• ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
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    27 days ago

    Can someone please explain this for a non-German. I know there was a large concern with the AfD, but what do the results mean so far?

    • Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      27 days ago

      Germany will probably get a centrist-right (CDU/CSU) government with a centrist-left junior partner (SPD).
      Centrist-right is far left in US terms.

      I expect stagnancy in German politics for the next 4 years. -_-

      • mammata@feddit.itEnglish
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        27 days ago

        As a foreigner in Germany, CDU is not centrist at all. Maybe you should consider how your definition of “center” changed in the last years. CDU is a right wing party, CSU even more, leaning into populist views, Afd is extremist.

        I wish SPD was left. Most of its policies of the last years were pretty much the same as right wing parties.

        • Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          27 days ago

          CDU was always center-right and SPD center-left. In the last years SPD slowly drifted to center. Some still consider them center-left.

          You should check on the definition of extremist. The AfD ist far-right, yes, but not extremist (yet).

          • Schnabeltierplaisir@feddit.orgEnglish
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            26 days ago

            Wir sollten eine SA gründen und aufräumen!“ – Andreas Geithe, AfD

            We should form an SA and clean up!’ - Andreas Geithe, AfD

            Immerhin haben wir jetzt so viele Ausländer im Land, dass sich ein Holocaust mal wieder lohnen würde.“ – Chatprotokoll Marcel Grauf

            After all, we now have so many foreigners in the country that a Holocaust would be worthwhile again.’ - Chat protocol Marcel Grauf

            Ich würde niemanden verurteilen, der ein bewohntes Asylantenheim anzündet. Ich würde mir so sehr einen Bürgerkrieg von Millionen Toten - Frauen, Kindern, mir egal - wünschen, Hauptsache es geht los. Insbesondere würde ich laut lachen, wenn so etwas auf der Gegendemo passieren würde. Tote, Verkrüppelte, es wäre so schön. Ich will auf Leichen pissen und auf Gräbern tanzen. Sieg Heil!“ (Marcel Grauf, AfD) Marcel Grauf ist Mitarbeiter der AfD-Abgeordneten Christina Baum und dem AfD-Politiker Heiner Merz.

            I wouldn’t condemn anyone who sets fire to an inhabited asylum centre. I would so much like to see a civil war of millions of dead - women, children, I don’t care - the main thing is that it starts. I would especially laugh out loud if something like that happened at the counter-demonstration. Dead people, crippled people, it would be so nice. I want to piss on corpses and dance on graves. Sieg Heil!’ (Marcel Grauf, AfD)

            Marcel Grauf is an employee of AfD MP Christina Baum and AfD politician Heiner Merz.

            Abschiebung der Antifa nach Buchenwald“ – Mirko Welsch, AfD Mirko Welsch war der Bundessprecher der Homosexuellen in der AfD

            Deportation of the Antifa to Buchenwald’ - Mirko Welsch, AfD Mirko Welsch was the federal spokesperson for homosexuals in the AfD

            Es ist richtig, Menschen mit schwarzer Hautfarbe auch weiterhin N**** zu nennen.“ –Thomas Seitz, AfD

            It is right to continue calling people with black skin colour N****.’ -Thomas Seitz, AfD

            Nothing to see here folks. Defenitly NOT an extremist political party. Move along now!!!