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With an 84% turnout, the AfD's 20% of the vote are in fact 16.5% of the registered vote Add to that all those who can't vote for various reasons, many of whom would be directly harmed by the AfD (and others to be fair) and you see where an alliance can be created instead of moving ever to the right

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This. I'm not defending Musk's intelligence (which is hugely overblown), but we must understand that he doesn't believe the things he says. His statements do not reflect his analysis or actual understanding of anything. He doesn't want to weaponize facts; he wants to make them irrelevant.

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Gutting work from @pamherd.bsky.social on the brutality of Trump's anti-accessibility policies and the harm it does to our best students. Cutting accessibility is actually how you destroy merit, not promote it. Who is included in Trump's America? open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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AfD at 30% in East Germany.

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Fingers firmly crossed the BSW and its supposed left anti-immigration stance doesn't reach the 5% threshold

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Exit poll from Germany. It’s bad but could have been a lot worse.

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You know how bad things are when you're a little relieved when a far/extreme right party like the add gets just under 20% The worst is knowing that whatever coalition ends up governing will most likely continue moving rightwards, pretending that's the only way...

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Because they are totally comparable in terms of politics and threat to democracy obviously... Considering the discourse of mainstream parties, adding them to far right results is probably more accurate

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I wouldn't call that Trumpian fashion but mainstream enabling of far-right politics Painting left-wing opposition to the far right and status quo as equally dangerous if not worse than the far right has become a key mainstream strategy and we know the result...

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In true Trumpian fashion the leading candidate of the conservative #CDU for the German parliamentary elections today, Friedrich #Merz has called the millions of citizens who have taken to the streets against the far right "leftist nutcases". The Trumpification of conservative parties continues.

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“It hurts and confuses us to imagine that there are anti-liberatory feminisms, ...when we do allow that and we do conceptually break that possibility open, that’s when it becomes possible to stake out our ground as an anti-colonial, proletarian, trans feminism” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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#Germany's federal criminal police office, not exactly known for over-counting such things, reports that at least 41,000 crimes with a right-wing extremist motive were committed in 2024, a 1/3 increase compared to 2023. 2023, with a 23% increase on 2022, had already marked an all-time high #farright

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Sich für den Erhalt von Demokratie einsetzen bedeutet übrigens mehr, als alle paar Jahre ein Kreuz zu machen und dann auf Social Media damit zu prahlen, gerade in diesen Zeiten. Es ist eine permanente Aufgabe: außerparlamentarische Organisation. Demonstrationen. Demokratiearbeit. Zivilcourage.

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The reason I have a very strong opposition to essentialising the gendered nature of fetishisation and objectification is that blaming it on men's manhood undermines the much more serious and credible feminist argument that fetishising is actually about exploiting hierarchies of power.

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"Utterly delusional" does not even come close. archive.ph/OVHMg

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Telegraph getting to go after queer people, Muslims and asylum seekers all in one headline. Like bigot Christmas.

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Chilling read by @okwonga.bsky.social "Far right’s xenophobia is not at the fringes of German society: it can be found in voices at its very centre" www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

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You can now read the article here: www.theguardian.com/world/commen... - if of interest, please share.

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The focus on the "white working class" and their "legitimate concerns" about immigration is always about splitting the working class to prevent radical change to the economic system This has been going on for two centuries

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By contrast, working class immigrants and their working class families are clearly not worthy of this respect. Hence this gaslighting that the wide-ranging hostility they have faced for decades from many sectors of British society is no more than the "concerns" of primarily working class people.

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As always, no mainstreaming without enabling: "The motion to restrict immigration was nonbinding. What mattered was that the centre-right opposition CDU, which brought it forward, and the libertarian FDP, who supported it, relied on additional AfD votes to pass it" www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

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I don’t understand how there’s any debate about whether to characterize them as Nazis when they’re out here sieg heiling. It’s an absolute failure of messaging not to name and condemn this behavior, and build a narrative around it.

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If you're happy to indulge transphobes and unwilling to denounce transphobia and stand with trans people, your opposition to Trump and the wider fascist turn is not serious You can't pick and choose. Fascist harm to some is harm to all.

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L’Alternative pour l’Allemagne (AfD) prospère sur un discours complotiste et raciste assumé, sur fond d’accointances avec les milieux néonazis. Avant les élections fédérales du 23 février, décryptage en quatre épisodes. www.mediapart.fr/journal/doss...

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Since Labour, the Tories and Reform are all working towards, and planning on benefitting from, the privatisation of the NHS, I guess everything is going great for them as they'll even be able to blame "the people" and their "legitimate grievance" for it www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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The same happened in France where between 3 and 5 million letters were sent during the Nazi occupation and French collaboration to denounce neighbours, relatives etc So much for the myth of France as resisting when only a small minority did...

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I'm begging people to remember that 'meritocracy' was coined for a work of satirical fiction. It is not a real thing, and, as the satire suggested, defining 'merit' as a standalone measurable individual quality is impossible.

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Oh I see you think the rise in overt racism has nothing to do with you as former editor of the Spectator that loved to publish Douglas Murray, Rod Liddle and Lionel Shriver

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