What the fuck is going on in #Germany #Deutschland

[bugspriet@social.tchncs.de]

@benroyce Ja, they definetely were not all part of the resistance... I dug out some family history which made my blood freeze. @diekehrseite

[elala@social.cologne]

@benroyce
Saxony-Anhalt is one of five federal states in which the AfD is classified as a confirmed far-right extremist party from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
Based on the experiences of National Socialism, our Basic Law expressly provides for the possibility of initiating proceedings to ban parties that act in a manner hostile to the constitution.

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[elala@social.cologne]

@benroyce
A motion for such proceedings must be filed with the Federal Constitutional Court by the federal government _or_ the Bundesrat _or_ the Bundestag, which then reviews the facts of the case and, if warranted, issues a ban on the party.

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[elala@social.cologne]

@benroyce
However, none of the aforementioned institutions authorized to file such a motion has so far been able to bring itself to stop the neo-fascists, even though there have been—and continue to be—large demonstrations demanding precisely that.

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[elala@social.cologne]

@benroyce
Fun fact: A few days ago, the leading candidate of the fascists in Saxony-Anhalt was invited by a student representative to appear on a children’s program on public broadcasting (ÖRR) for an interview, during which he explained, among other things, that in the future, children with a migrant background would be taught in separate classes if his party came to power, because they would all have to leave anyway (be deported).

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[elala@social.cologne]

@benroyce
However, none of the eligible institutions mentioned above has so far been able to bring itself to stop the neo-fascists, even though there have been—and continue to be—large demonstrations calling for exactly that.

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[elala@social.cologne]

@benroyce
Fun fact: A few days ago, the leading candidate of the fascists in Saxony-Anhalt was invited by a student representative to appear on a children’s program on public broadcasting (ÖRR) for an interview, during which he explained, among other things, that in the future, children with a migrant background would be taught in separate classes if his party came to power, because they would all have to leave anyway (be deported).

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[elala@social.cologne]

@benroyce
Btw: Public broadcasting was established by the Allies after World War II as a non-commercial, independent broadcaster with a clearly defined educational mandate to promote democratic values. It is funded by license fees. So we’re all inevitably paying for Nazis to be constantly invited onto talk shows (and now even onto children’s television) to spread their poison.

Germany 2026

7/7

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@grootinside

as i said in a sister comment in this thread, i used to be friends (i moved) with a former bundeswehr guy from munich who quit and immigrated to the usa. he quit because they tried to station him in east germany and he said "fuck no." so my perception is also warped by the unkind opinions of a hot head bavarian guy

this was 10 years ago. even 10 years ago he lamented there were new "brown shirts" as he said rising in germany again

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@elala

it's the same in the usa

the centrist democrats just grin and continue on as if everything is normal. talking and dealing with outright fascists. plastic and spineless people

it's maddening

it's why here in the usa we need to take over the democratic party because third party doesn't work in our fucked up FPTP voting system. and we're making some movement. AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed, etc

[franckraisch@meinungsschubla.de]

@benroyce
you are wrong. The split exists but only in a sense that in East-Germany prople are not following politcal parties forever before they give up. Similar results can happen in the western part of the country. And the root cause is the disastrous ruling of F. Merz. Political values are completely eroded.

[grootinside@troet.cafe]

@benroyce @elala

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@FranckRaisch

same here in the usa. spineless centrists don't act and are unable and unwilling to recognize and deal with the fascists

[elala@social.cologne]

@benroyce
In Germany, all political parties—with the exception of “Die Linke”—have, over time, more or less jumped on the deportation bandwagon, and, unfortunately, a vocal anti-Semitic faction has established itself within “Die Linke,” so that the choices here now amount to choosing between the plague and cholera.🤪

[franckraisch@meinungsschubla.de]

@benroyce from time to time they kill a leftist here - this is to proof that they can still function

Anarchy is better than this

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@elala

[elala@social.cologne]

@benroyce
We even have our own little offshoot of the Heritage Foundation. They call themselves Republik21 and market themselves as a conservative think tank because that sounds nicer. But the playbook is the same—just tailored to the specific constitutional characteristics of Germany.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@elala this fucking world

[elala@social.cologne]

@benroyce
The financiers are the same ones, too: the fossil fuel industry, the arms manufacturers, and the tech fascists.

Yes, fucking assholes.

[elala@social.cologne]

@benroyce
Oh, and by the way: R21, of course, also receives government funding, whereas funding for democracy projects is currently being cut or eliminated. Even the Anne Frank Educational Center has had its funding cut.