Reaction To heute-show Mocks Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)

[@LocoHinato]

Great vid, unfortunately subtitles were rather bad

[@derGlasdrache]

Yes, sadly they are not accurate and probably not translated by fluent German speaker. 🤔 But probably better than an automated translation. 😂

[@dura2k]

@@derGlasdrache I don't think so, a good automatic translation would have been better than this. 6:20 "jeder durfte ans Mikro -> anyone to join the party, even Miko". yeah...

[@irgendeinname9256]

​@@derGlasdrache most likely not translated by a fluent English speaker

[@RonaldKethers]

It was translated by Google and a dish washer.

[@cavegamer0193]

They said that Bismarck united Germany in the 1970s😅 I felt physical pain when I read that. Bismarck united Germany in 1871 after fighting 3 wars against Denmark France and Austria.

[@xYonowaaru]

The subtitles were so awfully wrong at times that I wonder if it was done on purpose.

[@kaizoebara]

Yeah. Misleading. E.g. AfD racist grand uncle at 9:23 says Merkel should be incarcerated and that she should use the opportunity to get out of Germany while she can.

[@cavegamer0193]

Bismarck united Germany in the 1970s... ooooooof😳😂😂😂

[@arthur_p_dent]

5:00 actually the AfD has grown more extremist over the years. Some of the people at the leadership of the AfD back then have since left the party, realizing that their brand of extremisim was losing out to the even more extremist far-right camp.

[@Phelie315]

Yeah I remember when they were new I got a leaflet and read it, because I didn't know anything about them, and I remember reading it and thinking it wasn't exactly my cup of tea but, you know, a normal political opinion. That has definitely changed since then.

[@thorstenvantrottel3076]

At first they were just against the euro, which is debateable, but not that bad. But they went down very quick.@@Phelie315

[@JacobSprenger]

Yeah, in the beginning, the leadership of the AfD consisted of rich burgeoisie with a right-wing bent. Basically, neo-liberals dipped in brown paint. Not Nazis, but Nacas, if you will - National Capitalists. The leadership they have now, however, people like Höcke, are full-blown Nazis, indeed.

[@Gotenks-e1l]

Yes they even are so extremist that they want peace between russia and ukraine, while the others want the war to continue! 🤯

[@googlekonto194]

​@@Phelie315well the founder Bernd Lucke was actually just conservative and liberal and wanted to leave the euro (which is not really a good idea but he could at least argue for that point). Later more and more right wing people joined and after he tried to get them out via party internal voting he was forced to leave. Ever since then the leaders became more right wing-y and all of the former leaders now left the party because it drifted right too much

[@thisisviv]

We used to laugh about the AfD when they were a small party once (they actually started as an Anti-EU party) but now I think it’s just scary how much support they have… By the way, they haven’t changed their political view over the years. Lots of Germans are just so frustrated with the current political situation, that they think the only solution out is voting for AfD. Also, the AfD politicians use a very simple language to talk, which speaks to a lot of people. But alongside that, there are of course also a lot politically right-wing people in Germany. I am just really concerned about the next Bundestagswahl

[@thisisviv]

Also, the guy visiting the conference is one of the funniest of the heute show in my opinion. He also visited multiple conferences of other German partys, these videos are so good

[@SellusionStar]

I just saw that they have 21,6% in polls. That's so scary to imagine that 20% of my family and friends and people in my surroundings are relaxed enough to think, that a vote for AFD is a good thing. 🙈

[@ChRW123]

Every year that passes the AfD becomes more radical. It started as a € skeptical party and now some of its politicians are far-FAAAR-right wingers.

[@xYonowaaru]

They even got more extreme also nowadays they're almost purely running on conspiracy theories backing their hatred.

[@endeshaw1000]

Until the first black clothed people with pistols ins their pockets visit their neigbours. Then they are totally shocked and ask themselve "How could this only happen". If we cannot defend the democracy against that people we maybe have a more profound problem as well. Ignoring the reality only works until death comes.-@@SellusionStar

[@LigH_de]

2:30 - "durchkärchern": The company "Kärcher" produces high pressure cleaners, so they became a synonym for any kind of thorough cleansing

[@alexanderniejaki9756]

The episode is great but I feel like a lot of the subtitles are completely incorrect or not getting the nuances across :/

[@bechri9573]

you're right, but difficult, too, to translate speeches full of sarcasm, though ...

[@Zaparter]

These subtitles are often completely off. Even the context annotations are full of errors. Otto von Bismarck has famously survived many Rote Armee Fraktion assasination attempts. Common knowledge.

[@bechri9573]

@@Zaparter 😂

[@philipschulze2.070]

True, some where totally wrong and I thought, what was the translater drinking.

[@jam4591]

Subtitles were wrong very often!

[@Skoenner]

Bismark was still alive during the 1970s. It's common knowledge.

[@andrebrodbeck3883]

​@@Skoenner ja genau, Adolf hat zu der Zeit schließlich such noch gelebt.

[@NimbusDE]

Hä, es war doch Bismarck der auf der Mauer stand und meinte ,,Ich bin ein Berliner"!

