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  • As I said, there's a danger that the centre right might enable our contemporary Nazis. Hopefully, they listen to the majority of their voters who oppose this.

    At least Daniel Günther, CDU governor of Schleswig-Holstein, the state where the CDU has its largest state level majority (43%), is quite outspoken against the AfD. While he clearly belongs to the most centrist wing of the party, his 2022 reelection victory still gives him considerable weight within the party. It also shows that cooperation with the Greens can be a winning strategy for the CDU, at least in the more populous former West Germany.

  • In the last national election, the AfD got 10% of the vote, relatively low. Currently, they are polling at 23%, considerably higher, but far from a majority. The centre right CDU is currently leading in the polls at 31%. Together, these two parties would have a majority.

    Officially, the CDU rules out any cooperation with the AfD, but such cooperation has already taken place on the local level without the local CDU politicians involved getting kicked out of the party. Overall, the CDU is probably the only major party in Germany that might consider a coalition with the AfD.

    Internally, the CDU appears divided on the issue. Their current leader once talked about allowing cooperation on the local level, but backpedaled after immediate criticism from within the party (source). When polled, 53% of CDU supporters opposed any coalition with the AfD on the state level, with only 36% supporting such a coalition and the remainder being unsure (German source). I haven't found any polls regarding the local or the national level, but I'm relatively certain that support for a coalition on the national level won't be any higher among CDU supporters.

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  • Who am I to disagree?

  • Your father smells of elder berries

  • A conga line might fit the second picture even better.

  • Women never go on journeys?

  • Wyoming and Colorado, and Nebraska and Kansas respectively, make me want to become colour-blind. Utah and Arizona together though are atrocious either way.

  • Didn't they want to ban any criticism of Rwanda's human rights record?

  • My understanding:

     
        
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       // declaration + initialisation
    
    int b; // variable declaration
    
    b = 2  // variable initialisation,
           // type of assignment
    
    a = 3  // variable assignment
    
    int f(int x, int y);
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    int f(int x, int y) {
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  • Guten Tag, werte Damen und Herren

  • They already completely rewrote The Snow Queen.

  • TBF Heinlein didn't mean for it to be a satire, Verhoeven just turned it into one.