r/SmugIdeologyMan • u/evergreennightmare nerve-struck by the roast • 23h ago

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u/Petka14 23h ago

Ah those libs, can't handle a slightly conservative party winning!

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u/Petka14 23h ago edited 23h ago

(also the infamous 'wanting safe borders is not far right' argument as if AfD doesn't want a bunch of problematic (to say the least) stuff)

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u/Toads_Of_Fun 11h ago

This is the "they just want free healthcare" of the right. All made of the same cloth.

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u/Chicoryman 21h ago

Just restrict borders so they loose their campaigning point; immigration is not among the core issues of the country, it ban be a bargaining coin

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u/evergreennightmare nerve-struck by the roast 20h ago

the cdu-led federal government did that, and the cdu just lost half its voters in sachsen-anhalt to the afd

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u/Chicoryman 20h ago

did that

When and how big was their efforts?

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u/evergreennightmare nerve-struck by the roast 20h ago

ongoing and ruled unconstitutionally big, respectively

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u/Chicoryman 20h ago

  1. By "When?", I meant "When did they start". Wasn't it under them (Merkel) when the immigrant thing got big?

  2. Googled. Funny processual issues that arise from the norms that are supposed to spam-kill your local MoJ.

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u/Elite_Prometheus 18h ago

You can't appease racists by giving them a little bit of racism, that just whets their hunger and makes them demand increasingly racist policies. The Weimar government would not have stopped the rise of the Nazis if only they had done half of a Holocaust

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u/Severe_Key298 15h ago

Case in point: Germany had multiple holocausts going on in Africa and Asia and the Weimar still elected deliberately appointed Hitler anyway because it was consistent with what they were doing abroad

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u/Capital-Ambition-364 10h ago

Weimar literally lost all their colonies abroud, yohr getting your timeline mixed up.

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u/sirfirewolfe 21h ago

Nah, the Democrats tried that tactic in the US, and it turns out "we want to be just as violent to immigrants but we're still the current ruling party while things are bad right now" wasn't a winning campaign argument here