That is the result of the media propping them up as a real threat and people taking them too serious. Like I said, they have the voters but not the manpower to back it up at leat not yet. (And polls tend to be higher for protest vote parties, as many decide to not follow through).

More concerning is the influence all the misinformation that is bombarding the next generation will have. The next far right party might have more fertile ground.

Yup that is the thing to be concerned about.

The mouthpieces are replaceable. Considering how fast the AfD is radicalising it is likely they’ll sabotage themselves before ever gaining real relevance. It’s much more important to look at what put them there in the first place.

The way I see right wing misinformation pop up more and more as “sponsored” content here in Germany is worrying. The next far right party that eventually pops up will likely have a much bigger politically active base. And I don’t want to think about the influence global warming will have…

Yeah, they have to be. Else the media propping up a tiny party of the rich as party of the small man wouldn’t work half as good.

We’re lucky that the allies did such a wonderful job of correting their own mistakes and making our system more robust after WW2 (not /s, seriously good job).

To assuage you a bit. The AfD is a paper tiger inflated by the media. I’m not saying there is no chance for them to ever reach power, but right now it’s not very likely. They lack something important: competent people in local politics. They don’t care about local politics, they often lack the shoes to fill posts, or have people nobody likes, or have people whose only competence is to wail on immigrants.

When remodelling my NAS I was tempted to go for unraid as well, but in the end I chose OMV. Aside from some minor problems here and there it has been running great.

Is it just me or did the ammounts Americans sue each other for rise an order of magnitude in the last few years?

Reminds me of the German Telekom and their unceasing effort to slow down state subsidised fibre deployment.

The subsidies are primarily for towns left behind with bad ADSL (it was below 30mbit average and is now afaik 100mbit), that want to build their own local fibre nets cause nobody else does.

They seem to watch for construction permits and then swoop in and build a few fibre adsl distribution boxes or elevate a street or two with fibre to raise the average speed in town just above threshold. The local net looses the subsidies and usually stops construction or if already built only commercial customers are still allowed to be connected…