Nothing unlikely.
A. They are all for sale.
B. Authoritarians love other authoritarians. Horseshoe theory in action.
As opposed to SPD and Scholz, who’s selling port shares to China like there’s no tomorrow
No shit. When I just moved to UK, one of my housemates is a second gen Jamaican British.
He believes in far-right alpha-male bullshit. Thinking old women are worthless and all girls are chasing after gold.
While believes in far-left propaganda, being anti-capitalist, anti-American, anti-EU, pro-Russia, pro-China. He keeps telling us how it is actually NATO start the war and Ukraine deserved to be bombed. All of his news source is coming from some questionable youtube channel.
Outside of his political view, he is nice normal person though.
This is the first time I experienced Horseshoe theory IRL.
It’s not just the German extreme right that shares these sentiments. The broader far-right spectrum tends to lean towards authoritarian ideals. The attraction towards China’s practices, which include minority oppression and a push for cultural homogeneity akin to Japan, adds to their approval. Even within far-right circles, there’s a recognition that China’s current state hardly aligns with pure communism and bears similarities to fascist ideologies. China’s marked xenophobia and strict limitations on LGBT rights further emphasize this.
” German hard right shows an unlikely affinity for mass murder, war crimes, genocide, the police state, militarism, sexual violence as a policy of the state, monopoly capitalism, and the surveillance state ”
[ fixed that for you ]
not a surprise, I saw in an interview that Germany might abandon US and join up with China, if the far right ever comes to power. not that this will really benefit Germany, but might help prop up Germany’s economy in the short term.
here is a link to that interview with an German economist which also does a good job explaining the history of afd:
For decades, Germany was a beacon of centrist political stability. During her 16-year leadership, Angela
Merkel led a succession of grand coalitions which neutralised the political extremes, and piloted her
country through an era of steady economic growth
Today, that political settlement has dissolved. Germany’s reliance on Russian gas has devastated its
industrial economy, while the surface tranquillity of the Merkel era is a distant memory. Alternative für
Deutschland, a far-Right populist party, has been the beneficiary of this chaos, surging in the polls to
become the second-most popular party in Germany.
To understand this sudden reversal of fortunes and what it means for Europe and the world, Freddie
Sayers spoke to Wolfgang Munchau, former co-editor of FT Deutschland, and founder and co-director of
the Eurointelligence blog.
Literally just now had an AfD guy drop into my replies with an unhinged rant that he capped off with “accusing” (??) me of being pro-Taiwan (in response to something one would not in a million years have assumed could somehow be made about Taiwan)
It’s funny to think that various far right brainlets are gonna be the new generation of people who, like some Marxists of yore, travel to Moscow and Beijing to talk about how amazing, orderly and perfect everything is, just exchange capitalism as the boogieman with progressivism
They inhabit the same end on the libertarian-authoritarian scale.
It’s like OG Nazis and Communists both being socialists (Communists will hate you for mentioning that) but they were competing ideologies. Communism has a bigger emphasis on anticapitalism but otherwise they’re the same shit, just a different emblem.
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Nothing unlikely.
A. They are all for sale.
B. Authoritarians love other authoritarians. Horseshoe theory in action.
As opposed to SPD and Scholz, who’s selling port shares to China like there’s no tomorrow
No shit. When I just moved to UK, one of my housemates is a second gen Jamaican British.
He believes in far-right alpha-male bullshit. Thinking old women are worthless and all girls are chasing after gold.
While believes in far-left propaganda, being anti-capitalist, anti-American, anti-EU, pro-Russia, pro-China. He keeps telling us how it is actually NATO start the war and Ukraine deserved to be bombed. All of his news source is coming from some questionable youtube channel.
Outside of his political view, he is nice normal person though.
This is the first time I experienced Horseshoe theory IRL.
It’s not just the German extreme right that shares these sentiments. The broader far-right spectrum tends to lean towards authoritarian ideals. The attraction towards China’s practices, which include minority oppression and a push for cultural homogeneity akin to Japan, adds to their approval. Even within far-right circles, there’s a recognition that China’s current state hardly aligns with pure communism and bears similarities to fascist ideologies. China’s marked xenophobia and strict limitations on LGBT rights further emphasize this.
” German hard right shows an unlikely affinity for mass murder, war crimes, genocide, the police state, militarism, sexual violence as a policy of the state, monopoly capitalism, and the surveillance state ”
[ fixed that for you ]
not a surprise, I saw in an interview that Germany might abandon US and join up with China, if the far right ever comes to power. not that this will really benefit Germany, but might help prop up Germany’s economy in the short term.
here is a link to that interview with an German economist which also does a good job explaining the history of afd:
https://youtu.be/3ACX9xqMsRM
youtube description:
For decades, Germany was a beacon of centrist political stability. During her 16-year leadership, Angela
Merkel led a succession of grand coalitions which neutralised the political extremes, and piloted her
country through an era of steady economic growth
Today, that political settlement has dissolved. Germany’s reliance on Russian gas has devastated its
industrial economy, while the surface tranquillity of the Merkel era is a distant memory. Alternative für
Deutschland, a far-Right populist party, has been the beneficiary of this chaos, surging in the polls to
become the second-most popular party in Germany.
To understand this sudden reversal of fortunes and what it means for Europe and the world, Freddie
Sayers spoke to Wolfgang Munchau, former co-editor of FT Deutschland, and founder and co-director of
the Eurointelligence blog.
Literally just now had an AfD guy drop into my replies with an unhinged rant that he capped off with “accusing” (??) me of being pro-Taiwan (in response to something one would not in a million years have assumed could somehow be made about Taiwan)
It’s funny to think that various far right brainlets are gonna be the new generation of people who, like some Marxists of yore, travel to Moscow and Beijing to talk about how amazing, orderly and perfect everything is, just exchange capitalism as the boogieman with progressivism
They inhabit the same end on the libertarian-authoritarian scale.
It’s like OG Nazis and Communists both being socialists (Communists will hate you for mentioning that) but they were competing ideologies. Communism has a bigger emphasis on anticapitalism but otherwise they’re the same shit, just a different emblem.