As Twitchy reported Friday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio encouraged Germany to "reverse course" after the liberal government did a secret study that concluded that the right-wing Alternative für Germany (AfD) Party is "extremist," and the state would be surveilling the party. As I reported earlier, the German Foreign Office made a lame attempt to reply to Rubio, saying that "This is democracy," while in the same post saying that "independent courts … will have the final say" in the same post. "We have learnt from our history that rightwing extremism needs to be stopped," it concluded.
The AfD is not a fringe party … it came in second in Germany's recent election. Elon Musk tweeted in support of it and appeared at a rally via video. It's right-wing extremism to oppose the unfettered migration of men from mostly Muslim countries who have no intention to assimilate into German culture. I'm reminded of the young police officer who was stabbed to death by an Afghan migrant at a "right-wing" rally.
As I also reported, Vice President J.D. Vance backed up Rubio. His post inspired a Finnish PhD student to inform us that Germany scores higher than the United States on the Democracy Index. I'd not heard of the Democracy Index, but a quick Google search shows that it's published by the Economist Group, which publishes the left-wing rag The Economist.
Germany ranks better than the US on the democracy index, freedom of press, and on corruption. With its history of dealing with extremism, Germany doesn’t need lessons from the US. It’s like when Vance claims that Europe is becoming dangerous, even though it’s safer than the US pic.twitter.com/dRTtKTPgJ5
— Joni Askola (@joni_askola) May 3, 2025
How about freedom of speech? Will Germany send police to your house over a Facebook meme? Europe is very protective of its Muslim newcomers.
Opposing Muslim extremists raping your women and murdering your children is not only not extreme, it’s your only chance to survive as a nation. pic.twitter.com/wbnfTfY70i
— 🐺 (@LeighWolf) May 2, 2025
I have no connection to Germany other than that my father-in-law was of German descent. I don't feel any strong urge to visit either. Maybe 20 years ago.
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“A subjective index that I don’t understand, and which is facially absurd, says we are better, so I don’t need to consider your substantive points” is such a perfect encapsulation of the PMC/technocratic mindset that one wonders if it is a parody. https://t.co/D7CW1jP0eg
— Legal Phil (@Legal_Fil) May 3, 2025
If you want to understand the pathological nature of liberalism we are at the point where a country can literally ban the political opposition but they score high on an abstract set of fake indicators so it’s still democracy https://t.co/gJfM1m7pIH
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) May 3, 2025
The democracy index literally uses "expert" statements and public opinion surveys as primary data.
— The Grand Teuton 🇺🇸 (@flulrich) May 3, 2025
These are then analysed using statistics, giving the "index" the veneer of unbiased objectivity, which is ridiculous. But useful for propaganda.
Even if you want to believe the model its not like they updated it over night to include banning your political rival party
— Jeff (@blahEhhGee) May 3, 2025
Sitting U.S. Secretary of State: “Hey Germany, don’t use your spy agency to surveil and suppress your second most popular political party.”
— TDM (@tldrmorgan) May 3, 2025
German Foreign Office: “This is what democracy looks like.” 🤡
We’re past the point of parody.
Germany may be safer than the U.S., but there's still a chance an Afghan asylum seeker will run you over at a crowded Christmas market in Magdeburg, or at Munich city center, or the city of Mannheim.
These indexes are literally just polls sent to journalists to fill out that rarely measure how much "democracy" is happening.
— Lyle Lanley (@Lyle_Lanley) May 3, 2025
It's really sad to me that Europe is lost.
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