Tudsamfa

Statistisch betrachtet wohnst du vermutlich in einer Großstadt, da ist das üblich. Als ich im Ruhrpott wählte, wurde mein Perso auch überprüft, wenn ich mich richtig erinnere.

Nun wohn ich aber im Dorf. Bei 3 Wahlhelfern und 1000 Einwohnern ist es eigentlich gegeben, dass man die Leute wiedererkennt oder zuordnen kann. Hätte nur nicht gedacht, dass das schon der Fall ist, wohn erst ein halbes Jahr hier.

I believe it is at least partially the same hatred for cosmetic surgery, just amped up because it's more impactful and they don't understand why being trans would make a difference.

It was socially acceptable to make fun of "fake" people for years. Everyone knew what a Botox face looked like. Celebrities are ridiculed for not ageing gracefully and clinging to an image with 21 surgeries a year. And now these people are changing their entire gender and pointing at these people for being fake is supposedly wrong? Because it's "necessary", the same as the cosmetic freaks claimed? Why should it?

In their mind, trans people just need a reality check the same way they dealt with cosmetic surgery addicts, but society seems to protect and pamper them instead of pointing out that they are loved in their natural look. And instead of trying to understand, they double down on what they've done for years. Sunk cost.

Dorfprivileg

Früher wurde nicht überprüft, da im Dorf die Wahlhelfer mich kannten.

Jetzt wohn Ich ein Dorf weiter und bin unsicher, waren die bei der einen Dorfparty, bei der Ich war? Kennen die mich noch von früher? Ich habs nicht so mit Gesichtern.

Ich bin immer wieder aufs neue Überascht, dass die meinen Ausweis nicht brauchen.

Was, wenn mir der Schein auf dem Weg zu Lokal geklaut worden sei und irgendwer anders an meiner statt da auftaucht, hmm?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Villeicht könnte man ja ein Tauschangebot vorschlagen:

Ihr hört auf, die Spielplätze kaputt zu machen, und wir hören auf, den Wohnungsmarkt zu zerstören.

After reading the comments here, I see the problem: You judge past things by what they have become, and new things by what they are. Nothing will ever be "truly innovative" by those standards.

The automobile was for a long time just a more expensive carriage. The airplane was a pass time for the ultra rich, while anyone else got by with hot air balloons if they wanted to fly. The soviets got to space first by pointing a ballistic missile upwards.

We have CRISPR and can alter the Genes of any living organism to match our needs, but oh well, it's only used by labs right now and anyone else got by perfectly fine by selective breeding, can't call that innovative, can we?