I really don't get why so many people think the migration is their biggest problem instead of economy and especially demography in Germany. The industry is stuck in the 20th century, that's the main problem which needs to be addressed, not if there are some migrants here and there.
Which is especially sad in Germany, because we ought to have learnt from the mistakes of the past and mastered the art of improving ourselves. The stereotype of a German being overly critical was true for exactly that reason. Apparently the Generation that should have learned it from first hand simply forgot.
Migration is not a problem itself. It is uncontrolled migration that is. It is normal when you have a lot of people coming in your country that don't get papers so they can't find normal job, appartment etc that they will turn to criminality to survive. IMO I think it is inhuman to let people in these situations. I am far more for more border control and easily giving papers to people who want to come to the country than letting borders open and ignoring them and letting them rot in the street.
you either willfully or unknowingly spout far-right conspiracy theory between the lines.
migration is not only normal, but essential to the survival of the planet and each country/region. it's a net positive.
we've gone so far out of our way to make it a "we" vs "them", when there's no "we" at all. there's just rich people protecting their interests, trying (and suceeding) to divide the masses
Exactly. What's more, demographic change alone has led to an urgent need for workers from abroad in Germany. This applies to low-skilled as well as highly skilled workers - for example in crafts, catering, healthcare, nursing, IT or engineering, just to name a few sectors. What the right-wing parties and their supporters are propagating is not only inhumane and amoral, it is also economically disastrous. It is these unscrupulous opportunists who are ruining the country with their racist hate; not the migrants - quite the opposite.
Because none of the big party wants to acknowledge that, random example, abolishing the wealth tax was a bad idea. Not even the bloody SPD: They're not addressing social issues, aren't addressing people's fears for the future, aren't addressing the lack of perspectives, which leaves room for demagogues. Because doing that would mean that they need to make actual changes to the system, and why would the SPD implement SocDem policies there's a reason they're known as the traitor party.
It's, in short, a lack of balls in the SPD's political base to get rid of the Seeheimer circle. Get rid of that New Labour nonsense. Maybe, you know, when Berlin (as in the city state) votes to expropriate large landlords you take that as a sign that you fucked up and change course, instead of trying your best to not have to implement the expropriation. "But won't someone think about market confidence!" MFers did it help market confidence when the east went full-on AfD. Get a grip.
I was asking myself the same thing but formulated as "are people getting more stupid?". With the right rising and the most stupid shit like chemtrail conspiracies.
Because public life has become shit since 2015. Every street celebration needs to have barricades and control checkpoints and the amount of violent threats has increased significantly. The economic situation is meager as well, we were promised to 'import' trained middle class people and got uneducated rapists.
They are essential to the survival of the country - we neither have the brith rate, nor the capacity to sustain anything without them. As a country highly dependent on exports, immigration has always been one of the key factors. Be it the Turkish in the 60s and 70s, or anyone else. Being German has basically nothing to do with being born here
If you think thats bad, its gonna get worse. One of the biggest biggest demographics that voted for them were young people now imagine how it will be when these young people grow up
Europe is going to be a shitshow in the coming decades no matter what direction voters are trending. We're all talking about this as if it's primarily a political issue and it just isn't. Climate change is already fucking our shit up and that's going to get exponentially worse. Desperate people don't care about imaginary lines on a map.
We can't even deal with a comparatively small amount of migrants without backsliding into the same kind of fascism that our grandparents had to invent nuclear bombs to subdue 80 years ago. There's no way we're going to deal with what's coming in a rational way.
Hey, the nuclear bombs were to stunt on fools, fascism got beat just fine by the united industrial strength of social democracy(ish), communism(ish), and the British Empire. And all three of those things are doing just fine in 2024, right?
A decade long austerity have underfunded basic services, thereby making migrants and locals compete. Climate change will only exacerbate the ongoing tensions.
Not sure what you mean, but Sweden have soured on immigration. The far-right Sweden Democrat is in a coalition government with the centre right as we speak.
oh welcome culture? you mean the one where we ostracize and other families that don't look white european enough? where we put them in camps at the border, where we let them drown in the mediterranean, where we rig the system so hard against anyone lower class so that they will never rise to anything and their kids won't as well? where we criminalize them and then just send them to some war region somewhere?
yeah...must have been the "new" far right that has soured this great welcome culture.
STFU