HasanAbi covers the German Election 2021
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- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2024
- HasanAbi reacts to German centre-left claim narrow election victory - BBC News by @BBCNews. HasanAbi can't believe 'Die Linke' lost voters to the German right-wing party 'AFD'... Although overall every party besides the 'AFD' might be an improvment for the American political landscape?!
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Chapters:
0:00 Hasan's German Intro
1:00 React Starts
2:40 Hasan educates viewers on German political parties
7:23 React continues
10:57 Oh no!
11:12 Would the German party system be better for the US?
13:14 The SPD today
14:20 Berlin citizens "voted" to expropriate lardge landlords
18:10 What happened to 'Die Linke' - the German leftist party
21:38 How the leftist party lost voters to the right wing party. Insane!
27:18 Bonus Meme
27:46 Outro
Merkel was probably the last true conservative Centre Right sane normal decent leader in western democracies ... who I most certainly disagree with on some issues but can also be perfectly fine with her rule. While in US ReichWing MAGA thinks of her as a far left communist.
America is so off the spectrum, it’s crazy.
she also has a PHD in physics as far as I know?!
Americans think that anything but the USA is commie.
The general population drinks the propaganda kool-aid. Both Dems and the GOP.
@@DailyDoseOfHasanAbifanchannel yeah i think two drs. degrees and smthing else dk for sure tho
Boris Johnson is an idiot and pretty incompetent but he’s very liberal in a lot of ways and always has been.
Hell yeah the Trump Cult freaks me out
Laschet was so unlikable that he singlehandedly saved the SPD
You can just look at the election map of north rhine westphalia and see just red across the board in the urban areas lmao it's like if republicans nominated that dickhead former michigan governor for president and then wondered why they lost
@@larsbee but he probably wont.
@@larsbee the greens wont form a coalition with the cdu.
@@larsbee isnt going to happen. first, laschet was candidate, not söder. they wont change that. and söder himself said that the SPD has the privilege of being the winner who can try to form a coalition first. second, the greens are needed to get a majority. and they really don't want to work with cdu cause a big part of their voters are against the CDU (like myself). on the other hand, its easier für the FDP to work with SPD greens with CDU. so the odds are in scholz' favour.
@@larsbee The parliament will never elect a Bavarian as chancellor lol. And Söder made himself veeery unpopular with other politicians during covid
i'm glad that hasan's choice for his german accent at least isn't the typical angry screaming shit but the sexually ambiguous german villain one...
His pronunciation is surprisingly…. not terrible? I was really thrown off
One of the two stereotypes... nice.
@@sebdoesntreply that's because turkish uses similar mutated vowels as german
@@HCoreSoldierKili
Mutated? Ü is simply what happens when i and u have a baby...
@@danielaardila5081 we got more than that, but we made the world forget ;D
"Pirate Party? I feel like this is Germans making a joke"
Me, a German: "Well, yes, but actually...no"
i wonder what he thinks of the APPD
@@lunaticeagle3007 I would have loved to vote for them. Huge middle finger.
It's German humour mate, it's no laughing matter
@@davesprivatelounge your comment is so lame and insulting.
@@gulliverthegullible6667 You're lame and insulting, nyeh xP
I’d love to rag on Hassan for his German accent but it’s much better than most impressions. I came to America and considered myself center left to left but by American standards I am communist and a fascist(because Americans don’t understand the difference)
I'm American and you're absolutely right lol. Some people think giving a thirsty person a free bottle of water is socialism...
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I’m American and this is based
@@chilldragon4752 And that socialism is "bad". Absolutely insane.
@@mynewname7830 “How dae you rob those water bottle companies by giving their water away for free?“, so to speak...
Bro put the accents aside, his pronunciation of "Grüne" and other German words is actually quite good
Indeed, because unlike in English, Umlaute are a thing in his mother tongue, while the accent is being overplayed as usual just for the fun of it.
he also knows a bit of german cause he studied it in school
True, I didn't remember at the time I typed that, still an advantage over native English speakers.
„Sie sprechen aber gut Deutsch!“
Ü and ö also exist in the turkish alphabet
The big L for the Left was so frustrating to watch but absolutely predictable. I felt like a clown voting this time around.
Lmao same. First time voter giving my second vote for Die Linke only for them to almost fail to enter the Bundestag...
??? Sie sind doch in den Bundestag gekommen. Mit 3 gewonnenen Direktmandaten kamen sie auch ohne 5% rein. Also alles gut Leute, eure Stimmen haben was gebracht
@@zombor8249
Unsere Stimmen haven tatsächlich recht wenig gebracht, es sei denn jemand von uns hat in Berlin oder Leipzig gewählt, wo sich die Linke gerade noch so ihre letzten 3 Direktmandate retten konnte.
@@chain_of_nothing Naja ne. Ihr habt doch mit Zweitstimme zur Prozentzahl beigetragen. Mit 3 Direktmandaten kommt die Partei mit so vielen Sitzen in den Bundestag wie als würde es die 5% Hürde nicht geben, basierend auf ihrer Prozentzahl. Deswegen sinds ja auch 39 geworden, nich nur die 3. Eure Stimmen haben also genauso viel gebracht wie als hätte die Linke 5% gekriegt!
