Bjorn Hocke- The Man Softening the Ground for an Extremist Germany

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/23/world/europe/germany-extremism-hocke-afd-nazi.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20240623&instance_id=126976&nl=the-morning&regi_id=53831380&segment_id=170316&te=1&user_id=fe5d662adf685ae9dedd7464c832fcdf

by Free_Swimming

7 comments

  2. Not sure why but the headline got his name wrong. It’s Bernd Höcke. Happens all the time for some reason.

  3. Bernd Höcke.

    The neonazi here is called Bernd Höcke.

  4. If Germany wants to stop the rise of the extreme right, they have to at the same time stop the extreme left.

    If your source of news has no “extreme left” just “extreme right”, find some other source.

    To be clear, an ideological agenda that shuts down industries and intentionally self harm the German economy is an extreme left ideology.

    food and energy > societal order > everything else.

    If you harm the supply of food and energy, you harm the core order of society, then you get populist political parties.

    Of course this is not a justification for any extreme right ideology.

  6. Thank you, excellent work. The tactics to use tainted words then to claim victimisation and that regular language is being censored by a society infringing on people ‘s rights, rings a bell. It’s been used by the extreme right but also the extreme left, islamists, etc.

  7. God, why [cringe](https://x.com/BjoernHoecke/status/1796821518854357128) is so effective at politics, I’ll never understand.

    The rebranding of modern Nazis being [mainstreamed-teen/4chan](https://x.com/KramerNikolaus/status/1798778254410829984) memes & fucking “[German Pride Flags](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=3741ee2dab0636c6&sca_upv=1&q=deutsche+stolz+flagge&udm=2&fbs=AEQNm0Aa4sjWe7Rqy32pFwRj0UkWd8nbOJfsBGGB5IQQO6L3J_86uWOeqwdnV0yaSF-x2joQcoZ-0Q2Udkt2zEybT7Hdf5FBKg6QdtJ_mF8k5Wx_fK47VnnH0hqC26evHUklzukhRGDp8I9R6sObxD5rXV9iKTeMw0OsLcinUtCw7tu06Z-vfaM&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjckreOhvSGAxWVB9sEHVlgDH8QtKgLegQIDRAB&biw=1920&bih=953&dpr=1)” is so bemusingly unamusing.

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