As a general thing, and for many if not most of the participants, I think protests like this are not meant to have any functional effect on the thing they're protesting (stopping the AfD congress, for instance), but rather serving as emotional tribal membership reinforcement.
I recall watching some of the college anti-Jewish protests shortly after October 7th occurred and how ultra-hyper most of those kids were, chanting “from the river to the sea!”
They had zero clue what river, or what sea, nor even what the phrase actually meant. But the mad high they were on in the midst of that screaming, steaming pile of assholes was triggering Supra-dopamine hits to their brains like something they’d probably never experienced before.
Absolutely, reminds me of "Demos gegen Rechts", where the whole subculture including governing politicians (!) and sitting MPs (!) meet at utterly pointless mass demonstrations "against the right", which have no discernible political aim or purpose except fostering cohesion among the participant groups.
I think that's part of it. Those protesting are showing how virtuous and good they are without taking any real risks and getting huge coverage for their anti-fascist stance. The authorities can show how fair and righteous (and of course, non fascist) they are by protecting the fascists and allowing them to have their conference. So this sounds like a win all round.
It's mostly a haggling position: make the limp liberalism of 90s most "populism" represents look like paradise in comparison to loony left. Thatcher did the same maneuver: make basic 'market liberalism' look good by deliberately having terrible comedy left politics as the alternative.
The boot must sporadically be pointlessly annoying, so you feel relief when it is merely crushing you quietly.
Think of modern governance as theater. Performative performances that advance a narrative with arcs, plots, subplots. The anti-AfD 'activists' are movie extras, for when a mob scene advances the narrative of TPTB, aka Cabal/Swamp/Globalists.
This plays into elections. Because there is no such thing as free and fair elections today. If there every was. Results do not, have not, will not reflect the will of the voter as expressed in their ballots. Elections results are the product of the *Plausible* vote results, not the actual results. The produced and directed protest cast of extras serves the purpose of convincing the audience (actual voters) that the declared winners are legitimate winners, not installed as they are. So enough actual voters are able to tell themselves, "well, I could see that, so-and-so won, the other side was very unpopular, all those protests I saw images of tell me that's the case, them's the breaks, hope we win next time, better roll up our sleeves and vote harder," and then give the installed winners their consent to rule.
That is the POSIWOD of the protests. Narrative control imagery intended to gain the legitimacy of stolen elections, installed winners, while TPTB veto their real ballot choice.
They don't even need to steal elections, since most of the politicians are just actors playing roles for the major parties who aren't much different than what the Harlem Globetrotters and Washington Generals were to basketball. Pure entertainment and theater.
Just to be clear are you saying that this quasi-symbiosis is because the common theme of being anti-AfD unites the other parties due to their advanced ideological decay?
So, in turn, thats the reason more people are becoming sympathetic to AfD?
I think two separate things are happening: AfD opposition is useful to unite the left; this opposition makes the AfD more credible as an alternative party and so they attract more votes than they might otherwise as the establishment becomes increasingly unpopular for other reasons.
I think it fosters a great sense of purpose, cameraderie, and togetherness among the various groups on the left and the semi-left formerly called the centrist right to have this common enemy to unite against, nonwithstanding their ideological differences: the noble puprose of fighting against Revenant 1933 unites them.
AfD can just lean back - they get all the benefits of being a political party without actually having power and responsibility. I suppose at one point they'll have that, but will be fought tooth and nail by the entrenched bureaucracies as well as by the then opposition. For now, they're doing a little light rest & relax and biding their time.
For the foreseeable future, the big achievement of the AfD will remain how they drive the cartel parties into an ever higher frenzy, unmasking themselves and driving away all moderate voters. The real action is your enemy‘s reaction and all that.
There are two state elections coming this year, and if the cartel parties could keep it in their pants, even two AfD state governments could not achieve much against a multi generational entrenched bureaucracy. They could withdraw their states from the government media, which is organized on the state level, and this could well be a lethal strike against state propaganda, but I would be willing to bet a lot of money that the Constitutional Court would immediately put a stop to this, precisely because it would do so much harm to the system.