[@omikrondraconis5708]

They got even worse since then, also got more support, a fact that sometimes makes me lose hope in my people. But on the other side, there has never been so much debate about unpleasant topics like latent fascism or vulnerability to populism here in Germany, and that is a silver lining behind that mess of a party.

[@Stippi-d9g]

Thats right but all the debates dont seem to diminish their success in the elections .... and it is just horrifying to see that other - lets call them democratic - parties are playing a similar music and are willing to cooperate with them just to preserve their own power

[@OkabexKurisu]

I lost hope in the german people in covid times when like 70% outed themselves as fascist. 😅 'take the shot or get banned from society'

[@klauskuhnast2394]

I lost the hope since 2015.

[@123pa1n]

@@Stippi-d9g because the current goverment is incompetent making the situation worse.

[@Tzomthekliafafanboy]

Afd voters are stupid

[@Fishareimportant]

Germany, like much of the world, is sadly experiencing a pronounced "Rechtsruck" (Rightward shift), especially in the poorer former GDR states. It has gone so far as to make the AfD a powerful institution in the East, and this is obviously a deeply worrying development for us Germans to witness. The AfD really began gaining traction during the Migrant refugee crisis in 2015/16 by way of far-right aggitative propaganda and exploiting many of the legitimate grievances of poorer Germans, especially East Germans. East Germany wasn't properly denazified under Soviet Control in the 40 years of Occupation following WW2. When Germany finally officially reunified Oct 3 1990, western companies completely dominated and out-competed eastern industries, resulting in alot of additional hardship and frustration for eastern Germans. It's a well known phenomenon that people are more susceptible to right wing radicalisation under such economic circumstances, and I think much of this carries on until today. The East also tends to be less diverse and have less immigrants than the west, which means many have less interaction with people from different cultures. More diversity of culture, ethnicity, and thought, helps breed tolerance and understanding between different peoples and this is lacking in the east especially, so they are more likely to be upset by Germany's moves towards becoming a "Immagrationsland" (Immigration-country). Of course, Cities tend to be more diverse and thus more left leaning, which is also the case in the East with Berlin. The AfD is emotionally exploiting and manipulating many germans to vote for a party that will objectively work against their interests as studies have shown. The AfD also has very different messaging in the east and west, softer in the west and more openly right-wing in the east. Sadly, the popular and sensible left wing counter-balance that we need in Germany, to counter this right wing shift doesn't really exist. Die Linke is seen as and partially seems to be incompetent and has some self-sabotaging stances, and the Greens are too willing to compromise and have quite the bourgeois image amongst many germans. The SPD isn't really socialist at all but in name, and the FDP and CDU are centre/centre right, and thus aren't the solution. It is a shame that, when we needed a hard move towards the far left, we instead got the far-right. It's a long and complicated topic but I hope this helps provide some context. Prost from Germany

[@ATOM-vv3xu]

Pretty sure that the more pronounced shift towards the right in the former gdr is more a result of those people on average being less right initially than of income like an afd voter there is likely left (apart from it being hard to call someone who has no idea what they are actually voting right/left) from the perspective of a cdu voter in south germany also east germany not being properly denazified UNTIL the reunion... the Russians even had concentration caps for nazis, while in west germany only a couple of the worst nazis were brought to court. Not saying that what the udssr did was good or that it erased enough nazi mentality, but what you say there is pretty much bullshit

[@erbse1178]

It is especially frightening to see the current center parties "CDU/CSU" being torn apart between the ones who want to stand against right wing (#Brandmauer) and those who like to appeal as friends of the AFD to "strengthen" the party's political weight. History repeats, as the center parties of the Weimar Republic did the same move to strengthen their position against the left wing (SPD and KPD at the time) by building a coaltion with the NSDAP and NDP. They failed big time to keep the "weak" counterpart under control. What followed is nothing you haveto explain to any German....

[@wallerwolf6930]

Thank you very much for this excellent analysis! Many people don't understand (or don't want to understand) that it was only through immigration that West Germany became what it is today and that the eastward expansion of the EU is nothing other than what gives the industrialized nations of Europe their "further" prosperity. Everyone benefits from it, including the countries (people) of the former Eastern Bloc, albeit at a lower level. These countries would still look like they did during the Cold War if they had not taken this step. But we hardly have any people in the precarious employment conditions that many companies would be able to afford. This can also be seen in the fact that many people prefer to live on a low basic income (Hartz4) rather than on a low wage, which would usually have to be earned with difficulty. Without outside influx, the lights will soon go out here because we are currently lacking well-trained workers in almost all sectors. Apparently some people in the country can't get over this unpleasant fact!

[@wallerwolf6930]

@@ATOM-vv3xu The leadership of the AfD has increasingly shown itself to be what it has been for a long time, a brown network of Nazis who have banished moderate Democrats from their ranks. This is obvious, but just as obvious, not recognizable to every voter ;-)) Your (intentional) half-truths border more on an attempt to dumb down and could be declared as nonsense (bullshit)!

