German Federal Election Forecast 2021 – INWT • Hacker News Board

Re: German Federal Election Forecast 2021 – INWT

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv » Sat, Jul 03, 2021, 7:55 AM UTC

adrianN wrote: post #55

undfg wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ecological sustainability, sexual equality, integration policies for immigrants... All I've seen just from skimming through their PDF

I find it amusing that you group sustainability under social progressiveness, imho conserving natural resources so that future generations can live a similar life to current generations is an important part of conservative politics. Caring about the environment was for example a popular policy of the NSDAP ("Umweltschutz ist Heimatschutz" is something you still hear some nationalist parties say). Arguably environment…

Do you want to live in an industrial wasteland? If not, then Umweltschutz IS Heimatschutz!

Even if the wasted lands are afar, pollution tends to seep out. It's all connected, you know?

Re: German Federal Election Forecast 2021 – INWT

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Post by exporectomy » Sat, Jul 03, 2021, 8:45 AM UTC

Sebb767 wrote: post #65

detaro wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

so the point is that a short throwaway comment in an online forum didn't contain the full context for people who know nothing about the situation? And instead of asking for context we rather go "oh but there are theoretical situations where your statement is bad!"?

exporectomy asked for the context in his first comment [0]. adrianN (the OP) replied by saying that he thinks there is no scenario where this might be a good thing, so exporectomy provided one. This shows that simply filling in an imaginary scenario is not sufficient, as you can spin the story either way - making imaginary scenarios useless, as you correctly pointed out. So the overall this subthread is asking for co…

Yes. Without the details, the information says neither good or bad about the politician so what's the point of saying anything more than "I don't like him"? It's the type of fact that people repeat because it fits their prejudice and they forget that it lacks meaning. Great for talking past people with and helping no-one understand anything.

Re: German Federal Election Forecast 2021 – INWT

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Post by avh02 » Sat, Jul 03, 2021, 1:01 PM UTC

corty wrote: post #76

avh02 wrote: post #16

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as big as a fiasco as BER was/is - it turns out it's (attempted) infrastructure expansion. That and stuff like U5 extension, etc (is it a tourist line? sure, but it's work being done). Trialing/using Electric buses is another one (though they have suffered in both heat and cold). I'll grant you digitization being crap - don't understand why copper is still king here. Politics I don't pretend to understand or care abo…

BER isn't really an expansion, it is replacing the two other airports in Berlin that were more central and had to close down (because they were old and too central to not be a major noise problem), Tegel (TXL) and Tempelhof (THF) and parts of the old function of Schoenefeld (SXF, formerly a regular airport, now just a government airfield, but right next to/part of BER).

still a nicer airport than the dump that was SXF (TXL did have a special place in my heart though)

That said, flying budget airlines remains a ridiculous experience at all european airports.