Something the cartel seems to fear a lot is an outsider getting access to their decades of dirty laundry. There have been dire warnings about this, and the cartel is brainstorming how they can thwart the new government’s access to secret stuff. Stop me if you have heard this one before, Americans!
Just stop delivering their paychecks, and those of the courts who insist that they continue. But make sure the police and army continue to get paid. Then hire new people, and put them in the offices of the people who aren't being paid anymore, and have those people arrested for trespassing if they refuse to leave.
Great suggestion. Simple solution to what is, at it's core, a simple problem.
But to implement ANY suggestion that might lead to actual problem resolution; as in ANY resolution, to ANY problem, one would, be tasked with finding some productive use for the millions, (tens of millions?), of parasites who currently depend on that problem for their living.
To paraphrase Upton Sinclair's famous quote: “It is difficult to get a man to solve a problem, when his salary depends on his the existence of that problem.”
With merciless creativity and iron determination, bureaucrats can be made to do anything.
Not able to "find" documentation of past skulduggery? So happens we urgently need your unique talents at the satellite office in a romantic little village in the mountains. Don't worry, it's only 70 miles away as the crow flies. (That's two hours drive, tough luck.)
Leaked government info to politicians from pro-bureaucrat parties (who are now lining up to join the AfD)? Our accounts department has some questions about your expense reports for the past 18 years. We may need to revoke your last promotion due to fraud, and claw back the extra salary you've earned in the interim.
They, just like Pres Trump, revived the rotting corpse of fascist hate. Donald Trump, “I did that”. They, with US “democrats”, should erect a statue in honor of him. He is the sole reason they live to throw perpetual tantrums!
Tools these imbeciles took from their spawn anti-USA democrats (apologies Fetterman - never did I think 1 year ago I would think that!).
The Trump hate weaponized by these fascist (irony anybody?) lackies is a tool imported by Nazi dems in office (orifice?).
It mobilizes the brainless lemming stooges who always follow orders without question.
Fools do not realize it hardens the already concrete resolve of Conservatives and true Republicans, and has influenced semi-reasonable dems who want nothing to do with the party of communism that left them many, many years ago.
So the protests provide a focal point to unite the left, but a consequence of this is that everyone hates the left more and the AfD grows, which then gives more cause to unite the left, and the positive feedback loop accelerates?
I think the main purpose of all this brouhaha at this point is not so much to protest the AfD or even to inhibit its party convention. At this point it is mostly directed as a signal to the other parties, especially the CDU: to throw so much dirt and opprobium at the AfD that every other party (mainly the CDUCSU) don't dare build a coalition with them. The AfD is not the objective here anymore.
Chicks and feminized males are the most attracted to popularity and luxury belief virtue signaling as a way to maintain their social status. The Madison Avenue Ad Men have known this for long while. These are the people that are more easily influenced to "buy this", and so the left political movements have just adopted the same for "oppose this", "support this", "vote for this", etc... as being required to maintain that high social status.
That is the game.
And it is why they cannot let up on a continued massive marketing campaign to make sure AfD is punched down as lower class stuff.
It is the same tactic the Democrats use against Trump and Republicans.
White liberal women are forever sympathetic to the immigrants . A recent Supreme Court case “ birthright citizenship “ was lost because Amy Barrett loves the Great Unwashed . She even adopted two little black barefoot unwashed Haitians, but I repeat myself .
The thought of Juanita being torn from crying Lupe by ICE agents makes her cry .
This from a Judge sworn to uphold “ the law “ .
No sooner did women get the right to vote in USA than we got …prohibition.
Meanwhile they want “ equal rights “ but during Vietnam there were none to be seen .
Only “ some rights “ evidently.
And of course we have to put up with 3 or 4 days of them turning into “ The Wolfman “ as PMS rages .
