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Region: Capitalist Libertarian Freedom Region

Smieda wrote:In Germany, the government is also having similar goals. They want to pass the "Demokratieförderungsgesetz" so "Democracy encouragement act". It will enable the government to give even more money to "democratic" aka left wing and progressive organizations. Some of these organizations also go to schools.

The law is also dealing with fighting hate crime, where of course the government decides what counts as hate crime. Probably anything they call "right wing" and "right extremist".
The politicians are constantly talking about protecting "our" democracy, but what they really mean is protecting their democracy, and they want to put anyone at a disadvantage who doesn't agree with them.

They currently also can monitor people and people's bank accounts who they classed as "Anti-constitutional". This mostly applies to people from the opposition party. The government agency that does this classification is bound to instructions by the government.

I would think the people of Germany would have already learned that lesson. But, yet... here we are.

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