German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has caused a storm with incendiary remarks about immigrants being responsible for online violence against women.

“We must also address the fact that a significant proportion of this violence comes from groups of immigrants to the Federal Republic of Germany,”

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    3 days ago

    Love how the bot posting these “bad news from Germany” evaluated this as such while it’s actually good news.

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      2 days ago

      The man in the case about which Nazi Merz was talking about is a white German, the Hitler definition of ‘German’. But instead of taking about violence from men, Merz found a way to make this about immigration to appease the Nazis, who anyway will be voting for the AfD.

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        2 days ago

        I know, and I’m saying it’s a good thing that it caused backlash, per the headline.