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These guys are the fucking biggest idiots in the world. They don't worry about being Russian and Chinese operatives, they only worry about losing votes because people found out they are. It's the whole you only sorry you got caught, but on a traitor to your nation level.
Fuck these guys and anybody that votes for them.
I just want to emphasize: Fuck these guys and anybody that votes for them.
"They" isn't a thing there: Part of the party is perfectly happy with it, seeing especially Putin as a role model, the other is perfectly opposed to it, not really digging uppity Slavs threatening to nuke Berlin. Fallouts in parliamentary factions have been had, the word "traitor" has been employed.
Traitors worried their traitorous behaviour exposure costing votes
They're just rebranded Nazis.
I disagree.
Nazi had principles and stood for something. Horrible somethings, but something.
These fucks don't stand for anything, they want to stir up shit and when money starts talking to them, they are really quick to throw any espoused principles straight out a 5th floor window.
I think that makes the Nazis sound like much less of a shitshow than they actually were.
Have they tried not being corrupt?
Apparently, it's too hard not to be.
A far right party being funded by the Kremlin isn't even a tiny bit surprising. Support from the CCP... that's new to me.
Have they ever been real patriots? I don't think so.
They're grossly overestimating their voters
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A series of scandals and spying allegations are jeopardising the election campaign of Germany's AfD party, despite expectations that it will be crowned as the far right's driving force in the next European Parliament.
The AfD's hopes of big gains, driven by its self-projected image of being the only true German patriots, have been all but dashed after the party suffered a series of blows to its legitimacy, including allegations of spying for China.
Last month, an assistant to Maximilian Krah, AfD's top candidate in the European elections, was arrested on suspicion of spying for Beijing, and the duo's Parliament offices were searched.
Preventing Krah from further damaging AfD's image wasn't enough to stop the hard-right Identity and Democracy (ID) group in the European Parliament from removing the German party from their bloc.
AfD's core voters won't be put off by recent news, but those who are still undecided on who to cast their ballot for could still be swayed away from the far-right party in the wake of these scandals.
"They are selling their soul on Russian propaganda outlets and videos, a close collaborator of a far right politician was even arrested, accused of spying for China and giving information from the European parliament," von der Leyen added.
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