Submitted 3 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
https://www.dw.com/en/us-criticizes-germany-for-labeling-afd-extremist/a-72423560
Trump administration officials have condemned the move by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency to designate the far-right AfD party an extremist group, setting off a diplomatic row between the two NATO allies.
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That would imply a thought goes through their head.
Oh, we’re well aware. If you look at leftists specifically, we’ve known since at least the Vietnam War.
Who’s well aware?
All the Dems and libs complaining now were perfectly fine with imperialistic wars, children in cages and racism.
As long as it didn’t inconvenience them personally in their bubble of pretend democracy.
I’m in the US and I’m criticizing Germany for taking so damn long to label them extremists!
The problem is how to tackle the AfD. All democratic principles must be respected, while freedom of opinion is under extreme attack from the left in Germany. At the same time, this is being instrumentalized and now the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is being used against a legally elected party. While the criminals in the other parties carry on as normal. So now the AfD is securely right-wing extremist… but the voters are not disappearing and so people are switching to an alternative party or founding a new one. The real problem is only being exacerbated at the moment. Since the left is shitting on democracy and laws in order to be able to take action against the AfD, more people will switch to the right-wing party in the future precisely because of this. We are shooting yourself in the foot.
Was gibst denn du für einen absoluten Käse von dir?
Umbedingt auf die paar Immigraten schauen, nicht auf die Berge von Gewaltdelikten durch Rechtsextreme.
Das einzige Problem ist dass die AfD nicht schon lange verboten wurde.
Note to the world, if Trump or his cronies condemn you for something, you’re doing the right thing.
trump never met a nazi he didn’t like.
Not just Trump.
The US government has never had a problem with nazis.
They are very right-wing country and what they hate most is anything left, especially communism.
Also the fascists prefered system is corporatism. A wet dream for the ultra-capitalist US.
They have a lot in common.
And just look at their track record:
They intervened in WW2 purely out of self-interest.
Not to fight the nazis or liberate us.
There was plenty of fascist sentiment in the US at that time. The US helped 1000’s of the worst nazis escape in WW2 trough the so-called ratlines and left most of the leaders and important collaborators in Europe unbothered. General Patton “we fight the wrong enemy” was put in charge of denazification of which he unsurprisingly said he didn’t see the purpose. Also they organised fascist ‘stay behind’ armies in many countries, e.g. Project Aerodynamic. And made nazis like Heusinger chairman of the NATO Military Committee, or Hans Speidel Commander in Chief of the Allied Forces of Central Europe.
Later the US also saw nothing wrong with incorporating 100% fascist regimes like Spain, Portugal or Greece in NATO, in fact they were good friends and heavily involved in keeping them in power. Dissent in those countries was crushed by American tanks and guns. in November 1973, students spontaneously occupied Greece’s most prestigious university, the Athens Polytechnic. On the walls they mostly wrote 2 slogans: OUT USA and OUT NATO. That’s how important they were for the junta.
And don’t get me started on South America. Plenty of fascist regimes put in power there by the US. Supporting them militarily, training death squads and more , if not actually fighting for them covertly.
And to this day: theintercept.com/…/ukraine-azov-battalion-us-trai…
I could go on.>
Nazis complaining about a real government calling Nazis, well, Nazis.
THEY ARE! WTF!
Why am I yelling to people who already know?
Fash support fash.
Remember when Taliban endorsed Trump?
People have started not to care who or what the US criticise. Its actually more of s good thing, if the US does not like something…
The U.S. government does not speak for the majority of its citizens. It speaks for one man and his handlers.
That’s not how democracy works.
We no longer have one. Our elected leader is gone rogue.
Besides, our current leader has never received the majority of the popular vote, and our voting turnout has never been as much as half the populace. In my lifetime, no president has ever received so much as 60% of the popular vote.
The theory is good, but any idea that any President is representative of what the US people want is sunny not true, verging on impossible.
You are right in that’s not how democracy works. Unfortunately, due to gerrymandering and Citizens United, it’s how the U.S.’s bastardized version of it “works.” Thanks to gerrymandering in my state (which is a test bed for much of the nonsense we’re now seeing at the federal level), I have absolutely no voice in our state legislature, which has recently decided to neuter the other two (actually democratically elected) branches of government here.
The government is not a representative of the majority, he is elected by a majority to be a representative of the whole. That’s how democracy works.
Nazis criticizing Nazis for labeling Nazis as Nazis.
We live in the most absurd timeline.
The USA needs to fuck off
Well, no surprise there.
Looking at the broken state of the USA it’s totally in character to comment the dumbest possible response
Would be interesting if Germany will do the same mistakes like America.
Looking at the last decades: yes they will do!
But I don’t hope so.
And sponsored by Nike? Not adidas?
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Fascists defends fascists? What a surprise…