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The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is far ahead in the polls in Saxony-Anhalt, a poll revealed on Thursday, just one year before the eastern state holds elections to its regional parliament.

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[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 69 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just to be clear: This is about the state of Saxony-Anhalt, not Germany as a whole. In eastern Germany, which includes Saxony-Anhalt, the Nazis have traditionally been strong.

Unfortunately, the situation at the federal level also looks pretty bleak: overall, the AfD currently has around 25% support in Germany, which is of course an absolute disgrace.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Crazy to think that there could be Nazis even in Germany of all places.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Always the last place you think to look

[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

At least, there isn’t an SS style agency taking innocent people who look "wrong" into custody in Germany, as there is in America right now…

[–] l_isqof@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Give them a year

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 8 points 1 month ago

I have no idea how it compares to ICE, but immigration enforcement is likely not nearly as "clean" as you expect in Germany either.

[–] TingoTenga@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

The authoritarian manual at work. Block, obstruct, piss people off, blame the others, get more votes.

[–] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

They still should immediately outlaw the AFD (NAZI) party, as per their constitution. While they're still the government, and before they're the ones fighting the new German Nazi state.

Billionaires are funding the new German nazis, like Musk the nazi, and Putin the nazi.

[–] commander@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

After Trump 1 won in 2016, it was like centrist all the way to the far left across the western world neglected to focus on their own domestic fascist movements. This has been a long time coming and it's sweeping across Europe. Seemingly a rapid acceleration post-COVID. A lot coming together. People feeling poor with little hope for upward mobility, a major rise in xenophobia and anti-immigration, fear of Russian invasion, anger over more visible reality of being US vassal states, debt/economic crises leading to austerity

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

More of their members should probably die. And perhaps a portion of their most zealous followers. Not the idiot randoms, but the ones that are really into their ideology.

Remember kids; fascist lives don't matter.