• arrow74@lemmy.zip
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    Racists and fascists should be silenced.

    I’m sorry they are upset that they saw a minority or that they overheard people speaking a foreign language while being brown. They can get over themselves

    You don’t need to pamper these beliefs. You can lead the voters to the actual cause of the issue without allowing them to empower fascists.

    Usually the real issue is economic. Lack of housing, low wages, failing Healthcare. Those can be addressed. You don’t have to allow the group trying to blame poor minority groups a seat at the table. You address the real issues

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      “Oh no, a kebab stand on every street corner?!? What am I to do? Delicious, delicious kebab. I could try one from a different place every day and it would still take weeks to find the best one. This is unheard of! This is unfair! It’s the parliament’s fault! If they didn’t let in so many foreigners then I wouldn’t have this many choices before me. I could eat a good German currywurst, or a good German schnitzel, and not be inundated with so many options like ‘felafel or haloumi?’ or ‘döner or dürüm?’. This cannot stand!”

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        Well expect the local Döner shop can stay, he’s one of the good ones you see

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          Yeah right, if AfD had their way that guy and all his nephews would get picked up at the grocery store or at the park or on their way to work or in their own homes, and saying “but I work at the local döner shop!” isn’t likely to help them much.

          Then all the right-wingers would start complaining when the döner shops all start shutting down, like “Those damn foreigners are abandoning me right when I need my lunch! I knew they were good for nuthin!”

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            It’s more of a joke on the people voting for the party and not the party line itself. The party means it

            Kinda the classic conservative thing of not seeing a problem until it effects them personally. Or at least a variation.

            The US is seeing the same thing, spouses voting for Trump then seeing their illegal/asylum seeking husband/wife deported and being shocked because “they were doing it right, or they were good not a problem”

            The cognitive dissonance is amazing

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      The AfD doesn’t really give a shit about foreigners. They mainly use them to gain votes. All they care about is money and power. Blaming foreigners for all of the problems is the easiest way to get votes. They hate poor white Germans almost as much as brown people.

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        All they care about is money and power. Blaming foreigners for all of the problems is the easiest way to get votes.

        Hmm, I wonder who else tried this strategy in Germany’s history… 🤔

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        Oh, they care about foreigners and who they behold to be foreigners. They already had a conference, in quite close proximity to the Wannsee, to discuss how they would like to handle them. No extermination, yet. But the Nazis also didn’t start with death camps but plans for deportation or ethnic cleansing or remigration like it is called today.
        (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Potsdam_far-right_meeting)

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          You’re absolutely right. But it is more a means of controlling anti-sentiments to gain votes and it works really well because they instill a fear into people that actually isn’t real. I’m fucking scared of what will happen when they come into power. What I meant with my comment is that they hate anyone who isn’t rich. A rich foreigner has nothing to fear as long as they play along. It’s disgusting.

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          It’s not exactly desirable. I’d prefer they remain in their home countries if there were peace. After all, it’s their home and it sucks to have to leave your home. But there’s war in those countries. The problems could be addressed, one being to allow immigrants to work for example.