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Germans take to streets after AfD meeting on mass deportation plan (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/world

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Thousands of people across Germany have taken to the streets for a fourth consecutive day to voice their opposition to the far-right populist AfD party after politicians from the party met neo-Nazis to discuss a “master plan” for the mass deportation of asylum seekers and German citizens of foreign origin.

Protests have taken place in Leipzig, Rostock, Essen and Berlin in recent days.

The AfD’s leadership has sought to distant itself from the gathering in November on the outskirts of Potsdam, west of Berlin, which was revealed by the investigative journalism network Correctiv on Wednesday. However, several party members were involved and have since voiced their support for the ideas discussed.

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[–] paddirn 63 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Huh, we’re back to far-right populists in Germany coming up with a “final solution” to dealing with undesirables, I’m sure this will turn out fine.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There were always a few hillbillies, but now they somehow formed a party that pulls in enough votes from delusional folks that it's getting risky. They gonna ruin everything they can get their shitstained hands on.

[–] Linkerbaan 0 points 11 months ago

Germans blaming their economic woes on an ethnic minority..

Where did we see this one before?

Next thing you're gonna say they are actively supporting the genocide of said ethnic minority hahaha. Ha.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

From 2020:

"We can always shoot all [migrants] afterwards. That's not an issue at all. Or gas them, or whatever you want." & "The worse off Germany is, the better for the AfD"

https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2020-09/christian-lueth-afd-alexander-gauland-menschenfeindlichkeit-migration

[–] Carighan 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah this is sadly based mostly off of the fact that the world is not good right now. There's a lot of larger-than-life issues, and none where a single person can, without impacting their personal quality of life significantly, make a dent in. And probably not even then.

This makes a lot of desperate, confused and fearful people very easy targets for a party such as the AfD telling them it's all just lies, there is no climate change, there is no pandemic, no nothing, and grab easy voters that way so they can push their actual agend, being nazis and getting themselves rich.
(Because as always they keep lying about how they're fighting for the common folk, but if you look at what their politicians actually vote, it's always empowered rich, removing restrictions, easing tax theft, and putting more financial strain on the common workers)