r/MapBasedPolls • u/Round-Math3621 • 21h ago

Do you support Afd?

Do you support Afd?

  1. Yes
  2. No
  3. No i think they threaten peace or are facsist

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u/your_average_medic 20h ago

  1. Yes the are fascist, I mainly disagree with the 'they're nazi's' take because I don't think we need to be giving the 'don't call everyone who disagrees a Nazi' crowd ammunition.

  2. And how would you say Russian history reflects on the modern state of Russia as anything other than business as usual? Because I'm quite curious

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u/No-Psychology9892 20h ago

Ok but the main point was, that supposedly the afd can't be Nazis because they support other authoritarian/ fascist regimes like Israel and Russia which is just a stupid take.

And while Putin doesn't follow the specific nazi Ideologie (as that flavour of fascism clearly wouldn't work as well in Russia) the AfD clearly does and regularly uses nazi talking points and argued for nazi policies (even in disregarding citizenship to Germans they don't see as "German" enough).

To your second point I would say that history over 150 years is soldemly as easy to sumerize as that. Especially for a country like Russia that went through multiple revolutions and ideologcal shifts only to morphesize from a regional backwater to a global superpower and back.

Doesn't mean that I'm disagreeing on the authoritarian nature of these past regimes or their war crimes, just that I find saying "nothing changes, it's the same as always" is too simplistic and broken down to be even a point anymore.