My dear German brothers & sisters. The politicians you keep electing are headed backwards through history. They keep acting more… totalitarian. Just as Trump got re-elected in the US, you are making the same mistakes. Many in the party claimed to be fighting fascism while seeking their own version.
I wish we could have learned sooner, and you didn’t have to go down this road. The politicians used your people like puppets — insisting you must hate & fear your opponents & neighbors — saying, “if you don’t vote for us, you may never get to vote again!”
They demanded you ignore their corruption & said they’re morally pure. They argued, “we’re more educated & intellectually superior — we have better ideas”, while defending genocide.
Many of you pointed fingers. You called those expressing legitimate concerns the problem. You convinced yourselves that those merely questioning were traitors.
Instead of demanding accountability & change from within, you attacked viciously. Now as you lose seats & your party briefly pretends they knew it was a genocide all along, will you let them get away with it? Will you let them keep guilt-tripping you for something you didn’t do. Will you keep supporting what they’re doing now?
This is a vigilant democracy at work. And also a person that clearly harms the Palestinian cause with his right wing conspiracy myth bullshit.
Some context about this guy: he lies. He staged photographs of gaza back in 2014, where he dumped kids toys on the scene of some bombing, claiming it shows how the war primarily target kids.
He constantly thinks, that the goal justifies the means.
So, I talk this with a lot of scepticism. Wjile, if true, it would be a fatal signal for our democracy. But there is a relatively large chance that he lied again.
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And there is nothing about it in German sources or non fishy other news
You staged the photograph or Todenhoefer?
Clearly not a popular person in Germany and not someone you should follow.
He staged them. Also in the last years he drifted to conspiracy groups.
Thanks autocorrect! I’ll fix it :)
What Todenhöfer wrote is difficult, and German courts would process this.
But there was a similar case. The media said a man’s house was searched because he said Scholz is stupid. But it turned out he also posted antisemitic stuff and nazi symbols. They only took his iPad and didn’t search his house.
Theres something he doesn’t communicate (170 pages?!?)
It is difficult, but not kicking the door in difficult.
Let’s see how this plays out
Yeah. I think he did more stupid things or lied.
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Nah, fuck this guy. He has a long history for simping for Islamic terrorists, defending the Taliban and even ISIS.
According to his twitter he just met with Hamas leadership. He should be lucky he got arrested here instead of being drone striked in Qatar.
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You’re proving my point & proving his point as well. Your ideology is exactly why groups like AfD have grown significantly. Most people will eventually oppose censorship, because at some point they too will question a government-mandated narrative. Then people like you will immediately try to label them into some group for your Gestapo to go after.
I don’t believe that AfD has good ideas, but they are one group that people will turn to once they realize how totalitarian people like yourself are. Bad ideas don’t flourish in a vacuum. If someone expresses a belief or thought you disagree with, then provide a strong argument against it. When you turn to using force against speech, rather than debate, then you have lost the argument.
Additionally, you are giving the appearance of legitimacy to ideas you find to be controversial in many instances. Just as Netanyahu, while claiming to represent all Jews, shows how much power he has over many politicians all over the world, and the media frequently acts as hasbara messengers.
Just stop it! You are what is causing those ideas to flourish.
Stop trying to be the thought police. Express the value & legitimacy of your ideas by showing others how they fruitfully impact your own life. If someone has beliefs you think are incorrect, then show then give them compassion, patience, and kindness. Good ideas spread through example, not force.
Ah yes, the evil pro-AfD ideology of … referencing wikipedia.
I tried to engage in good faith & provide an explanation, hoping you’d do the same. Too bad that this is the road you chose.
The ghost of Himmler looms large.
They have learnt nothing from their past, what an absolute mess.
Actually they have learned a lot, at least in this case.
We are in the same boat in the U.S.
No one has been raided yet, other than that newspaper a while back during the election cycle, but people are losing their jobs en masse for protected political speech. It won’t be long before the brown shirts come a’ knocking with printouts of your Reddit/Lemmy posts.
Freedom of Speech, just not against Israel in any way shape or form, just like the UK has banned and is arresting anyone claiming support for Palestine Action. It’s so pathetic that the entire world has to bend over for a fucking genocidal regime. (pardon my language).
That’s not how 1A works.
In most places in the US, private employers are allowed to terminate for any or no reason, with very few exceptions, those being the protected classes carved out by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and sometimes slightly expanded by state law.
I’m not saying it’s right, just that protected political speech and the choices of private employers are wholly disconnected things.
I’m aware, I’m not saying they aren’t within their rights (legally speaking) to do it, just that it’s morally fucked up and is something that basically never happened before the social media nightmare of the last decade or so.
1A isn’t a shield from social consequence, but when those consequences are happening because the government is actively vilifying certain speech, I feel like that is something we should be highly concerned about.
Oh, yeah, the government is violating 1A all the time right now.
It still remains important not to conflate protected speech (that being the kind which the governent ought not be curbing) with private business actions.
You’re correct. I should have been more clear.
