Germany’s centre-Right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and the centre-Left Social Democrats (SPD), which are holding coalition talks, have proposed a law that will block people with multiple extremism convictions from standing in elections.

https://archive.ph/yNQwE

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.de
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    2 days ago

    Maybe also consider bribery convictions and we might get rid of a few CDU/CSU politicians as well 🙃

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        16 hours ago

        If the thing that user asked to happen doesn’t happen then the thing won’t happen?

        Do you smell burnt toast?

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          9 hours ago

          If the thing that user asked to happen doesn’t happen then the thing won’t happen?

          My understanding was that they asked that politicians with bribery convictions are blocked from running in elections (aka the topic of this thread).

          Which can not happen if the prerequisite bribery convictions - which is something different from being blocked from the elections - have not been met.

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      2 days ago

      By far not the same level as extremism.

      Fck little sister of whataboutism, the self-elevating sarcasm.

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            1 day ago

            Who said that? They’re suggesting that, since you’re putting restrictions, you might as well add other restrictions that also make sense.

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              16 hours ago

              Yeah but clearly the original comment is ironic since it addresses CDU as corrupt. You know, one of the two parties that would be main drivers behind the suggested extremists banning?

              Soo it kind of looks like whataboutism.

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          1 day ago

          This is a slippery slope fallacy I believe. Stop with the fallacious reasoning

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            1 day ago

            Not really. Governing through bribery is a way to implement plutocracy.

            To be clear: “I tolerate plutocracy but I draw the line at fascism” is a valid opinion, even if I don’t agree with it. I was just asking if that’s the opinion held by our fellow lemming.