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GaussianCopula
Jun 5, 2011
Jews fleeing the Holocaust are not in any way comparable to North Africans, who don't flee genocide but want to enjoy the social welfare systems of Northern Europe.
Hint: The AfD got protest votes from people who believed that the current mainstream parties were not conservative/nationalist not by people who actually want socialism or a German Sanders.

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Ligur
Sep 6, 2000

by Lowtax

Orange Devil posted:

I'm calling the votes for the party whose leader reminisced longingly about the fine Nazi German soldiers just weeks ago Nazi votes.

But clearly I'm just hysterically calling every political opponent I don't like a Nazis. I feel like I've said this before, including in this thread, but I can name you dozens of parties of liberals and christian democrats whom I loving loathe but who I clearly do not classify as Nazis.

But sure, go on pretending the dogwhistle with the volume and subtlety of a foghorn doesn't mean anything.

Didn't the politician in question talk about Wehrmacht instead of the SS and Hitler-Satan?

And yeah you are a hysterical fool, you got that right. It's possibly impossible for you to figure out but not everyone who opposes completely open borders equals as the Nazis. They might have other reasons than praising hitlers.

MiddleOne posted:

It doesn't matter if it's a time-honored tradition across history. Putting the rich to the flame is not exactly revolutionary* either. All that matters is that it hasn't been the mainstream politics of the last 30 years which makes it new and exciting to people who aren't familiar with politics.

That one explanation either got to them before the other. This change to extreme right-wing views happens incrementally and thanks to social media cognitive dissonance is easier than ever to sustain. You'll be worn down by propaganda that portrays itself as news and experts until you one day actually support the worst possible views. But it all starts with that protest sentiment, that something is wrong and that energy can be channeled either way.

I will say though that since we're talking about actual Germans here with the case of AfD it's not exactly a stretch to imagine that there are certain cultural predispositions to go for the worst possible alternative. :v:

The scary thing is that you might believe what you write.

*facepalm3000*

IF PEOPLE DON'T AGREE WITH ME, THEY CAN BECOME HITLERNAZIS!!!!1 DANGEROUS! PROTESTING LEADS TO HITLER!!12 IF GERMANS PROTEST IT BECOMES HITTLARRRRR. BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T THINK LIKE ME MUST NOT BE FAMILIAR WITH POLITICS.

Listen to yourself. Lol.

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Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

Ligur posted:

Didn't the politician in question talk about Wehrmacht instead of the SS and Hitler-Satan?


Clean Wehrmacht myth incoming.


I don't give a gently caress how upset you are with the establishment parties. You choose to vote for a Nazi party, that makes you a Nazi.

Rappaport
Oct 2, 2013

Ligur posted:

Didn't the politician in question talk about Wehrmacht instead of the SS and Hitler-Satan?

The Wehrmacht were complicit in the actions of the Einsatzgruppen (although to be fair some officers complained to their higher-ups that all this killing civilians business was bad for morale), and committed war crimes by their merry selves as well. This is a really dumb, wrong pedantic argument to try and make.

Gort
Aug 18, 2003

Good day what ho cup of tea
I am truly surprised that the guy with many probations for racist behaviour and comments like "Evil Wagner listening monocultural fascist" in his rap sheet is defending neo-Nazis.

Why exactly is Ligur tolerated here?

Ligur
Sep 6, 2000

by Lowtax

Gort posted:

I am truly surprised that the guy with many probations for racist behaviour and comments like "Evil Wagner listening monocultural fascist" in his rap sheet is defending neo-Nazis.

Why exactly is Ligur tolerated here?

That "Wagner listening" -comment was actually written by _me_ as a joke to someone.

Also where and how was I defending neo-nazis?!

Gort
Aug 18, 2003

Good day what ho cup of tea
If they've had to probate you 36 times it's probably worth just banning you to save the effort.

lost in postation
Aug 14, 2009

Ligur posted:

*facepalm3000*

IF PEOPLE DON'T AGREE WITH ME, THEY CAN BECOME HITLERNAZIS!!!!1 DANGEROUS! PROTESTING LEADS TO HITLER!!12 IF GERMANS PROTEST IT BECOMES HITTLARRRRR. BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T THINK LIKE ME MUST NOT BE FAMILIAR WITH POLITICS.

Well this is embarrassing.

I'd answer that a far-right person saying that Germany should be proud of the accomplishments of their soldiers during WWII is extremely obviously signalling to a very radical portion of the electorate, but being wilfully thick seems to be your shtick.

lost in postation fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Sep 26, 2017

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Ligur posted:

Also where and how was I defending neo-nazis?!

Right there:

Ligur posted:

Didn't the politician in question talk about Wehrmacht instead of the SS and Hitler-Satan?

