Why “AFD” is being discussed
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>Undemocratically outlawing the opposition to secure the vote... You are cute in thinking your argument holds, but they were not that far (33, 37%) without outlawing the opposit…
by Arodex · Sep 8, 2026
They are smarter than that: Siegmund says he doesn’t want to form a government. After all then people could see how they function in office, and that might hurt the AfD in upcom…
by gumby · Sep 8, 2026
> They also want to deport Germans with attained citizenship. It's what they said out loud. There are records of this. It's what who said aloud? When and where? At the reference…
by sp527 · Sep 7, 2026
Grievance politics sells quite well. When AfD backers argue it's Western Germany's fault, it's easy for a lot of people to climb on board. Heck, AfDs own platform argues there s…
by davoneus · Sep 7, 2026
Citing the jüdische Allgemeine while discussing antisemitism is a joke, they call you an antisemite if you say out loud that Palestinian children are humans and have a right to…
by kuerbel · Sep 7, 2026
There's a big difference between "I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it" and "I disapprove of your stated objective to expel german cit…
by RGS1811 · Sep 7, 2026
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