[@Kokuswolf]

What is "properly denazified"? Many former Nazis remained in political parties like CDU after WW2. I'm not against the rest of your statements, but this "proper denazification" sounds like a cleansing receipt that the Soviets just forgot to use. By that logic bavaria wasn't cleaned either. It would be a fatal mistake to reduce this to the East alone, as if that were the origin of the problem. The difference is the way shorter political history for the new federal states. They first tried "Die Linke" and then switched to AfD, because they had no "good past" with the bigger parties before. ​ I think the main problem is that right wing ideology becomes socially acceptable (again). And this happends everywhere on the world. To manipulate East Germany is ... or was just easier, because it has less history that has previously shaped it politically. The reason why is then again just what you said about the remaining parties.

[@MrChili007]

Atomic power is clean if you could get rid of the atomic wast. You must store it for some hundred million years at a safe place. Please keep in mind, 200 million years ago the highlands of Scotland were part of the North American Appalachian Mountains.

[@Rutanachan]

Don't forget that the Uranium has to be mined as well, so it's not even clean without the waste problem...

[@jaycee9385]

@@Rutanachan Yes! But ... This true for almost every form of energy. Look, what's in pv panels and where it comes from. No energy is really clean, some are just cleaner then others.

[@varlmorgaine3700]

No the mining of uranium isnt clean too, also it is really expensive.

[@SE86]

Not only bad subs, also factual errors: the ZDF is NOT a government channel. Public doesn’t mean state-owned. There’s a big difference. 9:10

[@uliwehner]

that was the error of the AFD interviewee, they implied that the ZDF was leaning one way or the other.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

You're right! ZDF, of course, was and is not a government broadcaster. The ZDF has always been significantly more inclined towards the CDUnion than the ARD. Anyone who grew up in the 70s could always see this very well when they first watched "Heute" and then the Tagesschau three-quarters of an hour later. The choice of words and representations differed considerably even back then. If you don't believe that... KZbin is full of old news programs from before the fall of the Berlin Wall. You can make a nice comparison there. And long live continuity! Nothing has changed...

[@mvhdsk1122]

also, nuclear bomb has been undertitled as nuclear power plant...

[@SE86]

@@uliwehner you mean the captions on top could be some kind of interpretation of the interviewees thoughts? Hm. Possible. I thought they’re simply supposed to offer some background knowledge. In any case, the subtitles/captions are really weird.

[@rudolfgernd8760]

Keep in mind that this party is on the way to becoming the second strongest in Germany. Yep, it's that scary.

[@derdude6139]

und wenn die anderen so weitermachen machen sies ihnen halt auch echt leicht

[@gknucklez]

@@derdude6139 mit was weitermachen? Die Ampel hat weder den Krieg in Ukraine angefangen noch Covid ausgelöst und daher stammen die hälfte unserer Probleme. Die andere Hälfte liegt am Klima und Energie, beides Probleme die uns die CDU eingebracht haben, weil sie die AKWs lahmlegen hat lassen und bei der Klimapolitik nichts gemacht haben was jetzt nunmal aufgeholt werden muss. Die Ampel investiert in unsere Zukunft, was natürlich mehr kostet als der "Alles bleibt wie es ist" Mentalität der CDU. Migration ist ein heißes Thema, aber es gibt halt auch keine einfachen Lösungen. Ernsthafte Lösungen hat auch die AfD nicht, die kann nur schreien wie scheiße alles ist.

[@tehweh8202]

Yeah... it's seriously depressing how many percent of the population are absolute idiots. Who in their right mind votes for that fascist filth?

[@googlekonto194]

well they are not right now and it's still two years left until the Bundestagswahl. I'm afraid we'll get them ruling in Thüringen, but maybe then people will realize that they actually don't do anything. Also I think the germans have to relax a bit more. It's normal for political coalitions to be discussing in my opinion. However after 16 years of not discussing at all it seems to be hard for some people to accept that

[@uliwehner]

the good news is that germany has more than 2 parties, unlike the US, where the now right wing populist republican party under trump has 50% of the votes. We need a third party in the US, and we need it badly.

[@adrians8249]

Sadly the English translation is very poor.... But hey, probably better than nothing

[@Bezayne]

Yes there were quite a few cases of outright wrong or missing translation in that shown video this time, sadly.

[@derkaldi]

In my opinion getting rid of the nuclear power is a good thing as long we are not compensating it with coal. So renewable energy is on the way in Germany but the transformation gets some criticism (some deserved some not).

[@Gotenks-e1l]

You cant do it. Germany is a small country with a very high consumption of energy. If you dont use nuclear power and you dont use coal, then you would have to destroy the nature (which is already happening) because for every nuclear power plant you need THOUSANDS of wind turbines, same with solar panels. It all needs much more space and destroys our landscapes, also all the birds that fly against it and die, Nabu says around 100.000 per year. If killing 100.000 birds per year ishow you want to help the environment then better dont try to help the environment ...

[@skiron5453]

As a german I have to warn everyone in here, that the subtitles really weren't great. For example at 9:31 Lutz said "What would happen otherwise?" and the AfD person responds with "Sonst kommt sie nicht mehr raus" [= "Otherwise she won't be able to get out anymore"] while the subtitle said the complete opposite ("She would get kicked out").

