• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    At this point we have to contend with small wins like Die Linke getting almost 10% of the vote in Germany, Elon Musk getting bullied out of politics, and Carney winning in Canada.

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      6 hours ago

      Unfortunately Musk didn’t get bullied out of politics, his office was always meant to expire at the beginning of May. He achieved what he set out to do: dismantling federal government completely to make deruglation, tax avoidance and corruption much easier.

      This is just him doing the typical right wing martyrdom whining whenever somebody criticises them.

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        1 day ago

        Idk what you mean by that, the SPD was always centre left, at least since Bismarck times. Sure, they moved to be basically no-opinion-at-all centrism recently, but it is not like they were the shining sunshine of socialism before.

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            9 hours ago

            Maybe you are older than me. In the last ~20 years that I was old enough to understand the news, the SPD was always the center-left party and the Left/PDS the far left (for a non-fringe party) one. Fugging hell, my conservative grandma voted SPD because she dislikes Merz for his AfD bullshit back in January, and she is everything but left-wing.

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              I am not that old, but the social Democrats of old wanted e.g. a wealth tax and maximum income taxes that are much higher than today’s. I don’t have a long list of examples.