
Originally Posted by
AnonymousCoward
Bullshit, it's nowhere close. Let's say what Wikipedia says about totalitarianism:
So, let's see. There are numerous privately-owned radio stations, TV stations and newspapers in germany, so one can hardly speak of an "all-encompassing propaganda". The very fact that I am able to read the nonsense you're spreading here shows Germany is nowhere near totalitarian. There's also no single party (currently, 5 parties are represented in the Bundestag, the biggest of which holds 239 of 622 seats), there's no personality cultism, there's little regulation and restriction of speech (no more than in other western democracies, i. e. requesting someone to commit a crime is forbidden), there's no "mass surveillance" (no, the Bundestrojaner doesn't count as "mass surveillance", it was only used a few dozen times and its use requires approval from a judge, which isn't feasible if you want to spy on a significant number of people), and there's no widespread use of terror. There's literally *nothing* in germany that even gives the slightest indication towards totalitarianism.
OK, so that article complains about Germany "only" holding the 17th place in the "reporters without borders" press freedom index. What they don't tell you is that Germany holds the 17th place out of 178, which means that the press is more free here than in 90% of all countries in that index. Now, let's look at a few other countries in that index. Australia: 18, UK: 19, USA: 20, Canada: 21, Spain: 39, Portugal: 40, South Korea: 42, France: 44. Are those totalitarian? No, of course they aren't.
I'm sorry, but anybody who claims that germany were totalitarian is so full of shit it ain't even funny.