Germany defends AfD extremist classification after Rubio slams 'tyranny in disguise'

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AfD: Germany defends extremist classification after Rubio slams 'tyranny in disguise'

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."

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Germany defends AfD extremist classification after Rubio slams 'tyranny in disguise'

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Crazy that decent people have a 1000 page report to justify their position, nutjobs have a tweet, and the two are discussed on equal footing.
- Short quippy and wrong. Also demand your opponent write down in their own words a detailed response then dismiss it for a spelling or grammatical error or some minor issue.

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

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.
- They might badly photoshop an ms-13 tattoo on her knuckles as the “good reason”
  
  What's that?
  Edit: all right, I googled that and now I know what these tattoos are.
- 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.

Why does anyone care what the Americans think. Germany don't need to justify itself to that country north of the gulf of Mexico.
- Let's dispense with this notion that America should be looked up to. We shouldn't, and we seem to be the only ones at this point who don't know that.
- Hearing them complain is a good reminder that we're doing the right thing.

- The poor horse...

I wish US fascists restricted themselves to spreading fascism only in the US.
- Global neolib/neofac coop is strong until they eat each other
  
  It kinda sucks that we have to hope the neolibs win in Germany against the neofash.
  
  Well they are... js in a different way
- 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.
  
  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.
- 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.

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.
- But they’re also Nazis

As opposed to the open tyranny of the Trump regime?

Of course they protest. AfD was Vance's & co. door to stoke like-minded (e.g. Nazi) majorities in germany.
- Was?! Still is, and sadly will be.
- "e.g. Nazis"? Is there anyone else?
  
  Reads like they meant "i.e." instead of "e.g"

“And trust me, I know tyranny.”

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