I fucking hope so
for example all the Spitzenkandidaten have been announced.
Is this a word missed by an otherwise very good machine translation, or has Spitzenkandidat entered European English?
This has to be an error. “Top candidates,” in case it saves anyone a click.
No, it’s used, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitzenkandidat
I swear… We English speakers seem to view German compound words as some sort of untranslatable magic. I bet they pronounce it horribly as well.
It’s relatively straightforward to pronounce, “spit-sin-candy-dat” is reasonably close to the German pronunciation.
Brb gonna call VdL “candy” quickly
I meant, I bet many English speakers mispronounce the word. Sorry about the confusion.
Oh, no misunderstanding afaik. I meant to say that the word is not that hard to pronounce even for non-Germans.
I truly believe you overestimate the pronunciation abilities of non-German English speakers attempting to pronounce German. They will say “spits candidate” and call it a day.
It’s a loan word. They say Spitzenkandidat in the Netherlands, too.
It is still a shift to the right from the current parliament. The green block will lose substantially and the social democrats as well. Only the left slightly gains some seats in the current projection.
Yeah the numbers don’t seem to bear out the premise in the title at all.
They looked at the last projection and compared it to this one. Survey journalism can get annoying.
looks like i have to take eco-friendlyness into my own hands
Yeas as always humans did. Be in one side or the other and don’t use your brain.
Someone really needs to get a hold of the migrant problem in Europe.
Realistically the far right seem to be the only ones willing to do anything. Everyone else wants to bury thr head in the sand and act like their are no issues.
Right wingers have done fuck all to curb immigration. They just say they will and then don’t lift a finger. It’s all empty platitudes. Virtue signalling.
The companies that fund conservative political parties don’t want fewer customers and definitely don’t want to stop an influx of cheap labour.
It’s just populists offering an easy solution.
Yes the right fucked it. But the far right, I think they have different opinions altogether.
Yeah, like how Republicans just passed that huge immigration bill. Oh wait.
All the downvotes here show there’s really an issue on the left in staunchly denying there’s any issue with unlimited illegal immigration. To be clear, like most of Lemmy, I am very much on the left side of the political spectrum myself but I live in a city which now houses a majority “non-native” (whatever you want to call it) population and it very much stresses social cohesion. Until we find an answer for very rapid integration of migrant populations I don’t see how this is sustainable.
Maybe the left is a bit staunchly but I downvoted because I don’t see how the right is the only one willing to do something. (at least in Germany)
Yes I’m very left wing. High taxes, high government spending.
But I always want to live in my country that feels like my country.
The more I have travelled (in the west and outside) the more I realised that the west way of life, my way of life is what I want to preserve. I’ve lived in my own country and felt like an outsider because the city (at least downtown) is predominantly Islamic.
There is nothing wrong with saying I want my country to look out for our citizens first, then our friends then everyone else.
