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rip to all the “fuckyeah___” blogs that carried our society at one point </3

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they got trans bitches on here named shit like Die

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when the two mutuals ive arbitrarily decided are in charge of whats cool or not like a post within seconds

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Ich werde dieses Blog bald deaktivieren. Mein Main ist @wonky-venus

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Wort des Jahres Nominierungen: "doof" und "sachfremd"

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If you're up for it could you explain what is making the Germany government stuff so funny? I can find news articles about it (a coalition is dissolving? There's been tension for a while?) but they're all fairly serious. Thx!

ohhh, sure thing! i'll do my best!

i'll say upfront: this is a pretty serious thing to happen. our chancellor fired our minister of finance, Lindner, which definitively breaks up the governing coalition. germany will likely have snap elections at a moment in which far-right parties are polling extremely well. if news coverage about it seems like people are Worried, that's because, well, they are.

however. the reason it's funny is because our minister of finance was fired. ministers aren't really... ever fired. like, it's not a done thing. i'll fully admit i didn't even know it was an option until yesterday. and our minister of finance wasn't just anyone, he was one of the most mocked and hated figures in politics to germans who vote anywhere left of center.

the coalition that governed until yesterday was made up of the green party, the social democrats, and the neoliberal party (FDP). the FDP is infamous (and i mean, my parents already raised me to hate them for that) for playing kingmaker in coalition governments: they never get all that many votes, but they get just enough that whoever they agree to form a government with will probably succeed. they then tend to force extreme concessions from their coalition partners, because hey, if we walk off, you can't govern at all! so you better play along!

for the past three years, this behaviour has been extremely frustrating for germans who voted for greens or social democrats, because policy from their faction was constantly being blocked by the FDP and often by Lindner personally. the FDP received 11,5% of votes in 2021, but to many of us, it felt as if they were the only party who really had any say in the governing coalition. it made the green and social democratic coalition partners look spineless and passive.

and now, i invite you to imagine how on the day of the US election results, the day the whole world rolled their eyes at the sheer fucking stupidity and pointlessness of it all, at NINE IN THE EVENING, just as germans are getting ready to settle in to bed to dream of nightmare global politics -

the news suddenly breaks that our notoriously invisible chancellor just decided to fire Lindner for that exact behaviour. this chancellor comes out and says, on camera, to the entire sleepy nation, that acting the way Lindner did - blocking necessary policies, refusing to approve budgets unless his party's interests were met - was childish, selfish, irresponsible, and unfit for government, so, whoops, he had to go. shame. coalition over, i guess.

so, politically, that was a long-needed but never-expected moment of triumph for those of us who think the FDP is a clown show made up of human TESLA shares, and it came at a hysterically funny moment.

on a personal level, i can barely explain how uniquely hateable Lindner has always been. he's what would happen if a stock index graph came to life. he hates poor people with a relish; he mocks welfare recipients and would ax minimum wages in a second. he's everyone's business major roommate who shows up in boat shoes fresh off a yacht to discuss NFTs with you. throughout the entire time that he's used his rich boy policy blackmail strategy, he's been smug about it, and he was never taken to task for it, and millions of germans have been longing to throw rotten fruit in his face since 2017. and now we finally get to do it. via memes. on the day of trump's election win.

so that's why it's funny.

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democrats lost because in 3 elections about the fabric of democracy itself, they refused to let the people chose the the candidate

say what you like about donald trump, and there’s much to be said, but he is the candidate the people wanted. democrats had their chance to elect that person in 2016 and they inter-party politicked and threw all their support behind hillary, who lost. Harris is more palatable than clinton but she is still firmly establishment, still not reaching the working class voters who really do want political and economic change — and they recognise that the democrat ‘establishment’ is not going to give it to them

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Olaf Scholz: hold my beer

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because trump being reelected apparently wasn‘t dramatic enough for today, german politics started to go batshit

the minister of finance just got fired!

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Imagine sucking so much as a fellow politician that the guy known for having No Backbone™ snaps and develops one but specifically for roasting you on live television

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Ampel 🚦Divorce Playlist:

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They have no idea who Donald Trump or Christian Lindner are 💅🏻✨

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Wir: Haha die Amis und ihre blöde Politik!

Wir, 10 Stunden später und ohne funktionierende Regierung:

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[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'Olaf Scholz sacked Christian Lindner.' to Cas' 'I love you'. /End ID]

This is very niche cause German politics but trust me it's a reason to rejoice. (Well, our government's going to shit but I really really hate Lindner)