I am not European, nor do I claim to be an expert in all the intricacies of European politics, but I am always surprised by the amount of Canadians or Americans inthis site that are so invested in the European far right.

 the bavarian part of the CDU, namely the CSU, is very much in favor of tight immigration quotas + easy/swift deportation and has voiced that often and loudly throughout the election campaign

I am quite certain they are not  very happy with Merkel now it seems 

I just don't need to see more alt right nutjobs. They're toxic and are much more violent/disrespectful than the so called 'evil antichrist liberals'.

I honestly don't care much about the majority of mainstream political issues nowadays, but I always worry we'll go back to accepting bigotry

Certainty is still prone to errors without statistical evidence to support it.

those with dogmatic views of the world revel in their sciolism, it's a sad sight

Every citizen has two votes. The first decides an candidate in the polling district (of which are 299) and the one with the relative majority gets a seat in the parliament. The second vote decide which party gets how many seats, based on proportions. This is where it gets complicated: if per first vote more candidates are voted into the parliament than they get as proportion of the second vote, the number of parliament seats will be increased (normally it is 598) until the proportion leads to enough seats for the party to accomodate all direct candidates. This is complicated further, as for this calculation every state is looked alone, but the size of the parliament grows overall. So in reality it become often more than 600 seats.

Ah yes, also if a party that has less than 5% of second votes or wins less than 3 seats through the first vote, then all second votes of this party are dismissed.

As she stands for nothing: no. Well, the immigration has lead to disgruntled people, who blame Merkel.

Well, depends on how you define "winning". CDU/CSU is still the biggest party, but with massive losses. SPD has big losses too. AfD and FDP who both were under 5% (and therefore not included into parliament) have massive wins.

What makes this more funny is how hard or political and media mainstream searches for russian influence in our far right. Maybe they look in the wrong direction.

hm .. imo Merkel is a true conservative and as such she does stand for  "things are going well, so let's change nothing"