Protest voters be protest voting. Unless what they want is actually achieved they’ll start hopping from party to party, usually in the direction of “this will be the greater middle finger to the establishment”. It’s people who think that kicking their car when it doesn’t start will fix it.

Much of the software, especially stuff that the likes of Microsoft provide, already exists, and is already in use. In fact plenty of local administrations have been railing against the EU commission and their insistence on .docx and stuff.

OTOH it’s not trivial to implement, not in the software sense but the institutional one: It doesn’t matter that software that can map complex administrative workflows already exists, you still have to take that stuff and build whatever workflow some agency uses into it.

You also don’t need your own servers, there’s public law hosting providers around. E.g. northern German states founded dataport, if you’re a municipality there it’s a no-brainer to get your software and your cloud, consulting, everything, from them. It’s going to be better than anything you could come up with because you’re not the first municipality to contract with them.

Not to make that stance your own

If Merz tries to get himself elected without having secured practically all conservative PMs will call for his head, the Churches are going to let themselves be heard, loudly, there’d be a coup within the CDU/CSU faction. They barely followed him in that stunt last time they’re not going to do it when it actually matters.

Try to obsessively follow trails of positive news for a week or so. Not to make that stance your own, just to have a contrast. Can’t triangulate shit with only one reference point.

I’m not defending the CDU, I’m explaining it. That you cannot spot that difference leads me to believe that talking to you is completely pointless because you have literally zero expertise in analysing politics.

You know what did shift without the circumstances shifting? The Greens’ attitude towards deportations.

No. The Greens never said “if law and courts say someone’s gotta go then they can stay”, and they’re not saying anything different now, either.

public discourse

Is not what’s actually shifting things. You’re looking at surface waves like fucking Lanz talks while missing the underlying currents.

Again, paranoia. You should have a look at that. Maybe compare the privacy situation here in Europe with how things work in the US.

Dude I was in the fray, on the ground, when the Pirates were founded. And I wasn’t talking about the video when calling shit paranoid, didn’t even watch it.

Sure they adjusted their rhetoric under the assumption that they can siphon off AfD voters. There’s a huge difference between “we’ll try and win votes with this” and an actual shift in the party, though. The Greens agreeing to intervene in Yugoslavia was a shift, and you saw the internal struggle. The Greens being hawkish about Ukraine, wanting more money for the military etc was not a shift, to quote I think Hofreiter “We didn’t change, the circumstances did”. It’s important to tell those things apart and when it comes to the CDU, we’re talking about the latter kind of “shift”.

And they’re also smart enough to look at election results and must, by now, have finally realised that “the CDU is too left wing” is not why the AfD surged. And they also know that over 80% of their voters consider a coalition with the AfD intolerable.

I’m schizotypal, I know paranoid narratives when I see them. Get a grip. Touch some grass. Less consumption, more actual engagement with politics. Join Die Linke.

As you were talking about Bezahlkarte: Implementing law that was passed by the traffic light coalition? In SH the FDP accused Black-Green to be delaying implementation. Regarding cash the SH implementation follows the majority of states (max 50 Euro), you can pay online, it’s valid throughout the state as well as in Hamburg though that’ll require Hamburg to reciprocate. Hamburg is generally more restrictive with the thing and may I remind you they have an SPD government.

The thing, as in giving out a card instead of cash, will definitely stick around because yes it makes paying out money way easier for the administration. Whether the restrictions will stay I don’t know but please stop fucking talking about “The CDU shifting right” when it’s to the left of the SPD over here, at least in this regard. There’s still no rebate on the Deutschlandticket for welfare recipients, just for state employees.

You’re listening to what politicians say? On top of that what they say on the campaign trail?

Because the 81 to 97% of voters of the other parties who made it in consider it unacceptable.

Don’t confuse the electorate shifting with non-voters turning up to give a finger to the whole system, that’s the AfD’s biggest gain. This shit will continue until rent becomes affordable again or another party manages to capture the same vote.

Yep. SPD lost way more to Union and AfD, though, and the Greens got out of this whole thing relatively unscathed, they have a quite stable basis.

Fun fact: Die Linke gained more voters from CDU and FDP than they lost to the AfD.

The “we can do it” part wasn’t the problem, the problem was not backing it up with enough funds for states and municipalities to actually do a proper job. Which is a can of worm of fiscal politics if there ever was one because the reason the states are broke is because the wealth tax got suspended back in 1997. Kohl era shit.

I addressed that, there’s a reason I posted poll numbers and compared them to election results. Merz has nothing on Günther when it comes to pulling votes, if he (or Wüst) had ran for Merz’ office they’d very likely have won. And they would have run, had Merz been Gauland, or one of the Werteunion guys.

Noone wanted to oppose Merz because he’s not too far right to be intolerable, also, it’s his turn. The CDU’s right and left wing have co-existed since the end of the war nothing about this is new and there’s whole states to keep Merz in check. We’re getting a bit of controlled CSU at the federal level.

Also the migration debate is all but guaranteed to vanish as soon as people start talking about getting nukes.

Who is “they”, here. Point out people who have shifted.

No, the CDU didn’t shift, they put someone from a different wing in the top position. I guess the long and short of it that neither Günther or Wüst were interested in a show-off with Merz who had bees up his arse ever after Merkel quit, given that she previously ousted him from the candidacy position. They’re both perfectly comfortable ruling their respective states, why bother, if Merz goes too far for their liking they’re still in a position to but brakes on that.

Like, the CDU polls at around 40% in SH state elections, while the federal result is 27.6%. Everyone knows the CDU left wing has more pull than the right, they’re letting Merz be Merz.

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Yes, the branded stuff does exist, humans, male female, doesn’t matter, enter parasocial relationships news at 11. Can you imagine how well Justin Bieber dildos would sell.