Great. Apparently some backbone left in some parliamentarians.
Now the CDU should reject Merz and become a respectable party again (won’t happen, I know).
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Yes, that should be the end of Merz. Probably won’t be though 
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Interesting.
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Good guy, wank, good guy, wank, wank, wank, good guy, wank.
(Scottish humour that will probably be lost on most people)
Din’nae fache yer’self laadae!
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Thanks for your reply!
I’m just curious because I don’t know much about the migration debate in Germany, and I wanted to know if it’s structurally different to the debates I’m familiar with, which are the UK and the US.
Superficially there may be some similarities, but I wonder if there’s genuinely a situation where migration is “more or less uninhibited”? I know that in the UK there are often many, many such claims, but they’re usually entirely based on falsehoods.
I think @Limiescouse has discussed in another thread about how the migration debate in the US is similar to that of the UK, that the supposed problems aren’t really the problems, and are often simply at best misrepresentations of the situation.
Given that my background context are these two situations, I’m naturally rather skeptical of the claims that immigration systems are too permissive. As someone who has been through some of these systems, I have never found any of them to be too permissive.
That said though I am interested in experiencing life in Germany one day so who knows, maybe I will discover this for myself…
I googled it, wasn’t as bad as I feared 
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Haven’t you learnt your lesson from the last time!
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I guess the difference Germany has accepted huge numbers from both Ukraine and Syria. As opposed to more token amount by UK.
More than a million from each conflict. Ten times more than the UK.
Those sort of numbers will create a strain on public resources. They will create disillusionment. The morally right thing to do however.
In the UK refugees have been made a scapegoat for immigration (when numbers relatively small) I think situation in Germany quite different.
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Yeah, I believe that. I hope people don’t fall for those tactics.
It’s a bit of a moving target with them. They were targeting the rail system for a while and then started attacking hospitals. Once the security on one type of target is upgraded they move on somewhere else.
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The people that fall for them are the people that have that kind of prejudice anyway.
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Some pictures posted by our Bürgermeister’s office:
All incidents reported to the police. I think they know who they need to interrogate.
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I think fascism as a whole has to be looked at, Nazism is a form of fascism. Then you’ve got ideas of despotism and the like.
Anyhow the polls haven’t moved much for weeks now. Merz will probably be gone very quickly especially if he attempts to do what he seemingly will do.
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I’d say democracy in general needs to be assessed. There is a whole generation of people that think that democracy means “win an election at all costs and do what you will”.
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