@@zombor8249
Du hast schon Recht, aber das Ergebnis ist trotzdem deprimierend.
What the average American sees:
-Republicans: Right
-Democrats: Left
What the average European sees:
-Republicans: Christian Talibans
-Democrats: (centre?)Right
I mean, democrats aren't even that center. They're more neoliberal than _just about_ any party in Europe aside from the most extreme. I mean, remember the official Democratic stance on healthcare for instance is that it should be handled by the 'free market'.
The overton window in the US is just insane. We're currently in the crazy dystopian future.
@@dr.zoidberg8666 I know mate, that's why i put the questionmark. How far or close to perceived centre, Democrats are from a Europeans perspective, depends on the country. For example, in Sweden, they would be right, no question. In more conservative countries such Poland, Hungary, heck even Greece, they would be more center right. With that being said even conservative parties do not even think about touching healthcare and education at least in public. Many try to do it behind the scenes though (secret defunding and degrading). Long story short, there is nothing close in EU to even compare to US system .
It is absolutely shameful to see Democrats not being able to pass laws that would offer the most miniscule OECD living standards to Americans. For example, the US uses about 200-400$ of money peru child in childcare in a year when the OECD country average is 14 000$ and Nordics and Germany use around 23 000$. They aren't the outliers, the US is...
Yep
Pretty accurate haha
To be perfectly clear the mood in Germany is still that none of the 3 chancellor candidates are viable to represent them. Especially Laschet and Scholz have a lot of skeletons in their closet for German standards.
Thats Not true. Germans really like Scholz. More so than the SPD even.
@@chain_of_nothing wirecard? cumex? Scholz is all but innocent and the people know
@@makiste4216
The people don't care about this stuff. In a direct election Scholz would get a majority of the votes.
@@makiste4216 And let's really not forget about killing a suspected drug dealer by illegal interrogation methods which were ruled to be torture.
@@chain_of_nothing Who the hell likes Scholz ? Maybe the conservatives ? The left hates him. Not only for effectively being responsible for multiple deaths when supporting the use of forceful injection of vomit inducing medicine via police forces, but also he had several corruption scandals.
He is very much the "at least he isn't Laschet" candidate.
I absolutely hate the AFD with a passion and it's good that Hassan calls them out. However I'm always bit bummed out that every non-european country mostly focuses on german right wing populism when covering Europe.
Why? Because they have no shot of getting into power (everybody refuses to work with them) and their percentage of votes is much much lower than other far right european parties. In the Macron vs. Marie Le-Pen election, France almost got taken over by their version of far right populism as the strongest party for example. This is sadly not unique on the continent.
Oh and while the Afd is a disgusting party with many Nazis in it's ranks, it's more comparable to the American Republicans than the NSDAP. They have pretty much the same positions, from climate change to immigration. We do have 2 parties that are actually similar to the OG Hitler party (NPD and III. Weg), but they have almost no votes.
Yeah if the Republican party was split up into two it would essentially be 60-70% forming the American version of AfD while the rest would be the minority CDU since the far right is more popular here than the centre rifht
also they even got targetet by the Verfassungsschutz. Just imagine what it would be like if the republican party in the US only had around 10%, wouldnt have any real chance of governing the country and even would be getting investigated by an secret service agency of their own state
Please don’t do this. Don’t say „they are almost nazis but aren’t“
They are exactly that. Many afd politicians are former neo nazis or still have ties to the nazi underground. Their most famous leader Höcke was called a fascist and the German courts evaluated that insult and said it is correct therefore the journalist can keep using the word.
At an afd function a speaker said: „well nowadays we have so many foreigners in Germany, the holocaust would at least make sense again.“
They pretend to be the republicans because they know you can’t Form a government as a nazi Party. But they are nazis.
@@lenoio512 as far as I know the court didn't rule that Höcke was a fascist, but rather that it would be in the limits of free speech to call him one
True, right-wing populism is dead in the water in Germany, there's just no market for it & the cordon sanitaire around the AfD is very strong. So strong in fact that the previous federal CDU leader had to resign because one of the regional branches of the party accidentally voted to confirm a liberal gubernatorial nominee that - unbeknownst to them - was also supported by the AfD. Meanwhile in France Marine Le Pen's campaign is falling apart because a white supremacist debate bro who believes she's too far left & isn't even officially running, has soaked up half of her base in the span of a month.🥴
I’m in support of boring politics, politics should be boring otherwise it’s reactionary and that appeals to stupidity
I was seriously surprised he didn't know what pirate politics is, but I guess the concept isn't big in the US
Nah, we already have Pirate Bay.
@@richpryor9650 Who do think founded the Pirate Party?
@@dog-ez2nu Jack Sparrow?
@@richpryor9650 Yeah, the Pirate Bay was founded in Sweden, and the founder of the first Pirate Party was also a Swede, inspired by the raid of Pirate Bay in 2006.
The AfD basically adopt every republican talking point and turn it into their own. Also Hasans pronounciation ain’t that bad
literally they’re not even original. Their entire anti mask fReEdOm stance on covid was like a textbook copy of republicans
@@morgenroete8789 same with immigration and economic policy
The AfD actually claimed vote-by-mail was rife with voter fraud, to pre-emptively throw doubt on the result of the election. No Republican talking point is too stupid for them.
