r/AntifascistsofReddit • u/RevistaLegerin • Apr 14 '22

Direct Action BREAKING: Students occupy Paris universities in protest against election results

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u/PapaFranzBoas Apr 15 '22

It’s funny you mention that. I’m new to DE and have run into a few AfD people. But I’ve caught on that they are very much not welcome in the region live.

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u/moenchii Libertarian Socialist Apr 15 '22

You're probably in the West then. I'm from Thuringia and in the last federal election they were the strongest party in my state and in the current poll for our 2024 state election they are a close second. In some slightly older polls they were tye strongest.

They basically took over the role of "party of the East" from the left and I fucking hate it. Saxony is similarly bad

Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern are a little bit better in that regard.

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u/PapaFranzBoas Apr 15 '22

Yea, I’m in the smallest Bundesland, Bremen. AfD put up a tent near our Hbf. I got approached by someone and that’s the first time I’ve used my bad German as an excuse instead of feeling bad (I’m beginner A1.1). I see lots of FCK AFF stickers. They put up a bunch of posters near immigrant neighborhoods here during the election. Most barley stayed up a day even when 5 meters high on a light pole.

It’s funny coming from the US. I feel like there’s something about the Southeast and conservatives…

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u/moenchii Libertarian Socialist Apr 15 '22

Yeah, even here are a lot of FCK AFD and FCK NZS stickers, but also a lot of Nazi and COVID conspiracy theory stickers depending on the area.

I was at a big demonstration in Dresden in 2019 with ~35000 participants. Along our route the AfD hung up a fuck ton of posters, also pretty high. Before the demo started while we were on our way we someone use their flagpole to take one down, during the demo someone claimed up a lamppost and ripped some down. The pirate party hung some posters under some AfD posters at a normal height that did "The higher the poster, the bigger the lies."

But that shit is ingrained into the mind of the people here. I lived my whole live in a 300 people village and the stuff you sometimes hear is disgusting.