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More, and that’s assuming you can ever build momentum. I wasn’t defending the choice.

Because fixing something from the inside takes work and time. And it’s not like it wasn’t happening (as much as I’m not a fan of it because I actually am one of the evil liberals people here love to complain about), people like AOC or Tlaib would never have been prominent voices ~20 years ago. But generational change happens over a timespan of, and I feel that it’s very odd that I need to point this out, generations.

Das wäre vernünftig und staatstragend, daher wird es die CDU garantiert nicht machen.

What a load of bullshit.

First off, the communists split from the SPD, not the other way around. Second, the communists completely refused to work with the (according to them) “social fascist” SPD. Third, the one alternative to Hindenburg in that election was literally Hitler and the other was Thälmann who, again, was as explicitly anti-democratic as Hitler. Fourth, Hindenburg did not immediately appoint Hitler, he did so only after Hitler had secured a majority in parliament (courtesy of the DNVP). Fifth, no, the alleged liberals (social democrats) did not cooperate with the communists because the communists were too busy trying to turn Germany into a second Soviet Union and were the only ones to vote against the enabling act (the communists having already been purged from parliament). The communists only made token efforts at reconciliation after Hitler had already succeeded.

Really? I find spelling out “national socialist” much more impactful than using “Nazi” simply because it isn’t generally used as casually (like in “grammar nazi” etc).

Germany, zero minutes. Postal voting ftw!

Nazi is just shorthand for national socialist. It means the exact same thing. The article did call them what they are.

Rats are smart.

Worth noting that the German system is horrifically inefficient due to being half-privatised and having dozens of layers of bureaucracy doing the exact same thing in dozens of insurance companies.

And it still has holes that people can fall through and end up uncovered. Germany is not a good example for universal healthcare. We’ve basically coasted on “eh, good enough” since Bismarck and only made minor adjustments instead of creating something like a Federal Health Service.

I’m sorry but (all other issues with the scene aside) pretending that performative “apologies” are a good thing actually is genuinely problematic. Performative apologies are inherently manipulative by drawing attention away from the thing you’re apologising for and by being designed to be an effort that feels bad to reject.