No, he is rejected almost universally by Germans. This man does not speak on our behalf. Most Germans condemn the violence of both sides in this never-ending conflict.
Merz says Germany stands firmly with Israel on October 7 anniversary
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ElcaineVolta 21 points 6 days ago
how embarrassing for Germany.
gandalf_der_13te 19 points 5 days ago
do we really have to repeat everything that this dimwit says on this platform?
trollercoaster 14 points 5 days ago
What an utter disgrace. I despise having to pay for those accomplices to a genocide, and being made an accomplice, too, through my taxes funding this shit.
trollercoaster 4 points 5 days ago
Those protests are highly criminalised, of course, and you run the risk of being prosecuted under laws meant for the prosecution of Nazis, if you dare to publically call that genocide a genocide, and condemn it as such.
It's quite ironic that all this is happening in the name of "never again".
Ooops 2 points 5 days ago
Against the Israel support specifically? No, because there are constant protests against that moron and his government already. Also his party is losing support so hard that they recently got kicked out of a parliament on a state election. The very first time this happened ever.
But Merz and his cronies being totally corrupt idiots only working on behalf of his rich donors simply doesn't give a fuck and reacts to any public rejection of his policies with "we need to stay on course and implement our planned reforms more radically even!" ("reforms" that aren't any but just gutting social support and implementing higher taxes on low incomes so he can do some more tax cuts for the ultra-rich).
Ooops 2 points 5 days ago
That's the result of decades of neo-liberal propaganda frying brains: If the current (right-wing) policies are bad for you, voting for the even more right-wing, more stupid, more corrupt alternative is your only option. After all –as your damaged brain tells you– everything further to the left wants to destroy the country (or kill you and replace you with some refugee from Africa or destroy all industry because of their insane ideology or... two dozen of other narratives).
HieroProtagonist 3 points 5 days ago
Too late, it's already over:
trebach 2 points 5 days ago
I'm sure there's room in Hell for him. There's some houses in the area: https://www.openstreetmap.org/...
trollercoaster 1 point 4 days ago
Or one could always throw him in the lake, that seems nice enough.
Shipgirlboy 10 points 5 days ago
Merz leck Eier!
RockBottom 9 points 5 days ago
Germany learned from the holocaust. But not enough!
trollercoaster 1 point 5 days ago
it learned quite a bit. For example, that you can largely get away with a genocide, if you keep a low profile.
RockBottom 2 points 5 days ago
How low profile is having a big ethno-religious symbol in the center of your national flag?
CosmoNova 1 point 5 days ago
With all those holocaust memorials in Germany, the country is doing the exact opposite of keeping a low profile. You‘re probably thinking of Belgium, USA, Canada, Russia, Japan or the Ottoman Empire. Like, there are so many countries that committed genocides and trying to sweep it under the rug but that‘s simply not true for Germany. Germany has a guilt culture that some say is also problematic for different reasons.
trollercoaster 3 points 5 days ago
Most of the perpetrators got away with it, though, by keeping a low profile. (Of course, they were all "properly denazified", with official, rubber stamped and signed paperwork to "prove" it) The performative collective remembrance is merely an empty shell, and goes hand in hand with a justice system that has systematically and purposefully dragged its feet when it came to prosecute them. Only in the recent few years, a handful surviving accomplices were dragged to court, if they even were still able to stand trial.
CosmoNova 0 points 5 days ago
Nazis have been on trial throughout the decades. The Nuremberg trials in particular were a huge media spectacle and Nazi officials were convicted. Yes, many got away with it and that‘s a huge injustice to the many victims but a lot more has been done prosecuting Nazis than perpetrators of any other genocide in history. Again, low profile is not true here.
ExtraJudgement 5 points 5 days ago
Merzweckeier!
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Merz and his cronies stand firmly with Israel, just like their MAGA buddies demand.
How much Germans actually stand with Israel (or anything else the screaming idiots at the helm propose) is probably better represented by polls about the Merz-led government... which is barely still in the double-digits.
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