AFD should be banned... Threat to democracy tf
this post was submitted on 02 May 2025
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Learn from history and America. No half measures. If you're going to label them extremists, you also have to break them.
Greece banned golden dawn as a criminal organisation and while a lot of members splintered into other parties it was overall a success in nearly removing all their influence as a political organisation from Greek politics - so, overall banning the fascist party, at least in one instance, worked.
Wow W Greece 💯🙌🏻
"The ethnicity-and ancestry-based conception of the people that predominates within the party is not compatible with the free democratic order,"
Great news, but also ironic considering German uncritical support for Israel.
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Pray they find a valid legal reason to ban them soon now that they can mass spy on them :)
They won't ban them. Half the German police are members
They will be banned soon
"But previous attempts at banning them have failed because such an official report was missing."
Man, this is peak modern society, and the absurdity makes me laugh. I don't mean that in a derisive way, more in a "wow, making democracy work is haaard ". Hopefully this will lead to something positive though, even if I'm anxious that banning a party like the AfD may lead to some things worsening.
AfD are Nazis in all but name. How is it they remain unprosecuted in a nation where swastikas and the Hitler salute are outlawed?
They're not just nazis, they're nazis sponsored and funded by putin.
This is documented, but racists would rather support their literal enemy than dare accept changing their worldview in any way.
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Plausible deniability but they do get in trouble pretty routinely. The last big one iirc was the poster with the two kids saluting each other to form a roofline with a kitchy caption about housing.
https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/afd-accused-nazi-symbolism-election-germany-hm8dv7nql
"In trouble" in this case is bad press. OP was commenting on prosecution given other stuff that's illegal in Germany. Or did I miss someone getting arrested for the poster?
Iirc they asked how is it and the article goes into it and go figure it's the Elon "we didn't know no better" excuse. They just barely skirt what is and isn't legal and from what I hear they have a legal team that helps them stay just inside the law while still being outwardly nazi-esk.
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One of the main contributors is probably that the last time they tried banned an extremist party on the right (the NPD) it didn't work because they didn't present enough evidence according to the courts, that made everyone involved hesitant this time (or at least that is the excuse they used). Or rather, it failed twice, once because they had agents within the party and the other time for lack of evidence. Obviously obtaining that evidence without running into the first problem again is tricky.
Small correction: the NPD was not banned because they were largely irrelevant. They had little to no influence on politics, which is why the court argued that a ban would be inappropriate.
YOU DON'T SAY
Yet the neolibs are not good for the working class. We all got a long road ahead of us. Is everybody ready for conscription and ww3.
And what will Germany do about it? NOTHING!
They can mass spy on them now and get a valid legal reason to ban them with proof
It's been led than a day chill.
I'm not super hopeful either, but this is already more than I expected, so we'll see where things go
Punch left as hard as possible.
entire AfD 'extremist'
No shit, sherlock, it doesn't take a genius to figure that out.
Have you even seen some of the mindblowing excuses people have for why MAGA people in USA are not necessarily extreme?
That it's for job security, or because of drug trade or all sorts of weird reasons that would absolutely be valid if they weren't based on falsehoods wrapped in fascism.
I'm actually quite surprised that the conclusion is that ALL of AfD are extremists. Maybe if USA had done the same with Trump, and he and his followers were concluded to be extremists, more would have been done to stop him?
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