Why a far-right party's victory in Germany is a 'serious moment in Europe'

a month ago by 𝙈𝙞𝙖 to c/world

The weekend win by Alternative for Germany in the state of Saxony-Anhalt has sent shivers across the continent, and could embolden the right across Europe.

krigo666 25 points a month ago

History repeating itself.

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meat 7 points a month ago

Hold my beer

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StillAlive 6 points a month ago

*Bier

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PixeIOrange 2 points a month ago

*Anhalt my Bier

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mnemonicmonkeys 2 points a month ago

*Anschluss mein Bier

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Mihies 2 points a month ago

Im Hofbräuhaus

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capital5 19 points a month ago

The best way to stop far-right parties is for non-far-right parties to get off their asses and start fixing the problems our society is facing. To be specific, prioritizing financial security and stability for regular people above all else - even the "economy".

Or to put it in simpler terms: we're fucked.

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nuko147 2 points a month ago

You cant fix late stage capitalism though. Is not that the far right pops in one or two countries..

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TheEighthDoctor 1 point a month ago

Non-far-right parties are captured by burocracy and lobbies to not solve anything, far-right ones don't solve anything either but because they have no morals they can promise it.

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Akasazh 1 point a month ago

Used to be that the Russian government supported left wing parties throughout Europe.

Now they are supporting the far right, with a lot of success.

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myrmidex 14 points a month ago

who could've seen this coming /s

Politicians all of a sudden calling this a serious moment have had their heads in the sand for the last 2 decades.

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SaveTheTuaHawk 4 points a month ago

Voters who think far right parties will fix anything are ignorant of history. 100 years after Mussolini, Italians will tell you "he made the trains run on time". The reform of train management was put into place by the government before Mussolini.

People think government can improve their lives in a few months, all they can do is make things much worse quickly, see USA.

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myrmidex 3 points a month ago

Ignorant of history, sure, but centre parties cutting back on education did not help. The PISA scores are obvious enough.

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Eldritch 2 points a month ago

This is true. Unfortunately education should be one of the primary interests of any government. Though it's often one of the last for a reason.

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hushable 2 points a month ago

Similarly in Chile, some talk about the economic miracle under Pinochet. Yet it happened after he left power in 1990.

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godsammitdam 1 point a month ago

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Eternal192 1 point a month ago

Scholz and Merz have had years to fix the issues that people were complaining about and they choose to do nothing and if anything they choose this outcome so if you want to blame anyone blame them.

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ByteJunk 4 points a month ago

There's a lot of that to go around, for sure.

Politicians have been relying on the "surely no sane person would vote for them" for way too long, instead of cutting down the capitalist overlords that rule the planet.

Guess what, looks like with enough money and astroturfing you can get anyone elected, and now we're all fucked.

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