[@NeulandInternet]

The clip with the man unintelligably speaking at the AfD conference has to be one of my favourite Heute Show moments ever. But damn, these subtitles are pure madness! xD

[@l33tnobody1337]

they're not even all that accurate either.. In reality the shit they say is even more insane

[@NeulandInternet]

@@l33tnobody1337 Totally agree! :)

[@gajustempus]

little known fact (as the nuclear lobby works with full power against the knowledge from being spread): Nuclear power is - BY FAR - the most expensive kind of power production on the planet. Even worse so: As the magnitude of harm ANY kind of accident in a nuclear power plant is so extreme, there's not a single insurance on this planet that would even DARE to offer insurance for them. So the only insurance a nuclear power plant ever can have is the money of the people - federal money, to be precise. A nuclear plant does also depend on the fuel source. A lot of the fuel is produced in russian or former soviet states. You can't "switch" the powerplant's source and take something from a different supplier. If you take something from one, you stick with this one for the rest of the plant's life. Then there's the construction cost and duration. The latest nuclear power plant in northern Europe took over 20 years to be built. Its costs were so massive, you could have easily built forty times the amount of power in windmills to produce regenerative energy instead. And those don't require nuclear fuel, don't produce radioactive waste (which we still don't know what we should do with...) and require FAR less maintenance. That's btw. why the number of nuclear power plants worldwide is dropping since 1980. So it's no new trend or a German-exclusive one. Just a pile of facts the Lobby doesn't want to spread...

[@bilbine2284]

Thank you very much for pointing out these facts.

[@fenrisulfr8]

I don't know much about this topic but really hope you're right and that Germany is getting a head start with the renewable energy. The nuclear phaseout seemed a bit too fast for me though and a bit unfortunately timed with the energy prices we're having right now (three times as high as the international average)

[@Duconi]

That's totally true. Wanted to write a similar comment. Thanks for listing everything I had in mind as well.

[@gajustempus]

@@fenrisulfr8 to be fair - it wasn't at all. The plans to get out of nuclear power go back to April 2002. It was cancelled in 2010 by the CDU (which was highly controversal), then, after Fukushima, the debate came up again - and the original leave was restarted. It was the CDU as well to block solar power for most of the time, as they had decided to place an "Ausbaudeckel" - expansion limit, roughly translated, into effect. And they decided to put unreasonable large distance rules on windmills. They even managed to double-tax energy buffer systems like buffer lake plants (those buffering energy by pumping water to a higher place for later use) so they were practically financially impossible to operate. Most of these active sabotage actions are the reason we're not at the point we could have been. Gladly, most of them have dropped in the past few years, and all of them are gone by now, under our new government (which is part of the reason why they receive such a massive backlash in the media. The oil and gas firms and all those "old energy" providers did make big money with burning stuff. And big money buys you influence in the media and certain political parties...) The people being upset about the status quo right now shouldn't put all the blame and hate on those who are trying to fix what was broken a decade ago - they should put it onto those who STILL want them to be dependent on big corporations, billionaires and all those who made a fortune with fossil energies - and plan on doing so for as long as possible. But then again - that requires at least a basic understanding of the matter. Something Generation TikTok appears to be unable to do, as it takes longer than 5 minutes to read through everything...

[@weizenobstmusli8232]

If that was true, ultra capitalist countries whouldn't use it.

[@countbasie20]

my best friend of 20 years has turned into an AFD supporter, trumpist and conspiracy theorist in the last few years. I cut all ties to him four months ago. I'm not even sad about it and kinda feel pretty relieved that I did. 👍🏼

[@bechri9573]

sad to hear, but well done, though ... kein Fußbreit! ✊🏽

[@countbasie20]

@@bechri9573 yep, enough is enough. ✊🏼

[@thr4017]

@jahonain If someone votes AfD he is definitely NOT well educated.

[@danielstein7197]

Congratulations to your ignorance. Please dont forget to get your covid booster when minister of "health" recommends it for Fall 2023 xD ARD/ZDF brain wash is really effective.

[@gundleyG]

I lost friends to the conspiracy and AfD too.

[@Yahula1edits]

The real start of the AfD was actually far from an extremist Party, I'm talking about pre Frauke Petry times, where it was still an unknown party, but a lot of right-winged People and Nazis, took the opportunity and basically overtook it and made it what it is today, which is a super extremist right wing political Party that has actual Nazis in it, and is socially much more accepted. They also use republican strategies in creating hate symbols, like against trans people and the scariest part is, how the CDU the "Angela Merkel" party is kind of starting to partner up with them.

[@lorenzp5823]

"Tell me more about AFD." Hell no!

[@achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233]

AdD is Baad, Uhmmkay.

[@lorenzp5823]

@@achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233 Lern schreiben, Achim.

[@mariashepherd8650]

Keep your friends close but your enemies closer. In that context knowledge and education are essential!

[@NKA23]

@@achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233 Yes, a neo-fascist party disguising themselves are a "normally conservative" party IS bad....unless you always dreamed of a rivival of the Third Reich.

