Political Memes

Basically, the CDU/CSU is comparable to the US Democrats, and the AfD is comparable to the Republicans: racist, xenophobe misgonysts.

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.

Meanwhile... Meloni, Duda, Orban, the RN, and the AfD are all already part of their respective governments...

This is fine. Surely.

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

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.

Theres also Romania, who almost elected a pro-russian right-wing extremist, and Moldova, whose citizens have been bribed to vote against joining the EU

The people posting denigrating memes and sparking those rage-filled threads are the trash of the Earth. Infighting helps absolutely nobody.

Right-Wing parties are not in power in any of those countries except America. Sure there is a plan to try and promote right-wing ideologies in those countries they're always is a plan to promote right-wing ideologies it's what the right wing is for.

You're right. If you see the world not as a conflict between nation states but as a class war all of this makes a lot more sense. This is not to say that nation states don't matter. They are absolutely still used by the ruling class to maintain order and justify their actions as a "defense of our nation and culture". Fascism has no hard rules or ideologies. It is used to defend capitalist interests and power. It is why we are seeing the rise in far right politics in the west.

The capitalist class does not know borders; it knows class interest. Fascism is the defense of this interest in the face of capitalism internal contradictions.

There is something that happens when fascism's failures become increasingly obvious. They don't necessarily lose power. What they do is insist that the problem is that they weren't cruel enough so far.

The CDU guy who's about to be chancellor is the classic "economically liberal, anti regulation, blame foreigners for all violence" far right who pretends he's not far right by taking the head of a party that keeps helping the far right rhetoric, instead of straight up joining the far right party, for some reason. He's been mad at Merkel for 20 years because she sidelined him in the party because he was too much further right. He's not Musk, but he's the guy who keeps making sure Musk and Trump never get shut down.

The 1933 elections were unfree, and within the two election 1932 they dropped from 37.4 to 33.1. Still not enough votes to pass the enabling act so they arrested SPD+KPD politicians and then used a simple majority to change the quorum rules such that the absent votes would not count against them.

It's fascinating how much legal theatre they did to give a legalistic paint job to their power grab. Completely different to Trump, more like corporate lawyers.

They are two completely different countries, with completely different histories.

Thats not at all how politics and fascism works. Germany is not isolated from the rest of the world and in some time capsule. It's definitely not "like the US in 2004" because we're living in 2025. And it's not just AFD. Even the greens are fear mongering over immigrants. Germany wasn't somehow isolated from the rise in islamophbia since 2001. They have been a major part of that and are talking about Muslims like they are Jews in 1930s Germany.

Fascism doesn't have a 20 year lag. It very often arises in major world powers at the same time. This is due to it being a defensive response of the capitalist class in class conflict. What is happening in the US is also happening in Germany.

AfD just secured their strongest election result in history, I think that’s what OP is referring to

Nein

Yeah, I'm also aware that the right's been on the rise in Denmark, France, Italy, and the Netherlands at a minimum. The UK seems to have taken a moment to catch their breath, but I'm not convinced that they're completely over it.

The European Union is literally just the Holy Roman Empire 2. You're all German whether you like it or not. And yes, you canadians are also European since you are still beholden to The Forsaken Queen.

Not yet

but if afd wins, y'all have to speak german becuase... gestures at history 👀

Eh, Fritze is just slightly better…