All of the parties failed to even try to paint a positive picture of immigration in those past years, or at least clearly communicate the necessity of it: Germany alone needs 400.000 additional immigrants across all levels of qualification a year to keep up the workforce and keep the social systems running

And where did you get this information? From the parties that "failed to communicate" it for years perhaps, who have told us about their plans in their programs, then wrote them down for the coaltion agreement?

They told us we need immigration. They told us they wanted to make immigration easier for needed workes. And they told us expolicitly their plans. And they lost votes for it, as those plans were drowned out by right propaganda about illegal immigrants (has someone already found those imaginary millions yet)?

They also for example told us explicitly about future plans in transitioning industry and energy. And they again lost votes for it, as every moron chose to believe the narrative (from increasing totally green coal use, to prohibiting heating) instead,

Because the majority gives a fuck about information. They mostly listen to right-wing trash media.

What do German politicians transparently communicating their plans and German politicians universally hated have in common? They are the same people... As they are the ones targeted by desinformation the most and Germans are majorily too stupid to not fall for propaganda every single time.

Thanks for fixing, indeed my autocorrect kicked w/o me noticing, very sorry for that 😅

As I said, I believe he is a disgrace. I stand by that, also fuck the modern concept of borders....

Still the full sentence was "We finally have to start deporting the people which have no [in a legal sense] right to stay at a large scale", which is bad enough in it's own right. Its also fucked that a social democrat even starts to participate in this type of inhumane discourse. BUT I think the Spiegel Cover was a bit misleading in the scope of his sentence, as omitting the last part indirectly extends the scope of the demand onto a much larger general scale. (As in deport all the "non germans" "others" or just implicitly "those" with a connotation of that meaning all the people which face racism today. In Germany that would be understood as refugees from North Africa up to Syria, specifically not the white refugees from Ukraine, Iranian Doctors, IT specialists from Israel etc.) So although I think that Olaf is a disgrace, I think that this cover from Spiegel puts him into one league with Geerd Wilders or Bernd/Björn Höcke. And that is simply not the same league.

Also the number of people Olaf is talking about is around 19.000 People (migrants whose refugee-seeking process is finalized, denied and who actually legally have to leave as they are for example not with children who are allowed stay or falling under other exceptions.) To willingly enter this discourse, letting it shift so far to the right, about such a non issue is wild to me. 19.000 people are nothing at the scale of Germany as a whole nor in the context of the scale of migration to Germany.

And yes the new migration laws of the EU are inhumane, and I do not like that the German government voted in favor in the EU. But to say that this is the most relevant context for such a Cover is not enough for me, as I believe that nuance is important in political discourse if we want to keep that discourse active and not end up in culture war type polarised discussion which in the end is not helping finding together as a society. And this culture war shit is coming to Germany way to fucking fast! (Granted mostly because of CxU, AfD and all the other right-wing shitheads)

All of the current governing parties (plus CDU) are responsible, since they needed a 2/3 majority to pass it. SPD and CDU constituted the government, though. I don't even know if Lindner was politically active in 2009, he certainly wasn't influential, so you can't really blame it on him.