[@martinkaplan4107]

If you have no Facts just write hell no ... very Woke like ... Peace and Love to you all God knows we need it!!!✌

[@Pausenton]

for your information, german nukeplats are now all decomissioned. and they where fueld with russian uranium.

[@chalkopirate]

Not like we couldn't have bought it from france

[@calise616]

Did I read that correctly? Otto von Bismarck united Germany in the 1970s? Wow, the subtitles are really, really bad. *facepalm* He was born in 1815!

[@alansmith4748]

I'm an English immigrant living in Germany and I never want to return to the UK so I'm not making any claims for or against immigration here. But people should be aware that extreme views on one side will always result in extreme views on the other; the more extreme one side becomes, then the more extreme the other becomes in return and the middle ground eventually gets pulled apart.

[@spacecooookie]

Thats actually a good point. But I highly doubt that a lot of people ,left or right wing, would agree on that and therefore also point their Fingers on themselves.

[@hans471]

Exactly, the afd is a result of the extreme immigration politics 👍

[@bensoloh]

11:58 min Otto von Bismarck, didn't unify Germany in the 1970s, it was in the 1870s.

[@MrYamiBakura]

oml, those subtitles. bismarck did the thing in the 1870s not the 1970s lul. the kms bismarck from wwii didn‘t get his name without a reason.

[@PiepsiPanic]

Yep, that hurt when I read that. Mert must be quite confused now ("There was a guy named Bismarck who united Germany back in 1970??? What about the GDR, The Wall and the re-unification in 1990?? Did I miss something???") ...

[@cereal_experiments]

The subtitles are quite bad. In some places, the translator injects his own interpretation into the translation or even changes sentences completely which gives them a more extreme or completely different meaning. Whether this is intentional or the translator is not a native speaker, I cannot say.

[@aBeerFromHere7994]

4:28 At the end of 2015 the support for AFD was about 8-10% in polls. They got 12.2% in the 2017 election and 10.3% in 2021. Now they have 20-22% in polls.

[@googlekonto194]

and let's hope it goes back to 10 in the next election

[@CoL_Drake]

people rly are stupid.. i see people who would be hurt by their politics vote for them cause they dont care they just wanna vote for "hate"

[@OkabexKurisu]

​@@googlekonto194lets hope it goes up to 30%. Nothing changes with the current politics. 😅

[@googlekonto194]

@@OkabexKurisu I disagree. I would rather say it doesn't change fast enough. But there are positive things happening, it's just not communicated properly. El Psy Congroo xD

[@OkabexKurisu]

@@googlekonto194 there arent any good things happening. Not a single one. The greens are now a war- party. Its so funny how corrupt this system is.

[@niko7496]

the problem with nuclear power still to this day is the waste. i think the argument, that we can find a safe place to store it for thousands of years is a pretty arrogant one. we can't even accurately predict a safe place for the next 50 years. if there was a good way to use nuclear waste or decrease the time that the waste has dangerous levels of radiation dramatically, it would certainly be one of the safest ways to produce electricity.

[@Drako999x]

The second problem with the three last nuclear power plants in Germany also was, that they were fricking old and two were almost rotten... And we also didn't have any fuel rods left... Try to think, where we did get those almost everytime... Oh and they were so old, that they also were not even really productive anymore...

[@googlekonto194]

well there is also some other problem with Nuclear Power. It is literally the only source of energy that becomes more expensive as the time goes since no one wants to carry the risks. And it's also not safe for climate crisis situation. Last year, France had to turn off some of their plants, because the Loire where they took the cooling water from, ran dry. So it's not a really good option. I think the direction to establish renewable energy is the right one. And even for bad times there are ways, working with H2 and Biogas.

[@miasolala8415]

Another problem is that rising temperatures cause repeated outages, bcs the cooling water that nuclear power plants discharge (into rivers) must not exceed a certain temperature by law. At many sites, like in France last year, this was no longer the case, with temperatures in some places exceeding 40°C, so 29 of the 56 nuclear power plants in France were shut down and did not produce any electricity. But some politicians never get tired of rehashing the fairy tale of 'safe nuclear energy'. I wonder what the reason for that is.🤔

[@Drako999x]

@@miasolala8415 Yeah, and the overall temperature will not go down anytime soon (or at all...). And like I said, with cold fusion most of those problems would be gone. I just hope, Germany will remember itself to be that country of innovations it once was.

[@Drako999x]

@@googlekonto194 Yeah, the waste still is an incredibly bad problem. In the whole world, there is not a single one working permanent repository for it :/ Also... water in general becomes less and less easy to get, so that also increases the costs...

