Technically the AfD is actually pro immigration.

But the tone quickly becomes sharper. We have to make sure, says Lüth, that the Federal Republic is even worse off, because that would play into the AfD’s hands politically: “If everything went well now (…), the AfD would be at three percent. We don’t want that. That’s why we have to think about a tactic between: How bad can things get for Germany? And: How much can we provoke? It’s like this. (…) It’s difficult, very difficult.” All of this was “discussed at length” with Alexander Gauland.

In the end, Lüth even indulges in violent fantasies. Lisa Licentia asks him: “Above all, it sounds as if it would be in your interest for more migrants to come?” Lüth replies: “Yes, because then the AfD will be better off. We can always shoot them all later. That’s not an issue at all. Or gas them, or whatever you like. I don’t care!”

https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2020-09/christian-lueth-afd-alexander-gauland-menschenfeindlichkeit-migration

Money can buy influence. Although the multi party system in Germany inherently makes it more protected against meddling, since you’d somehow have to buy out all or at least most major parties. And with where the AfD stands it is hard to find any allies here. The FDP unsurprisingly supported Musk before this article but backpedaled hard right after.

I just think that when we got fascism latching on to western governments it might be a more pressing concern than climate change. Not because climate change isn’t the main fucking problem, but because they will ignore it.

Again, by that metric you should already act now, because the world is collectively ignoring it.

It’s not possible due to your location or finances?

Both.

You could stand with the rest of us when the shitstorm finally comes to our doors and fight.

Stand with whom? And do what? The majority of people don’t want to have climate policies, since they’d directly affect their own personal comfort. What makes you think they’d suddenly play revoluzer? And what shitstorm do you mean? Most of the severe consequences will be way off in the future and by the time things get worse, people will align more and more with the people who promise empty shit and to deal with all the climate refugees at the borders. You’d be made an example at that point. And honestly, if you were this determined, why not do something extremistic now? If you truly believe in some sort of armed insurgence in the future, why not go and blow up some fossil fuel & high emission shit? Why wait for when things become more and more inevitable?

Not possible and I fail to see how that’s going to help.

Maybe not what you and me wanted, but certainly the majority of humans on this planet. And what am I supposed to do aside from the things I’ve already been doing? I’m already poor, so my emissions are a fraction of that of the average person, and I vote for green candidates & parties, who have no to barely any chance to achieve anything.

We were on our way to 3 degrees Celsius globally BEFORE all this already, which would be already devastating, so how the hell is the world now supposed to not just do better than that, but also compensate for all of the US emissions on top of that?

No one wants to do anything, at least not enough, not what would be needed - because that would ultimately affect everyone.

Oh please. Their climate policies alone will fuck over the entire globe. I don’t give a fuck anymore because this species is clearly fucking lost.

The far right alliance is already struggling, and they haven’t even made it into office yet. lol

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And people still try to tell me that Lemmy knows nuance… le sigh

It’s not completely wrong, especially since humans long left the checks and balances of natural selection. The thing that was ultimately bad about eugenics was how the Nazis enforced this onto the general public through selective breeding programs and viewing everyone else as genetically inferior. But saying that genetics and hereditary traits aren’t a thing is just as anti-scientific. In case of the movie it was not just about genetics though, especially since intelligence is just partially based on genetics. It was also about smart people not having kids and consequently failing to do better parenting than the morons that decided to have kids. Some people may escape the cycle of a family that is not good for them, but a lot of them will just carry on the same behavior that they learned from their parents.

Eeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhh… One Idiot in Idiocracy was aware of it and paved the way for the smarter people, but even he had to act dumber than he is to convince the even more moronic masses that this was the right thing to do. And even that almost failed and got the smart guy almost killed.

Don’t Look Up is also more relevant than ever now.

I hope you fuckers are all ready to report any Trumpanzee voter with foreign roots when it comes to this.

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Dunno, they seem to get pretty triggered when you call them that.

Tankies.

Don’t worry. Lemmings here told me that nothing changes regardless of who you vote for, or if you don’t vote at all.

“That’s one of the reasons the America First rhetoric resonates,”

Bullshit. The moment you bring up social programs to MAGGATS they’ll call it socialism or communism.

And war? I guess today the US, who prides itself for having fought the Nazis, would likely just want to appease Hitler and let him do his thing in Europe. At least that’s better than WW2, right?