• PonyOfWar@pawb.social
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    1 day ago

    Only on a very surface level, as in “the far-right reached second place in an election again”. But other than that, no, the situation in Germany is not very comparable to the late Weimar republic at all. Party militias aren’t terrorizing the streets, there is no hyperinflation, we’re not geopolitically isolated and our constitution is not as flawed and weak. Not to say the situation is rosy, but pretending we’re literally at the inception of the fourth reich is not realistic or useful.

    • goofus@lemmy.todayOP
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      24 hours ago

      Another analog is that eastern Germany voted very differently than western and southern Germany.

      One major difference, in 1930 the far right was anti-Russia, and today they are pro-Russia.