Diversity Is Our Strength A motion proposed by the right-wing Alternative for Germany to give asylum seekers payment cards instead of cash in the state of Saxony passed by a single vote after a left-wing lawmaker went for "a joint" and missed the vote.
The move was debated by the Dresden city council on Friday, with anti-mass migration councilors calling on the city to switch to topped-up cards to prevent asylum seekers from spending taxpayer-funded cash benefits in the black market on drugs and prostitution.
After many hours of debate, and ahead of the vote at 6 p.m., left-wing councilor Max Aschenbach announced on his X account that he was "going for a joint" and subsequently missed the crucial vote.
Around 15 minutes later, he returned to the chamber and posted: "Just came back up and everyone is bullying me because the stupid AfD payment card application was passed with the votes of the CDU and FDP."
The motion succeeded by a single vote with 53 in favor to 52 against.
An inquest is now underway among the co-governing FDP party and the opposition CDU as to why local lawmakers voted in solidarity with the AfD motion, with the long-standing practice being that Germany's mainstream parties do not support AfD motions.
CDU leader Freidrich Merz said the decision to support the motion was "correct in substance but unacceptable in procedure."
"That was a mistake. And we will talk to those affected about everything else," he added.
The topic of migrant payment cards has made national headlines in recent weeks as Germany attempts to clamp down on the misuse of taxpayer-funded benefits and lessen the pull factors for the latest influx of new arrivals into the country.
Last month, the Free Democrats (FDP) even warned that they could pull out of the three-way left-liberal government if the Green party blocked a new rule mandating benefit cards instead of cash payments to migrants.
Local municipalities across the country have already introduced laws stipulating that benefits must be paid via payment cards instead of cash, but this contravenes existing federal law, namely the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act, which states that migrants should receive payments "primarily as a cash benefit."
Plans to amend the law to move towards a cashless system are underway to ensure that funds stay off the black market and remain in the country, preventing migrants from sending cash back home and taking it out of the German economy.
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dude weed lmao
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That's right, we're the far-right, why do you ask?
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I was going to post the same lmao, I thought the things !chuds were saying about the EU were overstated
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Well this way they have a way of figuring out what the money is spent on.
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Tbf they're city councillors so I'm assuming that the State of Saxony or the feds decide what benefits jobless migrants get and municipal governments get to determine how they give it.
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I was gonna give economic migrants enormous quantities of untraceable currency, but then I got high.
What kinda wingcuckery is this? You agree with the motion, but are pissed members of your party voted for it solely because it was proposed by members of the "wrong" party?
I hate Krauts so much, it's unreal.
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I think there's intense Kraut autism about using cash instead of cards, Germany and Austria I was told to carry cash because more places are cash only there
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Holy frick krauts are cucked
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Jesus Christ, and there are people who cry that these guys are the second coming of Hitler?
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lmao they were taking the cash gibs and just sending it back home jfc
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The Latinx and Jeets do this in the states.
The Chinks used to but they realized the CCP and Chink Banks can't steal their bank money if its in a US bank.
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"I voted!"
"Your vote is under investigation!"
"...why?"
"You voted way too similarly to people we don't like."
LMAO fricking meme country and meme government
Germany deserves its leaders.
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I mean has no one seen what folks do with wic here? Its not impossible to get that done for cash
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At my earliest wagie job WIC was the worst thing you could get.
If you fricked it up at all it was mandatory one week unpaid leave lol
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I don't care if I like the policy, the wrong people proposed it
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"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
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