I don't really read the news, sometimes I accidently land on the Guardian website, or even worse, some german newssite, and my brain wants to commit suicide.
I vote strategically but I'm quite dissilusioned about it. That said, I've had discussions with people that are really smug about not voting and it's like dude, the system doesn't give a crap if you don't vote, it'll function just fine if even just 30% vote. At least here in Germany we have a 'satire' party (DIE PARTEI) that is run by actual smart people and they do a lot of good stuff to keep the fat fuckers from the other parties on their toes. They get more money back the more votes they get so even if doesn't have an actual political impact, it does help them out.
quote: | On 3 September 2017, members of Die PARTEI assumed full control over 31 secret Facebook groups dedicated to the AfD, a right-wing party, by infiltrating those groups and ascending to the rank of a group administrator. This was made public by altering the group names, removing all other administrators, making those groups public and uploading a video which shows a member of Die PARTEI, saying that all people in this group are now being fooled by real people instead of robots. According to the video, these 31 groups encompassed about 180,000 members |
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June 2018 mix
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