• roboto@feddit.org
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        Bernd Höcke who leads AFD in Thüringen is a Nazi and this got confirmed by a court. He sees himself als some kind of incarnation or continuation of Hitler. AFD in Thüringen has won the election by a great margin. This is like defending NSDAP.

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        Sometimes though a judge has decided that it is factually correct to call the leader of a party a fascist because he is one

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      They probably aren’t literally Hitler. But there is a lot of damage and awful shit they can do in between reasonable and Hitler. And they are much further towards the latter than anyone should be comfortable with.

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        The thing with Hitler: He still considered himself a patriot, even he didn’t solicit financial support from Germany’s worst enemies.