• ook@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    To the surprise of…? People got what they vote for, yet another conservative term with conservatives doing what conservatives do. What does the public expect?

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      4 months ago

      And he is not even one of the more intelligent conservatives, he’s a Grade-A grifter and drifting towards fascism like a stanced Supra.

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      4 months ago

      People got what they vote for

      Well, no. Merz and his party campaigned for harsh austerity. Once it was clear they’d be in charge of forming the government, austerity was off the table and a debt based plan for spending up to 1 trillion € was drawn up. Only thing is: The people themselves still get austerity. The money is mostly going to be spent on tax breaks for the rich.