"The politician in question" is a neo-nazi; you are trying to make him look like a reasonable not-a-Nazi by attempting to argue about semantics, which is certainly a form of defense.

And no, sorry, there are absolutely zero way that a statement that "Germans should be proud of what their army did during WW2" can be seen as disconnected from Nazism. Everything the Wehrmacht did during WW2 was at the behest of Germany's Nazi government; if you're proud of the Wehrmacht's accomplishments then you are proud of how Hitler's orders were obeyed. Just gently caress off with that poo poo.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:
At this point, Ligur literally only has one more variation on this conversation left.

Poster 1: "Hitler was a Nazi!
Ligur: "Hmm, pretty bad if true.
Poster 2: "Don't listen to them, they're just trying to smear a man for having a different viewpoint."
Ligur: "I knew it! Leftists are always calling people Hitler-Satan."

Dawncloack
Nov 26, 2007
ECKS DEE!
Nap Ghost
Ligur, I asked the same question but in actual good faith and got some good answers. You could read the beginning of this page.

So, I keep reading that its likely that the liberals/free marketeers are likely to enter Merkel's coalition, and that that means any serious reform of the euro is as good as dead.

Do you guys agree?

Goa Tse-tung
Feb 11, 2008

;3

Yams Fan

Dawncloack posted:

Ligur, I asked the same question but in actual good faith and got some good answers. You could read the beginning of this page.

So, I keep reading that its likely that the liberals/free marketeers are likely to enter Merkel's coalition, and that that means any serious reform of the euro is as good as dead.

Do you guys agree?

FDP sees Finance Ministry as a prestige object, so yeah they'll toe the CDU line

GaussianCopula
Jun 5, 2011
Jews fleeing the Holocaust are not in any way comparable to North Africans, who don't flee genocide but want to enjoy the social welfare systems of Northern Europe.

Goa Tse-tung posted:

FDP sees Finance Ministry as a prestige object, so yeah they'll toe the CDU line

The FDP is much more conservative with respect to a potential transfer union than the CDU.

Geriatric Pirate
Apr 25, 2008

by Nyc_Tattoo
Could it possibly be that the people who voted for AfD did so because they thought that an open doors policy for 1.6m refugees was too much, not because they really strongly agreed with a statement about the Wehrmacht?

Also, while "proud" isn't really the best word, being impressed by how the Germans conquered nearly all of Europe maybe doesn't make you a Nazi or agree with them starting the war in the first place, let alone the whole holocaust thing? (other than in the eyes of a groups of posters here who throw the word "Nazi" around like there's a Nazi lurking around every corner) Like you can be impressed by German rocket scientists during WW2 who were also working under instructions from Hitler and who also created weapons that killed innocent civilians.

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Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

Geriatric Pirate posted:

Could it possibly be that the people who voted for AfD did so because they thought that an open doors policy for 1.6m refugees was too much, not because they really strongly agreed with a statement about the Wehrmacht?

Obviously they don't have to strongly agree with it, but clearly they are fine with people being proud about Nazis and what they did.

It's like in the Netherlands if you vote for the "Freedom Party" you might not hate Muslims, but clearly you are fine with their religion being banned.

Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 12:14 on Sep 27, 2017

orange sky
May 7, 2007

Has this been posted here?

https://twitter.com/AliCologne/status/912252586325155840

Because lol gently caress racists and Nazis, they're stupid, they exist and nothing you say against that makes it false. gently caress those people actually, let's build another country with a wall around it and put them all there, see how long they last before they start killing each other based on "blood purity".

Most people who complain about globalization and the lazy immigrants are actually the laziest people in society that expect to do exactly the same thing over and over until they get their pension and not have to learn a single new thing in their life. When something changes their plan and they have to adapt, it's obviously not their fault, it's the rest of the world that's to blame. gently caress off.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Geriatric Pirate posted:

Also, while "proud" isn't really the best word, being impressed by how the Germans conquered nearly all of Europe maybe doesn't make you a Nazi

Oh it definitely does if you're loving German.

GaussianCopula
Jun 5, 2011
Jews fleeing the Holocaust are not in any way comparable to North Africans, who don't flee genocide but want to enjoy the social welfare systems of Northern Europe.

Geriatric Pirate posted:

Could it possibly be that the people who voted for AfD did so because they thought that an open doors policy for 1.6m refugees was too much, not because they really strongly agreed with a statement about the Wehrmacht?

Also, while "proud" isn't really the best word, being impressed by how the Germans conquered nearly all of Europe maybe doesn't make you a Nazi or agree with them starting the war in the first place, let alone the whole holocaust thing? (other than in the eyes of a groups of posters here who throw the word "Nazi" around like there's a Nazi lurking around every corner) Like you can be impressed by German rocket scientists during WW2 who were also working under instructions from Hitler and who also created weapons that killed innocent civilians.

