So… 19.5% of Germans are fucking Nazis.
Plus ça change…

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    9 hours ago

    a fifth of the population of Germany

    A 20% of 84% eligible voters, or about 17% eligible voters, or about 15% of the population.

    Keep in mind that if the turnout had been like the US2024’s 64%, that result could have been anywhere between 0% and 26%, depending on who decided not to vote.

    That’s after all the manipulation from Musk and Russia. A lot of those people would act as surprised and betrayed as some in the US have over the past month. For starters, the AfD co-leader, an anti-immigrant pro-Nazi eurosceptic anti-democratic fascist Musky party that’s pushing traditional family values… has herself an immigrant same-sex partner with whom she’s raising two kids. Makes me think of a Serena Waterford case. 🤦

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      A 20% of 84% eligible voters, or about 17% eligible voters, or about 15% of the population.

      This is not reassuring.

      15% of a population being Nazis is not reassuring in any country. But in Germany, the home of Nazism, that was utterly destroyed by Nazism, it’s even scarier.

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        It gets more interesting with a map of the votes:

        East Germany, vs. West Germany.

        It’s been somewhat of a theme in countries that endured USSR influence, to run a “commie scare” and fall straight into the arms of a neo-lib alt-right.

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      5 hours ago

      Pretty sure AfD’s Alice Weidel additionally doesn’t even live in Germany but in Switzerland.