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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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.
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So AfD is supported by China, russia and the US? Which major countries do we have left outside the EU to help fight fascist bullshit?
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so far right came all the way around to communist
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But if she’s working with Chinese bureaucrats on an economic plan ...
You have again (maybe intentionally?) misunderstood the issue. China is working to undermine democracy in Germany (as well as it does elsewhere, btw). What the AfD and China have in mind has nothing to do with an 'economic plan.' The China-related scandals of AfD politicians and arrests of their AfD staff last year are only a faint spark of the 'plan' they pursue.
This is not for, but against Germany and its democratic institutions what they are doing.
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The problem with fascist parties like the AfD, CCP, and all the others is that they don't care about democracy and human rights.
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Where's the communists in this equation
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And we're too tired to even say told so
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Pikachu got a stache
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I'm not blaming you or op, just jokingly wondering am I the only one who feels getting notified is rude
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Intentionally.
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Spies need to be kicked out of the country and organizations set up by them have to be banned.
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Is this what she meant when she called Hitler a "communist"? Not like "ew, communists" but "oh yeah, communists, like the good folks in the CCP who gave me money"?
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..China?
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Just fucking wild to see what does and doesn't qualify as fascism in the Western brain.
You toss out the AfD and the CCP but forget to mention the Likkud, United Russia, the La Libertad Avanza, or the GOP.
It's even crazier to see liberals scream and cry about the Genocide in Ürümqi for over a decade, then insist any kind of student protest over the flattening of Gaza City or the brutal rape and murder of hospital chief Abu Safia is the result of Iranian produced pro-Trump propaganda.
But, to quote Dr Lubinda Haabazoka, Director of the University of Zambia Graduate School of Business and former President of the Economics Association of Zambia
Every time China visits we get a hospital, every time Britain visits we get a lecture.
How long until the Chancellor of Germany is repeating this verbatim?
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They produce scandals each day to get attention. Same as Musk, Trump, etc.... At some point, the fans just don't care anymore.
