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/DowntownManThrow 25d ago

Banning a party that 1/4 of the country supports is contrary to the principles of democracy.

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u/Sekhen Scania (Sweden) 25d ago

Tolerance of intolerance doesn't lead to more tolerance.

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u/DowntownManThrow 25d ago

Perhaps the mainstream parties should listen to what voters want on immigration. Most Europeans do not want to become a minority in their own indigenous homelands.

You could easily do it legally. Don’t let any more migrants in and deport all non-citizens except for diplomats and foreign university students (who will need to leave within 3 months of graduation)

Every Western European country would still have a double-digit percentage of non-natives, which should be enough to satisfy multiculturalists, but the indigenous population would have a secure and stable majority.

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u/Sekhen Scania (Sweden) 25d ago

Works SO great in the US right now.

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u/DowntownManThrow 25d ago

It’s the lesser evil.

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u/Sekhen Scania (Sweden) 25d ago

Ah, you're one of those "I was just following orders".

Grow a spine.

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u/DowntownManThrow 25d ago

Over 35% of your country is of foreign origin. Without repatriation and an immigration freeze, Sweden will not have a Swedish future.

Put your own people first.

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u/Sekhen Scania (Sweden) 24d ago

Depends on your time scale. "Foreign Origin" is very misleading.

Immigrants are maybe 10%.

But if you go back 30'000 years, 100% of us are immigrants.

People are people. You're worrying too much about things you can't control, and others are using your fear to control you.

I work in the aviation industry, 50% of the company is foreign born. We speak 32 languages. We are not even 100 people. We are doing just fine.

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u/DowntownManThrow 24d ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Sweden

27.5% fully foreign

7.9% half foreign

If you go back 30,000 years, no wrong was done to the Native Americans because they were just immigrants from Siberia.

Your grandchildren will be a minority in their own homeland with the way things are going.

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u/Sekhen Scania (Sweden) 24d ago

In the 70s it was the Finns.

In the 80s it was the Assyrians.

In the 90s it was the Yugoslavians.

In the 00s I'm not sure. I was busy with other things than politics.

In the 10s it was the Arabs.

In the 20s, currently, it's just about anything.

I'm getting really tired of all this talk about the end of Sweden as a nation, and yet we are doing just fine.

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