> Forecasts suggest it will have 23% of seats in parliament, just under the number needed to set up parliamentary committees of inquiry that can summon witnesses and set the news agenda.

The hell does "set the news agenda" mean?

I didn't see a single American yelling at the Germans about how to vote in their elections, incidentally. At the very least, I didn't offer my opinion about German politics to any Germans. But if I had a dollar for every German I saw screech "ORANGE MAN BAD" at an American ahead of our election. I mean, fuck's sake, Europeans spend more time lecturing Americans about our politics than they do explaining why their countries all suck.
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@p welp, missed the chance to yell at me!

@bonifartius I mainly want Europeans to stop bothering Americans about our politics. I don't really have the urge to interfere in German politics (except to the extent that it'd be nice if the BND and BMBF stopped bothering Americans).

@p would be great if everyone put less energy into the politics bullshit. fwiw it's the loud minority which yells at people, here and abroad. everyone else just doesn't really care anymore because things clearly will get more shit - it has been downhill for all of my life.

@bonifartius

> loud minority which yells at people,

We used to print "Mind your business" on our money. I'd like to spread this principle.

> it has been downhill for all of my life.

This is a bummer and I hope it reverses; I don't wanna live on Crap Earth, I wanna live on Good Earth.

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> I'd like to spread this principle.

would likely fix almost every problem if people would stick to this!

> This is a bummer and I hope it reverses; I don't wanna live on Crap Earth, I wanna live on Good Earth.

subjectively: of the parts of my life that i can remember 90s were good, 2001 turned things (HST predicted this pretty accurate) and it's getting more shit every decade. a slow process, but still. entertainment is a pretty good marker for this: the only thing that gets done are lukewarm continuations of old franchises.

@bonifartius

> would likely fix almost every problem if people would stick to this!

I don't know when we stopped putting that on the money, but obviously the red scare caused us to start writing about God on the money.

> 2001 turned things (HST predicted this pretty accurate)

It's been an issue.

> entertainment is a pretty good marker for this: the only thing that gets done are lukewarm continuations of old franchises.

Funny you should mention that, because my ex had this observation that the popular movies from the late 90s to 2001 were mostly about how the world is fake in one way or another, Fight Club and The Matrix and the whole slew of movies from around then.

@p even games got pretty uninspired. 90s had things getting redefined in one way or another. N64 and PSX had many unique games, PC likewise. most things after that were "better graphics".

could just me being an early millenial lamenting though ;)

@bonifartius Well, it's not even better now, right? It's just higher poly count. Something with a unique aesthetic comes along very rarely nowadays.

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/e nods head in agreement...

...and goes back to play Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep on a dedicated gaming rig.

@SilverDeth @bonifartius
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holy hell I know that art style is this from ghost trick?