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Germany's spy agency BfV has labeled the entirety of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as an extremist entity.

The BfV domestic intelligence agency, which is in charge of safeguarding Germany's constitutional order, said the announcement comes after an "intense and comprehensive" examination.

"The ethnicity-and ancestry-based conception of the people that predominates within the party is not compatible with the free democratic order," the BfV said on Friday.

Hopefully this inspires the other parties to to start the process to see the AfD banned. I know the report might not look like much, because of how obvious the findings are. But previous attempts at banning them have failed because such an official report was missing. So maybe our political system starts getting its shit together.

As we say in Germany: Hope dies last

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (21 children)

This is what we need to do with The Heritage Foundation and MAGA in the US. The extremes are usually bad whether they're left or right.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (3 children)

No, it's not whether left or right. The right are the ones trying to put people in camps.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Most of the "left" is also pretty openly supporting Israel's genocide. No, it's not just the extreme right that's bad.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, look at the vast majority of our democrat politicians...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

American Democrats =/= political left

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I understand, but I think that was the point the first guy was trying to make.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

It was a pretty bad point. They were entering a discussion about extremes and brought up center-right politicians.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And now we steer the discussion back to Israel, so everybody stays home and the right wins like they want.

Fucking morons, letting yourself be played like instruments .

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sure, go have a civil war. Let's see who is the benefactor of it and who is looking for a reason to implement martial law, and has basically beging for it for years.

Extremists all get played by the same source.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

assuming this is a reference to people that didn't vote cause "biden bad" and let trump win, did I ever suggest that was a good idea? of course if was better to vote for the lesser evil, but it doesn't change the face that the "left" supported israel's genocide.

It is a good point that others have made, though, that most "extreme" left doesn't support that

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you see that extremely moderate (aka Democratic, aka not left) position as the "extreme left", then people who would ban cars are basically ISIS for you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That's a good point, the democratic party in usa is basically center these days, not even left.

My point was that there are bad people on both sides, but in general, I consider "extreme' anything something to be avoided. For example, extreme "communists" (i.e. "tankies") could be considered left, and I'd certainly avoid that. Other example is, when supporting Palestine turns into real antisemitism by attacking all jews instead of Israel. Anyways, you made a good point.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You need to meet the actual left, not right-of-centre parties like the US Democrats. Only in the USA does anyone think the Democratic Party is "the left". The left itself is very much not supportive of Israel's genocide.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That's why I had "left" in quotes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Better to guillotine people instead, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When you start eluding towards banning democratic parties, you lose all credibility

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

What are you even referring to? I assume you talk about the Nazi party AfD, which by no means is a democratic party. As a reminder: democratically elected != democratic party. And why do you think the left is banning them? They are not even in charge... But anyway, I really do hope they ban these fascist assholes before they get into power and replay the third reich.

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