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Is loneliness a threat to Germany's democracy?
- exabrial 3y agoI find this odd... when I (American) have traveled to Germany the last few years, the people are quite happy to talk to you, and are very patient if you do not speak their native language.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y agoThose are the people who spend some time on some days at neither home nor work.
- drewcoo 3y ago1. If they're lonely, they're probably going to want to talk with someone. 2. If you're American, nobody actually expects you to speak anything but English. And probably not that very well. To sound better educated, Americans fumble pronouns ("Did you notice the dialog with exabrial and _I_?"). 3. Articles have to exaggerate to get the correct amount of anxiety/rage-click to retain the advertisers.
- bun_terminator 3y agoThis is state-financed political propaganda against the opposition party in Germany
- urduntupu 3y agoUnfortunately nothing else to expect from Deutsche Welle (dw.com)... German history repeats itself.
- 082349872349872 3y ago"the" opposition party? Germany is well known for having given us the Stoplight-coalition, the Jamaica-coalition, etc. Speaking of "the" opposition sounds like one has drunk too much of the transatlantic two-party Kool-aid.
- bun_terminator 3y agoTechnically there are several. But really there is only one
- cjbgkagh 3y agoI think we’re entering the phase of ‘everything we don’t like is a threat to democracy’ stage of democracy. Clearly their real concern is the growth of AfD, I’m sure if lonely people took up gardening instead they wouldn’t care about them being lonely.
- redder23 3y agoEntering? We are in this in the west for like 10 years already.
- cjbgkagh 3y agoThat is fair, my thinking with regards to 'entering' was around 'everything' in that there is a rapid increase of scope of possible threats to democracy to include things that were normally considered rather benign. This part feels recent - but it's entirely possible that I'm late to the party.
- 082349872349872 3y agoHas something happened to the Stammtisch?
- redder23 3y agoOh, another political propaganda trash article on HN. What a surprise. Some fun fact, the "political extremists" they are talking about are pretty much anyone who dares to be even a centrist. The AFD. Alternative for Germany is pretty much the ONLY party of name in Germany who is actually FOR direct democracy, something all the other parties HATE. Because they claim democracy is what they think is right, and the actual citizens should never really have any decision over things. The current thread to democracy are the parties who try to ban parties and call everyone a Nazi who dares to be centrist or right wing. As a German, I know what I am talking about. Politics on the last 20 years have shifted to the left so heavily that we are seeing a well deserve swing back of the pendulum. Let's just indulge this "lonely people" causing it for a sec. If this would be true, MAYBE it's because lonely people spend more time on the internet and actually read and watch alternative media and come to an informed decision about that they want to vote and advocate for. They may detest their culture being replaced with other cultures they never asked for, maybe they want some kind of "Germany first" politics (I just made that term up). Instead of going into war with Ukraine, people want the resources spend on Germany. All the other parties are PRO WAR, even the left and the green party are voting pro war and military intervention and aid all the time. They send our money somewhere else! And who caused lots of this loneliness? All the parties who they want us to vote for, they introduced draconian covid lockdowns that isolated everybody and put even families against each other. They did way more damage with their insane unjustified BS then covid could ever do!
- 082349872349872 3y agoIt is strange to call a party advocating unconstitutional acts "centrist". You all might have better luck getting reasonable conversation on this point if it were posted during german, not US, daytime.
- redder23 3y agoI assume you claim that I said the AfD is centrist. I never say that so you did not read or failed to comprehend. What "unconstitutional act" is the AfD advocating for? German original source with quote or you are lying.