It was pretty bad
@@seanhubbard6033 I’ve heard much worse
The Berlin housing expropriation referedum has turned out to be a quite demystifying moment given that almost 60% voted in favour of it, yet only one party, Die Linke, supports it unconditionally.
And here we are, April 2024… what happened to DWE kekW
Hasan's German accent is actually pretty good
he studied some German in school afaik :D
@@DailyDoseOfHasanAbifanchannel
That explains it
As a German native speaker I can confirm that we all sound exactly like that
@@fapuloes it's stupid hot I adore it
Interesting. EU will be different without merkel
yeah she was rlly one of the most repspected politicians worldwide, as a german this is the first time im rlly concerned for where this country is going after her.
Olaf Scholz litterally won, because he behaves just like Merkel.
@@pascal8616 But Olaf has already caused much more shit and scandals than Merkel ever even had the chance to.
@@istolemoneyfromthegovernme7653 Don't worry, you'll only drift more and more to the right and become even more indecisive as a country as the parties have to compromise more on legislation. While this is going on, France begins to steal the reigns to the EU from Germany.
@@richpryor9650 ik, its just bc merkel was a little conservative driven, but stayed on the good sidr and had this country under controll and still managed to be respected AND have no conflicts. Sadly that will completly change. From the laws i thinm we're still safer then america, just taki g health care as an example. But the out of country realtionshipa are going to be way worse.
No the Party the Partei is a joke Party.
The Pirates are legit.
From my point of view, its the opposite:D
Joke parties will always be my favourite
the fact that i got DIE PARTEI at first place in my voting quiz on which party i should vote for is sad tho. second place was KPD
@@lunali7209 Voting DKP is a waste of a vote. Though i personally also align with them ideologically more than with any other party, i vote Linke just because they are the only leftists who ever get any seats in parliament.
MLPD even gets more votes than DKP, and they are sectarian ultra-leftists with some very shitty views on presently existing socialist states.
On the other hand, it's good to go out and campaign with a communist party, educate people and do agitation, even if this doesn't necessarily translate into electoral success it's about raising consciousness.
Organizing and participating in labor activism is more important by far than just voting.
Then where is the Navy party? The party that patrols the seas and performs anti-pirate operations?
When I tuned in to Hasans stream and saw him talking about the results for like 5mins before he said he was too bored of it already I honestly was quite disappointed because Germany for the past few months has felt much more politicized than it has ever been since the beginning of the conservative-neoliberal comeback in the 80s. Progressive Germans had this slowly declining hope of being able to use the end of the Merkel era and (by german standards) drastic climate catastrophies during this summer to go from 16 years of administrating the status quo to a leftist government. Now that Die Linke and especially the Greens have not met any of their potential at all and RRG failed just 3 seats close to being able to form a coalition we are stuck with a strong neoliberal party (FDP) blocking most of the truly needed progressive reforms to somewhat meet our climate goals and avoid losing out on the race towards green industries. HOWEVER, this video does a much better job of showing that Hasan is not uninformed or doesnt care enough, its just that US politics are soooo far behind on every issue so that for him Germany must already look like an utopia
So true
this is a pretty proper overview
hasan's pronunciation of german words is pretty good ngl
Bundeschländer
I love that our elections are so boring. That is one area of my life where I really don't need any thrills
Hasan is upset that 110.000 voters of Die Linke switched to AfD, but to understand that you have to understand the political landscape of germany. Those voters that switched were from eastern germany, which used to be socialist. After the fall of the Berlin wall eastern germany never really economically recovered. Politics in germany is heavily centered around the west and a lot of voters in the east feel abandoned. Die Linke and AfD are the two parties that actually focus on eastern germany and are exceptionally strong there, to the point where Die Linke was the strongest party in Thuringia during its last two state elections and during this election the AfD was the strongest party in Saxony.
However in recent years Die Linke has more and more cuddled up to the Green party and its politics have become more and more focussed around privileged issues of academics in the west, which is why its loosing a lot of support in eastern germany. A lot of people in eastern germany switch to AfD precisely because it's the only other party focussing on the east.
The problem with the term "lifestyle left", as Sahra Wagenknecht calls them, is with the critique towards the voters. Rich and academics can and should have those left views, but they also bring in their liberal greenish politics (gender politics, e-mobility), even tho these are important, but they can not stand above the problems of the working class. That is why the AfD voters vote against their interest, as Die Linke has lost grip onto what matters to the workers and the results are devastating.
Meanwhile you can not make the voters accountable and call them names, based on their class, for what the party has wronged. It is destabilizing the party from within and Mrs. Wagenknecht should be criticized for that.
@@arminb3939 I wholeheartedly agree with your coment
On a sidenote the political wing ( SSW/SSV) of the Danish minority in the border region to the north got one member elected into the Parliament in Berlin. The first since the 1949 election!
As a British person, that reporters accent is the most unbearable thing in the world. The toff sounds like a tory mp.
Etonian?
@@Cygnus888 I would bet money on it. I don't know anyone who talks like that, they live in a different world to the rest of us.
