Rubio condemns German intelligence’s decision to classify far-right party AfD as extremist
Rubio condemns German intelligence’s decision to classify far-right party AfD as extremist
"American Nazi Party Leader Condemns Foreign Government for Classifying Nazis as Nazis"
They are certainly not nazis. The Nazis were organized and not lazy. The Nazis actually believed their own bullshit. The Nazis had intelligence and cunning. Trump has none of these things. He is the dumbest laziest dictator the world has ever seen.
Don't believe nazi propaganda about those things. They were largely inefficient and disorganized, they just predated others to fuel their goals. It's one of the economic reasons for waging war on everyone: once you use up your local stolen wealth, you gotta raid other people's. Nazi organizational structures were famously broken, with different redundant levels of political control pitted against each other, in line with social darwinist ideas.
And by far not all Nazis were true believers. Tons were "merely" playing along, because they thought they'd get something out of it. They often did, with the wealth of previously Jewish owned (and other) companies being handed to people close to the leadership.
These are parallels, not contrasts.
Note to the world, if Trump or his cronies condemn you for something, you're doing the right thing.
My first thought when I saw the headline!
BTW, the AfD immediately complained to JD Vance and asked him to do something. That's going to backfire hard.
What does Lavrov think?
Same battle :-)
First France, now Germany. Seems Europe (at least some of us) has decided it won't sit idly and let far-right extremists burn us to the ground.
Although these are all provisional fixes. The true solution would be to get the people to ditch these idiots, and to do that, we need to fight disinformation and far-right propaganda on social media. Democracy can't survive if the voting base is too ignorant to choose its leaders.
This is not a fix at all in Germany. There are no immediate repercussions of the Verfassungsschutz calling the AfD extremist. There might be more wind in the sails of the politicians that want a motion to ban them, but I’m definitely not holding my breath for it during a Merz administration.
I agree, it's not a fix. However it's also not just "calling them extremist". It's an official classification not just something haphazardly mentioned in a speech.
The move, announced Friday by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), means that the AfD is no longer merely under suspicion. The agency says it now has definitive evidence that the party works against Germany’s democratic system.
A 1,000-page internal report, according to German public broadcaster ARD, underpins the decision, citing violations of core constitutional principles such as human dignity and the rule of law.
The new classification doesn’t ban the party, but it allows German authorities to intensify surveillance, including the use of undercover informants and monitoring communications, under judicial oversight.
It puts some grants for them into question, so less money for the faschs.
Democracy can't survive if the voting base is too
ignorantmisinformed to choose its leaders.People not knowing enough IS bad for democracy, but the fact that they "know" so many objectively false and harmful things is MUCH worse.
Make political advertisement / political messaging illegal on entertainment platforms. There's precedent for highly regulated TV advertisements, why is there such a broad exception for unregulated manipulative online advertising? Why is cigarette, religious, drug advertising forbidden but political lies and agendas allowed, endorsed even? Fines need to be 50% of monthly worldwide profit and increase by 5% for each month of noncompliance.
This simple legislation would instantly solve a lot of current issues with what's wrong and protect free, democratic nations.
Just banning Xitter would solve most of the problem, imo Maybe Facebook too.
Fines need to be 50% of monthly worldwide profit and increase by 5% for each month of noncompliance.
Profit is a bad metric here, they have decades of experience pretending they have no profits. Make it 10% of company value each month.
Canada conservatives are trying to keep PP alive
Hypocrites the lot of them.
He has said many times there should be term limits on MPs and low and behold he is parachuting into Alberta just like a good little hypocrite does.
Imagine someone conservative running against him as an independent and winning.
That would be priceless. Are there any anti fascists conservatives living in the Battle River area?
The true solution would be to get the people to ditch these idiots, and to do that, we need to fight disinformation and far-right propaganda on social media.
Agreed. But it seems that the EU is also doing something about that. Just like with AfD, they've been dragging their feet for way too long but now something* gave them a jolt.
We currently have an interesting success story of Die Linke (proper left-wing party) who managed to garner votes by embracing social media and *cough* populism in, what seems to be, a Good Way.
and to do that, we need to fight disinformation and far-right propaganda on social media.
Nope. I mean it's not wrong to do that, but it would be mistaken to see that as anything but a flanking measure: You can't fight affect with cognition. We need real-world policy which alleviates people's anxieties.
Surprised fascist claims anti fascists are wrong and should stop fighting fascism. More news at 11.
I think the grand plan is to find somebody who messes up Europe from the inside, so that Americans don't notice the difference too much.
They're not happy with just Hungary, it seems
Always has been.
Honestly kind of has always been Europe's plan for Europe too so that working class Europeans don't notice either... I say that with love from one dumpsterfire to another.
That's what the AfD was for, no? :^)
Yeah no wonder. The administration he's part of is behaving unconstitutionally, so it's only logical he would condemn the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in other countries for doing its job. Can't have that if you want to erode the democratic basic order.
lol stfu Rubio. They are a right wing extremist group. Feel free to read the damning evidence over 1000(!!!) pages
Marco Rubio can eat the peanuts out of my shit.
With best regards from a hopefully soon fascist-free Germany.
Alternate headline: "Demagogue objects to objective reality"
Who cares what Reek has to say
Yes Marco. Yeees. Dance for daddy 47. Daddy 47 won't deport you to CECOT if you do what he says. Normalize fascism globally Marco for daddy 47 and grandaddy KGB potato. It won't get you specifically killed. Not so long as you dance the dance and sing the song, Marco. Never mind that most of the people in CECOT danced the dance and sang the song. Their only crime was looking like you in daddy 47's eyes. But you're different Marco. You're daddy 47's favorite. Sure he's backstabbed everyone who's ever helped him almost immediately. He's gone back on every deal he's ever made. But you Marco. You'll survive. Sure there's no evidence to demonstrate you'll be okay given the totality of everything.
Germany really doesn't care what he feels.
Who the fuck is Rubio and why should anyone care what he has to say about anything? It says he’s the us Secretary of State in the us. Meaning he’s about as unqualified to speak up about it as my pup.
Fuck these dumb idiots who can’t understand the difference between politics and terrorism.
He is the secretary of state, Acting Archivist for the National Archives, Interim leader of USAID and most recently National Security Advisor.
heres there to make noise when trump and vance needs some backup
I was going to say something like "I liked the USA better when it had no clue about foreign politics" but then I realised that maybe that's just because we weren't the target before. Is Europe now part of the USA's definition of Middle East?
Oh no. Anyway.
Yes, this is not news.
well that just validates this decision
I am sorry I can't hear the tiny little fascist man talking can someone tell me what he is saying his voice is too quiet and squeaky.
For real though, I just feel bad for Micro Rubio, when you make it all the way to the top and everyone still thinks you are a cowardly fascist loser it has to make it painfully obvious how worthless you are.
Lil’ Marco can eat a Costco size bag of dicks
Game recognizing game.
Tell Marco to keep his
brownorange nose out of other countries democracies.Is Little Marco Rubio speaking for himself, it is someone playing him like a puppet?
See, this is why he was confirmed unanimously.
Defending violent nazis and rolling back all environmental laws that regarding gas ovens
These people have a strange oven fixation. They must want to bake a lot of bread.
Yes, Classify AfD as extremists.
Because that worked so well with the NSDAP....
(Want to clarify, yes, AfD is bad. I just think we are cooked at this point)