Interesting! I found this study with an actual table of migrant political support by origin: https://www.dezim-institut.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Demo_FIS/publikation_pdf/FA-6235.pdf

Unfortunately Turks get lumped in with MENA in this one, and it comes out to around the the same as for other groups - probably because support from those derived from the rest of the Islamic world is low.

I can’t actually read German, but from the percentages not adding up I assume this is some kind of favourability rather than voting intention, and it still comes out to just 20% or so.

Here’s another choice Thalmann quote from that election’s Wikipedia: “Hitler must come to power first, then the requirements for a revolutionary crisis [will] arrive more quickly”

Unfortunately the source given doesn’t provide a path all the way to a primary one, and my geography and language skills aren’t conducive to searching newspaper archives for it. That gives you a sense of the philosophy of the KPD, though, at least until the last minute in the other election later that year when they woke up.

Your link reads like a giant wall of text to paper over a straightforward historical mistake.

You might not know who yours is, but plenty of people do.

To be clear, I’m in politics “like a dirty shirt”. I definitely do. Most people I know wouldn’t off the top of their head, and the people who’s doors I knock on are prone to not even understanding that there’s multiple levels of government.

It’s easier to say “write to your MP” than to say “write to a whole bunch of MPs. Which ones? I dunno, all of them I guess?”

That’s definitely true. My local guy uses those letters as toilet paper, probably, but the ones in unsafe ridings or who are young and idealistic might actually care. I have to assume there would be alternatives that grow up, though, including petition signing which is already quite prominent here.

As for keeping out unpopular individuals, that’s true, although Justin Trudeau himself is the only person in my country right now with that kind of notoriety.

including among the immigrant working class.

Really?? That doesn’t seem possible, since people tend not to vote for candidates that openly hate them. Do you have a source?

Soldiers in Germany tend to vote CDU. The last couple of years the head of the Bundestag’s defense commission Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann from the FDP was super popular. In the past SPD was also really strong. These two polls on the Bundeswehr subreddit have FDP and CDU together with a supermajority.

That makes sense. CDU is (by German standards) strong on defence, even I know that.

Now that’s of course not representative, but gives you an idea that the military doesn’t vote far right.

I was reminded of the scandals relating to Wehrmacht idolisation, but I have no idea how how widespread a problem that is, so I’ll defer to you.

I kind of assumed there’d be lots of German servicepeople on those bases too. Interesting that it doesn’t work that way.

So why do you think Kaiserslautern went AfD?

The trick would be finding the tallest vertical line of sight you can. Just making portable plates and flying one would be hard to beat, but failing that maybe a mineshaft.

Does it fire through water in the game?

Or potentially, you could just move one of the portals relative to the other.

Wasps; I’m going to be a supervillain now.

Edit: Scratch that. Termites have better crime potential, if that’s the idea I’m going with.

Even if not, a large quadruped is the wrong answer when we already have dogs, horses and elephants. Something flying, digging, tiny or aquatic is where we should all be thinking.

If they don’t fuck up as badly, and it would be really hard to reach Wiemar levels of failure, it’s probably not a great analogy.

Thalmann and the communists were going with accelerationism and straight up wanted Hitler to win, so they blocked every coalition they could. The SPD reacted by ruling by decree (something they could do in that system) and didn’t even bother to pick popular decrees, so when a new president was chosen he basically just blocked that as well, and a crisis ensued.

July 1932 was a snap election in that moment. More dysfunction happened between that election and November 1932’s snap election (where Hitler actually lost ground), and then the famous Reichstag fire and Hindenburg pact stuff happened.

If the AfD succeeds further it will be for different reasons, basically.

If you’re wondering what the AfD districts in the West were: Gelsenkirchen in the north and Kaiserslautern in the south.

The most notable thing in Kaiserslautern is Ramstein air base and friends. I guess the military votes far-right.

I have no idea what’s up with Gelsenkirchen. SPD came second with CDU just behind, so maybe it’s what would be vote splitting in a dumber electoral system. As it is, the map is just a map.

You can find an interactive version here.

It’s the one people talk about most for a new Canadian system, but honestly it just seems unnecessarily complicated to me. It’s a minority that can even name their representative.

Hmm, that’s true.

Actually, if this wasn’t a map community I’d be more worried. In theory people here will know maps hide heterogeneity.

Taking the ex-communist countries as a whole, my impression is that forced social progress gets in the way of real social progress. Add a shitty economy on top of that, and you have fertile ground for fascists.

You’d definitely survive longer than in something non-oxygenated. I feel like I read a paper that involved a full hour of immersion in animal trials, but I can’t be sure now.

The wiki makes it sounds like in medical settings they only fill the lung partway, usually. That would allow CO2 to escape from the top part. The lung is both massively branched and somewhat delicate, so getting enough pumping going in a full lung sounds like it would be very difficult and invasive. CO2 is so rarefied in healthy blood it doesn’t take long at all for diffusion to start working backward in any one alveolus.

There’s also technology in trials to remove CO2 from the blood separately, which is only as invasive as a dialysis machine. I have no idea if anyone has tried combining them, although you have to assume it’d be an obvious next step.

The good news is, you could swim just fine.

No, you still die, because a viscous and therefor slow-moving liquid physically can’t remove CO2 fast enough from your lungs. Otherwise we’d have lots of premature babies hanging out in jars.

Unfortunately, in humans CO2 is the thing that gives the “suffocating” feeling, and it takes a long time to actually kill you at modest levels, so that description still applies a bit.

Like, barely toxic. Table salt will kill you faster.

One line of evidence for this is a literal mixup at a nuclear plant where they managed to put it in the water cooler for an extended period, with no ill effects.

The unit analysis checks out.

It’s actually referred to by the longer aspic in Shakespeare (alongside some very questionable herpetology), which is the main place I imagine there would be influential Cleopatra rhymes in English. According to Wikipedia, they’re both the same snake anyway.

Wait, would it work as a contraceptive, then?