For context: we had many very big antifascist protests during the weekend. It wasn’t only the highly involved antifa but many “normal” people attended their first protest in their life.
In fact, the antifa was in the minority. And that’s no a bad thing in this context. Many people who would normally consider themselves unpolitical and wouldn’t want to touch antifa with a stick went out to show that they’re ready to take to the streets to protest the nazis. This measure of mobilization is rare in Germany and I didn’t think we were still be able to do that.
Importantly: even in East Germany a lot of people took to the streets. Hamburg and Munich were good to see, but less impactful given that the AFD is weak there in the first place. But when you have people in AFD strongholds having the bravery to stand up publicly, you know you have something special going on.
German anti fascists don’t fuck around for obvious reasons
Unfortunately there is very little dedicated antifascists left. And they have been villified and persecuted by mainstream politics and society since forever. The “center” of German politics was deeply apathic and subconsciously racist (which it still is very much is).
We are just at the beginning and it is entirely unclear, if this starts to make a change.
Antifa villifies itself well enough. At least here in Finland. Their protests go typically so far as to annoy the general population a lot more than the actual targets of the protest, which has the effect of making people want to have nothing to do with any protests organized by them.
My family in Canada was complaining about this protest in the family group chat. Claimed it was run by all the migrants that were “imported”.
The Canadian conservatives are in bed with the AfD. They hang out. https://newsie.social/@LALegault/111797431037370877
One of the people in that photo is Leslyn Lewis, who ran for the leadership of the federal conservative party the last time around and was touted as “a moderate”. Hahaha.
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Facebook memes and highly targeted news from websites no one has ever heard before is how they get a lot of their information about the outside world.
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Feels very lonely but also vindicating. Since I was kid I was constantly wondering why I was always getting in trouble and people being mad at me. Now as an adult I know there was never anything wrong with me. It was what was wrong with them.
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….you know what happens now!
Nice! Is that a reference to some app?
Duolingo
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No five years ago duolingo was an amazing app. Today it is marketing trash.
