• thericofactor@sh.itjust.works
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    Yo, German friends: Can anybody explain like I’m 5 what’s going on over there? What’s with this far right party having so much success? I thought Germany would be the last country to fall for that shit.

    I get the sentiment if a lot of migrants entering the country and that people vote to limit the influx, but it seems like they all think voting for the most dictatorial despots is the only way to stop it.

    Honestly, I think this would be solved best at the EU level. EU laws currently dictate that refugees have to be taken in and migration is also regulated a lot on the European level.

    If that mandate is returned to individual countries it would prevent a lot of far right parties becoming so popular

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      Hey, Member of the german Left Party here.

      In times of crisis, fascism always thrives. History has often shown that. Whenever people are doing badly, fascism can score very easily. Because people are looking for solutions to problems that have been ignored for many years by the goverment. And then the fascists come along and bring super simple solutions to the table. An enemy. A scapegoat that we can all be angry at. The Refugee. The right-wingers propagate that refugees are the cause of all our problems. They are supposedly stealing our homes, our jobs or stealing our tax money through social welfare from the state. And of course they are all criminals and dangerous too, which adds to the problem.

      But this is all nonsense! The rich class only uses refugees as a distraction to divide the lower class. They just prefer it when we kick each other’s faces in down here. That way nobody looks up. Nobody is looking at the real causes of our problems. Then nobody looks at the rich, who pollute the environment, pay too low wages, drive up rents and lie on their own fat yachts.

      So how do we prevent Fascism from happening? Care for the People. We need a decent social system, cheaper food, lower rents. When people are doing well, the fascists have no arguments. The right-wing party AfD once said themself (behind doors) that the worse Germany is doing, the better the AfD is doing

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      Honestly I am without actual answers myself. There seems to be a very unhealthy mixture of fear and blatant hate. Where that came from, that I don’t know. But the right is currently being pampered by every party right of the SPD, and some would say also by the SPD themselves.

      My bigger concern is though that barely anybody actually has a plan that is viable other than “migrants bad, need to go”

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    Manche denken, die Brandmauer sitzt im Parlament. Wenn überhaupt ist sie auf der Straße

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        Das war so eine beschämende Lachnummer von ihr.

        Aber ist in diesem Fall sogar richtig. Militärränge werden nicht gegendert. Frau Hauptmann, Frau Feldwebel, Frau General…