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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
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.
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.
Oh they know. There's not a lot they can do about him, though.
Definitely not mine. :(
That's what happens if you vote corporate agents into your government.
Fahr Doch Porsche
In french it means "son of a bitch" ("Fils De Pute")
And the Greens party gave those Croûtons the traffic ministry...
Always finding a way to blame the Greens. lol
Yeah but tbf its completely wild that they didn't make sure to get the traffic ministry. Was foreign affairs really that much more important to the Greens?
You can't always get what you want in a coalition government.
Yeah it's just that the transport ministry is arguably the single biggest opportunity to enact green changes.
We don't know how the negotiations went (maybe the FDP would have refused to go into government if the greens got the transport ministry) but it feels like a huge missed opportunity.
And the Greens thought the economy ministry would be the biggest opportunity to enact green changes. But the FDP knew that nothing could stop change as effectively as having the finance ministry... And amazingly they got it. Surely because Scholz is not an idiot and knew that this would lead to a balance of power between his two coalition buddies, in a way stabilising his weak chancellorship.
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
germans being german. bsw,csu,afd,csu also love spitting on the weak.
and spd. Not the party base, but their whole leadership (seeheimer kreis) is a bunch of elitist pieces of shit.
Germans desperately need to ban paid lobbying
just the Germans? :)
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.
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...
FDP stands for Fils de Pute (Hurensohn) in French :)
Fuckheads, Dipshits, Piss-stains
Always has been …
Also works in Portuguese, filho da puta
Fuck man. I’m coming to Germany next year because it’s not the USA. Can you fucking not?
Sorry dude but our boomers are working overtime to finish their enshitification projects.
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.
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
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