US Vice-President JD Vance accused “bureaucrats” of rebuilding the Berlin Wall, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio slammed the designation as “tyranny in disguise”.

In an unusual move, the foreign office directly replied to Rubio on X, writing: “We have learnt from our history that right-wing extremism needs to be stopped.”

edit: added archive https://archive.ph/r5GYW

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    Beatrix von Storch, […] told […] the designation was “the way an authoritarian state, a dictatorship, would treat their parties”.

    No Beatrix, an authoritarian state would not let an federal authority create a 1000 pages expert report, but instead just put you and your friends into prison to die without giving any good reasons.

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        What’s that?

        Edit: all right, I googled that and now I know what these tattoos are.

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      And let all of the J6 criminals out of jail in his own country. It’s obvious who and what is being supported. Rubio is a Nazi.

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    Why does anyone care what the Americans think. Germany don’t need to justify itself to that country north of the gulf of Mexico.

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    The Berlin wall? Is that the only thing his advisors could come up with? Speaking of walls, how’s the Mexican border going? But let’s not digress. The AfD have been close to MAGA for a while now with the infamous Musk interview being just one of several escalations. Notice how their allies’ motto is “Make America great again”. Not Germany. America. They couldn’t give less of a damn about Europe and neither does the AfD. They’re just autocrats who seek support from other autocrats to dismantle a nation and democracy as usual.

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    Of course they protest. AfD was Vance’s & co. door to stoke like-minded (e.g. Nazi) majorities in germany.

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    extreme right: if you don’t think like us we will deport you

    everyone else: you are extreme right

    extreme right: OMG I AM BEING OPRESSED HEEELP