Germany's AfD's far-right leader Alice Weidel held secret meetings with Chinese envoy, it has also emerged that she was on China’s payroll for several years
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How damaging is this likely to be for them? A corruption scandal two days before an election seems like it ought to hurt, and I would assume as an outsider that AfD voters are not exactly pro-China
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Idk, seems like those people mainly wants as much disruption as possible and just don't care what exactly they are supporting with their vote.
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It is very funny that "Literally Neo-Nazi" isn't disqualifying in any respect but "Doctoral study of the Chinese pension system" is what puts your head on the chopping block.
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Yeah... don't think the thesis on Chinese pension systems is what this is about.
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They can’t read so it won’t have much of an effect on their votes
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Their voters live in a different reality by now. Likely it won't be damaging at all.
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You clearly have misunderstood the whole thing here.
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So...I guess these articles now have confirmed that USA Trump- RF Putin- CCP Jinpin- have their interests aligned and wish to undermine democracies.
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Being a corrupt fuck seems to be the one common denominator for most of the German chancellors in the last 4 decades.
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Yeah, and let us not forget that many of their voters receive their 'information' exclusively from social media, and here primarily from Tiktok and Xitter. The algorithms likely don't show them anything bad of China, Russia, AfD, ...
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That's exactly what I meant by "different reality". They are spoon fed their "news" and "information" by US and Chinese disinformation platforms AKA "social media". And by German papers and TV cannels owned by the Axel Springer Corporation, which is pretty much the German equivalent to Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate.
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You don't have to mention people when replying to them. They'll get a notification automatically.
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Seriously. Apparently this needs to be taught in kindergarten. How many times has this happened in recent history now...
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Thanks to every major party having made austerity some kind of state religion, the axe has been taken to the entire education system numerous times in the past 5 decades. Also, the famed post WW2 denazification, especially in the administration, has been largely a sad joke. Coincidentally one of the more radical prominent figures in the AfD, a certain Mr Höcke, who can, by court verdict, be legally called a fascist, is a history teacher of all Things.
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The PhD was already public knowledge and is therefore clearly not the issue here.
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Sure. The "China" appears to be what has people upset. Had she been working for JP Morgan Chase and taking private meetings with Jamie Diamon, the AfD voting base wouldn't care.
What should seemingly be disqualifying is being a Nazi. But if she's working with Chinese bureaucrats on an economic plan, I suspect the response she'll get is "Oh no! She's going to let more Chinese workers into the country to steal our jobs!"
Basically the same reactionary response American fascists had to Vivek's Urkele rant.
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I agree, I doubt the AfD base would care. However, I would like them to reach the conclusion of "Don't vote AfD" within the next two days even if they wouldn't have done so on the basis of other corruption
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But they also wanted to notify other users than the one they were replying to. From my experience, you only get notified if someone directly replied to you.
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The problem with fascist parties is they tend to be as skeptical of outside news as they are gullible towards insider news. "She's a Chinese Fifth Columnist who will turn Berlin over to Beijing!" is the sort of thing fascists eager to believe about outsiders but very reluctant to accept of one of their own.
