Saxony-Anhalt: Digesting the AfD's landmark election win
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Saxony-Anhalt: Digesting the AfD's landmark election win
With well over 40% for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), Saxony-Anhalt has witnessed a landmark election night. DW's reporters were on the ground.
€100 says Putler and billionnaires are involved in tricking labourers to impoverish themselves.
Well Elon definitely is, he keeps joining their rallies over video call to show his support and cheer them on.
No one will bet against you. Russias hybrid war rallied against all other parties in bright daylight.
The lead candidate already thanked the elongated Muskrat for his support.
Yup, it’s terrorists financing terrorists
That is why the first Germans went into space today.
Oh no
Well done Saxony… now we have a russian backed right-extremist party with power…
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Two of them. BSW is likely going to cooperate with the AfD.
Anyone here still thinks there’s a chance that EU will not go through some anti-immigration phase in the near future?
Anti-immigration? No. Right wing parties don’t want less immigrants, they want immigrants to be disposable labour. They want corporations to be able to easily dispose of workers who organise.
Isn’t US severely damaging their farming and industry by deporting thousands and thousands of immigrants?
Yup. The real question is the only side effect of it higher produce prices? It seems the wealthy elite have decided to peasants don’t really matter anymore and who gives a fuck with the cost to survive there’s too many of them anyway. /s
Coming to a developed country near you. The elites have made up their minds. And they settled on the fact that we can all die except them.
Their secluded private island/bunker/fortress will eventually run out of food to water or face some catastrophe/hurricane/earthquake. Not much place or people to farm. They can have all the money in the world and no knowledge on how to survive.
“Small” farms, yes. “Small” industry, yes. They’re being gobbled up by large entities with political power.
So what are you saying? That US is not currently implementing anti-immigration policies? Because they clearly do. And it’s a right wing party that’s doing it. And it’s affecting the economy negatively. So what you’re describing (corporations influencing right wing parties and blocking anti-immigration policies) is not happening in US. And EU is less controlled by corporations than US. What you’re saying simply does not add up.
The corporations controlling the right wing party can weather the storm longer than the little guy can allowing them to buy up farm land for cheap.
They want only immigrants who use the official visa. Most currently do not as it resulted in slavery more often than not.
The center has nothing to offer except more of the same. The left does not exist as an active political force.
What do you expect?
tldr that website sucks
what’s the result and the long term implications?
the fascists likely didn’t get a super majority, but might be in that state’s government as major coalition partner anyway.
long term: political disorder within germany’s inter-state federal politics, possible political firewall (“Brandmauer”) against an entire federal state, possible conflict with NATO over logistics, Germany “being busy with itself” etc…
so more chaos then
which is fascism stage 1 :(
Actually it’s stage 3/4 of 5.
sorry i was being flippant, thank you for the actual list
No, many people don’t know, I just try to post it everywhere
yep awareness is important
Didn’t their main candidate rule out doing any coalition to build a government, i.e. government only if the AfD has the absolute majority?
It literally explained all of that in the article.
I don’t understand what sucked about the website, found it perfectly usable myself. I did reject all cookies when it asked though, so maybe that helped.
the immediate WE WANT YOUR DATA for one
You mean the legally-mandated GDPR cookie notice? That have existed for over a decade?
Have you visited the internet before yesterday?
lmao being told they are fucking you doesn’t make it good, and i wonder why they were legally forced to do so…
i have all that shit blocked on pc so no that part of the internet doest interact with me outside of my phone and lemmy
The cookie notice isn’t legally mandated. It is legally mandated to ask users before collecting Data you don’t actually need.
gdpr.eu/cookies/
Cookies are considered ‘personal data’ under GDPR and ePrivacy directive of the EU, requiring informed user consent for any non-essential cookie - what is non-essential is highly debated, which is why essentially any significant website in the EU errs on the side of caution and uses a cookie popup.
Name any EU news website that doesn’t use cookies in some form and have a cookie popup, I’ll consider my statement inaccurate.
i don’t have an example but one of the the privacy blogs i watch had numerous examples of even eu websites that were in violation and there being no consequences (i think it was ben jordan)
mostly it was around the pop up not properly following the requirement but in some cases there just wasn’t one
now this was older so maybe they’ve since fixed themselves but this was after like a year or two of the requirement going into enactment so it wasnt an accident they were not in compliance
It’s actually quite easy. If cookies are needed for the technical function of a service, they are justified. I don’t see how a website serving news articles would need to preserve state via cookies in order to function properly.
And no, doing “visitor statistics” is no valid reason nor an essential function.
The websites that do so liberally dump their entire cookie jar on their users, and spam them with this annoyance, are doing so, because they have ulterior motives, like collecting and selling user data to advertisers.
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That election recount was decided by a court, not “other parties”, and the BSW leadership is openly advocating for cooperation with the AfD, so your argument about them preventing an AfD government holds little water.
Wow, I didn’t realize the bundestag’s election committee is a ‘court’ now. I naively assumed it was just other parties MPs protecting their seats.
No, but the federal constitutional court is 🙄
Dude, that tagesschau piece is from right after the election. There was no court ruling or hearing. After that, they dragged it out in the bundestag until late 2025, and this year it finally went to Karlsruhe, where, surprise, nothing has happened either.
Yes, that is the normal court process 🤷
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A minority AfD government that sometimes depends on 3 CDU members and sometimes 3 BSW members can pretty much do what it wants because those two parties have different red lines and can be played against each other.
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Not every vote is public and kicking someone out of the party against their will takes time and doesn’t make them lose their seat in the parliment.
There’s Jewish Nazis aka Zionists, so why don’t the actual Nazis come back. I fucking hate this world.
I know this is a bit of a spicy take and I hope it doesn’t age like milk, but this may not be the worst thing for Germany long-term. Far-right populist parties often do a bad job once they get into power. If they screw up running Saxony-Anhalt over the next three years it may put voters off voting for them in the next federal election.
This take is kinda shunned in leftist groups, because that’s what they said last time in Germany.
lol plenty of people said that in 2016 usa
here’s hoping this isn’t well organized
It’s very well organised unfortunately. Channel 5 YouTube channel did a decent video on this yesterday. Went and interviewed a bunch of people at an AfD rally in Saxony-Anhalt.
Very interesting viewing.
ugh
Yeah it’s pretty depressing viewing but it does give some interesting insight on the regionality of their popularity.
Unfortunately they are also good at scapegoating and distracting.
Orban governed for, what? 16 years? PiS in Poland won the last presidential elections and is on track to be back in power in couple of years. Modi has 70% approval rating. Meloni is still leading in polls. Milei won midterms a year ago. So… not sure if what you’re describing really happens that often.
Von Papen thought the same thing.
Literally the only possible ray of sunshine on this rainy day. And that maybe, after all this time, the fucking cdu gets the message that being afd lite will not help them get votes.
No. It’s a cult. AfD can do no wrong in the eyes of their voters.
Proportional system usually results in coalition government so the radicals are forced to mellow out. Keeping AfD out of coalition by firewall might do much more harm than good in the long run. This kind of result emboldens them to stay extremist.
History and research shows the opposite to be true. Coalition, talking, taking over their topics, anything legitimizing strengthens them. The only effective counter is a broad rejection across politics, society, including companies, religious institutions etc, and press.
Any examples? In our national parliament radical left mellowed out after joining coalition. It turns out talking big from opposition is cheap. I think current Italian government is also a case of this.
I’ve read an article previously. I don’t think I’ll be able to find it again.
I guess that’s the two possible roads. Integrate into the system with compromise, becoming mellow, or get legitimized by others to be strengthened as an extremist, eventually grabbing power.