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(DIR) Post #AthMLIotw96IxvPArQ by tzimmer_history@mastodon.social
2025-05-02T22:58:47Z
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Lol. Of course he does! America’s government is openly aligning with German rightwing extremists – who love to snuggle up to the Trumpists. Frankly, they deserve each other. And there is no better way for them to tell the world who they really are than through this MAGA-AfD alliance of extremists.https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/02/marco-rubio-germany-afd-00324283
(DIR) Post #AthMLJcWxcndRqcoDY by tzimmer_history@mastodon.social
2025-05-02T22:59:23Z
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The AfD really is the German version of the fully Trumpified Republican Party: A far-right coalition that unites different shades of radical reaction and “counter-revolutionary” extremism – “Make Germany Great Again” in all its nativist, nationalistic, anti-pluralistic ugliness.
(DIR) Post #AthMLK5bDY3Gu0E1Wi by tzimmer_history@mastodon.social
2025-05-02T23:00:08Z
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Just a few “highlights” about the people America’s government is siding with here:The leading figure of the extremist wing of the party, with strong ties to the neo-Nazi scene, is Björn Höcke. In 2017 Höcke called the Holocaust memorial in Berlin a “memorial of shame.”
(DIR) Post #AthMLKpgSCunCvmpMG by tzimmer_history@mastodon.social
2025-05-02T23:01:03Z
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In May 2021, Höcke yelled “Everything for Germany!” (“Alles für Deutschland!”) at a party rally. This slogan is associated with Nazi stormtroopers. In May 2024, a court found that Höcke was indeed guilty of using a prohibited Nazi slogan; he was fined.
(DIR) Post #AthMLLid9urpxLUi0G by tzimmer_history@mastodon.social
2025-05-02T23:02:13Z
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In November 2023, several high-ranking AfD politicians attended a meeting with neo-Nazis and rightwing businesspeople in Potsdam to discuss a plan envisioning the ethnic cleansing of Germany via the forced deportation of millions of people. They euphemistically called it “remigration.”
(DIR) Post #AthMLMUqGfQqMs3D9M by tzimmer_history@mastodon.social
2025-05-02T23:04:19Z
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The AfD’s lead candidate for the 2024 European parliamentary election, Maximilian Krah, publicly declared we shouldn’t be so quick to judge the actions of… members of the Waffen-SS, the military arm of the SS, which played a key role in the Nazi regime’s genocidal machine.
(DIR) Post #AthMLNCndEasZCcJfM by tzimmer_history@mastodon.social
2025-05-02T23:05:52Z
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AfD leader Alice Weidel – who is supposed to present the “respectable” face of the AfD! – bemoaned that “Germans are a defeated people” in an interview with the rightwing magazine The American Conservative in early January and emphasized her desire to return Germany to its supposed former glory.
(DIR) Post #AthMLO2YWnzh9ipeL2 by tzimmer_history@mastodon.social
2025-05-02T23:06:53Z
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In her conversation with Elon Musk, also in January, Weidel provided a remarkable window into the conspiracism and aggressive grievance that dominate her party: For instance, whe raged about how young people in Germany learn nothing at school but “woke socialist gender stuff.”
(DIR) Post #AthMLOMPKzsE9I7VHU by cdarwin@c.im
2025-05-02T23:11:08Z
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@tzimmer_history The AfD really is the German version of the fully Trumpified Republican Party: A far-right coalition that unites different shades of radical reaction and “counter-revolutionary” extremism – “Make Germany Great Again” in all its nativist, nationalistic, anti-pluralistic ugliness.@mastoreaderio unroll please
(DIR) Post #AthMLOwv9F53yXCfC4 by mastoreaderio@mastodon.social
2025-05-02T23:11:11Z
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@cdarwin here's the unrolled thread: https://mastoreader.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fc.im%2F%40cdarwin%2F114440763391475746Next time, kindly set the visibility to 'Mentioned people only' and mention only me (@mastoreaderio). This ensures we avoid spamming others' timelines and threads unless you intend for others to see the unrolled thread link as well. Thank you!
(DIR) Post #AthMLSuERBJ4FLyZYe by tzimmer_history@mastodon.social
2025-05-02T23:08:22Z
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Weidel’s conspiracism extends to her understanding of German history. Hitler, Weidel declared, was actually a communist! Her argument, if we want to call it that, is exactly as bizarre as you would expect: “As the word says, they were socialist,” and: “He was a communist, socialist guy.”