• Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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)

      • fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        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”)

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        1 year ago

        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.

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          1 year ago

          Yes, it is dumb, but 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.

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            1 year ago

            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.

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              1 year ago

              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.