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“Brandmauer” (wall of fire against the AfD)

Firewall. As in a wall designed to hold back fire so that it doesn't spread. Specifically a masonry wall, "Brandwand" is the more generic term.

So, the problem, as I see it, is that we already did the protest thing under the first Trump administration. It didn't do much then and we're tired now. It's been about a decade of hearing about awful shit from Trump and realizing that our family members, coworkers and neighbors are actually awful people.

The USA used to be badass when we thought our leadership were underhanded charlatans.

Bosses used to respect their labor because otherwise "collective bargaining" could potentially mean your employees dragging you out your front door and beating you in the yard until you agreed to a cost-of-living increase...if you didn't take the hint when monkey-wrenches kept ending up wedged in the machinery.

Now look at us: The people waving guns around and screeching about "liberty and freedom" are the same people simping for their masters and bragging about how many hours they put in when they keep getting pay cuts. Belching out "wE tHe PeOpLe" while blaming immigrants and foreigners for everything, their fascist puppet-masters hands wedged firmly up them.

Lefties and socialists sold out and became spineless utopian yuppies and forgot what fighting for your rights actually entails.

Unions have to be "approved" and "recognized" by their oppressors to be considered valid. Corporations make us sign away our rights to a fair trial if they wrong us.

This whole thing used to seem like it worked because once upon a time both sides had a certain social contract and agreed to play by rules and pretend we lived in a civilized society.

But now we're back to some monstrous autocrat saying "Who cares? Winning. Lol." , and we're all stuck wondering why nobody's listening to us.

Now we're on the verge of being labeled "terrorists" if we so much as lift a finger against their regime. The people need to claim their fire back if we're going to see these dark times through.

Peaceful protests are the fascists favourites, easiest to ignore.

Still have voter apathy, rising fascism and a bunch of supposedly progressive parties that have moved strongly to the right, with truly left/progressive parties being almost irrelevant.

We have both actually, that's why we get two votes. It's still fptp but with a hotfix for proportionality applied.

They had that during the Weimar republic too but err...

There are a lot of old people who vote CDU because "that's what we have always done". Many people don't bother to read what the parties actually stand for. If they are told, they often don't believe it. Same with protest voters choosing the fascist AfD "to show those corrupt politicians on top". Meanwhile AfD is the most corrupt party of all, by far.

Unbelievable. There is an article about how Germans take to the streets to protest our biggest threat to Democracy and the potential next Nazis-Party and the only thing you say is one of the most racist things I have ever read on here. Shame on you.

Germany is on the best way to repeat 1933, putting fascism into power with the help of the "conservatives" and a bystanding/complicit center

I wish I had that kind of faith in our society. A lot of people are still conservative. The majority lacks any kind of class consciousness, and would really prefer the global western hegemony to keep trucking on unchanged for a few more generations.

The progressive movement is real and has great people in it. I love the conversations I've been having with people for the past decade. But it's a bubble that includes maybe 5-8% of the population. Enough to build solidarity at least around population centers, not enough to sweep an election.

Lead the way... By electing the most right wing government since the war?

Third time’s a charm.