- cross-posted to:
- Germany@europe.pub
- cross-posted to:
- Germany@europe.pub
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.”
edit: added archive https://archive.ph/r5GYW
I wish US fascists restricted themselves to spreading fascism only in the US.
Global neolib/neofac coop is strong until they eat each other
Well they are… js in a different way
It kinda sucks that we have to hope the neolibs win in Germany against the neofash.
the neolibs O.o? the fuck?
No we do NOT want the Neolibs aka FDP to return in party strength. The blockage by FDP is one of tha causes for AfDs strengthening.
In the most technical sense of the word, all but die linke and maaaybe the greens are neoliberals. They make neoliberal policy in a capitalist system.
And in defense of my annoyance at the CxU, under Merkel they supported the Orbán regime heavily to undercut their domestic labour with artificially inflated Hungarian labourers.
Uh… Sorry to spoil it for you but the SPD is also neoliberal.
Okay, maybe SPD and the Union are also neoliberal.
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.
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.
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.
ETA: maybe the current fascist terms have the bright side of spitballing ideas to be put in place once the populace wakes up and wrests back truth and power. Maybe we’ll remember for a generation longer than we did after the roaring 20s crash.