• djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    Please, please god crush these clowns. I don’t know if I’ll be able to mentally recover from an AfD sweep. The U.S. needs to be the end of the spread of fascism, not the first domino in a falling chain.

    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 days ago

      The AfD won’t sweep but they will likely become the 2nd strongest party, after the conservative CDU whose right wing loves the Republicans:

      Among others in this image: Former traffic minister Andreas Scheuer, a prominent CDU member (CSU to be more precise but it’s basically the same party).

      If AfD + CDU achieve a majority it’s not unlikely that they will form a coalition - or at the very least vote for the same bills.

      Fascism is on a global rise. The fascist Reform UK is surging in British polls, Italy has a fascist government, the fascist ÖVP FPÖ has gotten the most votes in the recent Austrian election etc etc

      Fascism is on a global rise and actively supported by Russia, China and the US. I doubt that democracy can survive efficient Russian disinformation + the full resources of China and the US.

      I’d say it will only get worse from here.

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        1 day ago

        We are literally experiencing US disinformation. Trump is on the news telling lies, passing them off as facts. It’s being reported, spread, reaching many people.

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          Russian disinformation is still more effective as of now. Trump himself is literally just repeating Russian disinformation and not making up lies on his own. The US has not yet become as proficient with the firehose of falsehood as the Russian state due to lack of experience for the most part.

          You just cannot build up a Telegram channel network with hundreds of thousands of subscribers posting about how the EU harvests Adrenochrome from babies over night.