Bri ish
So viel zu Linksrutsch😔
Just sad
wir haben einen centimeter bekommen ich bin am COPEN
Wir sind alle gebumst wenn nicht gleich was passiert :(
Wir brauchen einen deutschen hasan
@@florianfelix8295 truuueee
Mit Rezo und der dunkle Parabelritter haben wir ja eig schon 2 leute die in diese richtung gehen, aber die müssen mehr propaganda für linkspolitische themen machen
Daily Dose still the best channel in the HasanAbi clips industrial complex, thank you for your service, I was waiting for Hasan's comment on our very own german shitshow.
German politics can really be boring sometimes, and that's coming from a German. Don't get me wrong, we have some super fucked up stuff going on as well, but American politics are just way more interesting in how fucked up on so many levels it is.
Absolutly, but lets not forget that this was the most, for lack of a better word: "interesting" vote we had for some time. We complained that our politics were experiencing trumpism is germany, so i kinda feel good that outsiders see the vote as completely boring.
Also i do love watching US politics, just because its such a drama about stuff that is seen as either completely normal or absolutly outlandish to us
...if i would live in the US i'd see it very different and would probably want to do something, but since its out of my reach its pretty funny tbh.
I'm German and I understand more about American politics than about German politics.
Not because I'd watch the latter more, but because American politics are incredibly dumbed down and there's just 2 opinions to have. It's hella fucking easy to follow, plus it's fun. Tragic, but very entertaining.. German politics on the other hand are like a chore, you know that you have to stay up to date with them because it's a massive fucking deal for all of Europe, but you just don't really want to.
I do not agree with this. If you are considering political strategies especially this election is so extremely interesting. But I think you can only think so, when you deeply dive into it.
Pirate party is a European party that advocates for more digital EU and that, they are very popular in Czech Republic with more than 10% of the votes
The left party also lost votes due to strategic voting, they voted SPD so the CDU wouldn't win
Seriously? I thought the idea was to get in red red Green. Risking to not even get die linke into the Bundestag sounds awfully risky.
I voted FreieWähler because I just hate all of the established parties lmao
@@Judah132 bro freie wähler sind rechter als die CDU? Dafür ist grad echt nicht die Zeit. Wenn wir ökologisch und ökonomisch auf nem guten weg sind, kann man sich wieder auf bisschen konservatismus besinnen. Aber jetzt doch nicht?
Sounds like copium to me
@@FridolinH Du hast recht, ich hätte III-Weg wählen sollen - die sind auch ökologisch in a way.
As a German this should be interesting ja
Came for the breakdown, stayed for ze accent
Thanks for the vid, didn't expect Hasan to cover our shitshow
Dankeschön, lieber Hasan!
“The greens are the left party too” man I wish
They are center left. But certainly more left leaning than the SPD.
@@backfischritter naja das heißt ja nicht viel
@@backfischritter no they are not. The inner-Party spectrum covers positions far more to the right than SPD. Go look at Baden Württemberg and Hessen where they govern with CDU. The Grüne have been on a straight trajectory to the right for years now and not even party Leadership really knows how their membership base (and probably even a big chunk of the new members of parliament) think on most policies.
@@ithemba look at Olaf Scholz and his supporters and tell me that again. When you want to see a trend you have to see at the younger people in the party and both parties are beginning to lean further to the left.
@@ithemba also stop dividing the left ffs LUL
Funny thing for me is that here in Czechia some voters of the czech SPD are gassed, that "they" won in Germany... But Czech SPD means something completely different and they're basically a one populist fascist party...🤣
lol wtf, I didnt know that..(Im german)
@@ninototo1 keep your fingers crossed for us, in 10 days there's the most important election there is, and our president is going full mask off saying He will nominate Babiš again as the prime minister, and it doesn't matter If they win the elections 🙃
Well if we are on the subject of funny name coincidences the republican party here in Germany is/was a Nazi Party
@@tvojemanka I have googled Babiš, he looks extremely corrupt.. I hope he won't become pm again.
@@ninototo1 yeah, he's extremely rich and owns most of czech agriculture and also some massive media sites, And he's using money from the EU to flow more money into his bussiness 🤷🏻♂️
Kinda sad how nobody in these comments (lots of germans too it seems) is talking about the FDP and that a lot of young voters (who often are still in school and not even earning money and paying rent) voted fot them.
I think a main reason is that a lot of them have this fairytale view that they will make the big money through social media or getting a business degree. Most of them will end up in “normal” jobs though as a regular employee and be sucked dry while having supported a party that is basically working towards the upper 10% being able to suck them dry even more…
Sad to see.
Yeah I know way too many people that like them bc or their social liberal views and are scared of left parties raising taxes even though they will never earn enough for those tax raises to affect them
Thank you ma dude! They're super stupid haha "omg more taxes I'm gonna be so affected by that" like bitch no most of y'all gonna end up in working class stop dreaming and wake the fuck up. Especially since it has been very difficult to get actually rich now with all the nepotism.
Also the FDP were the only ones openly criticizing the covid measures, so a lot of the young voters also believe they voted for their 'freedom'
imagine being a "political commentator" with a polysci degree and not knowing about pirate politics.
