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   Jeff Jarvis (jeffjarvis@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 07:28:15 JST Jeff Jarvis

   One would think Germans would remember the perils of including an extremist party....
   German Opposition Gambles With Far-Right on Immigration, and Loses https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/world/europe/germany-friedrich-merz-immigration.html?smid=tw-share

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     morph (morph@morphnet.de)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 07:28:12 JST morph

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     • vruz

     @vruz @jeffjarvis Yes, the meaning goes in that way. It is not a pro Trump article.

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     vruz (vruz@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 07:28:13 JST vruz

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     I think what they meant is that Trump is effectively executing on his unserious policy. Not being serious as in being a serious person, but serious as in actually doing the demented things he promised.

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     Jeff Jarvis (jeffjarvis@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 07:28:14 JST Jeff Jarvis

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     • guenther

     Correction, thanks to @guenther: the dozen did not vote against; they were absent.

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     Jeff Jarvis (jeffjarvis@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 07:28:14 JST Jeff Jarvis

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     It's not only American news media that wears blinders. The conservative German national daily, the FAZ, chose to downplay this historic rebuke of the right and play up Trump. With Google Translate:

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     Jeff Jarvis (jeffjarvis@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 07:28:15 JST Jeff Jarvis

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     Google translation of a Zeit headline:
     The difference in Germany is that 12 members of the conservative parties voted against their leader. If only so-called conservatives in America had a gram of courage.