• baines@lemmy.cafe
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    9 hours ago

    tldr that website sucks

    what’s the result and the long term implications?

    • 5715@feddit.org
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      8 hours ago

      the fascists likely didn’t get a super majority, but might be in that state’s government as major coalition partner anyway.

      long term: political disorder within germany’s inter-state federal politics, possible political firewall (“Brandmauer”) against an entire federal state, possible conflict with NATO over logistics, Germany “being busy with itself” etc…

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        4 hours ago

        Didn’t their main candidate rule out doing any coalition to build a government, i.e. government only if the AfD has the absolute majority?

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          2 hours ago

          Actually it’s stage 3/4 of 5.

          1. Fringe: just a couple people meeting in a bar
          2. Normalization: go out and do protests, interviews, etc. People hate your ideas still, but you just keep saying them until they’re normal.
          3. Mainstream: established parties get scared, start talking the radical positions to get voters back, thereby proving that the positions are actually fine! So why vote for the cheap copy then, if you can have the original?
          4. Power: win elections, start dismantling some Democratic institutions.
          5. Gleichschaltung: take over total power via manufactured coup etc. Then dismantle anything that’s left.
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      6 hours ago

      It literally explained all of that in the article.

      I don’t understand what sucked about the website, found it perfectly usable myself. I did reject all cookies when it asked though, so maybe that helped.

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          4 minutes ago

          You mean the legally-mandated GDPR cookie notice? That have existed for over a decade?

          Have you visited the internet before yesterday?