[@DukeDukeGo]

ZDF is _not_ a government channel. It recieves public funding (which is mandatory) not tax money. It is a small distinction, but it is not controlled by the government. ARD and ZDF were build on the model of the BBC

[@ATOM-vv3xu]

4:30 Überraschungseier caught me completely off guard

[@Berzzzzerk]

Just so you know - the subtitles were not always totally accurate and the things the AfD-people said sometimes were even more horrible than what the translation said. For example at 9:31 the man didn't say "She would be kicked out" he said "She wouldn't be able to get out (or flee) anymore"

[@EmilySC23]

Since the CDU is in the opposition they have been leaning more right-wing, conservative up to downright problematic. This, paired with constantly fighting progressive (more or less) government parties has basically led to way more open racism, repressive thinking, sexism, etc (e.g. « Layla » being an extremely popular song last year despite the lyrics and now being constantly topped by even dumber songs from the Schlager scene.). It’s really bad. In the next weeks there’s a state election in Bavaria and the government will probably be re-elected despite the vice minister president being in a huge scandal just weeks ago. In general the situation is somewhere between embarrassing and scary.

[@FreeeSpeech-uo6lr]

Bavaria has always been that way. Politics there are a complete comedy show and always have been since ww2. They are the banana state of Germany, very pro capitalist and right wing and corrupt to the bone. But there is still hope for the rest of Germany, if they don´t follow the Bavarian example.

[@OkabexKurisu]

Damn...the stupid right wing people. They are so evil. 😅😂😂

[@dunkel-zombi_fiziert-heit]

what a bullshit, what are you talking about, surely NOT todays germany, thats for sure.

[@1Mystery10000]

Actually the AfD went further right with the years...

[@MrMichaelHeat]

Do you know "James Bray"? Also a KZbinr who deals with German history and the German people in a similar way to you. He also recently completed his second visit to Germany and reports on his experiences. I could imagine that there are one or two videos from him that could have interesting approaches for you.

[@MarinComics]

Good segment. But the English captions are wrong in many places. They are not just slightly off, but some parts are completely wrong.

[@marcusmees4625]

"Safe" is maybe not the word of choice to describe nuclear energy 😂

[@videojunky3007]

Much to the chagrin of all of us, the AFD is still on the rise and moving further and further to the right. The AFD is already being observed in parts by state security. In my opinion, the AFD has a very anti-constitutional program. Due to the current crises, they can further distinguish themselves among the less educated population and, according to the latest projections, have received around 20% 😭. It's a shame, but the CDU is also on the right-wing march and occasionally collaborates with the AFD. I hope our politics will once again focus on what is essential: humanity. We are all people on the same planet. Nuclear power may be CO2 neutral and safe as long as it is maintained, but we have no final solution to the radioactive waste it produces. From my point of view, it is good that we have taken all nuclear power plants off the grid and are relying on renewable energies. Germany took the last nuclear power plant offline last year 🥳

[@henrylorenz8911]

But isn't the state security part of the executive branch? Why would it matter what they think of a party, isn't it why the judiciary exists? If this party is that bad, why isn't it banned? Is the seperation of power not working anymore?

[@Justforvisit]

@@henrylorenz8911 It is and the judicary is the one who can put something under severe observation and ban these forces if neccessary, but in the case that things are getting out of hand our constitution als includes the right for executive forces to actively fight back against forces who actively try to delegitimze our constitution. A lesson learned from 1933 and how Hitlers seized power back then. It's different escalation levels for the same situation.

[@martinkaplan4107]

@@henrylorenz8911 Yep ist no longer Working they want to silence 30 % of the peopel that Life in this County all they have to do is forbide the Afd and thars onley because we have a different Opinion says a lot a Bout ther tolorenz and Love towards Demokratie if you all me. Love and Peace to you all God knows we need it!!!✌

[@_jpg]

​@@apophis6108The point you deliberately fail to see is, that the program is only a facade to even more extreme positions: Remember in 2021, when they voted for a new program and shortly after that Beatrix von Storch said "Nobody has read that text"? That was a program, which demanded a Dexit as well as the comeback of the D-Mark (both catastrophic policies for the economy and democratic process as seen in the UK), border patrols (with prominent AfD figures advocating for the use of gun fire against asylum seekers, children included), the ban of minarettes (effectively an end to the freedom of religion), and an end to all policies regarding Covid.

[@_jpg]

@apophis6108 So, after conveniently skipping all but one point of my criticism...sabotaging one of the strongest currencies, which is used by nearly an entire continent, is somehow...good? That's what we call a "dick move"; pulling out before shit comes down, resulting in shit coming down sooner, instead of helping each other go through it. And part of that "solution" is re-introducing a currency, which is barely worth half the current one. I'll be honest, I don't understand all of your high ass terms, but that's the conclusion I got from your answer. Don't blame me for it, but the AfD sounds fricking nuts.

[@b.b.3820]

The translation is very off at some points. That one guy said that Merkel should leave the country while she still can, implying that she would be arrested otherwise.

[@aBeerFromHere7994]

9:49 Yes. The last 3 nuclear power plants were shut down in March of 2023. The opposition is complaining about the shutdown and mostly the CDU who was responsible for the shutdown (under chancellor Merkel in 2011). They were afraid that a tsunami could hit a German power plant like it happened in Japan the same year.

[@UlliStein]

In Germany tsunamis aren't the problem but we still don't know how to get rid of the nuclear waste. And there wasn't much nuclear power anyway in the last years so this will not be a problem.

