It was a campaign stunt, they already admitted they can’t realistically do it. Good riddance.

Anything but decarbonizing our processes …

That’s the point of the post.

Not fining companies for not complying with regulation is equivalent to fining those who complied for doing so. They invested in reducing emissions and that money ended up not buying them anything, compared to those who didn’t.

Scholz is a fucking idiot. Shame that the other guy is gonna be worse.

That explains it and I did indeed overlook it. Thanks for the heads up.

Keep in mind that our voting system is actually built so the parliament represents the popular vote as closely as possible. It’s not just an assembly of winners of individual “winner takes all” decisions. The average being above 0 in the graph should indeed mean left parties would be in the majority more often than not.

Edit: Another comment reminded me that the graphs only show 18-29 year olds. That explains it somewhat.

The gap sounds plausible, but I highly doubt the overall positions relative to 0.

E.g., the Federal Republic of Germany has had conservative chancellors for 51 years out of the 75 since it was founded. We did not have a constant left majority (I assume that is what they mean by liberal, since the actual sense of the term doesn’t make sense as an opposite to “conservative”).

Edit: I fucked up, this is only about people below 30.