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[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hmm, the guy who manipulated his stock price to make himself the richest man in the world and fixed the election for Trump also supported AfD. Surely it's a coincidence

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There is money required for running campaigns and advertisements and making deals.

What it won't do is magically populate a country with fascists, supremacists, and other extreme right wing types. Those would have to already be around.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

German here.

Many Germans firmly believe the AfD is not a nazi party. Many Germans defend them because the AfD tells them what they want to hear: "It's not your fault that you haven't struck it big yet in your life, it's the insert minority/marginalized group of the month's fault." They truly believe that the AfD will help them.

It's the same obvious, fascist playbook that they pulled in the US and people eat it up while laughing at your idiot president.

It's insane. People are incapable of questioning themselves and thus incapable of learning.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"It's not your fault that you haven't struck it big yet in your life, it's the insert minority/marginalized group of the month's fault." They truly believe that the AfD will help them.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that how it literally started with Adolf Hitler!?

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In essence, yes. Or at least that was a big part of Hitler's campaign.

Back then it was the Jews and socialists gutting Germany by accepting unconditional surrender after WW1 (Dolchstoßlegende), today it's immigrants, especially muslims, trying to impose their culture upon us.

(/s) But what happened in 1933 cannot happen again because now we are so much smarter and people back then were dumb. (/s)

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

That is EXACTLY what happened in America. Fight back hard NOW, it will only be harder in the future.

[–] freeman@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They didn't kill them all in 1945 you know.

You are going to protest that they 've learned from that. They just learned not to say the word Nazi just like they learned not to oppose Jews instead of opposing genocide.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Just like we didn't take care of business in 1865, and they quietly got their strength back and returned 150 years later.

Evil is patient.

[–] MycelialMass@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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