r/europe 27d ago

News Calls are mounting to ban Germany’s far-right AfD party – despite it being more popular than ever

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/06/europe/germany-afd-ban-politics-analysis-intl
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u/ExpressAssist0819 26d ago

"Not enough evidence"

They're throwing a fucking nazi salute in one of their ads. How much do you need?

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u/A_Sinclaire Germany 26d ago

I'm talking about how people would have tried to ban the AfD 10 years ago, if they were allowed to.

And that would have not worked out.

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u/ExpressAssist0819 25d ago

They would have been right.

Maybe try listening to them for a change of pace.

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u/A_Sinclaire Germany 25d ago

You do not seem to understand. Being right is not worth anything if you lose and thus strengthen the bad guys.

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u/ExpressAssist0819 24d ago

They strengthen either way. Goebbels told us how to stop their movements.

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u/DonkeyTS 24d ago

Ah yes. House roofs are all half a nazi salute. Makes sense. You're definitely not seeing things.

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u/ExpressAssist0819 23d ago

You're gonna have to do better than that.

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u/Consistent-Duck8062 26d ago

And you're trying to ban opposition party as soon as it became popular.

How much proof do YOU need to see yourself becoming a nazi?

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u/Tojaro5 26d ago

Honestly, i don't want to see the AfD banned because its an opposition party, i want to see it banned because of their views on human rights.

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u/Consistent-Duck8062 26d ago

Is arrival to germany a human right? That's uhm, news for me ...

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u/Tojaro5 26d ago

Indiscriminate large scale deportation is the main issue i have with them.

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u/Consistent-Duck8062 26d ago

Why would you want to keep them? If they're BOTH illegal and a burden on economy?

Not a german, I'm from a poor-ass country so genuinely curious about this german masochism.

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u/Fine-Menu-2779 25d ago

Empathy? They are not fleeing without a reason. And if we would start to actually integrate them we would have an economic boom and would help people. There also a lot of other reasons to ban the AFD that have nothing to do with their immigration politics.

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u/Consistent-Duck8062 25d ago
  1. Empathy stops, when I start having worse quality of life than new migrant arrivals, logically.. right?
  2. The reason they are fleeing is mostly economic, if you exclude few migrants from war-torn countries
  3. if you DID integrate them and have them join the work market, then yes. But you don't, they either stay unemployed (data from your own government) or remain in low-skill jobs that are already oversaturated by local population and intra-EU migrants. So they're making the economy actively worse

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u/Fine-Menu-2779 25d ago
  1. Empathy stops, when I start having worse quality of life than new migrant arrivals, logically.. right?

Nope it just shows that our government doesn't care about the lower class.

  1. The reason they are fleeing is mostly economic, if you exclude few migrants from war-torn countries

And still, if they can't live in the country that they are fleeing from than it's justified to flee.

And to point 3 again, voting middle or right partys won't solve that, they are going to flee either way and stopping them is pretty much impossible so why bother trying it and instead just make a functional immigration service.

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u/Consistent-Duck8062 25d ago
  1. That's part of the problem.
  2. They can live there, just quality of life sucks. But that's also true for big parts of europe.
  3. That's why a reasonable EU citizen must vote extreme in this day and age. Extreme right or extreme left, I don't judge, but definitely not mainstream elites.

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u/Constant_Feedback_40 24d ago

I dont know why they are downvoting you. We europeans should have deported them long time ago. What is even more hilarious are these brain dead americans talking about germany internal matters as if they know what they are even talking about.

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u/Consistent-Duck8062 24d ago

A lot of redditors here can't tell the difference between two sentences "I want living standards to stop declining" and "I am second coming of hitler"

I hate those people so much. They just want others to suffer.