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Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats (stackdiary.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Patrick Breyer, a staunch defender of digital rights, laments the Pirate Party’s exit from the EU Parliament as a blow to online privacy.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)

As an American, it's really sad to see the EU fall into this trap.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The saddest thing about this is that the Europeans and especially the Germans should really know better. But no, all the lessons from our dark history seem to have been forgotten - or they are simply ignored so that one can once again live in the comfortable world of simple explanations where there is always some minority to blame.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

A friend sent me this image today...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Tagesschau has a graph showing AFD being the highest % voted party all over eastern Germany and second highest voted nearly everywhere else, following CDU/CSU. You really only see green or red in the larger cities.

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

The second highest voted thing is mildly misleading because left parties are a lot more fractured, especially in EU elections. The afd could have 11% while 9 left wing partirs have 9.8% and be the most voted party, but that would be a better result than we have now with it being the second most voted.

The results are bad, but 16% is at least nowhere nesr a majority. I'm honestly more concerned about the CDU moving closer to the afd and still ending up with 30%, seems almost like many people don't like the afd because they've been told afd bad, but still agree with much of their ideology.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

German cities and counties by annual household income (4 year old reddit post)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

It's not surprising though, the EU has been wanting to become the United States of Europe for a long time...