I should not just pick on White liberal women . Black women are the same .It’s just that they spend their time punching each other over food at MacDonalds to do much political damage. Plus the blacks are sinking into irrelevance as The Mexicans take over the USA …all you see in Los Angeles are brown faces and Mexican flags . They have already annexed California.
The POSIWID principle is remarkably general and accurate - quite insightful if applied to our vaunted liberal democracy as well (which is not so liberal or full of freedom as taught in government schools).
So, if the powers that be shared half a brain cell and stopped funding these anarchist groups (saving some dough in the process), thus no longer needing to fund the extra police and security resources they require, (saving even more dough), there would probably be very few people even aware of the AfD Congress meeting at all, thus all the headline-inducing attention to them considerably minimized, if not altogether nonexistent.
It’s a party congress. Every party is required by law to hold one annually to hold elections for the party leadership.
The current leadership is not at all contested, so the elections were a formality. It’s all boring administrative work.
I have no idea what the protesters thought they would or could achieve even if they did manage to stop the AfD from holding their congress.
All politics in Germany of the last few years can be subsumed as kicking the can down the road. Most people feel that the future is likely to be dark, and everyone seems intent on delaying armageddon just long enough so they will miss it. Après moi, le déluge!
"I have no idea what the protesters thought they would or could achieve even if they did manage to stop the AfD from holding their congress."
"both sides – the protestors making a futile fuss over AfD party business and the police fighting to contain them – are funded by the German state."
So tax money flows freely into the pockets of Antifa mucky-mucks, and "public servants" (security forces). While the AfD get none of it. What's the puzzle?
Protest as a business model. Turns out it's not really all that good a business model, but without AfD as the protest movement's whipping boy all those thousands of malcontents would need to find another target for their vexation and that just might be the sluggish German economy or the crime rates in the country. It's interesting how every major democracy in Europe and the Anglosphere is suffering to varying degrees from the excesses of left-wing socialist economic, demographic, and cultural policies inflicted upon these various nations' citizenry over the past four to five decades. Yet each nation has its own peculiar idiosyncratic reaction to and relationship with the damage caused by said policies. Germany has a situation where the government is enhancing its own opposition,; Britain's beginning to see some more strident protests, sometimes leaning more towards riots, by its sheep-like native born old stock (i.e: Caucasian) citizenry; and here in Canada our people continue to freely elect the most corrupt obtuse federal government this country has ever seen while separatism has become a major force in 3 out of 10 province's where this used to be a thing in only Quebec for a third of a century and was barely on the radar a half a century before that. Alberta's separatist movement will likely fail in this go around but the idea won't go away and though I won't be around to see it I expect Canada will look much different on a world map in the year 2100.
I suspect our referendum will fail, this time, but the federal liberals will conspire to make it worse, they always do. Fixing the problem requires relinquishing their death grip on day to day life, well beyond their capability.
I think one important effect of the antifa funding that does actually hurt the AfD is depressing their candidate / party worker quality. The protests are just one big retarded circus, but the same scene also brings forth a lot of low-level terrorism, from graffiti and burning bags of turds on the front doors of AfD functionaries, via arson against cars and IIRC houses, to the hammer gang.
The most important part of that terrorism is the ostentatiously lazy prosecution and disproportionately low sentences it attracts, otherwise only available to developmentally challenged migroids, if it even gets all the way to trial.
It all sends a message to pragmatic, effective people that the elite is united against the opposition. These potential opposition workers will thus mostly desist, at most quietly working on emigration*, in extreme cases of pragmatism actively joining the united system – history shows that it’s at worst great positioning if a collapse ever happens. What remains is people without much to lose.
* Emigration is also a benefit for the system as long as it doesn’t withdraw too much productivity, cf Curley effect!
One small benefit of the AfD Derangement Syndrome that perhaps works in the favor of rational Germans of whatever party is that it is now the left's (from center to far) sole discernible policy--and other parties (such as AfD) gain voice and audience for actual governmental policies other than "We oppose the AfD". Those on your far left may make the same mistake as our Democratic Socialists, actively espousing Communism to the barking dog pack of young, inexperienced, under-educated adolescent adults of any age and their reasonably well-off middle-aged Karens, adding further to their high visibility and lower electability. We can only hope.
