• Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    The really key thing about controlled opposition is the first bit. The control. It’s crucial to the entire concept, because without it you’ve got uncontrolled opposition.

    If you raise a mean dog to scare people away, you really don’t want to let your neighbour start feeding it in secret… Especially if that neighbour has jumped the fence and kicked your arse before.

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      10 hours ago

      The analogy with the dog doesn’t work. The AfD is not there to protect anything.

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          10 hours ago

          I understood that. But who cares about the neighbor feeding the dog if the dog is not there to protect?

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              9 hours ago

              Last thing I can say is that feeding the dog references the financing of the AfD by Russia. Please tell me, how is this a problem if the AfD is not part of the government?

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                  11 minutes ago

                  I think I got it. ‘they’ means AfD in your comment while the article is about the politician suggesting that the CxU has to outgovern.

                  they are not interested in "out governing"anyone,

                  While the minister is saying

                  “I don’t believe that we can just ban the AfD. Instead we need to outgovern them.”

                  Sorry, I mistook your comment. I thought you were wondering why the CxU doesn’t take the AfD serious.

                  I am not obstuse but dense.