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CW: CW: Far-right politics, fascism, AfD, anti-democratic rhetoric, election results
The problem in Germany after the Saxony-Anhalt election is this:
Every time we oppose the AfD, they will tell us, “But that’s what the voters want.” And then they’ll call us undemocratic for refusing to accept it.
No.
Democracy does not mean surrendering to the strongest fascist tendency at the ballot box. It means defending the democratic society in which people are actually free to disagree, organise, protest, and live without being targeted by fascists.
This will be a tough fight. It will be exhausting. And yes, sometimes it will feel horribly lonely.
But there is literally no alternative.
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CW: CW: Fascism, far-right politics, racism, anti-queer rhetoric, threats to democracy.
The AfD’s results in Saxony-Anhalt are not merely “deeply troubling.”
They are the bill coming due after years of political complacency, denial, and deliberate-looking-away.
Centrists have spent years telling us not to overreact.
Not to “polarise.”
Not to call the AfD what it is.
Not to “drive voters into their arms.”
Not to make everything about fascism.Meanwhile, the fascists kept organising.
They normalised their language. They poisoned public discourse. They attacked migrants, queer people, democracy and the very idea of an open society, while "respectable" politicians kept insisting that the "real danger" was apparently being too rude about it.
Well. Here we are.
You cannot spend years treating an anti-democratic movement as just another flavour of conservative politics and then act shocked when it becomes stronger.
This is not happening because anti-fascists were too loud. It is happening because far too many people with power were far too quiet.
And no, the answer is not to move further to the right in the hope of appeasing the far right.
The answer is to fight them. Clearly. Consistently. Without apology.
Because fascism does not become less dangerous when we politely refuse to name it.
#SaxonyAnhalt #AfD #NeverAgain #NoPasaran #Antifascism #DefendDemocracy
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👑 Trump is acting like a king who can rename national institutions by decree. America has laws, courts, and a Congress for a reason. www.thepetitionsite.com/948/658/372/...
#NoKings #DefendDemocracy -
👑 Trump is acting like a king who can rename national institutions by decree. America has laws, courts, and a Congress for a reason. www.thepetitionsite.com/948/658/372/...
#NoKings #DefendDemocracy -
👑 Trump is acting like a king who can rename national institutions by decree. America has laws, courts, and a Congress for a reason. www.thepetitionsite.com/948/658/372/...
#NoKings #DefendDemocracy -
👑 Trump is acting like a king who can rename national institutions by decree. America has laws, courts, and a Congress for a reason. www.thepetitionsite.com/948/658/372/...
#NoKings #DefendDemocracy -
Empower us with knowledge to challenge demagoguery and inspire democratic values, fostering resilience against authoritarian oligarchies.
#DefendDemocracy #NoToOligarchy #RuleOfLaw #CivicResistance
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Empower us with knowledge to challenge demagoguery and inspire democratic values, fostering resilience against authoritarian oligarchies.
#DefendDemocracy #NoToOligarchy #RuleOfLaw #CivicResistance
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Trump Is Manufacturing an Election Crisis to Justify Military and ICE Power
Trump is manufacturing claims of foreign interference and noncitizen voting to discredit future election losses and prepare Americans for authoritarian federal action.
#AmericanDemocracy #authoritarianism #CivilLiberties #defendDemocracy #democraticResistance #domesticMilitaryForce #DonaldTrump #electionDenial #ElectionInterference #electionSecurity #federalAgents #ICE #ICERaids #immigrantRights #MAGA #militaryDeployment #noncitizenVoting #PoliticalRepression #PoliticsDoneRight #ProgressivePolitics #SAVEAct #SAVEAmericaAct #StephenMiller #TrumpAuthoritarianism #TrumpSpeech #VoterSuppression #votingRights https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-p6y -
"...Ein Werbespot führt zu weiteren Spannungen zwischen Kanada und den USA. Präsident Trump reagiert mit einer Erhöhung der Zölle um zehn Prozent und der Beendigung der Handelsgespräche. ..."
Kindergarten! Das #trumpeltier führt sich als Kleinkind auf! Oh Mann, und so ein #Kleinkind führt die westliche Supermacht!
#trumpeltier #trump #maga #MAGA_fascism #us #usa #democrats #republicansagainsttrump #Demokratie #democracy #DefendDemocracy #Demokratieverteidigen @Bundesregierung @bundestag @cdu @GrueneBundestag @spd
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@Free_Press And the gun-industry- & Kremlin-friendly interpretation of the Second Amendment will again be responsible for expectable gun deaths.
Greetngs from the Federalist Society.
#RuleOfLaw #SaveLives #DefendTheUnion #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #GunControl #GunControlNow #GunReduction #GunEpidemic #RespectLife #CleanSCOTUS #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateTheSix #NRAStooges
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@shsbxheb @cmeier @marcelias I agree. Looking back at the past general elections, "Republicans" haven't been able to win the popular votes for a long time.
It's a despotic minority defrauding voters & trying to destroy democracy, exactly like the co-founder of the former Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln, predicted:“If the majority does not control, the minority must ‑‑ would that be right? Would that be just or generous?
Assuredly not! If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the government must cease.”— Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Steubenville, Ohio, Feb 14, 1861 —
#RuleOfLaw #RuleOfThePeople #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #MajorityRule #Democracy #PopularVotes #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice #FreeAndFairElections #GOP #Insurrection #UnelectableGOP #TakeGOPOffTheBallots #EnemiesOfTheConstitution
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@Sunspot @TonyStark How hard is it to say, that the majority of today's "Republicans" are a subversive, insurrectionary criminal-terrorist organization, holding congressional public offices?
#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #Democracy #DefendTheConstitution #DefendAmerica #YourAmerica #YourHome #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice
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@LeftistLawyer @avuko Christian supremacy ideology has presumably been around as long as after the day Jesus Christ's last alleged disciple died or the Roman emperor declared Christianity the state religion.
On the other hand, "Christian nationalism" is nothing but a self-justifying excuse for being religiously completely dumb & ignorant by notorious grifters like MTG, Gaetz, Boebert & similarly dishonest, greedy & spiteful enemies of the American people's Constitution & the Declaration of Independence.
#DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #DefendAmerica #ReligiousTolerance #IntolerantIdiotism #MTG #UnelectableGOP #ChristianNazionalism
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@oliviertesquet
No surprise that evil #police are using social media and #cellphone apps to hunt dissidents. And those #covid19 trackers, a good faith project afaik, in the Western democracies are an obvious #securitybreach P.O.I.N.T. being: -- -- maybe, just maybe we can build a bridge of #reconciliation with the #rightwing wingnut space cadets if we acknowledge that their overblown paranoia about the so-called "deep state" is not lacking a kernel of truth.
#defenddemocracy #buildbridges #socialcohesion #unity #liberteegalitefraternite #covid #covidisairborne #surveillancecapitalism #statesurveillance #androidapp -
CW: U.S. politics; abolition of Electoral college
@acwhite Interestingly, there have been several initiatives to abolish the Electoral College before, the most promising of which was started & discussed in 1969/70!
#DefendDemocracy #PopularVotes #FreeAndFairElections #VotingRights #Politics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_abolition_amendment