Not smugposting. Shit sucks. :(
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Our conservatives aren't literal Nazis. And yeah, the actual literal Nazis at 20% is horrifying but it's not like they're going to be part of the government. It's going to be a coalition between the conservatives from the Union and the allegedly social democratic Social Democratic Party. If there's majority for that they'll add the vaguely progressive Greens to the mix.
Meanwhile the US has turned itself into a Nazi broligarchy.
We can still be smug. Sorry America.
Edit: and yes, this post is heavy on copium.
Same with Belgium.
Many people voted for the extreme right because of Russian misinformation campaigns. But none of the other parties want anything to do with them because they didn't fall for it. Especially the center right parties. They rather cozy up with the left than to give fascist any power.
Any headway a far-right party gets in Germany is extra bad because of your history - you should know better more than anyone else. It would be inadvisable to be smug, because you're heading in the same direction we are.
Meanwhile... Meloni, Duda, Orban, the RN, and the AfD are all already part of their respective governments...
This is fine. Surely.
The RN is not part of the government.
AfD is not going to be part of the gov as it stands, and Orbán is going out next year as things are.
We are trying to fight back.
AfD is being excluded from governing, no one wants to make a coalition.
Unless I'm about to check the news and see the cordon broken...
The cordon was already broken, it was taped back in a hurry because FDP did not make it to 5%.
If the useful idiots from bsw had voted for AfD, or if FDP had reached the 5% mark, we would get CDU+AfD coalition. Or am I supposed to trust that poor excuse of a human being called Merz?
They will eventually pull a Donald Trump
Basically, the CDU/CSU is comparable to the US Democrats, and the AfD is comparable to the Republicans: racist, xenophobe misgonysts.
Like the US Democrats the CDU/CSU is also deeply racist, in favor of deporting immigrants and using LGBT only as a scapegoat to claim how much more civilised they are compared to the brown people. Oh and of course they are suckers for Zionism as it gives them a chance to ramp up hatred against Arabs and cheer on as Arabs get murdered.
Finally of course the CDU/CSU takes every opportunity to help tye fascist rise to power.
Yeah, I remember when we were telling ourselves the nazis would never govern. I was so confident I brought a nice cigar and bottle of scotch to the watch party. I never did smoke that cigar, but I went through that whole bottle nearly on my own and had to sleep it off on my friend’s couch.
Can I just jump in here and say "broligarchy" is now my new favourite term
That's not a very strong argument when they enable the Nazis, and I say this as a European. In my opinion we should all organize, and fight fascism the way it's historically defeated: unionisation, mutual aid, and socialist organization.