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Will the AfD be Prosecuted for Their Campaign Video?
Gates of Vienna ^ | 31 Oct, 2024 | Baron Bodissey

Posted on 11/02/2024 5:33:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Below is an election campaign video (AI-generated) that was released by the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany) last month for the recent elections. The government is now trying to prosecute the AfD for using it.

Many thanks to Schwabe for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling: [AfD campaign ad with English subtitles at link]

The following excerpt (also translated by Schwabe) about the government’s actions is from an article posted by the Austrian portal Freilich Magazin:

The [government] media institute [MABB] asserts that the concept of “impairment” includes disturbances and damage to psychological and social development [of children].

A depiction that “creates a threat scenario emanating from people with dark skin colour and hair” has the potential to for negatively affect young people’s ability to socialize and promote stigmatizing and discriminatory behaviour patterns.

In its evaluation of the video, the MABB therefore concludes that the persons depicted are divided into “good” and “evil”, which violates the “tolerance imperative” and leads to “social-ethical disorientation”.

Original source of the video on Twitter/X

Video transcript:

00:00 You decide. You decide if the center of your town

00:04 gets to keep its weekly market, or a drug market.

00:08 Whether the trains finally run on time again,

00:11 or the train station becomes a crime scene.

00:14 You decide if parents can send their children to school without worrying,

00:19 or whether the fear of playground violence causes sleepless nights.

00:23 Whether Brandenburg even means offering perspective

00:28 or loss of prosperity and foreign infiltration.

00:32 You decide if your hard earned money is spent on bike paths in Peru

00:35 or for healthy roads in your homeland.

00:38 Whether it will be invested in your future

00:42 or in the future of strangers

00:45 You decide whether the county of Brandenburg remains the land of pine forests

00:48 or if it becomes a windmill monstrosity.

00:51 Whether there the kindergartens and schools are renovated or new asylum centers are built.

00:56 You decide whether things should continue as they are or whether we change course.

01:01 You decide. Make your decision on the 22nd September for the AfD.

01:10 It’s time.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: afd; freespeech; germany

1 posted on 11/02/2024 5:33:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Trump needs an ad like that!


2 posted on 11/02/2024 5:34:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Trump would be crucified as a racist if he put out an ad like that.


3 posted on 11/02/2024 5:56:17 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: SauronOfMordor

So?


4 posted on 11/02/2024 6:07:18 AM PDT by null and void (If the government won't protect the vote, the border, the citizens, then why have that government?)
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To: MtnClimber

The ad should be used here. I guess that makes me a racist. So be it.


5 posted on 11/02/2024 6:21:24 AM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: MtnClimber

No-one’s going to talk about the windmills which were clearly built by a race of Terminators seeking to wipe out the last vestiges of organic humans?


6 posted on 11/02/2024 6:42:14 AM PDT by dangus
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To: MtnClimber

Goofy, creepy smiles.

So it does not work to just show actual differences in behavior and cultural decency or coexistance vs contempt?

Why the WW2 propaganda outlandishness when there is so much reality?


7 posted on 11/02/2024 8:34:46 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: MtnClimber
I understand the premise but this is just bad marketing.

The ADF stepped on a rake and left itself open to this criticism by showing only the contrast between races. That is not the point the point is the contrast between cultures and you don't need a black and white divide to show it.

I'm quite sure the are many minorities who support the ADF and are just as angry as many white people at what is being done to their country and culture. Including a few would have made the add 10X more effective.

That's part of Trumps magic. He supports all Americans, race has nothing to do with it.

I don't know if this was intentional but is was unforced error that any person with some intelligence person could have seen coming.

The ADF needs to fire their marketing firm and watch a few Trump adds.

8 posted on 11/02/2024 10:24:07 AM PDT by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: usurper

The article is about the WHITE leftists in Germany trying to jail the AfD for the ad.


9 posted on 11/02/2024 10:45:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber
Whether the trains finally run on time again,

Uhhh, not the best phrase to use.

10 posted on 11/02/2024 10:47:35 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber
The article is about the WHITE leftists in Germany trying to jail the AfD for the ad.

I understand, all I'm saying is that the AfD should know better and not give them ammo.

11 posted on 11/02/2024 11:07:07 AM PDT by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: dfwgator
Uhhh, not the best phrase to use.

Agreed. But does it deserve jail time from those who orchestrated the third world invasion to destroy Western Civilization?

12 posted on 11/02/2024 11:34:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Of course not.


13 posted on 11/02/2024 11:38:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SauronOfMordor
Trump would be crucified as a racist if he put out an ad like that.

Could they really do any worse to him than they already do?

14 posted on 11/02/2024 11:41:02 AM PDT by Bullish (Socialism is a weed that blooms into communism, the tyranny that strangles liberty.)
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