What the fuck is going on in #Germany #Deutschland

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

What the fuck is going on in #Germany #Deutschland

#AfD is poised to win the election in #SaxonyAnhalt on Sunday?

Fuck

That's former East Germany right? I sense a possible cultural spit with former West Germany. I could be wrong

Well, take it from this depressed and angry American: don't stop fighting

Flip it before the cancer grows

A lot of Americans just sort of gave up. It's maddening how easily so many just roll over. Don't do that

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/05/europe/germany-state-election-afd-trump-russia-intl

[tattooed_mummy@beige.party]

@benroyce

[elcelio@mastodon.uno]

@benroyce

Saxony-Anhalt is the most backwater of German states.

[aho@mastodon.social]

@benroyce former East Germany never had any education on why authoritarian rule is bad... many of the nazi seemed also get high positions in the communist party. Generally more unemployment in the East compared with the rest of Germany, so all this makes them fall for AfD's lies.
Based on the German laws, I do not understand why this party is even allowed to be, a nazi in a suite is a much a nazi in uniform.

[callistobeast@literatur.social]

@benroyce you are correct. Other options, mainly CDU, are incompetent and the press is complicit. The "Left" is seen as the true danger by the establishment. So it really is just us normal people organising against afd.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@elCelio

i'm an ignorant american but i thought bavaria was the most conservative state

but from my own national experience i can see the difference between traditional (shitty) social values and pro-plutocrat fiscal policy conservatism, and the new horde of crackpot brainwashed fascist ignorants that was birthed by the plutocrats the "aw shucks" reagan model birthed. so that's saxony anhalt?

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Callistobeast

don't despair. i see so much despair. despair kills. people give into cynicism, which is a form of acceptance of the unacceptable

keep fighting! never stop!

[elcelio@mastodon.uno]

@benroyce
Bavaria is conservative but an economically active state.

The difference: Bavaria's population increased by 15% since 1990 (the biggest increase), Saxony-Anhalt lost 25% (the biggest decrease).
Among non city-states, Saxony-Anhalt is the state with the oldest average age, while Bavaria has the youngest.

[kikebenlloch@mastodon.social]

@elCelio @benroyce Speaking of age and as a side note I've remembered that apparently the age group that showed the least support for the far right in Germany's 2025 election was those over 70 (10%), right? For all other age groups (18–69), support ranged from 19% to 26%. That looked terrible as future projection. BTW Spain's not that different.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-election-results-and-voter-demographics-explained-in-charts/a-71724186

[txtx@mastodon.social]

@benroyce The cultural split has been developing for years and it's only accelerated in recent years under the influence of US and Chinese social media platforms. Germany isn't unique in that regard, of course.

Saxony-Anhalt is very rural, there are no big urban areas there. So I think it's only natural that the racism-fueled disinformation campaigns targeting rural people are going to have the strongest results in that state.

[elnecesario@mastodon.social]

@aho @benroyce as long as the #prüf @pruef_de demonstrations are happening I have hope, that any party which aims actions against the constitution will be banned one day.

[carl@chaos.social]

@txtx also, the denazification did not work well in East Germany. There are A LOT OF nazis there, not hindered in the least by other people nor the government. They are, like white men in the us, rarely held accountable for their crimes against everybody else. @benroyce

[diekehrseite@mastodon.social]

@benroyce Greetings from Germany: You would call those people prolly Rednecks.
Its depressing to see those Retronazis rise again. As if 1933 would have never happened. There was a time, where being a fascist was like social selfmurder. Not anymore. Media are pretty busy to normalize those assholes. This are tiring times. And stupid ones. I just hope they wont win as big as “predicted”.

[todymotmot@mastodon.social]

@benroyce @elCelio

It's absolutely America's fault. We destabilized the Middle East, storming into Iraq and losing focus in Afghanistan. Destabilized the whole region. Refused to take responsibility for the extraordinary refugee crisis we created. Millions fleeing to Europe, year after year.

We gave nazis exactly the foothold they needed to come back from the brink of extinction. Fear, doubt. Absolute exhaustion of those who tried desperately to help.

[elcelio@mastodon.uno]

@kikebenlloch

old people vote for older parties, young people vote for younger parties.
it's the same for the far left.

@benroyce

[backfromthedud@mas.to]

@benroyce East Germany, having been under the Soviet yolk, still thinks that because Hitler hated communism he was a good guy.

[uriel@x.keinpfusch.net]

bavaria was the most conservative state

Conservative != nazi.

[uriel@x.keinpfusch.net]

except young people doesn’t vote.

[gegga66@mastodon.social]

@benroyce

Dummheit, Aggression und Egoismus never dies

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@uriel

the pro-plutocrat fiscal policies and shitty cruel social "values" of the conservative creates the stage for the nazi