Far-right AfD's win on asylum vote rocks German parliament

[microwave@lemmy.world]

Summary

Germany’s parliament erupted in controversy after the far-right AfD backed a CDU-led motion for stricter asylum policies, breaking a long-standing taboo against cooperation with extremists.

CDU leader Friedrich Merz defended the move, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemned it as an “unforgivable mistake.”

The AfD, polling second nationally, celebrated the vote as a victory.

Merz’s stance signals a shift from Angela Merkel’s centrist policies, sparking concerns that mainstream conservatives are normalizing far-right influence ahead of Germany’s upcoming snap election.

[homesweethomemrl@lemmy.world]

Propaganda Works. Inviting a social media oligarch to run your party's propaganda is going to work.

Germany, your time is running out to stop this. Trust us.

[snotflickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

The whole fucking planet is gonna be burned to a god damned cinder because of these fucking freaks.

[horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world]

The foot is definitely on the gas pedal. This is everything accelerationists want.

[jesus_666@lemmy.world]

That's why I'm going to vote for a party I don't believe in. Normally I would vote for one of the parties I do believe in and help them build momentum on their path toward 5% – but with the AfD on the rise and the Union blatantly putting personal opportunism over the interests of the country, I can't afford my vote to not count.

Once more I wish we had a preferential voting system so people can vote for who they believe in and fall back to a less preferred alternative if necessary.

[undeffeined@lemmy.ml]

I don't recall who said this but the planet will be fine, humans not so much.

[snotflickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

That's actually, surprisingly, huffing copium.

We're fucking our environment so bad, we may actually genuinely kill off all other life, not allowing there to be a way to regrow and evolve.

The level of heat and the speed at which it will come will be just too much for many species to adapt to.

Like maybe some bacteria in some deep oceanic vents will survive, but the vast majority of life on this plane it super, super, super fucked. Basically it's almost ensured that most multicellular life is toast.

https://www.washington.edu/news/2018/12/06/biggest-extinction-in-earths-history-caused-by-global-warming-leaving-ocean-animals-gasping-for-breath/

A changing climate was behind other mass extinctions but we also have pollution and mass destruction of forests. All this taken together creates very real risks that nobody will make it and Earth will return to being a lifeless rock and exist much like Venus.

[soleinvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Do you have any sources for "basically it's almost ensured that most multicellular life is toast" or is this supposition? I'm a biologist and, while I think anthropogenic climate change is an extreme threat, have yet to see even the most extreme projections getting us anywhere near what you're suggesting.

[i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca]

George Carlin.

[isomorph@feddit.org]

My dude, we have the same issues you do. Half the voting population actually wants to be governed by fascists. You can't get rid of them democratically.

[deranger@sh.itjust.works]

Basically it's almost ensured that most multicellular life is toast.

Based on what? Look at previous extinction events, especially Permian-Triassic. The earth survived 2500ppm CO2 concentration and an 8℃ increase in temperature. Tons of species went extinct but it was very far from being a lifeless rock.

Chicxulub impact? That makes simultaneously detonating all the nuclear weapons ever produced by humans look like a firecracker.

I don’t disagree with your assessment that tons of life will be absolutely fucked. I don’t agree though that we can somehow end life altogether on Earth. I don’t even think we could do that if we tried.

[homesweethomemrl@lemmy.world]

It's not really a question of democracy as such, it's a question of media literacy and policy.

Kids under 16 should not be on social media. Social Media should be required to expunge all their data every 30 days. Influence campaigns that we know russia and China run should be illegal, and punishable.

That's for starters. Media theory for everyone. Explain how television works on television. Limit advertising. Limit demographic data for private interests, not much more for government interests.

The hole that we're in isn't because people have racist views (though they do) , or that the mechanisms of democracy are under attack (though they are) - it's that we all stare at lighted rectangles all day. And what those rectangles are doing is grinding everyone's discourse into mush.

[rolder@reddthat.com]

How does a vote on asylum rules affect climate change

[isomorph@feddit.org]

And who do you think is controlling the media and funding the educational systems? Olligarchs and their puppet politicians. You won't get rid of them and the system they perverted without luigis and guillotines.

[homesweethomemrl@lemmy.world]

I disagree, but if that is your belief, you'll need to get to guillotining and . . luigi-ing. The longer you wait the harder it would be.

Like, here, on Lemmy, we have a media not controlled by them. And an actual, physical, elementary classroom is somewhat influenced by oligarchs in the form of government mandates, but it can also point out that influence and work against it.

[drmoose@lemmy.world]

You can't?

[lolcatnip@reddthat.com]

It's not enough for free media just to exist. It has to be mainstream to have any hope of counteracting all the disinformation out there.

[skunkworkz@lemmy.world]

The bill has been rejected already https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyegkpkg31o.amp