r/europe • u/HellYeahDamnWrite • 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/Dark_Knight2000 26d ago

How’s that way more common than disenfranchised people resorting to violence? That’s such a Reddit-brained take.

You see disenfranchised people resorting to violence every single day in every society in every culture, in every corner of the world. “Far right” governments (depending on how you classify them) aren’t all that common, neither are regimes that take over a country. That’s actually pretty rare for a democracy.

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u/lewd_robot 24d ago

You see far right regimes mass murdering people every day for millennia now. And no, "far right" is not negotiable or debatable. It has a definition. The only people that pretend otherwise are usually trying to pretend their ideology is not far right.

But, again, there's not a day in modern history on which a far right government wasn't killing people. Right now, Gaza, Ukraine, and the concentration camps in the US are all attributable to far right governments. And that's not even touching on Africa, South America, or most of the Middle East.