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

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    extreme right: if you don’t think like us we will deport you

    everyone else: you are extreme right

    extreme right: OMG I AM BEING OPRESSED HEEELP

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    Trump ordered the IRS to revoke the tax exempt status of the most prestigious university in the US because they refused to capitulate to his fascist demands.

    Rubio can choke on a horse dick.

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    Why does anyone care what the Americans think. Germany don’t need to justify itself to that country north of the gulf of Mexico.

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      Hearing them complain is a good reminder that we’re doing the right thing.

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    Beatrix von Storch, […] told […] the designation was “the way an authoritarian state, a dictatorship, would treat their parties”.

    No Beatrix, an authoritarian state would not let an federal authority create a 1000 pages expert report, but instead just put you and your friends into prison to die without giving any good reasons.

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      And let all of the J6 criminals out of jail in his own country. It’s obvious who and what is being supported. Rubio is a Nazi.

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        What’s that?

        Edit: all right, I googled that and now I know what these tattoos are.

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      in all honesty I think this is what could break the neck of european democracies. If we keep depending on them they have the leverage to seriously threaten the already endangered democratic institutions here.

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      Global neolib/neofac coop is strong until they eat each other

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          the neolibs O.o? the fuck?

          No we do NOT want the Neolibs aka FDP to return in party strength. The blockage by FDP is one of tha causes for AfDs strengthening.

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            In the most technical sense of the word, all but die linke and maaaybe the greens are neoliberals. They make neoliberal policy in a capitalist system.

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              And in defense of my annoyance at the CxU, under Merkel they supported the Orbán regime heavily to undercut their domestic labour with artificially inflated Hungarian labourers.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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    The Berlin wall? Is that the only thing his advisors could come up with? Speaking of walls, how’s the Mexican border going? But let’s not digress. The AfD have been close to MAGA for a while now with the infamous Musk interview being just one of several escalations. Notice how their allies’ motto is “Make America great again”. Not Germany. America. They couldn’t give less of a damn about Europe and neither does the AfD. They’re just autocrats who seek support from other autocrats to dismantle a nation and democracy as usual.

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        AfD just like MAGAs are Israel’s and Russia’s shoe lickers. Nazis on the other hand despised them, so idk if calling AfD Nazis would be correct, I would just call them fascists personally. In addition nazis werent far-right.

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          What does left and right mean for you?

          Going by its historic origins, progressives on the left, reactionaries and monarchists on the right, the Nazis were absolutely reactionary and thus far-right. They were only progressive where it suited them, like having women in factories freeing up men for the military.

          Speaking purely of economic policy, left would be a collectivist economy and right an individualist one. In that regard, the Nazis were not quite far-right, as they favoured government intervention and influence, again, because of war efforts. They did a few token campaigns to appease workers, but didn’t limit or abolish privately held companies (as they wanted the rich and powerful on their side for the war). And you’d only get disowned if you happened to have the wrong ancestors, not because you were explotliting your employees.

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          Ofc, the person saying “STFU, Jew” believes in the “Nazis arent right wing” myth.

          I may repeat myself, but fuck off, fash

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            They considered themselves neither right or left wing, and they many times said they are socialists, though they had some far right views, but what they actually were depends on your POV, many historians have different opinions on this topic. Anyways, to answer your original question; your (zionist) opinion is irrelevant to me.

            I may also repeat myself, but fuck off, ziopig child killer. We dont want you in Europe.

            Btw, replying “fash” is probably the most embarrassing argument, but what can I expect from a zionist? You call everyone “fash” or “nazi” or “antisemitic” that you don’t agree with… and Im not a “fash”.

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    Of course they protest. AfD was Vance’s & co. door to stoke like-minded (e.g. Nazi) majorities in germany.