Going on in Germany at the same time:

1. A new 1500 page report concludes the far-right party AfD seeks to undermine democracy in Germany.

2. Being the biggest party in Germany, AfD polls at 28 percent.

Wo soll das alles enden, mein liebes Deutschland? 💔

@randahl For me, I am going with my first Danish course at UCplus Sprogcenter Ringkøbing - just in case I want to move my main place of residence elsewhere...
@wraith Rigtig god vind med projektet. 🇩🇰
@randahl Tusind Tak!

@wraith @randahl

Your first lesson:

Et stykke smørrebrød og en Grøn Tuborg, tak.

Now you can survive in Denmark. 🤗

@VikingChieftain @randahl Sounds like a plan, although I survived the last years there without these two. Will try! 😂😎

@wraith @randahl

Pointing at the food... ja, ja... Raising one finger to show that you want one of them. 😂

Just kidding. 🙂 Danes are very proficient in English, so you can get by just speaking English. But, as always, if you really want to learn about and become part of a society, learning the local language is gold.

@VikingChieftain @wraith @randahl and using it 😁 🤔 Like my broken Luxembourgish...

@connynasch 💯

Absolutely! Use it or lose it. 🤗

@wraith @randahl

@VikingChieftain @randahl That‘s my point after falling in love with the people and the country - English works and even German does, but I am the foreigner so I want to adopt myself somehow 🙂

@wraith @randahl

You have the right attitude, so you'll be fine. It'll be a bit of a bumpy start with the language (you won't have the vocabulary, and you'll probably have a bit of a rough accent at first) but you'll become more and more fluent as time goes by. Never be afraid to speak. That's how you build your skills, and I'm sure the Danes will help you when you get stuck. The Danes are a great people. 🇩🇰 💕

@randahl democracy is inconvenient to white supremacists

Well, my guess is that the Federal Government, the Federal Diet or the Federal Council will have to resolve to initiate a party ban proceeding against AfD. With a bit of luck, the Federal Council may pass such a resolution in autumn 2026. In the mean time, it's very likely that one or more state governments will come under AfD control. In this case, I suppose the federal government will have to invoke Art. 37 GG to put the state governments in question under federal control.

@randahl

@randahl In Europe Greens and Social Democrats need to merge to be able to beat hyper-capitalism and fascism
@robvliet @randahl That’s indeed exactly what GroenLinks (green) and PvdA (social democrats) have done in NL, they’re now Progressief Nederland or PRO.
@robvliet
A full party merger would be a mistake, IMO. But they need to work together in coalition. Even so, in most European countries that won't be enough to sustain a government.
@randahl

@robvliet @randahl
Parties merging is a big no-no in Germany - especially for left parties - due to historical SED merger in GDR.

Also there isn't much social democratic substance left in neoliberal former social democratic parties like SPD or Labour.

@randahl They plan similar things like Orban or PiS in Poland. I keep my assets liquid in case I gotta move. (economy is anyway going downhill)
@randahl
Just like all over the rest of the world and we see happening at break neck speed in the USA. 🤬
@randahl well large portions of the CDU are currently not willing to call upon the supreme court and let them check whether the party must be dissolved. So it is our duty to push for it.
@randahl In tears. It will end in tears. Hopefully the tears will be from #noafd.
@randahl sono matti questi tedeschi... ma chi paga i sondaggisti?
Trump?
@randahl Who will read 1500 pages ?
@tofm2 @randahl The Federal Constitutional Court, hopefully.
@randahl @StefanKarstens How long will it take ?
What actions will be taken ?
@tofm2 @randahl If the Federal Government, the Bundestag or the Bundesrat (no other bodies are permitted to table such a motion) move to ban the AfD, proceedings will take place before the Constitutional Court. As the last case involving the banning of a political party took place almost 70 years ago, it is impossible to predict how long this will take.
@randahl @StefanKarstens That is a problem.
What are 1500 pages against time ?
They will exploit any resources to delay court.
When will next electoral issues take place in Germany ?

@randahl all far left and far right party in all country must be eradicated.

Extremism itself undermine democracy, as governement will need to make concession because they also rules and represent the one that did not vote for them so concession are mandatory, and all far left and far right all have proven they are unable to make concession.

