Germany’s Social Democratic Party says first legal steps should be taken to ban the far-right AfD party as unconstitutional. Conservative lawmakers are less keen on the idea.
A number of Germany’s conservative lawmakers have called for a cautious approach after the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the junior coalition partner, on Sunday passed a motion calling for preparations to ban the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
The debate on whether to ban the AfD, which forms the strongest opposition force in parliament, has gained momentum after it was reclassified by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency in May as a “confirmed right-wing extremist” group — an assessment that is now under court review after a legal challenge by the party.
Yeah, guess what? We should have banned them long before they became the “strongest opposition force in parliament”. Now that they poll over 20%, of course its tricky. Who would have thought?
Yeah. Previously it would have been seen as banning an extremist party. Now it would be seen as election tampering.
We just had elections, now is the time.
Do the Murdoch’s have their media empire setup there too? If so Lachlan is your problem and the solution is an Italian plumber. Really the crux of any solution is almost certainly a plumber.
Not really but we have Springer which isn’t much better
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Döpfner
I was genuinely surprised not to see a link about his father(professor?) or grandfather(dunno, I was expecting SS and with citations). Non-jewish Zionist was also surprising.
Then further down his wife is the daughter of a Deutsch Bank exec and his son is Peter Thiel’s chief of staff. So yes you have a plumbing issue.
Banning thought never works. Find why people are upset. Analyse it. Find a solution.
Edit. Downvoted for the idea of analysis, and solutions. Awesome. Is this Reddit?
Well you don’t ban the thought you ban them from assuming political positions and from taking government funding. They may have nazi thoughts which you can’t stop them from having but you don’t need to finance their plots to overthrow democracy and murder political opponents and ethnically cleanse the country.
Of course a .lm account would advise against banning that fascist party. A process that is, btw., completely within the the lines of democracy.