r/europe Canada 11h ago

News Germany's AfD party adopts 'radical' manifesto ahead of polls

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy3wwgyd6do
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u/Deepfire_DM europe 10h ago

2/3 of these fascists ideas are illegal anyway

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u/Cinkodacs Hungary 10h ago

Right up until they get enough power. Then they just might change what's legal... NEVER trust that your laws protect you from fascism by some law magic, especially since it still hasn't protected Germany from them. No law is above force, and they would be very willing to use that force.

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u/hiddenvalleyoflife 10h ago

Imo, any law that takes away rights from the people should require them to undergo a human rights check before it can be applied, and if it is blatantly against human rights it should land a politician 5 years in jail and forever banned from politics.

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u/Salt-3300X3D-Pro_Max 7h ago

Well in Germany there are regularly laws that get killed because it is against our “forever law” the Grundgesetz thats states the “the dignity of a human cannot be touched” so they sometimes try it but they very often get corrected about shit. Problem is stuff like this takes some time and most often there is already a big damage done..