The "official" AfD justification is that Gauland was just citing Mitterand who said something very similar 20 years ago, that most soldiers, French and German, fought valiantly for their country and many of them made the ultimate sacrifice. In that interpretation being "proud of what the German soldiers did in two world wars" is more about individual valor and sacrifice and not how many countries they conquered.

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

Geriatric Pirate posted:

Could it possibly be that the people who voted for AfD did so because they thought that an open doors policy for 1.6m refugees was too much, not because they really strongly agreed with a statement about the Wehrmacht?

I don't give a gently caress what their stated reason is. End of the day, they found it acceptable to choose to vote for a Nazi party.

Do I really have to spell out what the Nazi Final Solutions for foreign influence (perceived or actual) is? And why it's just a little problematic to vote for these people? And why that might just tell us a little something about you if you do it anyway?


The only German soldiers to be proud of during the Nazi period were those who fought in the Thalmann Battalion. The rest deserve either scorn or pity, depending on age and actions.

Orange Devil fucked around with this message at 12:26 on Sep 27, 2017

YF-23
Feb 17, 2011

My god, it's full of cat!


Geriatric Pirate posted:

being impressed by how the Germans conquered nearly all of Europe

only goes on to show that you know gently caress-all about history. The nazi war machine didn't have its poo poo together so much as the other countries involved in the war had their poo poo even less together than them.

His Divine Shadow
Aug 7, 2000

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

orange sky posted:

Has this been posted here?

https://twitter.com/AliCologne/status/912252586325155840

Because lol gently caress racists and Nazis, they're stupid, they exist and nothing you say against that makes it false. gently caress those people actually, let's build another country with a wall around it and put them all there, see how long they last before they start killing each other based on "blood purity".

Most people who complain about globalization and the lazy immigrants are actually the laziest people in society that expect to do exactly the same thing over and over until they get their pension and not have to learn a single new thing in their life. When something changes their plan and they have to adapt, it's obviously not their fault, it's the rest of the world that's to blame. gently caress off.

Hillary 2020

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

I'm glad some people learned absolutely nothing in the 45 years of soviet oppression :laffo:


e: what I mean is, rebuild the wall

Kassad
Nov 12, 2005

It's about time.
Wasn't the official line in East Germany literally that people there did nothing wrong during the war? As opposed to the actual acknowledgement by West Germany that the German people had indeed hosed up?

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Ligur posted:

Have you considered a vote you don't like might be, in your POV, a nazi vote?

For everyone else it might be a different vote.

I know right, everyone cries Nazi at the drop of a hat these days.
Watch *votes for the Nazi party*
There it is hysterical people calling me a Nazi wtf

Libluini
May 18, 2012

I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...
Grimey Drawer

Truga posted:

I'm glad some people learned absolutely nothing in the 45 years of soviet oppression :laffo:


e: what I mean is, rebuild the wall

What did you expect? De-Nazification wasn't really a thing in the East. The Soviet Union just declared everyone not immediately on board with Stalinist Opression a Nazi, and that was it. You could basically burn your SS-uniform and switch to "Heil Stalin!" and presto: One Nazi less, one Communist more. There never was anything like the 68er with their uprising against Adenauer's Republic either.

Rappaport
Oct 2, 2013

Kassad posted:

Wasn't the official line in East Germany literally that people there did nothing wrong during the war? As opposed to the actual acknowledgement by West Germany that the German people had indeed hosed up?

Communists had an... Interesting take on the Holocaust and German aggression.

quote:

According to Fox, within the framework of orthodox Marxist thinking, oppression based on ethnicity, race, gender or religion was typical only for capitalist society and generally held the status of a ‘secondary’ phenomenon in comparison to class oppression. Anti-Semitism, for example, was viewed as a distraction created by the ruling class to divert the attention of people from their true oppressors. The Holocaust was a consequence of racist fascism (directed not only at Jews, but also at Slavs), which was, in turn, the ultimate expression of capitalism and imperialism. Thus, the roots of the Holocaust, according to Soviet ideologists, lay in capitalism, expressed in its most degenerate form – fascism. According to Marxist ideology, by changing the economic and political system from capitalist to socialist, citizens could free themselves from such matters as anti-Semitism and racism (Fox, 2004: 420)

While in the West there was a great number of studies aimed to understand the origins of the Holocaust and to find political, cultural, psychological, sociological, and even theological explanations of this phenomenon, for the Soviets everything was much clear, the Holocaust was linked to capitalism and imperialism. Following this argument Soviet historians concluded that in the egalitarian classless society, as the Soviet Union was, the so called ‘Jewish Question’ had been officially resolved and anti-Semitism no longer existed. Consequently, participation of indigenous non-Jews of the occupied republics of the Soviet Union in the Nazi atrocities against their Jewish compatriots could not take place by definition.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Geriatric Pirate posted:

Could it possibly be that the people who voted for AfD did so because they thought that an open doors policy for 1.6m refugees was too much, not because they really strongly agreed with a statement about the Wehrmacht?