I was not expecting that last 30 seconds of "having sex for more than 2 minutes is socialism" take
Pleasure is a zero sum game and shouldn’t be shared with others unless doing so happens to coincide with a global maximum of coital utility.
There are pirate parties all over north Europe. They formed when the founders of the pirate bay went to jail.
The accent had me dying
Was listening to a bit of ZIzek talk about anarchy and he mentioned that people want to be alienated from most things and not have to make all these decisions. I liked that particular point (the rest sucked), and I think Hasan is expressing that with his advocacy for boring politics but preference for Trumpian shit shows. We advocate for sane politics so we don't have to pay attention, but also desire dramas and participation.
It’s a pretty stupid talking point about anarchism though lol
@@florianfelix8295 Oh the whole video sucked, apparently his understanding of anarchism is equivalent to an edgy 15y/o punk. But the idea that we desire some level of alienation resonated beyond the actual topic.
@@Trowa71 I don't think he's saying there is no point to an anarchist approach though, if you took it that way. His ultimate point, iirc, was that it would be better to live in a world where things like rape, murder, and - idk - massive monopolies of money & power for instance are
a) Dogmatically held to be bad - the so it doesn't generally have to be brought up ad people can still expect the position to be true. Like, 'is rape still not ok? what? state mandated girlfriends? ok, lets vote on that motion then...' is not a question that's good to have to ask, barring certain expectations. The implied platform is easy to abuse, giving a very large opportunity for reactionaries to apply their opinions if not done very carefully every time, and...
b) ... not taking up most of peoples time and effort to suppress instead of, yk, just doing what they'd like to do, which is at least part of anarchisms goals, right? Freedom and all that jazz? I mean, I'd be fine with trading some for less harm and be forced to work for it, personally, but that's me making my live work - not necessarily a universal form of anarchism that I could demand everyone to just find their place in or forever be my nemesis, right? It should feel comfortable, or people will naturally try to be free of it the way they want to be free from their current obligations - 'isn't there an easier way to do this?' But in that society that might very well erode a whole pillar you've rested its original fairness on.
I've been a committed anarchist for years, and this is a serious topic. With non-careful, and still ideologically chained subjects like todays society produces them, the best model that I think wouldn't require anyone to change that much from their current conceptions of themselves and not do, like, everything entirely differently all of the sudden, would be smt like Michael Alberts Parecon - and yeah, i know, not real anarchism supposedly, but that's a cheap out.
But I read the other stuff (shoutout! Zoe Baker and RadicalReviewer, good doggo), and i'm fascinated, I use Kropotkin and Bakunin as often as I find real opportunity to... Yet, I have to ask you, show me your real, tangible, universal anarchist system - not just one that worked in catalonia for a while (shoutout!, bc that was a great feat, no denial there) but that you are absolutely certain would work for everyone in current society and its expectable future modifications - at least sure enough to stake its functioning on it.
I think if we are confident in our approach we shouldn't have to act as if doing real anarchism is easier than it is - it's precisely that we're ready to shoulder more effort and act more radically than others and concern ourselves with the true root issues which makes our solutions more powerful and general in the end than any alternative.
Please don't just dismiss reasonable critique - well, you didn't with all - but acting as if anarchism was already this ready-made thing we already explained but people are just to dumb to apply or smt isn't good. The issue is with our explanations not actually having reached that level of quality, and we need that self-critique. Makes for better anarchists in my experience.
@@greycoloris7665 It was this video in particular. ruclips.net/video/uwUDEOAxLlc/видео.html
I'm super fresh in this political journey, you certainly are more well read (literally about to read Capital, I haven't even dreamt of reading your named authors yet). I think my issue with this particular video is he has an anarchist straw-man as a system of absolutely no authority, whereas I understand it from Chomsky, anarchism is the necessity for authoritative forces to self-justify, and when justified are allowed to exist.
Am I wrong with this take?
I suppose your "dogmatically held to be bad" is a self justified authoritative stance. And even the structures that would maintain a level of alienation, as Zizek put in and your point 2 addresses, would be a self justified authoritative structure.
Now rewatching it, it actually seems like he's advocating for a more sophisticated, 'self-justification of authority' type anarchy over what I thought was a straw-man 'no authority ever' type anarchy, as it might just be a less sophisticated but popular take (not a straw-man at all, i.e. 15 y/o anarchist punks existing) that he's critiquing.
It's not that people want to be alienated, it's that most people don't see their interests being represented and become disinterested. They don't see any real change or their vote mattering. Hence why most democracies only have 50% voter turnout. Also, there is an element of political illiteracy and a lack of political consciousness. People just don't give a shit until there's a fire under their ass.
To explain the Corbyn thing, it doesn't matter what corbyn thought - he couldn't advocate for his own personal position (which was he thought we should leave the EU) because that was not the position of the Labour party as a whole. as in, the party itself had taken a stance via their representatives, not the public portion of the party. He would have just been removed as leader (as he later was for other bs reasons) and achieved nothing. in the uk, even though the party members vote in a leader, they are only the face of the party. they do have power but when you vote in a general election, you are voting for the party, not the leader. It's not like voting for trump vs hillary.
Hasan German accent is pretty good, but funny 🤣🤣🤣
HOLY SHIT THE AFD HAD 10%???