> Spectacles like this become intriguing when you remember that both sides – the protestors making a futile fuss over AfD party business and the police fighting to contain them – are funded by the German state.
As a general thing, and for many if not most of the participants, I think protests like this are not meant to have any functional effect on the thing they're protesting (stopping the AfD congress, for instance), but rather serving as emotional tribal membership reinforcement.
Activism can be a kind of addiction.
I recall watching some of the college anti-Jewish protests shortly after October 7th occurred and how ultra-hyper most of those kids were, chanting “from the river to the sea!”
They had zero clue what river, or what sea, nor even what the phrase actually meant. But the mad high they were on in the midst of that screaming, steaming pile of assholes was triggering Supra-dopamine hits to their brains like something they’d probably never experienced before.
And after that, you just want more.
People in that state will do anything. It's the mob.
In all fairness, IT WAS FOR A GOOD CAUSE.
As Eugyppius points out: "They now exist in an uneasy symbiosis with the 'fascists' they spend all their time so eagerly imagining and denouncing."
If they didn't have these "fascists", they would have to create something else to rally the tribe.
Gotta have an Eastasia.
Absolutely, reminds me of "Demos gegen Rechts", where the whole subculture including governing politicians (!) and sitting MPs (!) meet at utterly pointless mass demonstrations "against the right", which have no discernible political aim or purpose except fostering cohesion among the participant groups.
Yes .
People want to belong and affirm their “ goodness “ .
That’s why Swedish women accept getting raped by wild black immigrants “ it’s their culture “ so it’s ok .
I think that's part of it. Those protesting are showing how virtuous and good they are without taking any real risks and getting huge coverage for their anti-fascist stance. The authorities can show how fair and righteous (and of course, non fascist) they are by protecting the fascists and allowing them to have their conference. So this sounds like a win all round.
May the European left never learn what the Streisand effect is.
People, people who need people…
LOL Bingo!
It's mostly a haggling position: make the limp liberalism of 90s most "populism" represents look like paradise in comparison to loony left. Thatcher did the same maneuver: make basic 'market liberalism' look good by deliberately having terrible comedy left politics as the alternative.
The boot must sporadically be pointlessly annoying, so you feel relief when it is merely crushing you quietly.
Your last sentence is so perfect.
the random stomping makes the steady crushing feel like customer service.
Mostly peaceful crushing.
Think of modern governance as theater. Performative performances that advance a narrative with arcs, plots, subplots. The anti-AfD 'activists' are movie extras, for when a mob scene advances the narrative of TPTB, aka Cabal/Swamp/Globalists.
This plays into elections. Because there is no such thing as free and fair elections today. If there every was. Results do not, have not, will not reflect the will of the voter as expressed in their ballots. Elections results are the product of the *Plausible* vote results, not the actual results. The produced and directed protest cast of extras serves the purpose of convincing the audience (actual voters) that the declared winners are legitimate winners, not installed as they are. So enough actual voters are able to tell themselves, "well, I could see that, so-and-so won, the other side was very unpopular, all those protests I saw images of tell me that's the case, them's the breaks, hope we win next time, better roll up our sleeves and vote harder," and then give the installed winners their consent to rule.
That is the POSIWOD of the protests. Narrative control imagery intended to gain the legitimacy of stolen elections, installed winners, while TPTB veto their real ballot choice.
Prove me wrong.
They don't even need to steal elections, since most of the politicians are just actors playing roles for the major parties who aren't much different than what the Harlem Globetrotters and Washington Generals were to basketball. Pure entertainment and theater.
Hold on, before I comment.
Just to be clear are you saying that this quasi-symbiosis is because the common theme of being anti-AfD unites the other parties due to their advanced ideological decay?
So, in turn, thats the reason more people are becoming sympathetic to AfD?
