250,000 demonstrators in Berlin protesting center-right CDU’s cooperation with neo-fascist AfD in passing anti-immigration legislation. - ThreadSky

avielroshwald.bsky.social • 30 days ago

250,000 demonstrators in Berlin protesting center-right CDU’s cooperation with neo-fascist AfD in passing anti-immigration legislation.

Reposted from Christoph Bautz

Wow! 250.000 Menschen in Berlin. ♥️ Das gibt mir so viel Kraft. Was für eine Ansage an Friedrich Merz und seinen Machtpoker mit der AfD.

Auf Friedrich Merz ist kein Verlass, wenn es darum geht, unser Land vor den Feinden der Demokratie zu verteidigen und genau deswegen darf er nicht Kanzler werden.

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kairos.social•30 days ago

And tonight on TV: the neo-fascists

https://bsky.app/profile/kairos.social/post/3lh6tlohgxc2e

halken.bsky.social•30 days ago

I wish the Germans were just as engaged when their government support Israel's genocide of Palestinians.

ipottsy.bsky.social•30 days ago

Not everything revolves around the Israel/Palestine issue and I can understand why many ordinary Germans don't want to get involved with that issue (much as I hate with what Israel has done and is doing)

nrrsp.bsky.social•30 days ago

Large cities. Small towns. Villages. Suburbs. Outskirts.

We are protesting everywhere.

bstefan.bsky.social•30 days ago

How did we get into the habit of wanting to resolve policy disputes by counting the crowds at protests? In representative democracies we resolve political disputes by means of elections and then legislation in parliaments and not by shouting louder in the streets than the other lot?

avielroshwald.bsky.social•30 days ago

I admire your optimism about the future prospects of rational legislative process and electoral democracy under the Trump presidency.

bstefan.bsky.social•30 days ago

Not sure how optimistic I am - about many things - but suggesting that (democratic) legislative process is where the focus ought to lie seems reasonably sensible? The alternative is always a slippery slope towards that cheery thing known as vanguardism (of whatever ideological stripe).

avielroshwald.bsky.social•30 days ago

Fair enough. But one of the objectives of massive demonstrations can be to press legislators into more active engagement.

bstefan.bsky.social•30 days ago

That’s also true. It just seems to me that, in the era of Trump, the “my crowd is bigger than yours” is taking up too much space in the debate.

feuerschroeter.bsky.social•29 days ago

Do you even know what you're talking about? If over half a million people are demonstrating in Germany on one day, it means something. The anger about the behaviour of the CDU ist huge, this is not a protest of some party members of the left and the greens and it's definitely not about numbers.

tohx.bsky.social•30 days ago

I wish to see US citizens doing the same...

birckenbachf.bsky.social•30 days ago

And Not "only" in Berlin.
Thsds of people these days in small and great towns Overall Germany, be it north south west east. We want to save our Democracy

filosofical-140.bsky.social•30 days ago

What about the 3.3 non demonstrators

kaikronfield.bsky.social•30 days ago

jealous of their sense of civic duty.

roryr6.bsky.social•30 days ago

Germany must deal with Nazis unlike they did before and unlike America is doing now

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