Based people
2% less than 2017 election
So long as they don't get 25%, the country should be ok
It does suck, but at least their nazi party only polls 10%. The nazi party here in the US polls 40-50% 🥶
@Cryvysaur well in Germany, you don't have to choose between a nazi Party, and a shitty democratic party, that does dogshit about anything. If we had to, the vote would be split too. The party system is the problem in america
RUclips Recommended: American youtuber covers the German Election
Me, a german: Oh my god I need this
I'm so grateful to Hasan for making politics palatable to people like me! I'd love if he covered French politics as well
You very much could take the units of the owners hands, there is an actual law on that and it has never been used, but it also is written in that law that it can not happen without appropriate compensation.
Basically the state can buy the units and the owners can not decline, but they will have a good amount of money.
Of cause that is no were near the amount they could have made in the long term, but since the problem is one of laundering money it could be quite fair
the joke is that "Partei für arbeit, rechtsstaat, tierschutz, elitenförderung und basisdemokratische initiative" is an acronym for "PARTEI" which means "party"
For some americans, even AfD would be too socialist 😂 also, pirate party might sound like a joke but in my country (Czech republic, actually neighboring Germany...) it is among the three most powerful parties and might have some potential to win in upcoming october elections... The pirates are the biggest representatives of centre-left progressivism, however sort of neo-lib...but for a liberal person with left-wing inclinations, there are not many other options...we have social democrats but they might not even go above the 5% treshold to enter the parlianment, as well as our Communist party, which is very much on the left economically, but extremely conservative socially....also they still stand behind historical actions of communists in our country (we're a post-communist country with capitalism being installed in 1989), including death penalties for political dissidents and so on...
WHY IS YOUR ACCENT SO GOOD BRUDI???
I hate nothing more than americans talking about german politics. Merkel is not a neoliberal, she is a conservative. And she is not a communist by american standards, shes just reasonable and pragmatic.
Did he ever cover the Norwegian election? Labour Party taking over government. And record results for both the soc-dems and the socialists
DjNeckstab As far as I know ( from Denmark) the Soc.Dems in Norway LOST one seat compared to last election! The two Parties to the left of them both gained seats to make up for that loss.
@@k7u5r8t4 you're completely right, we're just getting confused in translation. AP (who I called Labour) are of course social democratic, and as you said, they did lose a seat.
But when I said the "socialists and the soc-dems won" I was referring to those two parties further to the left (Rødt and SV) who indeed made up for it winning a combined 9 seats.
I kinda wish he covers the Danish SD. I'm 100% he will be very shocked to learn the shit they say about immigrants, or how they adopted a far right immigration policy that would make the GOP wet themselves
@@aminegriffiths3649 it’s not far right it very moderate, sensible and popular, nothing wrong with being against the principle of immigration as long as you don’t treat immigrants poorly.
Just to put that into context. "Die Linke" is a lot left to Bernie Sanders.
Surprisingly accurate coverage 👍
We had elections in Austia too. The KPÖ, Communist Party of Austria, won the local election in the second largest city in Austria(Graz) with about 30%.
Most probably Graz will get it´s first female and communist Mayor of a major austria city.
Mein Beileid
Best of good luck
Better a center-left than anything leaning to the right
quite true yes
Social democrats are maybe center left for EU but compared too US democrats they are far left. Social democracy is very successful in Scandinavia and people are picking up on it, a lot of Germans here look up to their neighbors like Denmark and want something a like, social democracy is the future! Bernie Sanders was the closest to social democracy the US has seen. If he was German he would have won here, he is exactly what the majority of Germans want.
@GünniB Sure but still more left than anything the US has to offer, center left is what they are regardless of how much.
This is absolutely not true. The modern democrat party is very similar to the SPD except that the democrats turned corruption up to 100%. That's why nothing of what they represent actually happens
very happy hasan reacted to this
I'm surprised a political commentator like Hasan never heard of pirate politics
CDU is more left than Joe biden. Also to slightly explain the afd: they were born as an anti eu anti euro party connected to the Greek financial crisis but was taken over by right wing nationalists and xenophobes during the refugee crisis, by now most of the original founding members as well as old top members and party leaders (Frauke Petry would be a name) left and while they still have actual conservative forces, it's is very similar to the republicans insofar as it's very heterogenous and includes everyone from nationalist politics but also straight up racist toying with similar thoughts as the republicans. They also share very similar attitudes towards vaccines COVID politics whatever. But in contrast to America, no German party would even consider working together with them they are pretty much political outcast hated by everybody else. Once a local minister in one of the states was elected with their help, political preassure afterwards became so big from both other party's as well as the national leaders of the CDU and FDP (who got the job) that they gave it up in under a week.
I loved this video, its great to see an outside perspective on our elections
Nice Video. Dein Akzent war der Hammer.
Fun fact the things the AFD wants are relativly close to the view points of the GOP.
True. The AfD is basically the GOP while the CDU is close to the Dems. Really scary stuff tho think about.
