A new study found that, on TikTok and Elon Musk's Twitter, nearly 3/4 of all partisan content being pushed algorithmically to German users favored the party best known for its ties to neo-Nazis.
Didn’t Vance’s speech the other day hurt the AfD? Didn’t it make some people deluded by their supposed “patriotism” wake up and see that we were all sold out to the Russians?
I am not German and I do not know the reality on the street in Germany, but I am scared of what could happen and how it will affect the European project.
No. In the mind of the AfD fanbase, being under the control of a strongman-led Russia is by far preferable to whatever they perceive is currently the case. I mean, for most of them, at least in the eastern part of Germany, that’s something like “the good old times”.
A key facet of fascism is the desire to return to a mythical ‘better time’. They are willing to bow to a dictator who promises them this myth, especially when mixed with the promise to put the racists in power over others in the process.
Ok, so we have a big problem there. It’s not one or two, there are many who vote for that, if we were talking about complaints about the economy or about migration from an economic point of view (they always hides racism behind it, but if they hides it it’s because they knows it is wrong) we can work with that.
But if they just want a strong man to guide them so they don’t have to face the problems, what can you do with something like that?
The AfD morons already ran around years ago with Russia Flags, Putin Pictures and Banners begging him to be their president. Those people are beyond any recovery to sanity
Didn’t Vance’s speech the other day hurt the AfD? Didn’t it make some people deluded by their supposed “patriotism” wake up and see that we were all sold out to the Russians?
I am not German and I do not know the reality on the street in Germany, but I am scared of what could happen and how it will affect the European project.
No. In the mind of the AfD fanbase, being under the control of a strongman-led Russia is by far preferable to whatever they perceive is currently the case. I mean, for most of them, at least in the eastern part of Germany, that’s something like “the good old times”.
A key facet of fascism is the desire to return to a mythical ‘better time’. They are willing to bow to a dictator who promises them this myth, especially when mixed with the promise to put the racists in power over others in the process.
Innuendo Studios covers it well in his endnote series: https://youtu.be/5Luu1Beb8ng
Ok, so we have a big problem there. It’s not one or two, there are many who vote for that, if we were talking about complaints about the economy or about migration from an economic point of view (they always hides racism behind it, but if they hides it it’s because they knows it is wrong) we can work with that.
But if they just want a strong man to guide them so they don’t have to face the problems, what can you do with something like that?
Not much. I guess it’s time for that lesson again, dark times are ahead.
The AfD morons already ran around years ago with Russia Flags, Putin Pictures and Banners begging him to be their president. Those people are beyond any recovery to sanity
I very much doubt even 0.1% of AfD voters heard about the whole thing.