That pissed me so off, when i had to reinstall a bunch of notebooks at work... they didn't even have an ethernet port, so i had to dig out some docking station from the trash pile in the server room.
They should just say "I spent 3 hours manipulating ChatGPT to agree with me", because that thing usually doesn't spout outright conspiracy bullshit without someone telling it to do so.
I have over a decade of experience engaging with conspiracy fetishists, so i know their methods. They twist any information however it fits them, even if their source disagrees with them or says something entirely unrelated.
And once again you're dodging the argument. Not once did you properly address any of my points. You just keep throwing in things that have absolutely nothing to do with what i said or what i asked. You couldn't even answer my initial question, or provide any evidence that Merz' actions had any effect of substance.
I see you have no interest in a sincere discussion, so have fun talking to a wall.
Again showing you have no idea about German politics... Border controls didn't start in 2025. Merz didn't invent them. They started in 2015. Migration flows were already falling in the years after that. And adopting right wing talking points was already happening before 2015. In 2000 they started with the "Leitkultur" debate.
AfD was founded in 2013. In 2014 the first pegida showed up and got designated "worried citizens" from the leading parties, completely ignoring that these clowns are a loud minority. Yes, technically it's 13 years since foundation of the AfD, i just rounded the number up. That's what the "~" thing means...
And no, Merkel did not open borders. Her "wir schaffen das" was after the people arrived. The far right just spread the rumor that it was the other way around.
Your mistake is to assume that immigration is their only topic. Or the only topic the population cares about. Anti-immigration is a small subset of their voter base. I already told you what other topics they cover among others. So you may want to actually inform yourself about the politics and social discussions in the country you try to yanksplain.
Their entire thing is being contrarian. Whatever the government decides, they will oppose it. For example: When corona hit, they called for lock downs. Once those lock downs were implemented, they called for lifting lock downs. You cannot win against them by copying a "milder form" of whatever they scream about, because they just do the pigeon on a chessboard thing and shit on it. They frame themselves as "rebels against the system" in every channel they can run on.
Political scientists have repeatedly pointed out that accommodation does NOT work. It only strengthens and legitimized the far-right. It's a simple question: Why vote the copy, if you can have the original?
Because the thing you apparently do not know about Germany is this: The mainstream parties, especially CDU, is constantly accommodating the far-right. And they're doing that "milder form" for ~15 years now, and shifting the discourse further and further to the right. If your assumption were right, the AfD shouldn't exist anymore.
You know what did work against the AfD? The Mass Protests of 2024. It caused them to drop several points in the polls. Turns out, making them socially unacceptable does work. The same way it worked against the NPD, which never gained a lot of influence in the first place. You know why? Because nobody was copying them, and barely any media was hosting them.
That's not solidarity in terms of labour. It's just accepting the status quo, while doing a lip service to the people affected. If you really want to show solidarity, join a union and participate in collective action to improve the working conditions. The more people a union has, the stronger it can get. Worker rights in Europe didn't come out of the good hearts of politicians or companies.