Yeah, that is so fucking annoying. I never save anything there, yet it absolutely always suggests that. Fucking microsoft.
Yeah, that is so fucking annoying. I never save anything there, yet it absolutely always suggests that. Fucking microsoft.
Believe it or not, they have always been there. The difference between the olden days and now is one of acceptance: In the olden days, most of these people voted conservative (CDU, CSU, FDP). They didn’t vote for straight-up fascist parties, because doing so was considered inacceptable by a huge part of the populace. What the AfD did was to shift the conversation further and further to the right, keep saying the unsayable and make it more and more “normal”. At the same time, the CDU under Merkel divorced itself from the extreme right by declaring themselves a party of the center, after silently accepting the fact they were the party of choice for a lot of people with fascist ideals for decades.
What we as a society have to do is to say “STOP - this is not acceptable!”, and banishing the AfD is exactly that. I am not sure where the voters of the AfD will go instead, probably the BSW or some other shit party, but that is still a better option than a strong fascist party that keeps getting attention and keeps shifting the conversation to the right until we wake up and live in nazi germany once more.
I suspect banning them will make them more powerful than they are.
No. It takes away a huge chunk of their finances and their structures. It will not make them more powerful. This is not Star Wars, and even there, I never understood how Kenobi was supposed to become more powerful by being killed.
What we really need to do with these movements is to ridicule them at every chance possible
People tried that in the US, see how well that worked out?
It’s okay, it’s only pretend money.