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The EU Parliament will publish all data on election night from across all EU countries on here:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en

Projections and estimates by national parties will start to published soon (from 18:00 GMT+2). First overall projection (European overview) at 20:15 GMT+2. Actual results at 23:00 GMT+2.

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[–] garfaagel 28 points 7 months ago (3 children)

TL;DR Far-right on the rise more or less everywhere based on the estimates, green parties on the decline. Let's just hope it will not get too dire consequences in the five years to come.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Even if in the next elections (2029!) greens would surge like crazy and the far right crumble, we lose sooo much valuable time within these 5 years now. It really is disheartening :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

That is depressing.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

Honestly the way society is currently looking, I fully expect to either be put in a concentration camp or murdered by some brownshirt-equivalent in the near-ish future. "Moderate" conservatives seem to have no problems collaborating with fascists

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

This reminds me of the graphs that came out with Gen-Z men trending more right and Gen-Z women trending more left. How do we even begin to address this? Absolutely cooked as a society.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is such a shame. I just moved to Germany and I haven't had much time to engage in politics but it seems a fundamental misunderstanding of the solutions we need is still present here (possibly with the help of destabilizing countries like Russia or China who seem to have strong misinformation campaigns running online).

Guess I need to accelerate getting involved with my local politics as soon as possible. What social platforms do Germans use to communicate about politics? I used to post on Facebook for Americans, and obviously reddit was a good place to have small conversations, but is there any place I can directly address conservative talking points in a public forum. The fact that young people are voting far right tells me we're losing the digital battle more than anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Instagram probably? Comment sections of big news outlets

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oof, if Instagram's comment section is where we're having political discussions these days that's disheartening. There's clearly a need for a town square application for these sorta things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tbf I'm not from Germany, but Austria. Maybe the Germans do it differently

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

It's just a weird concept in general despite being wholly believable. I don't blame you nor think you're wrong or right. Just a hilarious and sad picture, a societies main hall for political dialogue being an endless feed of algorithmically addicting content. Idk, just a boring dystopia kinda thing.