The AfD would still be seen as socialist in the USA though. They don't want to abolish the whole universal healthcare system 💀
(But fr, there are a lot of similarities with the MAGA crowd. Tons of AfD voters think that climate change is a hoax and tons of them believe in conspiracy theories such as great replacement or HAARP weather control)
@@wavyy Actually, some parts of the AfD want to do that
@@wavyy Nah their economic policies are too neolib
The leader of the CSU literally dressed up as Shrek, Ghandi and Homer Simpson at the german equivalent of Mardi Gras
Must be nice to live in a center-ish govt and not just two opposing nutbags that are just far-right and center-right.
Die Linke primarily performed so poorly due to old socialists in eastern germany dying, people strategically voting for other parties to favor their coalition and not having a recognizable leader, like it's the case with all other parties. Die Linke has the by far strongest party program out of all of the major parties, however it is absolutely horrible at marketing itself
Hi there, ledt german here and I want to write some things down as the video goes on which are only interesting if you really are into that. So first the reasons why the left party got so few votes are many but the big ones are that this party is filled with infighting and clowns and that they did not show any interest in forming a coalition and had some really stupid takes on international politics. Second the SPD are a group of yes-men at the top and most of the people at the top in recent years can‘t really ne called social democrats. The ones that are representing the social democrats the most would actually be the Green party. Third the ones who actually made eco friendly politics mainstream in Germany would be More FFF than the green party. And to the CDU they are mostly known for corruption and incompetence and they are drifting more and more to the right which is very concerning to watch. And on ze point with the insane politics, it might not seem that way but the german politic system is flooded with corruption and as soon as you actually look deeper into the matter it is actually really insane.
Someone introduce him to the APPD
Fun thing to look into is the very controversial backgrounds of Scholz (SPD) and Laschet (CDU)
A lot of Die Linke voters that went to AfD would have been either A) disaffected old voters in former GDR who stayed with the party for its continuity with East German 'conservative' politics and just chose the real conservative option this time, and B) radicalised and alienated white working class voters who saw AfD as the next viable option for ground-shaking anti-establishment change and whose main priority was always economic not social policy as a party of the auth left.
B) also relates to how in the UK, a lot of older major super left-wing figures, some who called themselves 'Trotskyists' and 'Communists', went over to Nigel Farage's Brexit right-wing populism politics because as far as they're concerned, tolerating the existence of trans people is irrelevant (and maybe even triggering 'libs', who are apparently the 'elite' by default is admirable) to what they think is more important, which is trying to recreate 1960-70s Britain, apparently culturally as well as economically.
Basically, this goes onto a larger point in countries that have always had a strong trade unionist and socialist culture historically (not really the US) have lost their 'working class' as 'working class' jobs, institutions and culture have been eroded away - replaced by patriotism and neoliberal individualism. As a result, left-wing parties either have to cater to the university-educated libs and young people, to right-wing populism and low-income white people, or to neoliberalism and the largest possible audience by being as moderate as possible. Either way, you can't be too left or you're unelectable, too socially liberal or you alienate newspaper readers, or too moderate because then no one can be arsed going out to vote for you.
The translations of the narrator were horrible, tf? He partly just changed the whole meaning of what they were saying lol
Living in Saxony rn is not fun with the AfD being everywhere.
yaaay we got our 30 minutes of coverage
Love how the AfD won like almost 15% in my district. I love Bavaria lol
"pirate politics" is politics centered around internet freedom. You know, like software piracy
wish he’d do this for more countries, it’s very interesting
Totally off topic but as a German I wanna say you’re actually pretty good at pronouncing German words. Never heard an American correctly pronounce “ü“ before…but there’s probably a similar sound in Turkish 😅🤞
yep and Angie our mom will be missed dearly, but still we’re happy to get decent WiFi and legal weed soon - oh and some people who want to actually fight against climate change and do something instead of always saying nobody gotta change.
The legal weed thing ain't happening man.They're probably gonna end up selling 1 gram for 50 bucks at the apothecary and that's about it. I've lost all hope in that happening. It's also not going to be good if they use california as an example for weed legalization cause that is definitely failing as well since it's almost impossible for smaller companies to strive in weed business because of the taxes. Makes me sick to the stomach to see the people that fought so many years for the legalization loose against the big pharmas and tobacco companies who fought against the legalization and now are the only ones able to profit off of it. I'd highly recommend you to watch the cannabis episode from "The Business of Drugs" on Netflix.
The ü in German is the same as the ü in turkish. Usually English speakers that are not familiar with that sound actually have the hardest time to work on that
very gut its such a troll its so funny lets keep going
is the perfect description for die partei
the first US Citizen i ever met who got German politics right
Ich liebe Hasan!
As a german viewer of yours I would have loved to tell you everything about the german parties there is to know. For example that DIE PARTEI is an actual sartirical party that has done the most hilarious shit. Btw the PIRATEN PARTEI is not a joke, it's about free internet and kinda lends it's name from the Pirate Bay website. They used to be stronger a view years back but ultimately failed to deliver when it came to any topic that didn't have to do with the internet, so they lost alot of support.
I usually vote green or left but I just wanted to vote in a way that we wouldn't have the conservative party in Germany so this time voting was conflicting for me. We do have a lot of parties and that just makes the whole process harder
German elections... Won by the Vice Chancellor (who is left wing) of the current Chancellor (who is right wing) ... Who also happens to be current Minister of Finance (the left wing guy). Lol. Much distinction, many differences.
