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Rubio condemns German intelligence’s decision to classify far-right party AfD as extremist
(www.politico.com)
Lil’ Marco can eat a Costco size bag of dicks
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Is Little Marco Rubio speaking for himself, it is someone playing him like a puppet?
Tell Marco to keep his ~~brown~~ orange nose out of other countries democracies.
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.
See, this is why he was confirmed unanimously.
"American Nazi Party Leader Condemns Foreign Government for Classifying Nazis as Nazis"
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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.
I don't know if they understand that their close association with Trump & Musk made the classification extremely easy, politically.
They are historically unpopular and they are dragging all their allies down with them.
I'm desperately hoping for these things:
- the AfD gets disbanded as soon as possible. If Germany keeps dragging its feet it just gives them more ammunition. The legality is clear on this. And I know, there will be protest from their constituency, and ranting and raving and pulling of hairs, but it just needs to be done.
- the - some - other parties figure out how to use social media properly. Die Linke seems to have it down rn. I'm not sure if this requires bringing "cool" people to the front while "uncool" people do the actual work / hold the actual power in the back, but if it does, just make it so! Because it certainly would be better than uncool people like Merz being the populist face of the party while at the same time making policy that seems to aim more at saving face than actual policy.
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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.
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Democracy can't survive if the voting base is too ~~ignorant~~ misinformed 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.
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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.
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Surprised fascist claims anti fascists are wrong and should stop fighting fascism. More news at 11.
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.
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.
That's what the AfD was for, no? :^)
They're not happy with just Hungary, it seems
Always has been.
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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.
heres there to make noise when trump and vance needs some backup
He is the secretary of state, Acting Archivist for the National Archives, Interim leader of USAID and most recently National Security Advisor.
Basically he's 47 little bitch boy for any job he doesn't care about enough to install one of his white supremacist stooges. Marco is his little dancing monkey, sent to do the jobs he doesn't think are important.
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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?
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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.
well that just validates this decision
Game recognizing game.
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