I think two separate things are happening: AfD opposition is useful to unite the left; this opposition makes the AfD more credible as an alternative party and so they attract more votes than they might otherwise as the establishment becomes increasingly unpopular for other reasons.
I think it fosters a great sense of purpose, cameraderie, and togetherness among the various groups on the left and the semi-left formerly called the centrist right to have this common enemy to unite against, nonwithstanding their ideological differences: the noble puprose of fighting against Revenant 1933 unites them.
AfD can just lean back - they get all the benefits of being a political party without actually having power and responsibility. I suppose at one point they'll have that, but will be fought tooth and nail by the entrenched bureaucracies as well as by the then opposition. For now, they're doing a little light rest & relax and biding their time.
For the foreseeable future, the big achievement of the AfD will remain how they drive the cartel parties into an ever higher frenzy, unmasking themselves and driving away all moderate voters. The real action is your enemy‘s reaction and all that.
There are two state elections coming this year, and if the cartel parties could keep it in their pants, even two AfD state governments could not achieve much against a multi generational entrenched bureaucracy. They could withdraw their states from the government media, which is organized on the state level, and this could well be a lethal strike against state propaganda, but I would be willing to bet a lot of money that the Constitutional Court would immediately put a stop to this, precisely because it would do so much harm to the system.
Something the cartel seems to fear a lot is an outsider getting access to their decades of dirty laundry. There have been dire warnings about this, and the cartel is brainstorming how they can thwart the new government’s access to secret stuff. Stop me if you have heard this one before, Americans!
As Trump 2.0 teaches, the AfD needs to send the bureaucrats packing day 1 and keep it up..
It doesn't really work that way in Germany, I believe.
Well it's pretty hard here in the US too. It takes a lot of effort
Just stop delivering their paychecks, and those of the courts who insist that they continue. But make sure the police and army continue to get paid. Then hire new people, and put them in the offices of the people who aren't being paid anymore, and have those people arrested for trespassing if they refuse to leave.
Great suggestion. Simple solution to what is, at it's core, a simple problem.
But to implement ANY suggestion that might lead to actual problem resolution; as in ANY resolution, to ANY problem, one would, be tasked with finding some productive use for the millions, (tens of millions?), of parasites who currently depend on that problem for their living.
To paraphrase Upton Sinclair's famous quote: “It is difficult to get a man to solve a problem, when his salary depends on his the existence of that problem.”
With merciless creativity and iron determination, bureaucrats can be made to do anything.
Not able to "find" documentation of past skulduggery? So happens we urgently need your unique talents at the satellite office in a romantic little village in the mountains. Don't worry, it's only 70 miles away as the crow flies. (That's two hours drive, tough luck.)
Leaked government info to politicians from pro-bureaucrat parties (who are now lining up to join the AfD)? Our accounts department has some questions about your expense reports for the past 18 years. We may need to revoke your last promotion due to fraud, and claw back the extra salary you've earned in the interim.
You get the idea(s).
They, just like Pres Trump, revived the rotting corpse of fascist hate. Donald Trump, “I did that”. They, with US “democrats”, should erect a statue in honor of him. He is the sole reason they live to throw perpetual tantrums!
that makes sense. it was so counterintuitive i was having a hard time getting my brain around it
I agree. The insane only treat them as a threat because they are a threat.
A threat, yes; to the insane.
Tools these imbeciles took from their spawn anti-USA democrats (apologies Fetterman - never did I think 1 year ago I would think that!).
The Trump hate weaponized by these fascist (irony anybody?) lackies is a tool imported by Nazi dems in office (orifice?).
It mobilizes the brainless lemming stooges who always follow orders without question.
Fools do not realize it hardens the already concrete resolve of Conservatives and true Republicans, and has influenced semi-reasonable dems who want nothing to do with the party of communism that left them many, many years ago.
Looks like Nazi oligarchy there and in US to me 😩
Well the DSA has learned that protests FOR the establishment have no power.
