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More than 100,000 protest across Germany over far-right AfD’s mass deportation meetings (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 96 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The headline is not wrong but somewhat misleading. Yesterday there where more than 300,000 people protesting against the Nazi party (AfD) and yesterday wasn't even the first or the last day of protests.

People are realizing that we are not talking about an ultra-conservative party but about an anti-democratic and racist party that wants to deport millions of people - many of them Germans - from Germany. That is exactly the plan Hitler had and that led to the Holocaust.

Edit:

Those people lost their minds.

The AfD parliamentary group leader for Saxony-Anhalt, Ulrich Siegmund, is also in the room. It is he who will, later on in the day’s proceedings, appeal for donations. He has considerable influence within the AfD; the party is currently polling in first place in Saxony-Anhalt. His sales pitch, very much in keeping with the “masterplan” of Sellner, details his ideas to change the image of German streets. Foreign restaurants would be put under pressure. Living in Saxony-Anhalt should be made “as unattractive as possible for this clientele.” And that could be accomplished very, very easily, he claims. His comments could have consequences for the region’s upcoming elections.

https://correctiv.org/en/top-stories/2024/01/15/secret-plan-against-germany/

No more indian / chinese / greek / italian / thai ... restaurants. Only schnitzel and pork roast.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

No more indian / chinese / greek / italian / thai … restaurants. Only schnitzel and pork roast.

Thats insane

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Good time to become vegan. They can't be against that!

/s

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Good time to become vegan. They can’t be against that!

Of course they can. The following is a AfD request (source: German parliament, auto-translated by DeepL)

AfD demands warning against vegan diet

The AfD parliamentary group is calling for warnings about vegan diets. The Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA) should "explicitly and emphatically warn of the dangers of a vegan diet without the additional intake of supplements, especially for risk groups", according to a motion (20/9798). The warnings would have to be visible digitally on the website of the Federal Agency. Furthermore, the warnings should be included in corresponding printed materials, including a list of possible symptoms of malnutrition.

(...)

https://www.bundestag.de/presse/hib/kurzmeldungen-984214

They are simply against everything. That's the way they operate. Their party platform states that they want to remove all subsidies for farmers. At the same time they are protesting that a very small part of those subsidies is being removed. They try sow chaos, hatred and division. An AfD politician even said: "The worse Germany is doing, the better it is for the AfD"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Woosh much? (Sorry, but I knew all that already)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This reminds me of a well known Austrian vegetarian in this context…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thats insane

Is it? The German economy soared when all our food was traditional German and so was the entertainment. So obviously people opted comparatively fun activities like overtime in a steel mill.