@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Germany has some 3700 km of land borders, more than the US' border with Mexico. German politicians and media have not been honest about the funding and personnel that would be required to seriously control immigration.

[–] Bonifratz@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago

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[–] Bonifratz@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Technically, there's a two-week period during which he or others can try to be elected by absolute majority (316 of 630 votes). After that, the requirements would be lowered to simple majority.

So Merz may still be elected in a second vote. If he fails again, we will likely see a snap election, with the extremist right AfD gaining even more. A big danger about a second vote could be the AfD voting for Merz for troll reasons. They've done this kind of thing before in the state parliament of Thuringia. If Merz got, say, 461 votes in a second vote, it would be obvious that he got the majority not from SPD + Union but by the votes of the AfD. This would trigger massive debates about whether the coalition partners should go ahead with government formation or not. Another possibility is that of a different coalition forming, either Union + SPD + Greens (so including the Greens in the current planned coalition), or Union + AfD. While I could see the former happening in some scenarios (though probably with a different candidate from the Union), I think the latter will not occur at this point in time, as too many Union members and voters are still strictly opposed to cooperating with the AfD. (But I think it is a realistic scenario in future elections.)

[–] Bonifratz@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago

Actual beta male

[–] Bonifratz@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Does anyone have a link to that picture? I can't find it anywhere.

[–] Bonifratz@lemm.ee 59 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I honestly, literally believe that Trump still doesn't know what a tariff is.

[–] Bonifratz@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I know the main thing here is Vance and Trump backstabbing and bullying Zelenskyy, but I just want to point out that Trump repeatedly talked about "raw earth" instead of "rare earths". We're truly fucked.

[–] Bonifratz@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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