So the protests provide a focal point to unite the left, but a consequence of this is that everyone hates the left more and the AfD grows, which then gives more cause to unite the left, and the positive feedback loop accelerates?
Its Group Virtue Signalling.
"LOOK AT US! LOOK HOW KIND, NURTURING AND VIRTUOUS WE ALL ARE!"
Can't have those democratic AfD participating in democracy that reveals to the world how shallow, barbaric and insignificant we are!
"WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING DEMOCRACY! WE'VE GOT ANTIFA!"
I think the main purpose of all this brouhaha at this point is not so much to protest the AfD or even to inhibit its party convention. At this point it is mostly directed as a signal to the other parties, especially the CDU: to throw so much dirt and opprobium at the AfD that every other party (mainly the CDUCSU) don't dare build a coalition with them. The AfD is not the objective here anymore.
Yes, twofold objective: a) group cohesion and b) threatening the Union, because AfD can't be really threatened.
It was always that, the point is it won’t matter as individuals turn to the AfD.
Chicks and feminized males are the most attracted to popularity and luxury belief virtue signaling as a way to maintain their social status. The Madison Avenue Ad Men have known this for long while. These are the people that are more easily influenced to "buy this", and so the left political movements have just adopted the same for "oppose this", "support this", "vote for this", etc... as being required to maintain that high social status.
That is the game.
And it is why they cannot let up on a continued massive marketing campaign to make sure AfD is punched down as lower class stuff.
It is the same tactic the Democrats use against Trump and Republicans.
I view advertising, marketing, PR, propaganda, and political messaging as all exactly the same thing.
As I keep repeating (to a tiresome degree), Edward Bernays has a lot to answer for.
Chomsky had a lot to say about just this.
White liberal women are forever sympathetic to the immigrants . A recent Supreme Court case “ birthright citizenship “ was lost because Amy Barrett loves the Great Unwashed . She even adopted two little black barefoot unwashed Haitians, but I repeat myself .
The thought of Juanita being torn from crying Lupe by ICE agents makes her cry .
This from a Judge sworn to uphold “ the law “ .
No sooner did women get the right to vote in USA than we got …prohibition.
Meanwhile they want “ equal rights “ but during Vietnam there were none to be seen .
Only “ some rights “ evidently.
And of course we have to put up with 3 or 4 days of them turning into “ The Wolfman “ as PMS rages .
I should not just pick on White liberal women . Black women are the same .It’s just that they spend their time punching each other over food at MacDonalds to do much political damage. Plus the blacks are sinking into irrelevance as The Mexicans take over the USA …all you see in Los Angeles are brown faces and Mexican flags . They have already annexed California.
I guess excess money and youthful enthusiasm not spent on productive things have to be channeled somewhere....
The POSIWID principle is remarkably general and accurate - quite insightful if applied to our vaunted liberal democracy as well (which is not so liberal or full of freedom as taught in government schools).
So, if the powers that be shared half a brain cell and stopped funding these anarchist groups (saving some dough in the process), thus no longer needing to fund the extra police and security resources they require, (saving even more dough), there would probably be very few people even aware of the AfD Congress meeting at all, thus all the headline-inducing attention to them considerably minimized, if not altogether nonexistent.
But alas, nope. Stupid is as stupid does.
It’s a party congress. Every party is required by law to hold one annually to hold elections for the party leadership.
The current leadership is not at all contested, so the elections were a formality. It’s all boring administrative work.
I have no idea what the protesters thought they would or could achieve even if they did manage to stop the AfD from holding their congress.
All politics in Germany of the last few years can be subsumed as kicking the can down the road. Most people feel that the future is likely to be dark, and everyone seems intent on delaying armageddon just long enough so they will miss it. Après moi, le déluge!
"I have no idea what the protesters thought they would or could achieve even if they did manage to stop the AfD from holding their congress."
"both sides – the protestors making a futile fuss over AfD party business and the police fighting to contain them – are funded by the German state."
