Summary

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency declared the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party a “proven right-wing extremist organization,” citing Holocaust trivialization, Nazi slogans, and anti-immigrant rhetoric.

This marks the first time a federally represented party has been labeled extremist.

U.S. Republicans, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President J.D. Vance, condemned the move. Rubio called it “tyranny in disguise” and praised the AfD’s popularity, while Elon Musk said banning the “centrist AfD” would be “an extreme attack on democracy.”

The AfD recently won 152 seats and over 20% of the vote.

  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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    if you sit down at a table of 7 nazis, there are 8 nazis at that table. AfD is nazis. if MAGA wants to defend nazis, MAGA is nazis

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      20 hours ago

      My guy, they’re doing sieg heils in front of the nation. Their opinion about AfD is the least important “are they Nazis” qualifier about MAGA.

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        18 hours ago

        i know! i’m just saying this is why they’re jumping in to help AfD. it’s because they’re fucking nazis.

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      11 hours ago

      Hey man, I just sat at the table so that I could observe how they liked the specially seasoned soup course…

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      Okay that doesn’t make sense. MAGA are big boys capable of being Nazis completely on their own merits; they’re not some Nazi-by-association chumps.

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        In their defence, they keep saying that they’re not Nazis. They just keep doing Nazi stuff with Nazi people and then saying “I didn’t know they’re a Nazi! I’m against that!” And then they go do another Naziism.

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          It’s like people in the U.K. are denying the rather Nazi-ish Fuhrage and his Reform UK Ltd party are Nazis.

          Interestingly though some appear to be proud of being Nazi.