Germany’s centre-Right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and the centre-Left Social Democrats (SPD), which are holding coalition talks, have proposed a law that will block people with multiple extremism convictions from standing in elections.

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  • zqps@sh.itjust.works
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    Exactly. People act like it’s useless because it doesn’t permanently solve the problem.

    Well guess what. Fascism cannot be solved permanently. It needs to be opposed in every generation, consistently. Giving in is not an option.

    Banning a fascist party costs them a lot of internal cohesion and about a decade of organizing. It’s absolutely necessary and worth it.

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      Especially since a ban includes seizing all property belonging to that organization.
      All IT equipment, offices rented, employees…