Also, while "proud" isn't really the best word, being impressed by how the Germans conquered nearly all of Europe maybe doesn't make you a Nazi or agree with them starting the war in the first place, let alone the whole holocaust thing? (other than in the eyes of a groups of posters here who throw the word "Nazi" around like there's a Nazi lurking around every corner) Like you can be impressed by German rocket scientists during WW2 who were also working under instructions from Hitler and who also created weapons that killed innocent civilians.

So how hard did you have to resist adding "and say what you will about goals, but the industrial murder of 12 million people was an astonishing and impressive logistical, technical, and computational achievement any German should be proud of that and so should the little countries who helped them along the way" ?

On a scale of 1 to I dunno, say, 1488?

Ligur
Sep 6, 2000

by Lowtax

orange sky posted:


https://twitter.com/AliCologne/status/912252586325155840

lol gently caress racists and Nazis they're stupid gently caress those people let's build another country with a wall around they start killing each other based on "blood purity" Most people who complain about globalization and the lazy immigrants are actually the laziest people gently caress off.

What do the words in that picture say? I find it interesting despite the general quality of the post.

suck my woke dick
Oct 10, 2012

:siren:I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!:siren:

Put this cum-loving slave on ignore immediately!

Ligur posted:

What do the words in that picture say? I find it interesting despite the general quality of the post.

left: where foreigners live
right: AfD vote share

lesson that shitposter ligur will totally miss the point of: far right regressives are retarded manbabies who should be locked into a mental institution

Namarrgon
Dec 23, 2008

Congratulations on not getting fit in 2011!

Ligur posted:

What do the words in that picture say? I find it interesting despite the general quality of the post.

"Left: where the most foreigners live.
Right: where the AfD got the most votes."

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

blowfish posted:

left: where foreigners live
right: AfD vote share

lesson that shitposter ligur will totally miss the point of: far right regressives are retarded manbabies who should be locked into a mental institution
Alternative lesson, people in areas so economically depressed that foreigners don't want to live there will do anything to voice their discontent, particularly if it rubs the people who've been studiously ignoring/insulting them the wrong way.

Ligur
Sep 6, 2000

by Lowtax
What is the general AfD stance on EU?

orange sky
May 7, 2007

Ligur posted:

What do the words in that picture say? I find it interesting despite the general quality of the post.

Ahahah thanks Ligur that's quite a compliment coming from you

A post calling for literal Nazis to gently caress themselves is a bad post according to Ligur

abelwingnut
Dec 23, 2002


https://twitter.com/AFP/status/913021881346871296

orange sky
May 7, 2007

jBrereton posted:

Alternative lesson, people in areas so economically depressed that foreigners don't want to live there will do anything to voice their discontent, particularly if it rubs the people who've been studiously ignoring/insulting them the wrong way.

Poor German people can only afford one 4K television

suck my woke dick
Oct 10, 2012

:siren:I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!:siren:

Put this cum-loving slave on ignore immediately!

Ligur posted:

What is the general AfD stance on EU?

(((brussels))) (((eurocrats))) who are possibly (((soros)))-funded (((jews))) ruining are cuntry

orange sky
May 7, 2007

Alternatively, it's actually economic anxiety, how did I not think of that

9-Volt Assault
Jan 27, 2007

Beter twee tetten in de hand dan tien op de vlucht.

orange sky posted:

Poor German people can only afford one 4K television

And they also have a refrigerator! Lucky ducks!

suck my woke dick
Oct 10, 2012

:siren:I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!:siren:

Put this cum-loving slave on ignore immediately!

jBrereton posted:

Alternative lesson, people in areas so economically depressed that foreigners don't want to live there will do anything to voice their discontent, particularly if it rubs the people who've been studiously ignoring/insulting them the wrong way.

at a policy level i support the stance that having politicians treat the deep east as bumfuck flyover country that deserves to die in a fire is counterproductive

but at a personal level gently caress 'em

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jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

orange sky posted:

Poor German people can only afford one 4K television
The unemployment rate in East Germany is twice as high as West Germany, even after the population has gone down 10% after reunification.

They tried voting left and the SPD refused to coalition with them, twice, because the only East Germans they want to work with are born-again conservatives I guess?

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