Lemmy UI:

So I would guess that it’s not a client but an OS or browser issue regarding encoding.

However there are also a lot of reasons to stay in Germany

With an easily overlooked one being that the actual problems in Germany are not Germany-specific at all.

Political shift to the right, stagnating wages, bad housing market, an aging population calling the shots and giving a fuck about the future? Pick one (or a few) and tell me where to go instead… Moving in the exact same direction but a few years behind is basically the best you can get. And that’s a bad reason to leave your life behind and lose a few years to start fresh.

The article is very negative, so I assume the study results are too.

Which will always -and completely independent of the topic- be wrong.

Articles are negative because it gets more clicks and that’s all that matters. If the underlying topic fits or needs to be totally misrepresented is irrelevant.

Click-, engagement- and rage-bait > facts

And as adequate auto-translation is widely available: here is the neutral 3-page summary of the study in German.

The contention is that people want to leave in part because of high immigration.

No, they want to get out before lying right-wing morons, their rich media allies and all the propaganda victims (pick which group you belong to, though I have my suspicion…) demolish the country in preparation for getting fascists into power again. Because some of us were actually awake in school.

Because the candidate doesn’t matter anymore. You will get some shit propaganda narrative hammered into your brain anyway (see: “vote for Trump so there will be no genocidal war in the middle east”).

So why would democrats care about anything else than their own internal power dynamics? It’s not like they can get a good candidate when collective brain-damage will make sure that it’s a totally useless candidate anyway once the screeching morons on (social) media tell you what your new reality is.

“Option A is really, really bad for me. But I’m not sure if option B wouldn’t be somewhat bad, too. So I will just watch and let option A happen.”

— You, and millions of other propaganda victims helping fascists win

making the USA look isolated

They are very well isolating themselves, so there’s no need to “make them look” isolated. That’s the simple reality.

Every one of these articles about disillusioned trumpers never seems to have a basis in more than one or two anecdotal examples.

That’s entirely a matter of perspective, or more precise here: timing.

That wide outrage really exists. But it is very short-lived and just a case of “waiting on new instruction how to think”.

No, it’s not.

This is just the 100th iteration of “this time they will really start to criticise Trump”. And then the cult gets new orders and instantly they will fall silent and shift their opinion as instructed to match their new reality.

These people really took 1984 as an instruction manual.