The billionaire backed right wing takeover playbook is international - not just the US. Billionaires are a plague on democracies everywhere.
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2025
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I don't understand why the billionaires think they are somehow off limits or immune to social chaos. They will always be surrounded by the working class, since someone needs to cook their food, wash their clothes, and raise their kids.
Never underestimate the arrogance of billionaires. They get surrounded by sycophants that inflate their egos to near godly proportions.
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How!? Where are these numbers coming from? In Germany of all places!?
Hmm, the guy who manipulated his stock price to make himself the richest man in the world and fixed the election for Trump also supported AfD. Surely it's a coincidence
There is money required for running campaigns and advertisements and making deals.
What it won't do is magically populate a country with fascists, supremacists, and other extreme right wing types. Those would have to already be around.
German here.
Many Germans firmly believe the AfD is not a nazi party. Many Germans defend them because the AfD tells them what they want to hear: "It's not your fault that you haven't struck it big yet in your life, it's the insert minority/marginalized group of the month's fault." They truly believe that the AfD will help them.
It's the same obvious, fascist playbook that they pulled in the US and people eat it up while laughing at your idiot president.
It's insane. People are incapable of questioning themselves and thus incapable of learning.
"It's not your fault that you haven't struck it big yet in your life, it's the insert minority/marginalized group of the month's fault." They truly believe that the AfD will help them.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that how it literally started with Adolf Hitler!?
In essence, yes. Or at least that was a big part of Hitler's campaign.
Back then it was the Jews and socialists gutting Germany by accepting unconditional surrender after WW1 (Dolchstoßlegende), today it's immigrants, especially muslims, trying to impose their culture upon us.
(/s) But what happened in 1933 cannot happen again because now we are so much smarter and people back then were dumb. (/s)
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Do you have a country for me to fuck off to in a few years.
Any stable democracies?
Ireland didn’t elect McGregor as president. They might be worth your time.
Canada is my only hope. Please Canadians, don't go insane, too.
If you believe that you haven't been watching. Conservatives nearly got a majority last election.
Ya. That was lucky how badly they fucked up.
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The German government has to get going to finally show some tangible results. The last government, at least at the end, did basically nothing, the current one is not fulfilling its promises, either, and people are left standing, seeing that money is spent everywhere but for the peoples needs.
The chancellor is 100% in the pockets of the rich, so properly taxing the top 5% to get the money to fix things is completely out of question. But that is a problem other governments seem to have, too. As if fairly taxing the rich was against some physical law of the universe. Or if taxing capital income as high as income from work would open the gates of hell.
Correction for you: the last government was heavily criticized by the media about the most absurd things nonstop for years.
The media could have used all this energy to write against the afd and we would have a different result now. Apparently it was more important to shit on a left wing liberal government than to save democracy.
Our worst chancellor since 1945 used the program of the afd as his own to keep them small. This never works. This always legitimizes right wing populist parties and does not weaken them.
The current government may not even last 4 years and then its pro Putin fascists in power.
That's the problem. The current government has to deliver. FAST. And they have not understood that yet, I'm afraid.
It is a f*cking disgrace for the US and even more for Europe electing fascists.
Electing opinions over facts. But as an european I'm not surprised, sadly.
It seems that the article only mentions numbers for Frankfurt.
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