[@Merrsharr]

2:30 the things the translator didn't understand basically means "to properly clean up the place" 3:45 "we can not allow the sexual inclinations of a loud minority to play ball with our children('s education)" and his comment "You can't even hear yourself because the gays are so loud" 7:15 I wouldn't know how to translate this to English, but he says "no less than", which actually means he's holding Lutz in high regard. 9:32 he actually says "she won't be able to get out" 9:57 actually "you and me as average citizens do not know how many American *Nuclear Weapons* are stored in Bitburg" (probably a US outpost in Germany) (thus his answer 28 is just him BSing, he wouldn't have clearance to know that, much less to share it)

[@Vampirzaehnchen]

The decision on shutting down the power plants was a little bit troublesome. The decision was made after the events of Fukushima. Only a few months before that the government decided otherwise. Otto von Bismarck was 1870. ^^°

[@sandel712]

Little typo in the explanations: it was the 1870s, not 1970s. Otto von Bismarck was the first "Reichskanzler" after Germany becoming "Kaiserreich" in 1871.

[@hhbased]

Sorry but the subtitles are so bad. Some jokes are not really translated or it says sth completely different

[@tosa2522]

Since that time, many moderate politicians, including the party's founder, have left the AfD. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution has placed the party under observation due to many extremist statements in recent years. Recently, the investigation by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution into suspected anti-constitutional activity was intensified. However, a court had ruled that the tightened surveillance was not appropriate at the moment.

[@wallerwolf6930]

A Bernd (Björn ;-))Höcke can still be described as what he is. A NAZI! And the rest of the leadership in the AfD, in principle, could also be located on the extreme “right-wing” side of the street!

[@naomisusanisaacs3810]

Really like your channel and your curiosity, but please learn the complete pronunciation of the word "heute". The final "e" is NOT silent: i.e. "hoitä" (or listen to the pronunciation in an online dictionary). But keep on keeping on. Love it 😍

[@mabus4910]

2:35 The subtitles did not know how to translate "Die Drecksbude mal richtig durchkärchern". It means "Pressure washing the dirty shack". "Kärcher" is a pressure washer brand. In germany it is also used as a verb: "kärchern"

[@annemckervey9023]

By now all nuclear plants have been shut down. We didn't have all that many and some of them were pretty old anyway. The safety aspect is only one concern actually. Ask where the resources come from. Ask what they do with the waste. Until the end they had not even found a safe place to store the nuclear waste and they had thankfully abandoned the practice of simply dumping barrels of nuclear waste into the North Sea. Then ask if they could even be run in the future. Neighbouring France has many nuclear plants. They had to temporarily shut down some because the rivers were running low in the summer. Nuclear plants need water for cooling all the time. Now climate change... It's extremely costly to run those nuclear plants and they cannot get insurance. I say it's better to live without them.

[@maja-kehn9130]

I agree.

[@autodach]

Those subtitles are really dubious; I caught many mistakes just by glancing occasionally

[@adur6400]

Yes you are right. The nuclear powerplants have been shut down, or at least most of them so far.. In my opinion thats not good, because its a reliable power source, not producing much co2 That would help as a backup, when we also shut down the coal plants (which on the over hand should happen way quicker in my opinion)

[@serthsharpscales]

Okay wow those captions are quite off.. It's nice they tried translating for non-germans but they obviously don't speak german very well.

[@danielw.2442]

@Who is Mert? The AfD is basicly the ERG group within the Tories, just the German version of it.

[@headofmyself5663]

Spot on analysis!

[@MagicChris86]

Who did these subtitles? Even the most comprehesible parts in the interviewas and stuff were translated wrong or not at all. I could and would like to do better.

[@trinity6350]

I really like your videos, but especially on this one the subtitles has been incomplete and part of the explanations were just wrong. For example, ZDF is NOT a government channel, you could compare it to the BBC in Britain.

[@klausoxen6597]

Really luv ur Reactions. Greets from the Middle of Germany👍😊

[@bananenmusli2769]

Gosh, the translation was rubbish. Sometimes it translated the opposite of what's being said

[@oberoneledthar3782]

The vid is really good but the subtitles are not that great. There are parts that are translatet completely wrong tbh

[@jorgenke4145]

Totally wrong translation in the subtitles at 9:38. It says "She [Angela Merkel] damaged the nuclear reactors. But as an average citizen, I don't know how many nuclear power plants exist in the US.". What he really said was "She TURNED OFF the nuclear power stations. But as an average citizen, I don't know how many NUCLEAR BOMBS the USA have stored in Germany in the Eifel region." - This statement is correct. It is true that several nuclear weapons are stored in US barracks in Germany. There also used to be chemical weapons that have been removed by now. But still, there is no information on how many nuclear weapons are stored in Germany.

[@PiepsiPanic]

Thanks, I was looking for this comment before posting it by myself. Now I don't have to do it anymore. ;) Indeed, what a poor translation ... :(

[@jorgenke4145]

@@PiepsiPanic Yes, I did the same. I first checked if someone else hat already said it, like most times, but not this time. Yes, poor translation.

