365
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2026
365 points (99.2% liked)
World News
56778 readers
3124 users here now
A community for discussing events around the World
Rules:
-
Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:
- Post news articles only
- Video links are NOT articles and will be removed.
- Title must match the article headline
- Not United States Internal News
- Recent (Past 30 Days)
- Screenshots/links to other social media sites (Twitter/X/Facebook/Youtube/reddit, etc.) are explicitly forbidden, as are link shorteners.
-
Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
-
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed.
-
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
-
Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF OCTOBER 19 2025
-
Rule 5: Keep it civil. It's OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It's NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
-
Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.
-
Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
Lemmy World Partners
News !news@lemmy.world
Politics !politics@lemmy.world
World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world
Recommendations
For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/
- Consider including the article’s mediabiasfactcheck.com/ link
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Whether it was the result of Merz policies, the reduction in illegal border crossers will undermine the AfD's appeal.
It doesn't. Illegal border crossings are already down for years. Btw. do you see the refugees in the photo i posted?
Then why is the AfD popular if there few illegal border crossers?
Your mistake is to assume that immigration is their only topic. Or the only topic the population cares about. Anti-immigration is a small subset of their voter base. I already told you what other topics they cover among others. So you may want to actually inform yourself about the politics and social discussions in the country you try to yanksplain.
Their entire thing is being contrarian. Whatever the government decides, they will oppose it. For example: When corona hit, they called for lock downs. Once those lock downs were implemented, they called for lifting lock downs. You cannot win against them by copying a "milder form" of whatever they scream about, because they just do the pigeon on a chessboard thing and shit on it. They frame themselves as "rebels against the system" in every channel they can run on.
Political scientists have repeatedly pointed out that accommodation does NOT work. It only strengthens and legitimized the far-right. It's a simple question: Why vote the copy, if you can have the original?
Because the thing you apparently do not know about Germany is this: The mainstream parties, especially CDU, is constantly accommodating the far-right. And they're doing that "milder form" for ~15 years now, and shifting the discourse further and further to the right. If your assumption were right, the AfD shouldn't exist anymore.
https://goodauthority.org/news/embracing-populism-doesnt-hurt-right-wing-parties-it-may-help-them/
https://theloop.ecpr.eu/mainstream-parties-adopting-far-right-rhetoric-simply-increases-votes-for-far-right-parties/
You know what did work against the AfD? The Mass Protests of 2024. It caused them to drop several points in the polls. Turns out, making them socially unacceptable does work. The same way it worked against the NPD, which never gained a lot of influence in the first place. You know why? Because nobody was copying them, and barely any media was hosting them.
Merz's policies to tighten the border began in 2025 when he became chancellor. How is that 15 years?
Again showing you have no idea about German politics... Border controls didn't start in 2025. Merz didn't invent them. They started in 2015. Migration flows were already falling in the years after that. And adopting right wing talking points was already happening before 2015. In 2000 they started with the "Leitkultur" debate.
AfD was founded in 2013. In 2014 the first pegida showed up and got designated "worried citizens" from the leading parties, completely ignoring that these clowns are a loud minority. Yes, technically it's 13 years since foundation of the AfD, i just rounded the number up. That's what the "~" thing means...
And no, Merkel did not open borders. Her "wir schaffen das" was after the people arrived. The far right just spread the rumor that it was the other way around.
From https://www.princetonpoliticalreview.org/international-news/germanys-populist-wave-understanding-the-afds-recent-rise
Despite the AfD making some waves in German politics around the time of its founding, the party never made large enough gains to have a significant effect on political proceedings in the country. It has a history of winning only a few seats in state level elections, never being able to build coalitions with mainstream parties, and not once polling over 20 percent in the country until July of 2023. In fact, in 2020, the party even took a hit, with one poll suggesting that support for the party among Germany’s eastern states had dropped more than five percent in less than a year. This development came at a time of uncertainty and contempt for the party, as violence connected to Germany’s far right and the removal of a regional chairman of the party due to his ties to neo-Nazi groups worked to delegitimize the AfD in the eyes of many Germans.
Today, however, it would seem this drop never happened. Following their historic wins, the AfD has never been more popular. Membership has grown almost 60 percent in just over a year, and the AfD vote share has increased by at least 6 percent in all three state elections this fall.