So tax money flows freely into the pockets of Antifa mucky-mucks, and "public servants" (security forces). While the AfD get none of it. What's the puzzle?
POSIWID!
Antifa are communists, not anarchists. As in, literally founded by the German Communist Party in 1932.
Anarcho-communists then.
Whatever, whoever. Dangerous lunatics regardless.
They are certainly dangerous lunatics, I just like reminding the world that Antifa was started by Stalinists. They even still use the same flag.
I am an anarchist.
I do not damage or destroy property or assault those I disagree with.
And... I am not a Communist.
I consider Suzie's statement and remind people to
"IDENTIFY THE BEHAVIOUR, NOT LABEL THE PERPETRATOR"
Protest as a business model. Turns out it's not really all that good a business model, but without AfD as the protest movement's whipping boy all those thousands of malcontents would need to find another target for their vexation and that just might be the sluggish German economy or the crime rates in the country. It's interesting how every major democracy in Europe and the Anglosphere is suffering to varying degrees from the excesses of left-wing socialist economic, demographic, and cultural policies inflicted upon these various nations' citizenry over the past four to five decades. Yet each nation has its own peculiar idiosyncratic reaction to and relationship with the damage caused by said policies. Germany has a situation where the government is enhancing its own opposition,; Britain's beginning to see some more strident protests, sometimes leaning more towards riots, by its sheep-like native born old stock (i.e: Caucasian) citizenry; and here in Canada our people continue to freely elect the most corrupt obtuse federal government this country has ever seen while separatism has become a major force in 3 out of 10 province's where this used to be a thing in only Quebec for a third of a century and was barely on the radar a half a century before that. Alberta's separatist movement will likely fail in this go around but the idea won't go away and though I won't be around to see it I expect Canada will look much different on a world map in the year 2100.
I suspect our referendum will fail, this time, but the federal liberals will conspire to make it worse, they always do. Fixing the problem requires relinquishing their death grip on day to day life, well beyond their capability.
Say whatever else you like about antifa, at least they have fun umbrellas.
It's even more fun when they get scattered by pepper spray or police batons.
I think one important effect of the antifa funding that does actually hurt the AfD is depressing their candidate / party worker quality. The protests are just one big retarded circus, but the same scene also brings forth a lot of low-level terrorism, from graffiti and burning bags of turds on the front doors of AfD functionaries, via arson against cars and IIRC houses, to the hammer gang.
The most important part of that terrorism is the ostentatiously lazy prosecution and disproportionately low sentences it attracts, otherwise only available to developmentally challenged migroids, if it even gets all the way to trial.
It all sends a message to pragmatic, effective people that the elite is united against the opposition. These potential opposition workers will thus mostly desist, at most quietly working on emigration*, in extreme cases of pragmatism actively joining the united system – history shows that it’s at worst great positioning if a collapse ever happens. What remains is people without much to lose.
* Emigration is also a benefit for the system as long as it doesn’t withdraw too much productivity, cf Curley effect!
Let them dress up in frog suits.
With MENA third-worlders coming in and productive Germans leaving for greener pastures, what could go wrong.
Alternative hypothesis, instead of POSIWID the cartel parties are just filled with retards.
One small benefit of the AfD Derangement Syndrome that perhaps works in the favor of rational Germans of whatever party is that it is now the left's (from center to far) sole discernible policy--and other parties (such as AfD) gain voice and audience for actual governmental policies other than "We oppose the AfD". Those on your far left may make the same mistake as our Democratic Socialists, actively espousing Communism to the barking dog pack of young, inexperienced, under-educated adolescent adults of any age and their reasonably well-off middle-aged Karens, adding further to their high visibility and lower electability. We can only hope.
And Democrats in general, who have nothing more to offer than Orange Man Bad.
Hold my Beer—isn't this essentially "actions speak louder than words"?
> Spectacles like this become intriguing when you remember that both sides – the protestors making a futile fuss over AfD party business and the police fighting to contain them – are funded by the German state.
Are you sure they're not funded by the splc?
Give it time.