Comments by "Neodym" (@neodym5809) on "How Germany's Floods will Impact the Election: CDU Polling Drop - TLDR News" video.

Yes, the name federal republic has a reason.
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@ishaannag4545 It is disrespectful to laugh and talk while the president is giving a speech, especially if the topic is a catastrophe in his state.
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@celtspeaksgoth7251 How is Germany responsible for Austrian guards behavior? And it was Germany taking in Italian Covid patients when Italy run low on ICU capacity. Why are you lying?
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Well, the SPD candidate is also minister for finance, visiting the places and promising money. The Greens meanwhile are busy as their candidate has used the N-word in an interview...
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It is called single point of failure: One idiot in charge, and the whole system is screwed. Better splitting it, by that, only parts of the country are screwed, not all at once. Furthermore, if you compare Germanys federal reaction to Covid to the centralized reaction of France and England, Germany did way better.
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@buddy1155 Parts of Germany are prepared perfectly for floods due to recent (last 30 years) experience. Cologne for example has a state of the art flood protection. Small villages and towns on the other hand, without that experience, were unprepared.
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Baerbock made the mistake of presenting herself as a person of detail, who does not make mistakes, only to damage this image by doing one mistake after the other. CDU is known for corruption, so it is expected by their candidates, priced in. The Greens wanted to be the opposite of this, just to do similar things (of a smaller magnitude of course, but it does not matter).
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As far as I know the German warning App NINA issued flood warnings, which were ignored by the population.
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@thanakonpraepanich4284 As Germany has 16 states, CDU would never really be in opposition, but governing several. Due to the German two chamber system, they always would have national power via the Bundesrat, even in in opposition in the Bundestag.
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It were Baerbocks own mistakes. Nobody forced her to write a book, nobody forced her to use the N-word, she should have checked her CV and finances beforehand. She failed, which shows she is inexperienced. She made it far to easy for her opponents, which rises the question if she is the right person. Politics are brutal. If you are destroyed by dirty PR so easily, you are at the wrong place.
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@LukeVilent It was not the order of words in her CV. She claimed achievements she did not have. And the issue of her book is not missing quotations, but plagiarism: she copy and pasted whole passages, so much so that it is now debated to be a copyright infringement. If you say the accusations are blown out of proportion, fair enough. But do not try to claim they are smaller than they actually are. She screwed up. She made mistakes no professional politician at her level should have done. She made it far too easy for opponents to rip her apart. And CDU shows a route to Putin style politics? Are you for real? This is pure bs and propaganda.
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@123ricardo210 True. If hills direct all water to one small area, it is devastating. An issue the Netherlands do not face to that extend.
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@Terrorrai1 Cologne, a city of a million people, which experienced a lot of floods. Furthermore, the Rhine is one of the biggest rivers in Europe, a true force of nature. A lot of people + a lot of damage/costs = political will and money to do something about it Now compare this to small villages and towns, which did not experience floods, only having small streams. No pressure from the population, no incentive for politics.
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A doomed if you do, doomed if you dont scenario
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@12kenbutsuri Only 50 years more to go I believe^^
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It is by far the best part. Centralized systems ruin everything at once. A federal system has safeguards. Just compare Germany`s reaction to Covid to the centralized approach of England.
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@jonasklapper2875 Now imagine a person like Johnson being Chancellor and in charge of Germanys covid response. Full disaster. Only because we had Merkel, who has a scientific mindset, the federal government was in favor of restrictions. Single point of failure: if you have an idiot in charge in a centralized system, you are doomed.
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@jonasklapper2875 Name a centralized country of similar size that does it better.
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@jonasklapper2875 I can argue why South Korea, being effectively a island nation, is in a different situation, but I take that point. What do you want to decrease, and why do you believe this would improve anything? Remember, my question always is: will there be a single point of failure? What safeguards do you plan?
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@fabiansaerve I question that Bavaria has the best system in general. It is just decently financed.
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@moisuomi German voters dislike instability. Changing candidate months before election is a sign of instability. It would be a high risk gamble.
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@moisuomi That is the reason why I think the SPD might have a (small) chance.
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Did he? I am no fan of Laschet, but the performance of NRW during Covid is on average of other states, and rather good for vaccination.
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@Janoip Wasnt Fukushima during the CDU/FDP coalition?
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Sirens might have helped as to put the population on alert. People would than check what it is about and not get surprised while in bed
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I doubt it. The CDU did not had a majority for how long now?
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@JC-to5by BS. German system gives very limited power the the federal government, it is controlled by parliament (Greens would require a coalition) and the states.
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@Schmidtelpunkt She presented herself as the counter offer to the CDU: scandal free, honest, caring of details. This image was crushed immediately. The error was the core message of her political campaign.
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@Terrorrai1 It was the state and federal government investing into the city of Cologne. It is, as always, a question of the most bang for the buck.
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There were several warnings, also send to the population. they were ignored.
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@theral056 But this is what has happened, but the notifications were ignored.
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@Tom R not completely, but rather close.
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Well, it was the CDU banning nuclear power in the aftermath of Fukushima, and it is the will of the majority of the German population (+75% against). Furthermore, nuclear power is a rather bad example: -it is more expensive than any other technology (Hickely PointC will increase energy prices for the next decades in the UK) -problems of waste storage and uranium mining are massive
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@12kenbutsuri If you explain to me how you ensure that the area is controlled for millennia to come, go for it. Nuclear power (fission) is noncompetitive. We have better technologies available. It is the most expensive, takes forever to build, is high risk, the majority of the population is against it. So why use it? Look at Hickley PointC in the UK.
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@12kenbutsuri Gas, solar, wind, and hydrogen/batteries as storage. Building a new nuclear powerplant takes decades and costs 30bn (Hickley point C). in the same time for the same money, you can completely revolutionize a countries energy grid.
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@12kenbutsuri You can debate if it was a good idea to close Nuclear plants before their time, but blame that on CDU/Merkel, not the Greens. I give you the costs for each method of energy production, current costs, not estimations: Nuclear power (Hickley point C, as it is the most recent Western European project of that kind): 10 million Euro/MW Offshore wind energy : 2.5-4.2 million Euro/MW Onshore wind energy: 3.2 million Euro/MW Solar power: 170k Euro/MW Nuclear energy is just a waste of money at this point.
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@12kenbutsuri See, that is were I disagree again. I am a dreamer and still hope for Fusion.
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@4vesta255 Milking the UK government of all the money is incompetence? All Tory donors beg to differ. Only reason is politics? Well, you failed. Because politics is the most import issue you have to solve to achieve anything. But out of curiosity, what is the the simple solution of nuclear waste storage?
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