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This points at a frightening truth that goes far beyond AfD. Narratives are more powerful at influencing large numbers of people than reasoning, and narratives unconstrained by facts are often more powerful than ones consistent with the facts. The results are written in blood over all of history.

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Gee this was a lot of words to avoid talking about how lots of people want less immigration and will vote for a party that will promise this.

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Gee here’s a thought for leftists: stop using inflammatory & reckless (& false) language to malign people on the right half of the political spectrum, and then examine your subject honestly, and then maybe you’ll actually understand why populism is gaining ground (& has nothing to do with your hackneyed & totally meaningless trope ‘Nazis’ at this pt). And this is supposed to be the ‘educated’ side?? 😂😂😂

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Counterpoint: it's important to call Nazis Nazis.

So, for example, when its members use Nazi slogans and get caught saying things like it wasn't necessarily criminal to be a member of the SS, a well-documented Nazi paramilitary arm, the invocation of your dreaded "N" word is appropriate.

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Lol - no not even close, just more unjust smears & guilt by association bc you can’t argue on political substance. Cherry picking a random individual & smearing an entire party or movement is NOT a sign you have much of a winning argument. Even the supposed ‘proof’ of their ‘racist’ rhetoric linked in the article has nothing to support its bold claims. Which is what we’ve come to expect from this SS page - lots of reckless & charged ideological rhetoric that is an inch deep in facts or substance.

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All we do here is “argue on substance.” We literally published an essay substantiating the claim that AfD are extremists—which, if you had bothered to read, you wouldn’t have embarrassingly referred to one of their literal leaders as “a random individual.” The article more than establishes that the AfD are radicals. Your argument in here, on the other hand, took the form of, “Unless you stop calling them Nazis you won’t be able to win politically.” This is clownish nonsense well below even a minimal threshold of intellectual seriousness. Do better.

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Lol, no clearly you don’t argue on substance, otherwise you wouldn’t earn such easy critiques about how substance less this is. It’s basically one step above Twitter crap posting, & it shows.

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