• ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    This would be much more concerning if they hadn’t so thoroughly stamped out fascism. What’s the alternative for Germany?

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      3 days ago

      I can’t tell if that’s a lucky coincidence or a reference, but the Alternative for Germany (AfD) are the biggest voices in support of fascism in Germany, and they just won 20% of the seats in parliament. Luckily, even the CXU won’t form a coalition with them yet, so they will hopefully not have much impact on things.

      Ironically, the AfD doesn’t want to militarize against Russia (but don’t be too reassured, they do want to reinstate mandatory conscription and militarize generally, just not against daddy Putin)

    • Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      AfD is a nazi party. With tied to Blood and Honor, Proud Boys, constantly yelling nazi quotes, nazi saluting in private and small meetings, copying their rethoric and imagin aso

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      3 days ago

      I think the widespread political “unwavering support” for a nation committing Genocide, which is justified by the ethnicity of the people of that nation, kinda shows that some part of Fascism (the whole “people’s race is what matters the most and some races are better than others”) hasn’t at all been stamped out.

      Then there’s AfD which is just taking the “if it’s good to support them because of their race, then it’s good to support us” step closer to Fascism.

      Germany is far closer to a certain philosophy anchored on classifying one’s fellow human being as worthy or unworthy depending on race than one would like to believe (certainly, I liked to believe before the political reaction there to whole Gaza thing made it too obvious to deny) - the symbols were made illegal whilst the spirit lives.

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      3 days ago

      The alternative is to not build a giant army and use the money in something more useful that will benefit germans and humanity

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      3 days ago

      Germany was never fully denazified. There’s a reason the New Left in Germany was so militant. Kiesinger was in the Nazi Party!

      • Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        3 days ago

        Yeah the Schreibtischnazis and industrial-nazis never got punished. And not to speak of east germany who employed SS and Gestapo members in their StaSi

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          2 days ago

          East Germany was denazified to a much higher degree than west Germany. Half of the fucking embassies of West Germany were run by Nazis, and some NATO generals literally took part in the SS. Soviets lost 25 million lives to Nazism, they were much, much more stringent with Nazism than western Europe.

          • Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            2 days ago

            Sadly, the facts are not supporting your argument. Also you call it naziism which is just emberessing. American tankie i assume? “West bad” “soviet union glory state made of marble”?