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Far-left party wins Berlin election, pledging to nationalise housing

72 points · 152 comments · theanonymousone

  1. snickerer · · focus · HN ↗
    This headline is alarmist ('far-left' sounds dangerous for some people). And 'nationalise housing' is just wrong.

    This party is not far-left, it is just left. But that is not the point. My point is that a headline about anti-left alarmism hit the HN front page. This is unusual; the HN crowd keep their discussions out of daily politics most of the time. So, this has the smell of importance. Alarm! Far-left!

    And this is weird because Germany is in real danger of electing a fascist government at the moment. There is not the tiniest chance of socialist projects coming to power, but the far-right is winning—except for Berlin.

    And then an OMG-far-left headline pops up here. This headline was made to push anti-left fear, not to inform the readers.

    1. tirant · · focus · HN ↗

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