Fascism is back like in the late 1920s, we all know what happened right after.
But who’s going to be the Allies this time?
Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and others will make sure there will be no “Allies” this time…
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
Don’t say that too loud, they might find a reason to send you off to something like alligator alcatraz once they’re in power.
Apparently, those people mysteriously disappeared.
Don’t let them get to you. Its like 1000 people doing this. We can change it still.
You can see what’s happening in the USA, Germany. That’s really what you want for yourself? Again?
Yes. Unfortunately people are that dumb.
I have no part in this. Neither do my peers. Lies, deception, easy answers to complex questions and a lack in education are doing this.
Pretty much all the adults from WWII are dead. Notice we’re doing the same stupid shit? Gilded Age wealth gap, tariffs, fascism, heading for a depression, etc.?
Do better, Germany
It’s the scars of reunification. The east has a lot of people left behind.
Yes, it should have been done much better
Nah its scars of not doing anything to fight the bad guys and just “carrying on” until the fucming mold just keeps on growing.
Eastern Germany is like the US South in that regard.
Then what is Bavaria?
Edit: I guess Bavaria is analogous to Texas more than the mid or deep south.
Having spent a ton of time in Bavaria, yeah, it’s closer to Texas or the Midwest than the South.
Sorry can’t. Police and courts will stop anyone from taking out nazis themselves.
The billionaire backed right wing takeover playbook is international - not just the US. Billionaires are a plague on democracies everywhere.
I don’t understand why the billionaires think they are somehow off limits or immune to social chaos. They will always be surrounded by the working class, since someone needs to cook their food, wash their clothes, and raise their kids.
Never underestimate the arrogance of billionaires. They get surrounded by sycophants that inflate their egos to near godly proportions.
UK, France, and now Germany. The far-right really is winning everywhere huh… What can we do? Is there still hope?
idk, honestly. usually this kind of tribalism burns itself out after a World War and a bunch of atrocities. there’s a global empathy shortage… too much hate and too little love.
usually this kind of tribalism burns itself out after a World War and a bunch of atrocities. there’s a global empathy shortage… too much hate and too little love.
It’s the understandable pent up anger because of failed promises by ruling elites, hiding behind fake smiles and platitudes, who are supposed to be representative of the people. The older I get, the less the Star Wars Prequel becomes meesa Jar Jar-y. Lucas touched on toxic masculinity and the lack of positive male role models, and I think he saw something in history that none of us have twenty years ago, on how toxic masculinity influences real politics. It’s obvious now how fascism has connection to toxic masculinity, but I think only few saw it at the time.
The only time nazis go down is when they are put down. The free world needs strength to do what’s necessary and avoid the paradox of tolerance.
It’s happening here in Australia too. I’m watching the slow rise after being lucky enough to escape the US.
I wrote about my experience going to a racist rally a month or so ago with my husband and children.
It was supposed to be peaceful and I wouldn’t have expected to be putting my kids in danger.
Do a little honest introspection you leftie. (I’m leftist too)
Well one of the downside of learning German after living blissfully ignorant for over a decade here is that I can now understand Germans talking around me, and holy fuck have I been exposed to such rampant racism. Kinda explains both the Nazi past, and the current popularity of AfD, and upcoming future Holocaust 2.0.
To be honest the far right is up in a lot of places.
This is a result of the ever growing divide between the rich and the poor, the cost of living crisis, the AI future where a lot of young individuals are struggling finding jobs, the unaffordability of living spaces, etc.
Look what is happening in the US, that’s what’s scarier, where the right-wing is thriving and they are turning into an autocratic state, with suppression of civil liberties, abuse of power, etc. And they are desperately trying to export this ideology across the Atlantic. They don’t want a strong EU, that can threaten their hegemony and they consider the EU as a threat, long gone are the days of friendship and partnership.
How!? Where are these numbers coming from? In Germany of all places!?
Hmm, the guy who manipulated his stock price to make himself the richest man in the world and fixed the election for Trump also supported AfD. Surely it’s a coincidence
There is money required for running campaigns and advertisements and making deals.
What it won’t do is magically populate a country with fascists, supremacists, and other extreme right wing types. Those would have to already be around.
German here.
Many Germans firmly believe the AfD is not a nazi party. Many Germans defend them because the AfD tells them what they want to hear: “It’s not your fault that you haven’t struck it big yet in your life, it’s the insert minority/marginalized group of the month’s fault.” They truly believe that the AfD will help them.
It’s the same obvious, fascist playbook that they pulled in the US and people eat it up while laughing at your idiot president.
It’s insane. People are incapable of questioning themselves and thus incapable of learning.
“It’s not your fault that you haven’t struck it big yet in your life, it’s the insert minority/marginalized group of the month’s fault.” They truly believe that the AfD will help them.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that how it literally started with Adolf Hitler!?
In essence, yes. Or at least that was a big part of Hitler’s campaign.
Back then it was the Jews and socialists gutting Germany by accepting unconditional surrender after WW1 (Dolchstoßlegende), today it’s immigrants, especially muslims, trying to impose their culture upon us.
(/s) But what happened in 1933 cannot happen again because now we are so much smarter and people back then were dumb. (/s)
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They didn’t kill them all in 1945 you know.
You are going to protest that they 've learned from that. They just learned not to say the word Nazi just like they learned not to oppose Jews instead of opposing genocide.
Danke, Fotzenfritz!
The strategy laid out in Foundations of Geopolitics in 1997 is being implemented
It is a f*cking disgrace for the US and even more for Europe electing fascists.
Electing opinions over facts. But as an european I’m not surprised, sadly.
Do you have a country for me to fuck off to in a few years.
Any stable democracies?
Ireland didn’t elect McGregor as president. They might be worth your time.
Iceland
We don’t need any more tourists, thank you.
How about citizens?
Considering they have an app there to make sure the person you’re chatting with at the bar isn’t too close of a cousin to fuck, I’d say they can probably use a few of those.
Citizens or fuckable cousins?
¿Porque no los both?
Canada is my only hope. Please Canadians, don’t go insane, too.
If you believe that you haven’t been watching. Conservatives nearly got a majority last election.
Ya. That was lucky how badly they fucked up.
The German government has to get going to finally show some tangible results. The last government, at least at the end, did basically nothing, the current one is not fulfilling its promises, either, and people are left standing, seeing that money is spent everywhere but for the peoples needs.
The chancellor is 100% in the pockets of the rich, so properly taxing the top 5% to get the money to fix things is completely out of question. But that is a problem other governments seem to have, too. As if fairly taxing the rich was against some physical law of the universe. Or if taxing capital income as high as income from work would open the gates of hell.
Correction for you: the last government was heavily criticized by the media about the most absurd things nonstop for years.
The media could have used all this energy to write against the afd and we would have a different result now. Apparently it was more important to shit on a left wing liberal government than to save democracy.
Our worst chancellor since 1945 used the program of the afd as his own to keep them small. This never works. This always legitimizes right wing populist parties and does not weaken them.
The current government may not even last 4 years and then its pro Putin fascists in power.
That’s the problem. The current government has to deliver. FAST. And they have not understood that yet, I’m afraid.
It seems that the article only mentions numbers for Frankfurt.
I really hope France has nukes in Germany this go around.
