• @Shrike502
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    121 year ago

    Well that’s one way to get an early retirement

    • @knfrmity
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      91 year ago

      Maybe, although I get the sense that Die Linke as a well as AfD are allowed some space as a sort of controlled opposition. But I could be entirely wrong and we could be seeing this MP forced out.

      • @Shrike502
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        91 year ago

        Ah, so it’s sort of testing the waters to see what the reaction will be?

        • @knfrmity
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          91 year ago

          The way I see it, by allowing “marginalized” parties to voice non-conforming perspectives the political establishment can both present the ideas themselves as unacceptable simply based on whose mouth they were voiced from, as well as further discredit the parties which do not confirm to the liberal status quo.

          Which reminds me. There was an article posted a while back by one of our resident lemmy libs talking about how Sahra Wagenknecht (Die Linke party leader) has voiced many of the same opinions as AfD. It was an incredibly cynical piece based entirely on horseshoe theory but it served a distinct purpose: “hey look, both the far left and far right have some of the same talking points. Isn’t that absolutely crazy! Let’s ignore both of them for the safety and security of our democracy.” Or something along those lines.