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And the Greens party gave those Croûtons the traffic ministry...

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 months ago

FDP just doing FDP things. If the concequences weren't so dire, it would be almost funny to watch how comically bad they are in any and all things concerning the economy

[–] AngryPancake 52 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Meanwhile, German cities are working autonomously to make it more bicycle and pedestrian friendly. Jesus Christ FDP. I wonder if SPD and Grüne knew what an asshole Wissing is.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

It is par for the course to have a traffic minister like that. Everyone knew from the start that this was how it was always gonna end.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Oh they know. There's not a lot they can do about him, though.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] whyNotSquirrel 14 points 4 months ago

In french it means "son of a bitch" ("Fils De Pute")

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago

That's what happens if you vote corporate agents into your government.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

FDP would not have agreed to the coalition if they didn't get that ministry. It's fucked, but people gave FDP enough votes to be a major pain in the ass from day 1

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

FDP stands for Fils de Pute (Hurensohn) in French :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Fuckheads, Dipshits, Piss-stains

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Always has been …

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Also works in Portuguese, filho da puta

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

germans being german. bsw,csu,afd,csu also love spitting on the weak.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

and spd. Not the party base, but their whole leadership (seeheimer kreis) is a bunch of elitist pieces of shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Germans desperately need to ban paid lobbying

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Lol, definitely not. The US and England are probably a full order of magnitude worse, but I have a bad habit of going on tangents so I was trying to stay on topic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I was thinking "basically every country in this world" - because capitalism is so depressingly successful that even China is ruled by rich elites and only "communist" on paper that isn't worth wiping your arse with...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fuck man. I’m coming to Germany next year because it’s not the USA. Can you fucking not?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Sorry dude but our boomers are working overtime to finish their enshitification projects.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well, they are heading to the political graveyard at the moment, from participation in government right to the "other parties" heap. They are about to learn that if your political goals are solely focusing on making the top one percent even richer, that one percent will only get them one percent of votes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Probably the reason for that new direction; they noticed that quite some people are very emotionally heated against last generation etc and think 'hey more cars in the city' could bring them those voters. But most of them are not against doing sth against climate change... They are just part of the lazy majority that says anything as long as it doesn't affect me and my lifestyle

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yep, seeing as they're not a 'everyone has to agree to everything the leadership says' kind of party, but one that accepts and promotes discourse, I feel absolutely fine voting for them every time and calling it out when they make a bad decision. I don't think that holding the exterior ministry is helping Germany a lot to meet our climate goals, I do however see that the traffic ministry is failing the goals spectacularly after handing it off to the FDP