Yeah, people always seem to think the AfD is one united front.
But they span the whole gamut from Tucker Carlson ultra-right-wing-but-also-no-grasp-on-factual-reality to literally-a-fucking-nazi-wanting-to-burn-jews-themselves-in-their-own-oven.
They’re abhorrend as a party, and the fact that so much of the shit media in Germany low-key supports them hard and pushes people towards voting for them (namely and chiefly the Axel Springer media landscape which is sadly huge) and as a result they get quite a significant number of votes is… “worrying” to put it mildly. As a German in particular, I have genuine plans how and where to move if shit hits the fan, which at the present rate it will. >.> (Ireland, probably)
That’s a kinda dumb assumption of them though. Faschism is a highly state-controlled system. If the government doesn’t like you, you and your property are gone.
Yes, it is dumb, but it is in fact what they are doing.
Same story is playing out across much of europe - the conservatives and right liberals are building coalitions with the fascists, because without them the left would win, and that is apparently less acceptable to them than enabling authoritarians.
It’s the capitalist’s short sightedness. They don’t care for what happens in 10 years, or even in two years. If they can make money/gain power right now, all is fair game.
ironically like with the Nazis, the capitalists who are pushing this shit, do so because they have a very real chance of being the state, it is not highly state controlled, because fascism is a modern day barbarism, the state just being an organizational cover and legitimization of an elite aristocracy to do what they want.
remember when the Nazis took power they privatized almost all public works of the Weimar, and privatized it into their own ownership.
If you have corrupt and all-powerful state leaders, in my opinion it doesn’t matter much whether all the companies are privatized into the leader’s ownership or owned by a state they control with their absolute power.
Hitler and Stalin had about the same level of control about important industries in their respective systems.
Hitler did in fact not have the same control of industry that Stalin had.
even the Soviet Union didn’t consider it’s self communist, but rather as an industrializing middleman to create the capital needed to achieve communism, look up vanguard party theory.
I think we should stop calling them conservative and say it like it is. They are (far) right lunatics that fear everyone and everything that doesn’t fit their narrow point of view and outdated values.
Yup! So much so that even members of a party under investigation for being a nazi front tried to expel him.
This is beautiful, though:
After Höcke’s “monument of shame” comment, the Center for Political Beauty, a Berlin-based art collective, erected a full-scale replica of one section of the Holocaust memorial in Berlin within viewing distance of Höcke’s home in Bornhagen as a reminder of German history.
I didn’t, the source I quoted did. Would be pretty weird for me to make a point of adding it as if it makes him any more or less of a nazi scumbag to have that very common in Germany name 🤷
He probably wants to do worse, but can’t say it out load yet. He’s a fucking Nazi.
Yeah, people always seem to think the AfD is one united front.
But they span the whole gamut from Tucker Carlson ultra-right-wing-but-also-no-grasp-on-factual-reality to literally-a-fucking-nazi-wanting-to-burn-jews-themselves-in-their-own-oven.
They’re abhorrend as a party, and the fact that so much of the shit media in Germany low-key supports them hard and pushes people towards voting for them (namely and chiefly the Axel Springer media landscape which is sadly huge) and as a result they get quite a significant number of votes is… “worrying” to put it mildly. As a German in particular, I have genuine plans how and where to move if shit hits the fan, which at the present rate it will. >.> (Ireland, probably)
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That’s a kinda dumb assumption of them though. Faschism is a highly state-controlled system. If the government doesn’t like you, you and your property are gone.
Yes, it is dumb, but it is in fact what they are doing.
Same story is playing out across much of europe - the conservatives and right liberals are building coalitions with the fascists, because without them the left would win, and that is apparently less acceptable to them than enabling authoritarians.
Pretty alarming, honestly.
It’s the capitalist’s short sightedness. They don’t care for what happens in 10 years, or even in two years. If they can make money/gain power right now, all is fair game.
ironically like with the Nazis, the capitalists who are pushing this shit, do so because they have a very real chance of being the state, it is not highly state controlled, because fascism is a modern day barbarism, the state just being an organizational cover and legitimization of an elite aristocracy to do what they want.
remember when the Nazis took power they privatized almost all public works of the Weimar, and privatized it into their own ownership.
If you have corrupt and all-powerful state leaders, in my opinion it doesn’t matter much whether all the companies are privatized into the leader’s ownership or owned by a state they control with their absolute power.
Hitler and Stalin had about the same level of control about important industries in their respective systems.
just saw this while going through old backlogs
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I think we should stop calling them conservative and say it like it is. They are (far) right lunatics that fear everyone and everything that doesn’t fit their narrow point of view and outdated values.
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Come to Austria everything is so much better here /s
(I’m not sure if there is a country where there isn’t a drift towards stupi… ehh “right-wing conservative politics”)
Yup! So much so that even members of a party under investigation for being a nazi front tried to expel him.
This is beautiful, though:
Why would you leave out Bernd Höcke’s first name? ^^
I didn’t, the source I quoted did. Would be pretty weird for me to make a point of adding it as if it makes him any more or less of a nazi scumbag to have that very common in Germany name 🤷
it’s a running gag on “heute show”, never mind.
Ah ok lol, wasn’t familiar 😁