Just go the vote, and make sure your family and friends go to give their votes.
I’m not local, I cannot vote over here, but had seen multiple times in modern times voter suppression has been a big deal, it’s easier to make you not to bother to vote than change your mind who to vote.
I had worked brexit UK, where people voted it due they weren’t happy about the PM. As it was good time to vote against him. Without thinking what brexit actually was. So use your voice by voting. What do you wish the future of country will be in this new era.
I know German has issues, as every Europe union contries. If the problems are easy to solve they would have been solved already, don’t belive one tag line promises.
I’m just wanna say, as a fellow user. Just go to vote.
Geht wählen ihr Luschen!
Please go vote. Don’t join the US and Russia axis.
Please. We need sense to win
I just fucking hope those polls were just more of the corporate right wing propaganda we see everywhere. I can’t imagine voting right after seeing all of the conservative incompetence in recent years.
as an American. vote like your life depends on it.
because it does.
not only that, make sure that none of your voting locations are using starlink internet access.
We had electronic voting, but it was gone as fast as it came. I voted electronic once in a local election in the early 2000s
make sure that none of your voting locations are using starlink internet access
? Germany is old-fashioned and when it comes to elections I’m happy that we’re sticking to pen and paper. And actual humans doing the counting.
On a sidenote - Starlink isn’t that big in Germany. I don’t think I’ve ever read/heard about any public authorities using it.
Yeah, voting is essential.
But don’t worry about starlink, the German voting process happens on paper sheets. The voter has to be identified before the vote. Then all votes get counted by hand and multiple times, submitted by fax and telephone.
please don’t fuck up like us americans just did. I mean I did not but ugh, an aweful lot did.
*November 2024* Germans to Americans:
- Don’t fuck up as we did in 1933
*February 2025* Americans to Germans:- Don’t fuck up as we did in November
AfD declared class war… on the working class. So if you don’t go and vote, there’s a big risk of that coming to you.
Unless you were planning to vote for afd. Then you should kys.
Follow dear leader’s example
I’m an American. Germans, please don’t do to yourselves what we did. Keep AfD as far from power as possible.
The AfD will likely get about 20% (I haze it, but its the reality we live in), but what is also great is, that our leftist party will get about 8%. They won’t be in the government, but they for sure will annoy the hell out of them. They will also pressure the more left leaning parties to not do everything our conservatives want to do. They also promised that they want to push to forwards to the so called “Mietendeckel” (rent lid) to end the raising of rent prices which means more stability for about 46% of people. I am optimistic, that they can do this. They have completely rearranged themselves and skyrocketed from about 2.5% a few months ago to now 8% in the polls. We didnt have so many members in the left party in 15 years. The left party has also been responsible for the crarion of the minimum wage in Germany without being part of the government.
Even tho that the government will be ass, I hope for our left party do actually change something. Even tho we aren’t part of the government we already won this election.
Good luck from Spain, a friend of mine is in Berlin with your party, has worked very hard theses days, and hopes you can get a good result. Go ahead!!!
Please go vote, Germans! We are in pain and it’s going to get worse. Don’t be stupid. Look at us and see why it’s so important for you to go vote.
That’s exactly what I’ll do tomorrow.
Hungarian here, please, don’t repeat our mistake from 2010!!!
The media might say that things are bad, but looking bad, the media exaggerated a lot of things. They tried to report as much crime committed by Roma as it was possible (even remembering the anniversaries of some of the cases), and so on. Then we had to realize “Roma crime” was on the decline, and Fidesz dismantled the laws that were responsible for the very decline (raising the mandatory school age to 18, now it’s lowered to 15). “Fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to destruction.”
Please do vote, Germany. Learn from the US and reject this evil disease
One exception: if you plan to vote AfD… Maybe don’t vote.
If you want to vote AfD you should put a Hakenkreuz. This way the vote is counted twice.
And don’t forget to sign the paper with your full name
and send the paper to the Verfassungsschutz…
No no no, but if you vote AfD it is very important to sign your vote
Lots of politicians would be jailed, if it would be that easy …
Or for the CDU. They are the ones that will enable the AfD to rise even more and I am already betting, that if nothing changes fundamentally, they will work together with them in 4 years.
I doubt anyone on here would vote AFD
I think it’s important nowadays to have faith in your government and democracy. You definitely should vote and you can be proud to help put your country into a direction you feel is best. This post seems to convey the message that you should vote to save democracy. This fear of the end of democracy might just end up increasing the influence of extreme political parties. In the US election both parties warned it will be the last vote.
German polls seem to indicate that CDU/CSU will be the strongest party and they will most likely not go into coalition with AfD, so the AfDs influence will not be much but they will probably get a lot of votes anyways. And even though I do not like the idea of a chancellor Merz due to him being very polarizing, I think Germany got this.
Don’t panic C:Should Americans have faith in their government and democracy?
I would, but it’s 16 hours early.
Do I have any hope for a progressive government? Do I have hope that anyone but Merz becomes chancellor?
No, too many old men in this country for that.
But damn it, I have 1 vote to cast and cast it I will, giving it 100% to a party I tolerate. Not voting is voting for the end result, and the AFD doesn’t deserve 1% of my vote, let alone what percentage they end up at.
Warning: Bad design, but instead of arguing over the top part, which definitely has some considerations that make it a bit more complicated, my main concern is the bottom part.
It’s not enough that my vote is thrown away if I don’t vote, but put in a blender with all the other non-voters and then distributed in part to the very parties I do not like.
Look at last parliamentary election in CZ.
By increasing attendance by few percent we got rid of communist party which was in parliament from 1945…
I was arguing to non-voters who adopted a “my single vote doesn’t matter” perspective. A single vote in a country is never a few percent.
If people already know and trust that their vote can add up with others to a few percent here or there, they would already go and vote in our system I feel.
When I think about it it may had exactly opposite effect, so much parties stayed under the 5% threshold that 1 000 000 votes didn’t mattered.
Yes you read it right 1/10 of our country’s votes fell through without making any difference. (The ratio is probably worse because not everyone is eligible to vote).
well, except if someone votes for a party that gets less than 5%. it’s a bit similar with the US elections, when democrats would have won, if ppl didn’t vote 3rd party for unrealistic reasons.
Yeah, but throwing out some splinter groups to make a stable government possible is necessary after all, we remember Weimar - though we should not have that threshold at 18 seats by percentage or 3 direct mandates.
On the other hand, I disagree on blaming the democrat loss on third party voters. Third party votes stayed roughly the same compared to 2020 (+0.5 million, not all towards left), while 6 million democrat votes were lost. Democrats simply did not get enough people to the booths with their campaign.
You can vote early…
Actually you have two votes
Unless I vote for a winning independent local candidate, then my second vote is annulled.
But this isn’t about the exact mechanism of German elections. I say colloquially I have 1 vote to cast/2 crosses to set.
Other way around, if an independent wins then second votes are annulled. If a party candidate wins they’re put on the top of the list of people from that party who’ll get into parliament when percentages are turned into seats.
as a fellow reddit user
Hnmm…
But yeah its not just a privilege but a duty to vote.
Fixed. Funny how that post got removed on any reddit subs. I had tried to figure out why was that. Like just mod removed. And nothing else.
