dasJotMay 4
Randahl Fink

The German foreign office tells the US Secretary of State to put a sock in it.
🤜💥🫨

Thanks for the tip @tian.

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Show threadBruce MirkenMay 4
@randahl @tian Lecturing #Germany on how to deal with #fascists takes some nerve. I would say it takes balls, but we know #MarcoRubio put his in a blind trust years ago.
Show threadpunIssuerMay 5
@BruceMirken yep. I'm not a believer, but the story about the beam and the mote comes to mind…
@randahl @tian
Show threadToni AittoniemiMay 4

@randahl @tian That’s Rubio perpetuating the libertarian scam; that ”democracy” equals a lack of of oversight.

It does not. Democracy rests on enforcing the will of the majority equally on everyone. That enforcement comes from a central authority that is checked by the rule of law.

Show threaddrukacMay 4
@gimulnautti @randahl @tian
Exactly. To use petulant words against Rubio, if the AfD have nothing to hide then they have nothing to fear.
Show threadSir JoMay 4

@gimulnautti

And that needs to be said. People tend to forget.

The wild west is cool until a drunken gunman shoots you in the back just for fun.

Show threadOle PoulsenMay 4
@randahl @tian Who wants to listen to more incompetent American politicians whose only skills are divisiveness and misinformation?
Show threadFurbland's Very Cool Mastodon™May 4
@randahl @tian alt text please
Show threadBen Royce 🇺🇦May 4

@randahl @tian

someday the usa will have the same policy rubio is attacking

learned the hard way with much suffering, like europe experienced

or the usa won't

because there will be no more usa because they didn't have the policy

the lesson from tolerating intolerance is very simple

but some think we extend freedom to those who wish to destroy freedom, and have absolutely no idea where that leads

others do know where it leads. and they are shouting warnings

or rubbing their hands in glee

Show threadRico_RoswallMay 4

@randahl #AfD ‼️ "The ruling by the BfV is unlikely to put people off supporting the AfD.

Finding a way to reduce the AfD has been at top of the agenda among all of the political parties.

Merz would like to be seen as a pragmatic rationalist, aiming to reduce the AfD to what he refers to as the “marginal phenomenon” it once was by addressing the nation’s concerns, taking the wind out of the sails of the AfD’s successful modus operandi of inciting fear and insecurity."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/02/afd-extremist-label-sets-up-political-high-wire-act-for-friedrich-merz

AfD ‘extremist’ label sets up political high-wire act for Friedrich Merz

Incoming chancellor must now decide whether to ban flourishing far-right party amid widespread discontent

The Guardian
Show threadStefan IhringerMay 4

@ricoroswallpedersen @randahl Instead, Merz and prominent heads of his party (CDU) have been copying the AfD's playbook for months: inciting fear, attacking "woke ideology", attacking green energy projects. This has only made his party lose voters and the AfD gain them. His (and the media's) barrage of right-wing talking points over the past 12 months has made the topic of immigration from a side issue to it being election-defining.

Merz is a disgrace. But he's happy to soak up the AfD voters.

Show threadRico_RoswallMay 4
@randahl @compfu 💣 The political environment sounds explosive. We need each other more than ever in Europe. We need Germany. I hope Germany finds democratic ways to solve the many issue.
Show threadJanuschka AbroadMay 4

@compfu @ricoroswallpedersen @randahl

Merz promised to cut support for afD by 50%. Seems he's not succeeding. Or he was telling lies about his ambitions yet another time.

Show thread4c31 🐏May 4
@randahl @tian Damn!
Show threadSimon 🇳🇿🐮May 4
@randahl @tian The responses on twitter are... mindboggling...
Show threadgogojackMay 4

@randahl I'm trying to wrap my head around this...

The US Secretary of State. The top diplomat of the most powerful country on the planet...was baited into a pissing match on social media.

We are so utterly and completely cooked.

Show threadzetabetaMay 4

@randahl @tian
marco rubio is saying this because of political interest of afd, related to elon musk. if party would be far-left, marco would be silent.

marco rubio is just one very sad case in gop. he used to be some kind alternate force within gop, now he is standard orange licker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapua_Movement

finland had far-right movement in the past. it was banned on laws, which were intended against far-left.

Lapua Movement - Wikipedia

Show threadxoroxMay 4
@randahl @tian Go Germany! Don't be a disappointment like everyone else.
Show threadArnd LayerMay 4
@randahl @tian
Sadly, this is the the foreign office of the outgoing - Green / SPD - government.
I wouldn’t expect such a response from the incoming government.
Show threadAldo BrinaMay 4
@randahl @tian right now I think of Huntington's clash of civilization and this exchange shows how wrong he was
Show threadPeet TetterooMay 4
@randahl @tian Democracy is not in #Marcos book..
Show threadAljoscha Rittner (beandev)May 4
@randahl
Ich fand es übrigens schade, dass die @tagesschau nicht den zweiten Teil der Nachricht übersetzte, als sie darüber berichtete. Das wäre für einige Deutsche hier auch sehr wichtig gewesen.
@tian @trending_bot
Show threadMartin RustMay 4
@beandev Den Teil "What is truly extremist ..."??
Show threadAljoscha Rittner (beandev)May 4

@martinrust
Nein, das: "We have learnt from our history that rightwing extremism needs to be stopped."

Das wäre als Statement in der Tagesschau gut angebracht gewesen.

Show thread❍sz™ 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪May 4

@randahl @tian

The far-right #AfD party from Germany needs democracy for the time being, just as the Nazis in Nazi Germany once needed it.

"We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear's work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come." — Joseph Goebbels

Show threadLillyLyle/Count MelancholiaMay 4

@osz I immediately thought of Farage when he was elected to the EU parliament. Sat there and caused trouble, fiddled with his expenses and just used the whole situation for his own benefit.

@randahl @tian

Show threadStanleyHOOTZZMay 4
@randahl
Hay "AfD" all'yall can take yer White supremacy-n-shove it up yer Hershey Highways.
GOD/JESUS Spitz on WHITE supremacy like eedid at Gettysburg-n-at STALINGRAD,
ya stupid Fuckin Immature Man-Babies!!!
Show threadTor Iver WilhelmsenMay 4
@randahl @tian He does not see the irony of the nerd platoon of DOGE surveilling US citizens…
Show threadFunkyAsylumMay 4
@randahl @tian@toot.kif.rocks When a member of the current US administration tells you you did something wrong, you know you did everything right.
Show threadBlurry Bits PhotographyMay 4

@randahl For a cuban dude, he sure is the preeminent white-supremacist.

Although I concede that Republicans have never tasted the word hypocrisy

Show threadMyOpinionMay 4
@randahl @tian Nazis need to be stopped. They can’t be allowed to grow into an infestation like the MAGAts we have in the USA.
Show threadWesDymMay 4
@randahl It's often hard to tell if Rubio is as stupid as he sounds, but I won't bet against it.
Show threadRadio JusticeMay 4

@randahl @tian

Inside little Marco is a big ass Bautista just raging to get out.

Show threadMidgePhotoMay 5
@randahl @tian They see him.