Comments by "Neodym" (@neodym5809) on "Why Germany's Coalition is Reaching Breaking Point" video.

  1. 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.
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  2. @MinimmalmythicistRussia could have avoided it. They were the ones attacking Ukraine unprovoked.
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  3. @Minimmalmythicist this old bs. What right did Russia had to invade Crimea because of Euromaiden? Furthermore, several consecutive elections in Ukraine have proven that the population is pro EU, not pro Russia.
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  4.  @captainvanisher988  they won all of east Germany? Didn’t get a majority in any state.
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  5. It isn’t falling apart? Some small shifts in the political spectrum, but the vast majority is still centrist.
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  6.  @zeno3007  indeed, I find the term winning in a PR system like Germany misleading. You won nothing but the most seats in accordance with your vote share.
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  7. 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)
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  8.  @captainvanisher988  their vote share is far below 50% in each of the mentioned states, so they have not won a majority in any of them.
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  9.  @karankapoor2701  AFD has their core voters in the regions with the lowest rate of immigrants. So their voter concerns are often imaginary.
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  10.  @peterfireflylund  this is not green propaganda, but simple fact: the reactors were not maintained to function passed the planned shut down, and the certifications were running out as well. Pure cooperate logic: the minimum necessary to keep the reactors running till the planned shut down was invested. To keep them running, huge investments and a new certification would have been required, not to mention the lack of personal. as the reactors were not intended to run longer, they were not maintained to run longer.
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  11.  @danielk5780  the current polls put a CDU/SPD at a 45-50% vote share, which is more than enough for a majority in parliament.
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  12.  @MelonHusk7  the nuclear reactors were out of fuel and beyond their lifetime.
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  13. The Greens are not far left, neither is the SPD (and they are not socialist, either). Far left parties in Germany are die Linke.
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  14.  @dreamingflurry2729  massively increasing minimum wage and social welfare is not social democratic, because…?
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  15. Since the nuclear power have been closed, electricity prices are decline
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  16. Yes? East Germany was a separate socialist republic until 1991?
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  17. 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.
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  18.  @manueldi2990  public media campaign? If the top candidate of the AFD gives interviews talking about the good guys in the SS, you claim it’s a media campaign?
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  19. The AFD is mostly protest vote. Not even necessarily on immigration, just to shock the other parties.
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  20.  @DontKnow-hr5my rent is not taxed? What are talking about? And what has this to do with your fathers job?
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  21.  @DontKnow-hr5my  I have news for you: pensions are taxed in most countries.
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  22.  @mimamo  a cdu lead coalition can not revoke them immediately. They will be either in a coalition with the spd or greens.
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  23. The AFD is far right. There is no discussion about it.
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  24. The most powerful political block in the EU parliament is center right. The Tories are right wing. European politics are dominated by center right politicians.
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  25. Look at the results. In the EU elections, 65%+ voted for centrist parties. Only 16% for the far right. Germany is, and remains, a centrist country.
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  26. Germans do not like snap elections.
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  27. How? How do you change the continent you belong to?
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  28. Don’t know much about Germany? Die Linke, a party that is the official successor of the SED (the party which ruled east Germany), calling themselves socialist, has its power base in east Germany.
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  29. Why? How?
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  30. Since Germany shut down its last nuclear reactors (which ran out of fuel and were at the end of their lifetime), electricity prices decreased.
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  31. Nobody sane wants to cooperate with the AFD, a party that wants to deport native Germans opposing their views to Africa.
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