"the party" (ger. DIE PARTEI) is our fun party, on of their goals is to reinstate an old german law regarding cucumber curvitur and apply it to EU weapons exports, basically on every 10cm Of barrel there need to be 2cm curvitur :)
All european countries have a Pirate Party, but if I’m not mistaken only in iceland have they ever reached the executive.
A Turkish-American reacts to a clip from a British reporter about the German election. Can't get more international.
welcome to 2021 what a time to be alive
That's ze power of ze internet, JA ! ;D
God I wish this was american politics.
No you should aim for something higher it might be better than the US system but it still sucks
@@RrRr-or5tw Well duh but a step up is a step towards the top of the latter
The party leaders accept defeat and admits mistakes.
What??? I don’t understand 😆
@@RrRr-or5tw I mean, our system is pretty rock solid. Corrupt and incompetent politicians are the problem.
@@isidoreaerys8745 hahahahahaha imagine admitting defeat. Armin Laschet (CDU) coped so hard after they got fucked that he the voter want him to form a new government even though no one really wants him xD
His German accent is sooo good…Idk if it’s accurate, but I love it.
Love the Cristoph Waltz inspired accent. But seriously, his German pronunciation is pretty damn decent. You can tell he visited Germany multiple times and mingled with the locals.
12:06 Volt has no plans to increase privatization. Why do people make this stuff up? "They are neoliberals masking as lift". 1) Volt isn't neoliberal. 2) Volt does not claim to be leftist.
Dont they mainly want a federal EU state. Dont see that happening anytime soon
@@MrCoolbanna Yes, federalism is something that will take a long time, all the more reason to start building now.
Really liked this breakdown and find the coalition government very interesting though I'm sure it isn't as much to Germans. Also, that ending was golden.
It is actually very interesting. This is the most exciting thing that has happened in german politics since the last decade.
@@alice73333 I agree! Though this is the first time I've ever paid attention to it. Guessing this party coalition making doesn't happen often, would be nice if it happen more. Just like the concept
"damien mcguiness" what a name ladies and gentlemen
that was fast
hasan your German accent is truly fantastic
How ever some parties are awfull in my own country and others...non the less i am proud of our European multi party systems, like in Germany or my own country for that matter.
May it never become like in US with only two parties in our European countries... so everybody has hers or his flavor for representation in parlament.
And i personally vote sometimes for smaller parties which better align with my political views...and dont go towards more major parties...
Last general election i voted for very left, Socialist Workers Party, and they got into parlament with few representatives... this local election i voted for smaller Green Left party and its representative has become a mayor of my city...
In my opinion parlament should be consisted of multiple parties, political views and ideologies and they together have a job to find a common ground between them to push their opinions further but still fighting for their own more niche ideas... that is how democracy works.
I urge anybody who reads this that they vote for more niche flavors of parties in their own countries and dont go "with the flow" towards bigger parties...because if everybody does that then you get a two party system like in US after a number of years.
I wouldnt say the accent is accuarate, but I still like it more than most other of his impressions
please react to Austrian politics
In Graz, the "communist party" won. They're not actually communists but the party is irrelevant elsewhere but the leader was so popular that her party won. In Oberösterreich there was a whole new party just for anti-vaxxers called "MFG" who got 6% (I think) which is a lot for a party like that that also didn't exist before. And you should look at everything that is happening with our chancellor Kurz.
I don’t get it which party alienates more towards the left?
the simple answer is AfD and FDP. AfD are similar to the GOP and the FDP are like the libertarian party.
CDU/CSU are similar to US democrats in terms of their goals, which in comparison to the "lefter" parties are still right wing.
@@windack768 and the SPD? What are they. Is them leading the German election good or bad for Germany
@@BreezyBulldog SPD is center left pretty much social democrat party.
@@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas ahhh got it thanks for clarifying
@@BreezyBulldog it goes from right wing to left wing
NPD (actual nazis) >AFD (the modern nazi party) >CDU/CSU (they’re two branches of the Same Party and called the Union together, they’ve also ruled Germany for 16 years, I liked merkel but I’m really glad they got fucking recked rn) /FDP (very market focused, peak capitalists) >SPD (the ones that won, kinda left but more center, many people I know that usually vote more left voted for them this election to remove the CDU) > Green (the ones I voted, they’re pretty left for German standards and had the most realistic chance to actually do leftist stuff in the government for me) > the Linke (I feel kinda bad for them but they’re just not really well organized. If I was voting for just political affiliations I’d vote them but ehh)
Dope, I have a German class about this entire topic 😂
We have the "Piratenpartij" in the Netherlands.
Nice German accent btw
Hasan's pronunciation of German words is surprisingly good. German is a tough language, even a lot of Germans can't speak it correctly.
Die Linke DID have a good Covid strategy. People are just confused because of Sahra Wagenknecht, which is a former party leader that since has turned against the party from within, while still being a party member she published multiple books harshly criticizing her party and in talkshows and on youtube she talks about how we shouldnt have a lockdown, complains about SJW's and pretty much does the Jimmy Dore thing. This however is NOT the position of the party majority.