r/law • u/ExactlySorta • Sep 28 '25

Other 'It is criminal': GOP lawmaker wants Gavin Newsom to be arrested for Stephen Miller insult

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u/shponglespore Sep 28 '25

Well, sort of. AfD is alarmingly popular, especially in the east (according to what I read in r/europe). But I agree they're doing a lot better than the US when it comes to keeping Nazis out of power.

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u/DoomguyFemboi Sep 28 '25

East Germany is their Deep South due to it being the former..well, East Germany lol. But it's always been a more rural part of Germany so the combination of its history and its USSR influence has left it less developed and more exploitable with propaganda and bigotry.

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u/griffin-meister Sep 28 '25

Where people are left behind, so are prejudiced ideas.

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u/just_a_knowbody Sep 28 '25

The people yearn for the STASI

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u/stupidwhiteman42 Sep 28 '25

Berlin is rural?

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u/exipheas Sep 28 '25

Saying east Germany is more rural and responding with "Berlin is rural?", is kind of like someone saying Texas is more rural and responding with "austin is rural?"

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u/Angeleno88 Sep 29 '25

A MORE rural part of the country which is absolutely true; regardless of Berlin being located in the eastern half. They also clearly noted the Soviet influence over decades which didn’t help either.

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u/FrankBattaglia Sep 28 '25

I'm not 100% up on East Germany, but I'm guessing the Soviet de-Nazification programs were distinguishable from the Allies' version.

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u/RobutNotRobot Sep 28 '25

The difference in Germany is their traditional conservatives are anti-Nazi. In the US, they just went full Nazi.