AfD: Germany defends extremist classification after Rubio slams 'tyranny in disguise'
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Germany's foreign office says history shows that right-wing extremism "needs to be stopped", after criticism from the White House.

US Vice-President JD Vance accused “bureaucrats” of rebuilding the Berlin Wall, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio slammed the designation as “tyranny in disguise”.

In an unusual move, the foreign office directly replied to Rubio on X, writing: “We have learnt from our history that right-wing extremism needs to be stopped.”

edit: added archive https://archive.ph/r5GYW

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    8·
    16 hours ago

    That means multinational corporations would need to be broken up and not having the same Board members/execs on several different now-smaller sized chunks of the same corps boards/in C-suite. It means actual jail sentences for corporate board members and executives and meaningful, painful fines, perhaps elevated restrictions on doing business.

    • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      9·
      16 hours ago

      It means actual jail sentences for corporate board members and executives

      I’ve been advocating exactly this for many years. One very effective way to give psychopathic corporate “persons” a sense of decency and propriety really quickly is to threaten the real persons running it with real hard time.

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
        2·
        16 hours ago

        ETA: maybe the current fascist terms have the bright side of spitballing ideas to be put in place once the populace wakes up and wrests back truth and power. Maybe we’ll remember for a generation longer than we did after the roaring 20s crash.