@skyblitz @randahl since something simple like equal rights for everyone and tax the rich are considered far left ideology these days, I tend to disagree with comparing the two.

@s_d_brath @randahl in this case i not really judge left or right, it's the "far" the issue, as both tend to be extremly corrupt, and against decmocracy itself.

Because far left is very oftem "full of comunism alligned people (so not democracy)"

And far right praise Autocrat like putin and other dictator (so not democracy either), it why we need to ban both.

@skyblitz @randahl how many communists on the left have tried to take away your right to stay in the country you were born in, harassed you for being LGBTQ+, or arrested you for joining a demonstration against genocide?

@s_d_brath @randahl if we see china example ?

They don't they just take your lank and if you disagree you are dead, because it's for the common (only the leader) good.

they are both as bad, just their "ennemy" are differents.

Democracy can no exist with communism, like it cannot exist in autocracy far right want.

And since i'm for democracy both are as bad in my eyes.

@skyblitz @randahl China is one of the most capitalist countries in the world. They are about as communist as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is democratic.

@s_d_brath @randahl You can be capitalist and communist it's not incomtable.

And thanks to show you are a spreader of Fake news as ANYONE know that North Korea is a fucking dictatorship.

So go lick the ass of your master.

@skyblitz @randahl some extremism is good

@Ordovician @randahl extremism is never good, because they never make concession.

for example imagine the case of a compagny creating 100T of CO2 per, year, the extremist will want 0 with no concession.

where a non extremist party could say 10T max and tax each year.

In the first case the law will not pass, and so 100T remain.

The the second case the concession add some money in gov, and reduced the emission by 90%

So we need to ban ALL extremism

@randahl why is Germany following Czechia* which is trying to outrun Slovakia?

*this week far right foreign minister was attacking constitutional court’s ruling. Two judges who were appointed by current president ruled in favour of the ruling coalition/against president.

@randahl

When you show it like that, it sure looks hopeless, but the real situation is that there are always more anti-fascists than fascists… make common cause and don’t let the systems defeats you.

@randahl

Das fragen sich die anderen 72 Prozent hier auch.

#FCKAFD

@randahl

In the fact that democracy in Germany is being undermined...

Nothing was learned from the 1930s.

@randahl hoffentlich in einem sehr baldigen AfD Verbot. Faschoparteien haben in unserer Gesellschaft nichts verloren!
@energisch_ @randahl ich tue meinen Beitrag auf CSDs. Aber ich bin alleine in einem kleinem Kaff.
@randahl Besides the fact that there are always fascitic assholes it doesn‘t help to have such a disgrace as Bundeskanzler. To summarize it: the weakness of the democratic parties is the biggest strength of the AFD

@randahl
As right-wing Christian Union and former Social Democrat parties refuse to have putinist/fascist "AfD" banned, we must expect the "AfD" to win the next few elections.

So to answer your "Where will this end" question, look into the "AfD" party platform: Along all kinds of repression against LGBT*, expatriation & deportation of millions of people they plan to leave EU&NATO and form a new Band of European Nations (maybe called #NeoEurasia, possibly led by Russia). That's where it'll end.

@randahl I could go on for hours but I just constrain myself to my hope that they check, if legally all is in place to get this Party forbidden and we do it.

First Party ever forbidden was also a fascist one (SRP) and more or less directly afterwards the communists (DKP)

@randahl

spiel es nochmal ab!

Obviously. Since history never repeats but rhymes this time around Great Britain is joining in the fun!

@randahl wir führen eine Wehrpflicht ein, die junge Leute unter 40 noch mehr aufwühlen wird. Wir führen eine 73 Stunden-Woche ein, weil Fritze das sagt. Wir schrumpfen den Sozialstaat, um Millitärspielzeuge finanzieren zu können. Wir zahlen uns dumm und dämlich an Steuern, weil keiner nen Arsch in der Hose hat, auch mal Reichen- und Erbschaftssteuern zu erheben. Ich überlege nach jedem Urlaub, den PR Prozess in Kanada oder Australien anzufangen, bevor es hier eine Staatstransphobie gibt.