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[Helgoland]

Nah, mostly just lobbyists and rich people's party. It pretty much goes like this: If you're poor/middle class and afraid of "those damn communists", you vote CDU. If you're rich and afraid of "those damn communists", you vote FDP.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

And I'm guessing that if you are those damn communists, you vote Die Linke?

[Helgoland]

Naah, true Communists vote for the MLPD or something like that. Die Linke is basically just a reservoir for Eastern German local politicians (they do a very good job there), ex-SED people (Gysi, I'm looking at you), populists of the "The rich have money, that's why the poor exists! EVERYONE MUST HAVE EQUAL MONIES!"-type, and a few sharp thinkers with questionable ideology (Sahra Wagenknecht).

TL;DR: FUCK Die Linke, vote SPD.

[Dutchling]

What about the Greens?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

What about the Greens?

[kaian-a-coel]

Arte, which is a hilariously weird German-French bilingual and bi-cultural station that has been described as "the station that everyone likes, but nobody watches". (It's awesome, and you should totally watch it.)

Arte makes up for like a third of my TV time. Another third is the Five (which is also cultural/documentaries oriented. Probably the second most intelligent channel with Arte), and the last Third is the news on the public (tax-funded) Two.

[Helgoland]

Two as in ZDF? Or are you not part of that weird blob of provinces between western Russia and eastern France?

[kaian-a-coel]

nope, france. It's just that some of our channels don't have proper names, so we call them by their numbers. "la deux", "la trois", "la cinq" and "la six" (aka M6, a MTV wannabe). "la un" is also a common nickname for TF1, our fox news equivalent. (if you wonder about "la quatre", it never existed. It's "canal+", a private, paying channel)

[10ebbor10]

Same happens in Belgium.

Which get's confusion if 2 is on five, 5 is on four and one on 199.

[Darvi]

You silly people and your multiple TV channels :V

[Helgoland]

Sounds like a redneck kind of statement: "Well there's Fox... And that's it."

[miauw62]

We have...
"Een", "Vier", "Vijf", "Acht" and "OP12".
Een is the public state-owned channel, and most people like it. Vier is owned by a program production company, Vijf is owned by the largest private TV company and I dunno about the others.

[10ebbor10]

There's some others too, but the distinction is sometimes fuzzy.

OP12 is also government owned, as is Canvas(intellectuals). Acht is privately owned.

There's also Vitaya, 2B, and some others.

[miauw62]

I was just summing up number channels, tough

[10ebbor10]