Hot dang, a berry!

Great shot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassroots_Democratic_Party_of_Germany

Germans, too!

I think it’s making fun of the person doing the explaining, because they are overwhelming someone with an overly intense explanation.

Eh. I’d say it’s center right, the c*u is right, there’s the fascists/far right and then you have the social democratic parties left of center like the greens and the linke.

Things don’t have to be relative in this context either. They’re also relative, but you can use more absolute criteria as well. Stuff like “wants no one to be coerced into employment” vs “wants some people coerced mildly” vs “wants to coerce everyone to be employed”. Or the converse with regards to social security. Or criteria relating to individual rights. Or regulation in favor of hierarchical power structures vs regulations in favor of non-hierarchical power structures. These would all be meaningful left-right aligned analytical lenses.

I do agree though that relative statements can for certain contexts be more immediately practical. But also, the case of the spd is one where thinking about the space of possible party landscapes is relevant: What if the spd were center-left, in the sense of reformist left-wing/labor movement/syndicalist-ish policies, instead of a seeheimer circle oriented mildly right-wing party? That would present a very different type of discourse in society, i feel.

I don’t think you should expect that the average proportion of votes should correspond to the expected number of won chunks. This is a known property of first past the post electoral systems, which mayoral elections approximate.

There’s slightly over 2000 cities and towns in Germany. If there was a party that gets 1% of the votes, you would not expect them to get 20ish mayoral seats, without further information about clustering of voters, you’d rather expect them to be somewhat homogeneous in their losses (because of the mechanisms that cause the low popularity presumably (!) applying everywhere; if the 1% of voters were all coming from the same place because it’s a hyperregional party for example, that would possibly change).

Now, sadly, there’s a bit of clustering going on and that makes fascist mayors more likely, but I guess other than that, one possible conclusion here is: Fascist voters are everywhere, so whatever mechanism is behind their etiology, it applies all over the place.

The media landscape and dominant politics feeding into what feeds fascists is a “likely” candidate here. Scare quotes because, like, cmon. :| Friede, Fritze…

The first one is the best one, great timing, framing, lighting!

I come bearing bad news from the Ruhr valley…

Scrolled past the post again, said it out loud (quietly), thanks

I liked the title a weird amount

Killing and reversing are different levels of difficult.

They provide a reference: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104638

Cool, can you show how big the effect is, based on your team’s efforts? And what the distribution of values is, based on sponsor?

Can you conceive of other motivations?

Do you believe that the point of such assignments is because the teacher desires to read a couple dozen nigh-identical essays on the topic at hand?

Amsel is Schwarzdrossel, yes, even though Amsel is in my experience the much more common term.

Interesting, probably trast and drossel are distantly related words!

Schwarzdrossel if you want to cleave closer to english, “black thrush”.

They are replaceable, it just takes some tools and work, both of which you can get at the phone repair shop.

No, that is not what I wrote.