Because it sounds so cool how Germany went full blown Nazi the first time around… 😞
It’s not a coincidence this is happening right as the last generation that witnessed the horrors of nazism firsthand has mostly passed away.
But also, like, this shit was always under the surface. Denazification was a joke. We teach our kids in school the basic history, but not the politics to go along with it due to conservative fears. So those kids fail to recognize fascists when they come knocking in a suit and with populist half-truths prepared.
They should cancel their citizenship and send them to russia.
It would be a good fit.
No, they’d just end up in Lugansk, killing Ukrainians. Like all the other foreign nationals who migrated to Russia out of some dumbass belief Russia was a “conservative moral bastion” only to get thrown in the army like cattle
Hey now, that’s facetious
Not at all, I think if they did the same to Merkel and Schroeder there would be massive benefits to the German public.
I’m trying to make a pun that what you said in an of itself is fascistic but I am aware you are being facetious.
And the region is feeling it. Tourism plummeted, people don’t want to move or even be there, and of course also not work there. Combine that with the far-right playing victim and they’re almost a self-fulfilling prophecy at this point
Wonder if the root causes are the same as in America.
I get where these youth are coming from. Consider how easy today’s young men are to manipulate.
They see a world with more and more people, and more and more of them are foreign. They know their fathers and grandfathers had it easier. Who’s to blame?!
Seems youth all over the first world are more and more isolated, unhappy and according to what I read on lemmy, totally broken in IRL social interactions. Blame COVID, blame social media, blame the internet in general, whatever, sure seems something is making our youth anxious and fearful.
I could go on and on, but watch American History X for a primer on how to exploit fearful young people who feel they have nothing to lose. This is England has got some solid insights as well.
Any Germans want to comment on that? Am I way off base?
Ah ja, Dessau, the Place where the Police set a POC on Fire in a Prisoncell…
The more asocial societies, fearful of others and overall confused about the human experience, will easily fall for the same half-baked nonsense. 🤷
