I'm tired of calling it protest votes. The last idiot in a cave should have heard by now that they are literally Nazis. People who voted for them are Nazis. Which gives me the creeps as a citizen of Germany.

But on the national issues thing I'm full on your side.

Even voting on national issues this would be a load of BS.

I feel like that's the intellect of your average voter.

That's some fine future Dutch soil you got there.

Ich hätte es Ostsee genannt aber auch gut

Oida!

It's cool that Bodensee is now an actual See

Why'd Bavaria sink? The map shows they voted CDU? Or was that a separate retribution?

Not only brain drain. Also real, decades old highly refined Russian propaganda and rampant running capitalism.

Blue is the new brown

"Warum ist Scheiße braun?
Weil Braun schon immer scheiße war."

Brown. Like. Shit.

Tbh the cdu had a poster that said "1 reason to vote for us: traffic lights coalition"

Has to do with how people in the east are basically being dragged behind by the west. They are getting paid less, but have to pay the same amount as westerners for electricity, gas, water, internet, and everything else except for rent and sometimes food.

A lot of the folks I talk to remember how the "west" turned the previously state owned railway company into a private company which caused almost ~75% of the at that point running rail network to be shut down for profit reasons.

People are upset, nothing is being done, they are being fed propaganda, and the results can be seen as clear as day

now it's surrounding berlin instead if dividing it

The horseshoe theory is still bullshit, as is assuming GDR was a "far left" opposite to far right AfD nowadays.

This time they are voting for Nazis.

Again. They were also one of the first ones where the NSDAP got their chunk of votes.

Imo, it moreso proves that poverty causes desperation, desperation causes people to be way more susceptible to political extremism.

I don't think this has anything to do with the GDR except for the fact that it left east Germany in poverty.

Black is only marginally better. No reason for the west to feel superior.

Wow, another map where the old GDR borders are easily visible.

https://lemmy.today/post/11881508

Germany: Largest party in 2024 EU elections vs 1947 west/east Germany division

I think that the real issue here is that Walter Model did an effective job of halting Operation Market Garden.

That was pre-Yalta, and my guess is that if it had succeeded, the occupation lines probably would have been further east.