Over 160,000 protest in Berlin today against far right and for democracy

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by MrWeit

32 comments

  2. Good.

    Let’s not repeat history.

    Let’s not become Dumbfuckistan.

    Fight before democracy is taken from us. Fight before the right to protest is taken from us. Fight for democracy.

  3. Get out and vote Do Not let Musk mess with your election

  4. It’s amazing how many people across Europe has shown up to protest for various reasons. Stronger together.

  5. I just hope those protesters and people making noise online also turn out to vote! They need to do a huge push to ensure they get the votes out. Too many younger potential voters go into being switched off from politics mode, vent online and then don’t vote.

  6. Is this the year of protests against the far right it seems 

  7. damn, did russians just spin up a new troll farm just for this comment section?

  9. Good to see the German public learned from political apathy that led to 1933.

    This right here is what could’ve stopped Hitler and what can stop the AfD now.

  10. We are Strong! We are Europe! My sincere respect to the German people!

  11. When will US get together to protest like this?

  12. Protests alone aren’t enough.

    Ensure you show up at the polls.

  14. So what is the protest actually for…or are we just outside for the sake of being outside?

  15. Why the AFD is a threat for the democracy in Germany:

    They repeatedly play down Hitlers reign and the Nazis of WW2, as well as the atrocities committed by them.

    They openly call for the “remigration”, aka deportation of political enemies into concentration camps.

    They have made countless fascist & racists remarks about minorities, political enemies and “unwanted” people in public, as well as threats against them.

    They plan to remove the free press and deconstruct the democratic foundation in Germany.

    They have made plans to violently overthrow the parliament, some of their members got arrested for this. In private chat groups, many of their members continue to talk about this.

    They have countless open Nazis as their members, many of them criminals of violent crimes.

    etc. [https://www.campact.de/rechtsextremismus/argumente-gegen-die-afd/](https://www.campact.de/rechtsextremismus/argumente-gegen-die-afd/)

  16. Didn’t they get elected democratically or did I miss something?

  18. 2015 we got told that the refugees arriving are rocket scientists and doctors,
    but it turned out the rocket scientists are specialised in explosives and the doctors in head amputation. 🤷

  19. it’s always baffling to me how you see more migrants than germans when you walk through berlin, but on those protests you barely see any migrants and almost only germans.

    so there’s this funny saying that “the only thing more white than a far-right party, is the protest against them” and it’s so true, every single time.

  20. Protesting what exactly? A sane migration policy proposal? A migration policy proposal that would most likely stop the rise of the so called “far right” AfD? Everyone talking about how we must stop the far right, even talking about banning AfD is completely and utterly delusional. Not only would banning AfD do nothing in terms of “far right” rise in Germany, it would also be undemocratic and it would only further alienate right wing voters. I don’t agree with the AfD on most issues(their stance towards Ukraine, their economic policy proposals, euroskepticism…) but having a zero tolerance migration policy is the only sane course of action for Europe now. If you really believe that AfD is a nazi party then I think we should all ask ourselves how the hell does Germany, a country where WWII and it’s consequences are so thoroughly studied in schools, have a nazi party with 25% support. Why do people vote for them if they are literal nazis? The easy thing to say would be that the people who vote for them are also nazis or simply brainwashed, the correct assesment would be that people are understandably furious at how migration has been handled over the past decade, as it has significantly changed cultural values and everyday life in Germany. The SPD and the Greens vote against such migration policy proposals, and then cozy up believing they are the heroes saving the world from the Nazis once again, yet they offer absolutely no reasonable alternative that would fix the issues befalling Germany today.

  21. It won’t make the underlying problem that causes AFD’s popularity go away.

  22. Hey Americans, this is what not being complacent looks like 

  23. That is great!

    We need to stop the nazis. Also vote them out.

  24. Come on Germany don’t let the muskrat buy your election too. Your modern education system makes it mandatory to remind you that Nazis are evil and currently illegal don’t repeat the same mistake of 1933.

  25. What are we doing, Americans? Why aren’t we mobilizing? Proud of you, Berlin.

  26. Anyone following Germany since the 90s should have expected this coming…

  27. But it seems to me that they’re protesting democracy? Germany has free and fair elections and they know they’re going to lose and so they’re protesting in advance. These people need to support democracy and except what the people want.

  28. Isn’t this to support banning a political party? So not correct to say that the protest is for democracy, because banning a political party is by definition a suspension of democracy, no matter how justified the action may or may not be.

  30. Remember all those Grüne dunces are what precipitated Germany into being dependent on Russia for its energy supply, filled Putin’s pockets with EU taxpayer money for decades by closing nuclear power plants in perfect working order, to end up switching to coal and polluting Europe with coal microparticles.

  31. The best way for AfD to stop existing is for the moderate parties to DO WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT and address the migration issue.

    Migration is the 1# issue that is splitting the EU because politicians think they’re holier than thou with their “morality” and “values”.
    If people are fed up with watching their cities becoming foreign places, address that and fix it.

  32. There is a movement starting & everywhere around the world is watching what Trump is doing & they don’t want it .

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