Billionaire money at work. Tax their wealth, then they can't buy up propaganda machines to influence the population. Wherever you are, vote for a #WealthTax or #TaxWealthNotWork . If you don't, they will only keep amassing wealth and power that leads to results like these.
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“Democracy basically means: Government by the people, of the people, for the people.... but the people are retarded.” ― Osho
Trying to paint "Moderate parties have moved to the right, thus disappointing voters so much with their right-wing politics, that those voters now feel the need to vote far-right instead" as some kind of sane decision will never be not comically stupid.
Last summer around this same time I was having a conversation with a German fellow, and I mentioned Afd gaining support and he shrugged it off calling them a fringe movement that have no real support, nothing to be alarmed over.
Man, one year later and they are winning, crazy times.
Billionnaires must be hung, drawn and quartered
Gonna have to ask you to remove that wsws link and any info sourced from it since it is a highly biased and highly unreliable source.
This came to my attention because you reported a totally legit comment calling you out of the wsws link and you proceeded to use "low quality accusations" as a reason for the report. Don't abuse reports hoping to silence people who criticize you.
What is problematic or biased about the quote I provided?
Why are you accusing me of abusing reports to silence people who criticize me? Saying I am "abuse reports" about a single report you don't feel is valid doesn't feel fair to me.
Sure I will remove the "highly unreliable source".
The World Socialist Website is a Chinese propaganda site that support the Chinese Communist Party, including its aggression against Taiwan. Some may say that it fits to the topic as the Chinese government support Germany's far-right as we know, but this wsws/org is not a reliable source of information. This is a pure propaganda source.
What does this have to do with the Guardian?
The comment refers to OP's link in the body of the text (there is a link to a wsws./org page).
Ok. Could you please provide proof of your claim?
Tardigrade is right. I just went to the site and searched “Taiwan” in the search bar and read a few articles. Huge pro China slant.
What kind of trolling is this? Go to the site and read the narratives there.
Not OG commenter, but the Wikipedia page doesn't list any link to the CCP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Socialist_Web_Site
For what it's worth
Stop spamming my posts with the same lazy comment.
I find the title misleading. The AfD can suck a big one, but they only won the federal state election in Saxonia-Anhalt, with a population of 1.7 million against Germany’s 80+ million. It’s still very worrisome to me, and they won the state in a landslide, but “winning in Germany” hasn’t happened yet, thankfully.
Who is the biggest media outlet in Germany? Axel Springer Konzern.
Who gets the Axel Springer Award? Look for yourself.
This is a direct consequence of unchecked media ownership, and this trend is going on everywhere.
I guess people who can not start normal life because of cost of living are so frustrated that they vote for them... Apartament prices are part of that I guess. Maybe lets support right-to-housing.eu as a solution for it...?
The ruling class always makes the same fatal mistake of believing people who condescendingly have been denied meaningful help for decades will act reactionally when provided the alternative vision and opportunity to burn it all down, damn the consequences.
I don't know if it is irrational in a way though it usually ends up being a self immolating act for the desperate and poor, we are talking about human beings here, agency and free will are burning fires within us and given enough abuse that fire can be twisted into a rage that just wants everything to break around us in an enactment of a fantasy of eruptive "justice" coming to the people and systems that inflicted that suffering and denial of agency. When you corner an animal, instinct kicks in, we are no different.
This is why neoliberalism leads to a collapse into fascism, it locks society into a place where help is condescendingly denied continually while the narrative that neoliberalism is superior to conservatism (which is true) is used to beat any criticism from the left into submission.

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