Protests held at about 100 locations over party’s meeting with neo-Nazis to discuss deporting those it deems have failed to integrate, including German citizens
  • ThrowawayEnglish
    -8•10 months ago

    Yeah, probably. I should’ve put a little more time into it before commenting.

    TBH, I have very little knowledge on Germany’s political scene, I only ever really hear about AfD and how Germany’s hate speech laws are abused. Also the Volkswagen emissions scandal. Kind of an irrelevant country at this point, they can’t even meet their NATO obligations.

    • ValiantDustEnglish
      13•10 months ago

      So your knowledge of Germany consists in large parts of some populist talking points and yet you jumped at the first opportunity to defend an extremely right-wing party and downplay their policies. That’s… a choice.

      • ThrowawayEnglish
        -7•10 months ago

        Nah, the AfD keeps coming up, I figured I should be somewhat informed. When I got confused, I asked a question.

        And being real, lemmy is rad left. When I hear Nazi, I think “Ah, someone disagreed with an asshole”, and I don’t think “Hitler”.

    • @ebikefolder@feddit.deEnglish
      7•10 months ago

      how Germany’s hate speech laws are abused

      What the hell are you talking about?

      they can’t even meet their NATO obligations

      2% of the gdp on defense, perhaps?

      That was agreed on for this year, which has only just begun!

      Let’s wait another year at least, when this year’s numbers are published, ok?

      I have very little knowledge on Germany’s political scene

      That’s more than obvious.