cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/47959472
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is far ahead in the polls in Saxony-Anhalt, a poll revealed on Thursday, just one year before the eastern state holds elections to its regional parliament.
Just to be clear: This is about the state of Saxony-Anhalt, not Germany as a whole. In eastern Germany, which includes Saxony-Anhalt, the Nazis have traditionally been strong.
Unfortunately, the situation at the federal level also looks pretty bleak: overall, the AfD currently has around 25% support in Germany, which is of course an absolute disgrace.
Ironically, Eastern Germany was a pure shit hole before the wall came down and the west fixed it.
That may be a bit of a generalization.
But what is extremely ironic is the fact that there is a massive shortage of skilled workers in the east, which has to do with the fact that people from abroad don’t want to go there because they are treated with hostility by all the goddamn Nazis.
And so we have the most ironic situation: in rural areas of eastern Germany in particular, there are actually very few foreigners – and yet the AfD scores particularly well there with the completely false claim that foreigners would take away jobs from Germans.
I think it’s exactly the same in the US and elsewhere: people prefer to blame someone else rather than looking for the real culprits – such as the AfD, whose hate speech is causing massive damage to Germany and which is also a neoliberal party that does not stand up for “the little people” at all.
Fucking fascists
Crazy to think that there could be Nazis even in Germany of all places.
Always the last place you think to look
At least, there isn’t an SS style agency taking innocent people who look “wrong” into custody in Germany, as there is in America right now…
I have no idea how it compares to ICE, but immigration enforcement is likely not nearly as “clean” as you expect in Germany either.
Give them a year
*yet
The authoritarian manual at work. Block, obstruct, piss people off, blame the others, get more votes.
They still should immediately outlaw the AFD (NAZI) party, as per their constitution. While they’re still the government, and before they’re the ones fighting the new German Nazi state.
Billionaires are funding the new German nazis, like Musk the nazi, and Putin the nazi.
You have no idea, how the constitution works
Just because your Lobotomised Orange can do anything he wants over in Jesusland, there is still a working democracy here
So its time to leave jesusland for you and actually learn how it works
While yes, the Parlament has to initiate the Verfassungsschutz, the Verfassungsschutz already published a 500 or so page document about it, however, in order for them to be able to use it as evidence and therefore van the AfD, they first have to win the legal battle with them fighting the whole evidence that can get them banned in the first place.
- if they will even exist at that point, since 10 have already been killed off
Great song, kinda ill applied. Shoulda saved it!
NOFX has a lot of great songs
After Trump 1 won in 2016, it was like centrist all the way to the far left across the western world neglected to focus on their own domestic fascist movements. This has been a long time coming and it’s sweeping across Europe. Seemingly a rapid acceleration post-COVID. A lot coming together. People feeling poor with little hope for upward mobility, a major rise in xenophobia and anti-immigration, fear of Russian invasion, anger over more visible reality of being US vassal states, debt/economic crises leading to austerity
More of their members should probably die. And perhaps a portion of their most zealous followers. Not the idiot randoms, but the ones that are really into their ideology.
Remember kids; fascist lives don’t matter.
