WTF is AFD?
In case you are new to German politics and have no clue what is going on when news articles talk about the AFD, no worries, this article is made just for you.
Until there was AFD the only popular right party that made it into the government was the NPD, following Hitlers ideologies. Many supporters were hard core Nazis, though it did have also protest voters that just wanted to express that they do not appreciate the government.
When AFD started it seemed like it was standing for the people, and no one really had a clue what their values are. My friend actually once voted back then for the AFD in the beginning and he feels very ashamed for this past mistake. A lot of NPD supporters felt like the AFD was more heard than other parties and flooded the AFD. As some of their politicians were not comfortable working with the radical right, the AFD was plagued with infighting.
With the desire for more voters, AFD has jumped on every bandwagon it can jump that can possibly oppose the government. Including Pegida (against islam and muslims coming to Germany) and against climate change and against refugees. It allied with far right movements across Europe for the European election which according to AFD are "not racist at all".
Readers that wish to defend their opinion about why they think climate change is not real, please go in the comments of this article.
The AFD did not only seem attractive to closet Nazis and protest voters. In social media AFD has grown very successful, as it allowed unpopular opinions that do not undermine AFD to be spoken freely. They also were source of many FakeNews stories that gave their supporters a feeling of validity in their alternate reality. Here is one of these platforms that got taken over by the rival German satire leftish party "Die Partei". The taken over Facebook pages displayed this video which mentioned some examples of hate speeches that were allowed such as a picture of Hitler holding his head saying "I totally forgot about the muslims".
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Despite their tolerance towards their own Antisemites, the AFD seems to yearn for nationalistic brother love with Netanyahu, the nationalistic leader of Israel, by voicing their wish to ban "antisemitic" Israel criticism (because maybe in their mind Israel is a religion and Judaism is a country???).
Their dislike for foreign criminals caused a spike in right wing terrorism and antisemitic crimes as terror statistics and crime statistics indicate. They even give funding to terror networks.
In summary the AFD is full of confusion and alternate reality delusions. They believe with a 10% majority it is their democratic right to decide over Germany. They are against refugees, yet secretly bring them here by supporting violent regimes that cause them to come here in the first place, and denying climate change.
They are Antisemites, except when it comes to Israel. They hate terrorist networks, and so they rather build their own terrorist network them self. They hope to be intolerant, but get offended when they are answered with intolerance. Their political stance if full of paradoxes and delusions that don't make sense. It has become a stigma to be associated with them, and they are in the "right corner" of the Government with no political party daring to side with them, hence being left with no power except CDU/CSU trying to imitate them and wanting to join the political minority corner in the next election which brings green and left hopes.
A lot of accusations in this article, no facts to back them up.
what accusation? i linked to the facebook page and the video that showed about the antisemitic posts of their followers and i shown you the antisemitic crime statistic? i made posts of right wing terrorists and the AFD funding of the group that had links with the christchurch terrorist attack? that they dont believe in climage change and dont want refugees you can get from them, its clustered on their sites.
name me the accusation u need validation of.
I stopped reading at line #5, i.e. "NPD, which is the party that Hitler founded". This statement is biased bullshit.
If you expect people to have a proper political discussion with you, you need to get your facts straight and raise your intellectual level above spreading FUD.
yes you are right i did not fact check that correctly. appologies.
I encourage you to keep reading. NPD are still nazis.
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and the point im trying to make is about AFD
Not disputing it. Still not "founded by Hitler".
You ARE entitled to whichever delusional leftist opinions you may or may not have.
You ARE NOT entitled to defame millions of AfD supporters as Nazis or antisemites. The AfD is a democratic political party in good legal standing; live with it.
Your toxic rhetoric is poor style. That's what you caught the downvotes for, I suspect, not for your opinion.
you think its any better when AFD supporters write about green supporter? or young climate protestors? maybe downvote them aswell while you at it.
I don't ever downvote people for their opinion. Haven't downvoted you, either, for that matter.
alrite i misunderstood then when you said
i thought it was ur second account.
we have very different opinions, but ur free to argue with me u kno, and i have had earlier post where i argued with afd supporters. feel free to let me know if there is anything else about my article you disagree with and why.
Why? Could I change your mind or anybody else's for that matter? I don't believe so, therefore it would be a waste of time. I'm a results-oriented person. If I can't get results, I move on.
yet i cant help but be curious if you ur self could agree with the AFD? do you believe in climate change? what is ur stance about immigration and the refugee crisis?
im saying there are many supporters who are nazis and antisemites, and as the unlocked facebook pages showed there was little resistance to such radical ideologies within the group. there was funding from the party to radical right groups aswel which i backed with evidence.
i corrected the mistake in the article and appologized for it. if there are more mistakes that are factually incorrect let me know, but dont flag people for it. unlike some AFD commentors under my articles or in AFD articles i did not use insulting vocabulary. what more do you want?
Never have. Never will.
From you? Nothing. I said my piece, good enough.
A lot of things, politically and otherwise. And I'm not gonna get them. I made my peace with the opinion of millions of flies who believe that sh.t tastes good. I'm not wasting what lifetime I have left trying to convince them otherwise.
i often feel the same way from my side. and i think there are opinion exchanges that need to take place as society becomes increasing polarized. living in a bubble of people with the same opinion is just enforcing the polarization.
It's not "becoming" polarized, it IS polarized already.
Now THAT we can agree on.
in that sense steem is pretty amazing because it does not use an algorythm to keep people in their bubble :) people just filter through the topics they would like to read.