That's hilarious!

My experience with tabletop RPGs is that it's the wizards who raise the ultimate evil, but it's the player characters that plunge the world into chaos.

While it appears impressive at first glance that they managed to commandeer all of these groups, it wasn't actually a massive technical feat. Rather, it only confirmed what really was anecdotally known all this time - that much of this supposed "grassroots" activity from the far right was being orchestrated by the AfD. All 31 groups were moderated by an AfD official from the Rhineland Palatinate and administered by one woman (AfD affiliation unconfirmed) in Bad Dürkheim. (Edit: The "woman" has been confirmed as Anne Teska, an official of the Rhineland-Palatinate branch of the AfD).

Die Partei is very good at one thing, and that's exposing faux pas and idiocy on the part of party officials. Of course, all parties are fair game, but because incompetence is especially rife in the AfD, it makes for an easy target.

That reminds me of this famous poster.

My experience with RPG`s is that the master creates deliberately a storyline, locations and carefully drafted big bosses, only to see all of it getting screwed by a bunch of player-wizards wrecking havoc on everything in their way.

"Politics for touching"

Edit:
Wahlwerbespots auf YouPorn statt auf YouTube

Has the Berlin Brandenburg airport failure or the Asse II salt mine slash collapsing nuclear waste storage site come up in the german election drama?

What party, and what agenda?

All I know about German politics is Merkel, and Merkel.

Bring back the German Democratic Republic!

No, and to understand why, you have to understand how Germany is governed and how people perceive politics here. Unlike in the US, where presidential elections can be influenced at a federal level by the actions and performance of state governors and congresspeople, we strictly keep what happens at state (and city and district) level separate from the federal level. The Berlin-Brandenburg farce is actually entirely attributable to the City of Berlin and the State of Brandenburg and really has very little to do with Merkel, Schulz and co.

The German Constitution ascribes authority to the individual Länder (states) by default and essentially gives a whitelist of responsibilities for the Federal Government, so it has fewer powers than you might think. They essentially extend to anything "outwardly" (foreign affairs, immigration & emigration, transport) with shared authority regarding certain aspects that apply nationwide (healthcare, taxation, land registry, welfare, official statistics, public broadcasting). Construction is almost exclusively the reserve of the Länder.

Perfect example: the city where I live is governed by the SPD at a mayoral level, and has been since 1988. In fact, the same mayor has been elected time and again to the office of mayor since 2000, and the way this city is governed is an absolute dumpster fire. The Berlin-Brandenburg Airport affair is also an SPD catastrophe. That being said, it doesn't affect how I perceive how capable Martin Schulz would be at a federal level. The SPD are fucking awful when it comes to micromanagement but government at federal level gives them the perfect opportunity to exercise the "broad strokes" policies that they tend to be much better at. That's why, for lack of a better independent candidate, I tend to prefer SPD at federal level but CDU in state parliaments and mayoral offices.

Ok but what about the Assa 2 thing?
I remember the federal German government essentially eminent domaining (land grab/seizure) the salt mine over the protests of the district govt/people in the district and hurriedly moving thousands of tons of nuclear waste into the site before a structural engineering inspection could take place.
Cut to 2014-2016 and it turns out that the skipped structural engineering inspection really should have happened.

Yes, the mine should have been investigated more ... but that neglect is so far in the past that it doesn't touch the current election. The period of storing nuclear waste there was from 1965 to 1978. It was started under a CDU/FDP government. The first signs of water entry and instability were discovered - and hushed up - in 1972 and the then ruling SPD government decided to continue to use it. In 1976 it was decided that the Asse may not be used anymore but it took 2 years until they actually stopped storing stuff there, although it was known to be unsafe (SPD/FDP government). Then followed a long period of doing research and silently trying to keep things from getting worse until in 1995 it was decided (under a CDU government) that the entire mine has to be closed down, either sealing it off completely and reliably or getting all the waste out again. But that was delayed again and again under all governments until it actually already leaked at a dangerous level...
So, the big parties can't use this as a topic since they both screwed up for decades. FDP participated in the hush-up too. The only ones who always were against Asse and Gorleben and nuclear power and against a lot of other things were the Green party. But since the Atomausstieg (stopping the use of nuclear power) is already decided anyhow, Anti-nuclear isn't an important election topic anymore. Instead the green now focus on promoting renewable energy sources.
(and a lot of other things. Some good, some not so much. For example I don't like their approach to education at all, but that's a different topic).

tl;dr version: CDU, SPD and FDP all screwed up in the past and no one dares to touch the topic of the Asse with a 10-foot barge pole.

Ah that makes sense.
The failed project is too radioactive to touch in any shape or form.
Aahaha.

Fallout, man. o.O

You must vote for the correct party! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23-ysTsT8IY

Maybe I'll play some tropico.

I finished the two games I was playing within an hour of each other. Time to finally break into that series, or just play Doom for the 56,498th time. :P