• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    I was told by a German person on this very site that they’d never go right wing again because of a unique type of centrism in the country that’s hugely popular and that my tiny American brain couldn’t comprehend. Oh well, guess that’s just another common centrist L.

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    Once upon a time, I told a German that if their country goes fascist, we won’t spare them a second time. That was wrong and naive of me to say, but not too far off. There won’t be a rebuilding if that happens.

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      Only problem is that the entire worlds governments are going fascist. There won’t be anyone with enough power to fight them.

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        Don’t worry, climate change has something for civilization’s ass.

        Better extinct or feral tribes clinging to old hardened structures than a thousand years of techno fascist hell.

        Turns out unrestrained capitalism and it’s inevitable outcome fascism solve for themselves on a large enough scale.

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    There are more fucking neo-Nazis in the USA than in Germany. The shit AfD voters come from the Oklahoma and Mississippi of Germany, Thuringia and Saxony.

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      AfD has a guy called Helferich… A funny translation would be Helperling… I can imagine his role and his recap when they ruined Germany and Europe again.

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      SPD and Grüne are helping the rise of fascism too even if it’s not on purpose. Die Linke are the only ones in parliament actually working against it.

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        Wanting to leave NATO, withholding weapons from Ukraine and talking to Putin isn’t exactly “working against” fascism. That’s very much the Neville Chamberlain approach … but even he came to his sense after the full scale invasion started. Can’t say the same for die Linke.

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          That’s very much the Neville Chamberlain approach …

          That’s such revisionist history. Chamberlain wasn’t appeasing Germany, he was aligning with Germany against Communist Russia.

          He wasn’t surrendering, he was allying with fascism.

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            Source?

            That seems even more revisionist. If anything I’d have expected it from Winston “I believe in Aryan race science” Churchill.

            Chamberlain was buying time for rearmament. It wasn’t actually necessary and it was, in fact, pretty fucking stupid because Germany was rearming faster than France and Britain put together, and his betrayal of Czechoslovakia with their fortified border was even more galling in face of it, but the idea wasn’t to ally with Germany as far as I’ve seen anyone claim.

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        Bold statement. Do you have any examples? I would disagree, but maybe I just don’t quite understand what you meant.

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          SPD is just standing by not doing anything (except being corrupt), basically silent complicity. The greens are also not clearly positioning themselves against the anti immigrant hatred, but they are still doing much better than the rest imo.

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              Behave like social democrats, push to fund infrastructure and school upgrades (instead of defunding them), not have a leading candidate that was involved with the biggest tax fraud scheme in recent history, etc

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                I nisunderstood, I thought you were calling them to do something about AfD more directly.

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                  The best way to fight fascism is with meaningful policy thay helps the working class. The best way to help it is proving that liberal democracy consists in getting to choose which party gets to enforce austerity this term

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        Considering that Putin is the biggest fascist threat for all of Europe, your statement is laughable. The Left agree that Putin is doing bad things in Ukraine and other countries but their message is that the domestic social net is more important than Europe’s survival and all weapon deliveries must stop. Let’s talk instead.

        If policies were up to them, they’d be helping fascism almost as much as outright Putin sheep

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          How is Putin the biggest fascist threat for Europe? Fascism was literally born in Europe and exported elsewhere, we have Nazi and fascist parties getting consistent growth election after election in basically every EU country.

          Believe it or not, Europe isn’t at war with Russia, we should be struggling in favour of diplomacy to reduce both our and their military expenditure… which is hard to do when riding hard the NATO wave. Ffs Europe was building gas pipelines with Russia 3.2 years ago, we’re really still capable of separating ourselves from fascist US, reduce military expenditure with fascist Russia, and take care of our own fascist problems.

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          It is so fucking sad that the tolerance “paradox” goes all the way to fucking war.

          Like you literally have to fight a war against war seekers if you don’t want war. Like fucking hell, why can’t we at least be chill there?

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      Are we subscribed to the same sub. Dach talks about literally nothing else but politics right now so don’t tell me ich_iel only having like 1/3rd political posts today is some kind of smoking gun.

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      So many people have this misreading: it’s ich_iel (im echten Leben, in reallife) not eil