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More than 100,000 protest across Germany over far-right AfD’s mass deportation meetings
(www.theguardian.com)
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Okay, so I finally googled it. Theyre angry because the AFD is anti-Islamic terrorism, anti-EU and pro-German?
Man, I must be missing some translation here or maybe some context, because that all sounds like reasonable things.
The part either you or the sources you read are leaving out is that they are also anti-democratic and not just anti-Islamic terrorism but also anti-Islam. Or more precisely just generally racist.
You either read sources that fell for their bullshit downplaying self-description or you are actively trying to play down their harmful views yourself.
I just skimmed wikipedia's policies section
And skimmed right past the parts where it says they are also climate change deniers, pro-Russia, anti-Muslim, nationalistic, anti-LGBTQ, anti-feminist and this part
?
Maybe you should scroll a bit slower next time.
Yeah, probably. I should've put a little more time into it before commenting.
TBH, I have very little knowledge on Germany's political scene, I only ever really hear about AfD and how Germany's hate speech laws are abused. Also the Volkswagen emissions scandal. Kind of an irrelevant country at this point, they can't even meet their NATO obligations.
So your knowledge of Germany consists in large parts of some populist talking points and yet you jumped at the first opportunity to defend an extremely right-wing party and downplay their policies. That's... a choice.
Nah, the AfD keeps coming up, I figured I should be somewhat informed. When I got confused, I asked a question.
And being real, lemmy is rad left. When I hear Nazi, I think "Ah, someone disagreed with an asshole", and I don't think "Hitler".
These are some of people that are currently protesting:
Source for the image is Germany's protestant church:
https://www.domradio.de/artikel/evangelische-geistliche-rufen-zur-teilnahme-demos-auf
This really is about Nazis and not just about an asshole.
What the hell are you talking about?
2% of the gdp on defense, perhaps?
That was agreed on for this year, which has only just begun!
Let's wait another year at least, when this year's numbers are published, ok?
That's more than obvious.
No it was agreed on in the beginning. It's only being enforced now.
Address to chancellor Scholz from NATO General Secretary Stoltenberg, June of last year: https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_216079.htm
2% as a bottom line was agreed on during a summit in Vilnius