Tbf it will be similar in France. These protests and the chaos that comes with it pretty much secure a victory for Le Pen in the coming elections. Damned if you do, damned if you don't (protest).

For context, it was clear from the outset that the right wing-free market gov would reject this. The proposed tax was submitted by the Juso (young socialist party) and it's pretty clear that it will lose a national vote as well by a large margin (as the Swiss voting population is worse free market brained than even the US).

Now why would I consider this still a good move by the Juso? Because it brings up debate. About inheritance tax, but also about the injust society in general and how rich people don't contribute their part. And in the long term, it moved the overton window to strech further to the left.

I'm Swiss and open to answer questions if you have any.

Anyone who knows Von Leyens carrer should know it will go more like this:

Von Leyen: "How much will you pay me and my family to do that?"

Musk: "X amount"

Von Leyen: "Consider it done."

Von Leyens picture should be in the wikipedia entry for "failing upwards"

If anyone is interested in the state of things in Switzerland:

Our defense is in chaos right now. A scandal in our state-owned but public weapons manufacturer just broke a few weeks ago and shortly after the secretary of the departement of defense announced her resignation. We will see if the newly elected one will improve the situation.

The army is generally seen as somewhat of a joke, especially by people who served, which is more than half of all Swiss men. We like to call it a "Pfadiverein" (boy scouts association).

Even with all that, the right wing parties want to give a shitload more money to defense, and cut costs in social spending and foreign aid to compensate. Left of centre the need to improve defense is also accepted, but 1) before the army gets more money, they need to get their shit together and 2) more important than the army itself is integration with the european security Infrastructure (the left parties are also very pro-EU). The centre politicians usually mix blth stances and lean more one or the other way.

Also we still stand to buy fighter jets from the US, and only the left parties are calling to cancel the deal.

This is absolutely wrong. The validation of immigration concerns by the SPD, Greens and CDU is what gave AfD the popularity they have now.

This effect is well proven in political sciences.

Sorry but you're exaggerating, a full meal including drinks in a mid-level establishment will be at max. 50 chf and that's being generous. And with cheaper places you can even stay below 20 chf.

Yes, Switzerland is expensive but there's no need to lie about it. Also the stuff about millionaires and all maybe fits a couple streets in Switzerland that are very touristy but there are plenty of places not at all like this.

In Switzerland about 90% of people submit their votes by mail.

As a Swiss - no, this is sadly still not really contested by any parties besides greens and socialists. Maybe some singular politicians from center and center-right, but our government made it very clear that they still intend to buy the jets.

Why are people surprised by this? Or why is it even noteworthy. Trump is a fascist, the AfD are fascist, both groups are in regular exchange and part of a global far right network that tries to kill democracy. I'd be more surprised if he hadn't commented positively on this.

Not adressed to OP, more the peeps in the screenshot

By your logic, AfD should now be below 5% because all major parties in Germany are now tougher on immigration, the CDU is now directly taking positions of the AfD a few years back.

In Denmark this may have worked, might just be correlation, but in general, what your saying is wrong and would make AfD even stronger.

My work focuses on digitally processing texts from between 15th and 17th century in German. It's a pain and i look with envy to my colleagues working in English and French (around the same time). On the other hand, i like the challenge. :-)

Left vs right is literally down vs up

No disagreement, just ÖVP should be FPÖ.

Okay, I'll bite, you wanna share some of those left of center opinions? Because as some other commenter pointed out, you comment history makes you look like far right.

Maybe, but at least 4 people in the video have lost their jobs over this, so it has at least some consequences.

Tbf he didn't go to Russia to join the military. Similar to ther stories that I've heard, he was offered a job in Russia, and then forced into the military.

War es bei der Linken nicht eine Diskussion drum, wer die Verhandlungen führt? Mit wem verhandelt wird, ist ja keine Wahl.

They didn't write communism, they wrote tankies. And while I won't equate tankies to nazis, they do share a lot of ideology, such as their love of strongmen.

Ich hoffe viele kommen noch zu dem Schluss. Für mich sind zwar einige der aussenpolitischen Positionen der Linke inakzeptabel, aber sie wären so, so wichtig als Stimme für die Schwachen im Bundestag.

Ich wünsche euch alles Beste aus der Schweiz, hoffentlich bleibt euch die FPÖ als Kanzlerpartei erspart.