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NotQuiteSane Guru


Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 479 Location: Klamath Falls, Jefferson, USA, North America, Midgarth
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dmitchell Veteran


Joined: 17 May 2003 Posts: 1159 Location: Austin, Texas
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 2:08 am Post subject: |
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Secession is always a good idea. _________________ Your argument is invalid. |
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pjp Administrator


Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 17129
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 4:04 am Post subject: Re: A divided Germany, once again? |
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NotQuiteSane wrote: | http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/world/europe/bavaria-political-shifts-could-have-wide-effects.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all& | Took too long to get to anything meaningful. _________________ I can saw a woman in two, but you won't want to look in the box when I'm through.
For my next trick, I'll need a volunteer. |
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sugar Guru


Joined: 07 Aug 2004 Posts: 579 Location: Morrinsville, New Zealand
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 6:08 am Post subject: |
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Wait. Explain what's happening in terms I can understand. Which one is the Obama, and which one is the one that everyone calls a witch? _________________ He who calls for full employment calls for war! |
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Bones McCracker Veteran


Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1605 Location: U.S.A.
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 7:12 am Post subject: |
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Bavaria is tired of the rest of Germany, especially energyman76b and his no-sense-of-humor, anally retentive friends, leeching off them, not to mention the PIIGS. _________________
patrix_neo wrote: | The human thought: I cannot win.
The ratbrain in me : I can only go forward and that's it. |
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sugar Guru


Joined: 07 Aug 2004 Posts: 579 Location: Morrinsville, New Zealand
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 7:27 am Post subject: |
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We've had 5 elections under MMP so far. There seems to be a trend, in that , generally, smaller parties that find favour and get over the 5% threshold tend (or get an MP into government) to get beaten back down in the following election. It's almost as if the public tend to feel as if the small parties have too much power in government, or internal small party politics tend to rip the party apart on the inside.
Is this something that's seen in Germany? _________________ He who calls for full employment calls for war! |
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Clad in Sky l33t


Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 841 Location: Germany
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 9:06 am Post subject: |
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Kinda. We have, however, not many small parties that get over the 5% threshhold. For years there have been CDU (conservatives), SPD (labour), FDP (liberals), Die Grünen (greens) and lately Die Linke (left wing). Die Grünen have been part of the parliament since the late 80s or early 90s, the other parties nearly since after WWII (not sure about the FDP, might have joined in later) and Die Linken came even later (naturally, since they were founded in 2007). Other than these 5, no other party has been in parliament as far as I can remember. Die Piratepartei (Pirate party) might make it into the Bundestag next year - we'll see what happens then. Probably the latter, i.e. that the party will be ripped apart from the inside.
But that's got nothing to do with the secession of Bavaria. _________________ Kali Ma
Now it's autumn of the aeons
Dance with your sword
Now it's time for the harvest |
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asturm Developer


Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 6142 Location: Austria
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 9:16 am Post subject: |
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What about a new Novemberrevolution in Bavaria?  _________________ backend.cpp:92:2: warning: #warning TODO - this error message is about as useful as a cooling unit in the arctic |
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energyman76b Advocate


Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 2045 Location: Germany
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 9:45 am Post subject: |
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Bavaria can always leave - after they paid back the trillions they got in help until the middle of the 80s. With interest. _________________ Study finds stunning lack of racial, gender, and economic diversity among middle-class white males
I identify as a dirty penismensch. |
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mdeininger Veteran


Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1740 Location: Emerald Isles, observing Dublin's docklands
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:43 am Post subject: |
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energyman76b wrote: | Bavaria can always leave - after they paid back the trillions they got in help until the middle of the 80s. With interest. | lol, yeah right. and what would you do? try to force them?
Chances are if they'd try to leave, so would at least Württemberg. I'm giving the Saarland a fair chance at trying the same, although they'd probably get swallowed by the French. _________________ "Confident, lazy, cocky, dead." -- Felix Jongleur, Otherland
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