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Ahh the wonderful communist who support.... wait those are neo nazis and the others are just capitalists...
China is state-capitalist, my friend
https://apnews.com/article/tesla-china-lawsuits-musk-investigation-58b10ccace488784fcc63646ab78b410
Much communist
Hope of socialism
Wow
So AfD is supported by China, russia and the US? Which major countries do we have left outside the EU to help fight fascist bullshit?
Not the US, but fascist billionaires.
Well, the afd would not be pro-us with democrats in power.
And again, a bunch of traitors waving the banner of patriotism. It's as pathetic as it is predictable.
"All the enemies of the Constitution borrow the name and language of patriotism to spread error, discord and false principles... It is thus that public opinion is excited and becomes disorganized; the general will becomes powerless and invalid and patriotism... sometimes seconds, through blind impetuosity, the evil projects of the enemies of our freedom." -MR
Seriously. Apparently this needs to be taught in kindergarten. How many times has this happened in recent history now...
Thanks to every major party having made austerity some kind of state religion, the axe has been taken to the entire education system numerous times in the past 5 decades. Also, the famed post WW2 denazification, especially in the administration, has been largely a sad joke. Coincidentally one of the more radical prominent figures in the AfD, a certain Mr Höcke, who, by court verdict, can be legally called a fascist, is a history teacher of all Things.
Spies need to be kicked out of the country and organizations set up by them have to be banned.
They are all owned by China or Russia. Even the ones you like. They play both sides so they always come out on top.
so far right came all the way around to communist
There's never actually been large scale communism. The step where the autocratic takeover ends just doesn't happen. So yeah, practiced communism is not just coming around to and touching fascism, they're almost congruent.
Is this what she meant when she called Hitler a "communist"? Not like "ew, communists" but "oh yeah, communists, like the good folks in the CCP who gave me money"?
How damaging is this likely to be for them? A corruption scandal two days before an election seems like it ought to hurt, and I would assume as an outsider that AfD voters are not exactly pro-China
Their voters live in a different reality by now. Likely it won't be damaging at all.
Yeah, and let us not forget that many of their voters receive their 'information' exclusively from social media, and here primarily from Tiktok and Xitter. The algorithms likely don't show them anything bad of China, Russia, AfD, ...
That's exactly what I meant by "different reality". They are spoon fed their "news" and "information" by US and Chinese disinformation platforms AKA "social media". And by German papers and TV cannels owned by the Axel Springer Corporation, which is pretty much the German equivalent to Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate.
You don't have to mention people when replying to them. They'll get a notification automatically.
But they also wanted to notify other users than the one they were replying to. From my experience, you only get notified if someone directly replied to you.
I'm not blaming you or op, just jokingly wondering am I the only one who feels getting notified is rude
Idk, seems like those people mainly wants as much disruption as possible and just don't care what exactly they are supporting with their vote.
They produce scandals each day to get attention. Same as Musk, Trump, etc.... At some point, the fans just don't care anymore.
So...I guess these articles now have confirmed that USA Trump- RF Putin- CCP Jinpin- have their interests aligned and wish to undermine democracies.
And we're too tired to even say told so
Prime chancellor material!
Being a corrupt fuck seems to be the one common denominator for most of the German chancellors in the last 5 decades.
Pikachu got a stache