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   Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO (jmaris@eupolicy.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 18:05:52 JST Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO

   The #German far-right #AFD party has just been designated as a far-right extremist organisation by German domestic Intelligence.

   Regardless of where a party is in the polls, if it is a threat to the democratic order, efforts must be made to contain it.

   Tolerance of intolerance is what has led the US down its current pathway. Europe must not follow.

   #EUpol #USpol #DEpol

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     NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi: (neonpurplestar@outerheaven.club)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 18:06:01 JST NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi:

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     Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 22:23:01 JST Wolf480pl

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     So while I agree AfD is a serious threat, I think even making the whole party suddenly disappear wouldn't solve the problem. It'd leave a lot of frustrated voters whose concerns are being ignored by mainstream parties, whose anger can be readily exploited by new extremist party.

     So I think a crucial element of stopping AfD is identifying the legitimate grievances these voters have and addressing them in a constructive way.

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     Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 22:23:02 JST Wolf480pl

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     And PiS promised 500 PLN/month payiut from the govt for every child a family has (subject to some income criteria).
     And PiS also blamed the poor econokic condition of those people on Germans, EU, immigrants, and a bunch of other scapegoats.

     And then PiS won, and delivered on its promise.

     Had the previous government addressed the economic inequalities, PiS would not have so much voter frustration to exploit.
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     Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 22:23:03 JST Wolf480pl

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     @jmaris in Poland, we have PiS. It's a conservative populist anti-EU party. After 8 years of rule, they lost the election in 2023. A large part of the new ruling coalition was like "we should make PiS illegal, the people who vote for them are either evil or brainwashed".

     But in 2015, when PiS won elections, the previous ruling party was like "everything's fine, no need to do anything", while some people were barely making ends meet.

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