It’s true but it doesn’t matter. One of the main promises of the far-right is to free people from the shackles of “reason” and “logic.”
Otherwise, how would they vote for a party that’s going to make their lives worse in every aspect? It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
I think we all can imagine how lesbians will fare after the 4th Reich that the far right is is yearning for has been installed.

A utopia for the dictators, sure.

It was already like this when he bought it at the dick hat store.

This is false. Have you ever been around just a single AfD voter? They aren’t driven by “reason”. They hate reason. To them, it’s just another devious tool of the “elite,” i.e. academics, Greens, and the “leftist” establishment.
What the AfD achieves or not hardly matters, except for one thing: “the immigrants.” If you paid any attention, their voters have been screaming for quite a while, mouths foaming:

“AfD is the strongest party in this city/ county/ state, and has been for more than a month. And yet, yesterday I saw another immigrant on the streets! When will this finally be cleaned up?”

That’s what we are up against. Not in any way rational actors.

Sometimes I wonder where the Fediverse would be without SDF.

*Pulls up soapbox* A little bit of background might be in order:

• AfD is the strongest party in all of the former GDR states, including SA where yesterdays’ elections were held. They stand for unbridled, neoliberal capitalism, garnished with lots of anti-immigration rhetoric. Their boss worked for Goldman-Sachs and that’s saying it all, really.
• SA - one state out of 16 - has 2.1 million inhabitants, out of Germany’s 83.5 million. They do have an outsized influence on the 2nd chamber of parliament, though. As of now, it looks like they will form a coalition government and rule SA.
• In the whole of Germany, AfD currently polls at 27-28%; runner-up is the conservative CDU which is currently leading the federal government, at 20-21%. AfD polls especially high in places where the previous, notorious right-wing party, NPD, did; and before them, the NSDAP. They poll especially high among blue-collar workers, first-time (young) voters and previous non-voters.
• In the EU parliament, AfD has 15 of ESN’s 27 seats. Judging from the seating in the parliament, and from who wants to form a coalition with the AfD, it becomes clear that they are significantly farther right-wing than the likes of Orbán, Le Pen, Fico, Meloni, Salvini or any of the EU-wide known names, really.
• I recommend this free 2024 study to assess the immense danger democracy in Germany is facing. Trans people, women, feminists, Jews, immigrants, social Darwinism - far-right wing voters poll approximately 1.5-3x as high in “hate” values than right-wing voters.
• The long and short is: Don’t come to Germany, especially not Eastern Germany, and especially not if you don’t have lily-white skin. This is my honest, sober advice for you.

Are caltrops still a thing, BTW?

Thank you for the explanation. But isn’t the phrasing in the meme totally soul-crushing?

You get 40 hours this year - all year - where you don’t have to work for us.

(uttered by some company suit)

seems to be the implication.
In Europe, even part-time workers’ time off is counted in “days off.” Even if the end result were the same, I just think it sounds a lot nicer for the employee. “Hey boss, I won’t be coming in for the next two weeks. Nah, make that three.”

I don’t know “those spaces,” but that seems like trolling to me.

The ℮ gave it away, didn’t it?

Russia’s been cozying up to Africa for a long time. And it was the AU which spearheaded this initiative.

My thoughts exactly.

Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world, keeping it real.

A man visits the doctor: “Every morning at 6 o’clock sharp, I take a huge shit.”
“Oh, well, that’s good - it means you have regular bowel movements.”
“Sure… but I never wake up before 7.”

Another one:
A man visits the doctor: “Can I take a bath with diarrhea?”
“Of course - if you can fill an entire tub…”

Fascinating. Though quite a few of the tiles don’t look orange to me at all.

Sokath, his eyes uncoverable.

I don’t know about others, but I can tell you the main reason why I like it.
I’ve had to work with not one, but two guys who were exactly like Sheldon Cooper from the show, in terms of intelligence and character. They also quite looked like him. That was in different cities and different jobs. Both were absolutely self-righteous and 100% full of themselves. One of them seemed to think of himself as second only to God himself. It was brutal.
So, watching the series provided me with a lot of comic relief.

Unfortunately, by 2042, the technology to read books will be gone.

Meanwhile, my workplace just announced RTO, starting next year. It’s a moderately large, 100% white collar office site.
Gotta drive those CO2 numbers up, baby!

Anecdotally, just the other day, I roamed around a little and realized that the large rapeseed fields around my city are all totally burned. EDIT: meant to write: shriveled up. Dry as bone.
Just… gone.