Soon to be something worse: collaborators.

Can’t wait for the Elden Ring hero shooter!

Musk is a coward, see the whole Zuckerberg thing.

In the context of Germany, “liberal” means being for capitalism unbridled by the state but still generally progressive policies culturally, with more rights for minorities and such. The corresponding party is FDP. So in some ways it’s the exact opposite of the US idea of “liberal”.

Someone considered “left” would be for more social policies and government control of capitalism (traditionally SPD), extreme left would be following tenants of communism, opposed to the US and friendly with Russia (The party The Left and the new Sarah Wagenknecht party)

Someone considered conservative or “right” would be against social policies and try to reduce control of capitalism (CDU) extreme right would be plain fascists (AfD), ironically also aligned with Russia now.

The Greens are a special case, since they were originally a single issue party concerned with environmentalism, but since the SPD has largely vacated their social policies since Schröder was chancellor, they have become more and more the new “social” party.

There are also a huge number of smaller parties that are unable to reach more than five percent, which is necessary to be included in the govenmental body of the Bundestag. Most of those are single issue parties (there is even a beer party). The FDP has become so unpopular that it might also share that fate soon.

To come back to your original point, there were no “liberals” when Hitler was elected. There were conservatives, socialists and communists. The conservatives aligned themselves with the fascists and the socialists and communists were outlawed and thrown into jail/executed.

The word “liberals” means something else in Germany than in the US. The closes analogy would be Democrats=SPD and Republicans=CDU, which are the two biggest parties. When Hitler took over, the CDU fell in line while the SPD resisted. The SPD then was also a lot more leftist than it is now. It’s pretty much centrist now and only slightly more to the left than the conservative CDU.

I don’t think he expected to witness Greg Stillson for real.

That’s why this time the plan is to get rid of a health ministery before the next pandemic hits.

Elect a monster. Get a freakshow.

I learned about it in school in the 90s. But that was in Germany.

Only one fifth of US-Americans can’t read! Lets make it at least a forth for the next “election”!

Yes, just complete insanity. I have never seen Sean Evans look so worried for a guest’s wellbeing. And in the middle of his skit Conan still found time to compliment Sean’s questions.

And then there’s Conan O’Brien, who’s just generally hilarious.

I mean, Camacho was also black, so definitely not a Republican president.

40 years and while that was definitely an important part of it, it was mainly half a million people protesting on the streets of every major city.

But they can also be ended with protests. See East Germany.

“Run”? I think the headline dropped an “i” somewhere.

Idiocracy would be an upgrade, it has a president who listened to people smarter than himself.

He got elected democratically. In the German system, one party gaining the absolute majority is very rare and coalition governments are the norm. The cancellor is usually the candidate of the party with the largest percentage in that coalition. In the case of the NSDAP, that was Hitler. The conservatives formed a coaltion with him because they were sure the conservative president would be able to keep Hitler in check. Unfortunately, said president did the opposite and was instrumental in giving Hitler absolute power.

“May you live in interesting times.”

I’m German, and non-Germans always find it weird that most of us don’t have a very strong sense of national pride and are even very critical of our country, sometimes maybe even excessively so.

We have learned what uncritical, unreflected national pride leads to. What the price is to not confront the dark side that every society has.

And now, sadly, the US has to learn the same lesson the hard way too. I only hope the US and the rest of the world can come out of it with as little bloodshed as possible. But I fear for the worst.

“Remember, remember the 5th of november.” has a altogether new meaning now.