[@evilanno3394]

The problem with Nuclear power is that we still don't have a storage place/ solution for the Nuclear waste.

[@KingGaming77770]

i think he just can't stop watching german comedy, he loves it to much

[@Marvininini]

The subs in this vid are terrible. They're often saying the exact opposite of what is being said in the video...

[@Marvininini]

I think they weren't written by a native speaker. The person who wrote them misunderstood quite a lot of things that native speakers would understand. Example when talking about Merkel, the AFD guys said she would not be able to leave the country. The subs say she would be kicked out of the country. The last AFD guy said about Otto von Bismarck and the herring joke: What does this have to do with this topic of history? The subs read: Even historians question this history. That sentence doesn't even make sense in the context of the conversation....

[@cyberhopser4231]

Unfortunately the subtitles were terrible, sometimes they even said the opposite of what was being said

[@Nickname_42]

In the today's show, all rhetorical devices are used: sarcasm, cynicism, irony, hyperbole, alliteration, rhetorical questions, absurdities, etc. Glossary_of_rhetorical_terms

[@asator2746]

The subtitels "arent the yellow from the egg"

[@EvaLieblich]

have some nice time watching your videos! Thank you for doing ♥

[@Cocachin123]

The subtitles are REALLY off!

[@DMSG1981]

These subtitles are abysmal. They hardly get anything right...

[@l.c.899]

the translation is very poor by the way. for example: 3:51 He says: Yes, you can not understand your own word, because the gays are so loud.(before he says the gays are a loud minority) And in the translation it says: Yes, even the word homosexual should not be allowed to be said in schools.

[@Riddler0603]

I wonder if the subtitles were written by a German native speaker. I almost doubt it, because they're really bad often times. And then he probably would've known what the term "durchkärchern" means^^

[@gwaptiva]

The disturbing thing about the AfD today compared to the AfD 7 years ago, is that the "moderates" have all left. This party's youth arm has already been classified as "far-right extremists", and ... well, let's just say multiple judges have declared it's not inappropriate to call the AfD a Fascist party.

[@karstenbalamagi8463]

i almost feel sorry for you :D english was always my worst grade in school but even i could have made a better translation - and that's a challenge! back to topic: afd is for idiots, was and will but that bismarck joke... the fucked up translation made it even more hilarious oder so ähnlich

[@psyckwhoever4197]

There was a joke that's hard to translate with the man that spoke to unarticulate to understand correctly (at 6:45): He wanted to say "Volksabstimmung" (popular ballot), but it sounded a little like "f*** Abstimmung", which is also a nod to the anti-democratic tendencies of AfD. I think that's the joke that Oliver wanted to make when he said: I only unterstood "popular ballot" 😅 (at least that's what it sounded to me as a german native speaker) *Edit:* Added timestamp

[@happalula]

still dont get the reason for the gigantic letters across some videos....

[@HeliouHyios]

the subs you are using are horribly wrong.... autogenerated subs were even better

[@PiepsiPanic]

Indeed, lots of jokes have been destroyed. Mert must be confused (e. g. Bismarck in 1970 instead of 1870) and didn't get the point in some cases. :(

[@ohsheee6600]

The afd hasn't changed much. They even became the stongest party in some states, and now the CDU(conservatives) is even cooperating with them, which is making waves in german politics. The newest heute show actually has that as a topic.

[@sash9868]

Well, some of the more moderate politicians such as Lucke, Petry and Meuthen went out. And the more radical forces such as Höcke gained more and more influence.

[@ohsheee6600]

@@sash9868 right, they only got worse

[@RayvenGuard]

A bunch of translation mistakes in this one, unfortunately. It seems like the person who added the subtitles is not a native German speaker. But at least it was nice that they added some background information for some of the jokes. About your question: The AfD has not changed their position regarding Islam, LGBT, and other topics. In fact, a lot of the more moderate members of the party have left the AfD since then, because the party has become more extremist over the years. In the meantime, support for them has been growing, as they successfully managed to establish Islamophobia, antisemitism and homophobia in German society. Or at least they managed to break the taboos regarding these topics, allowing them to openly spread their ideology, pretending it's a valid opinion. It's probably worth mentioning that the other established parties also did their part in promoting the AfD, either directly by copying their viewpoints in an attempt to regain lost voters, as done by the CSU and partly the CDU, or indirectly by refusing to tackle several obvious issues that rose in the past years. Issues following the refugee crisis are not the only ones to mention here, but naturally, they've been the go-to topic when AfD politicians wanted to rant about something.

[@NineBerry]

The english subtitles in this video have a bad quality. They are often wrong.

[@Holzschieber]

The heute show is notorious for bashing and ridiculing everything and everyone who is not strictly leftist. Therefore, it's not just a comedy show, but has a distinct political agenda.

[@waynehampson9569]

Google isn't a very good source to translate languages. I am learning German and I can tell you that many times the Google translation is wrong.

[@Etothe2iPi]

It's not hoit-show, it's hoiteh-show. "Heiter bis völkisch" can hardly be translated properly. It's a pun. In weather forecast, we often get the expression "heiter bis wolkig", meaning "friendly to cloudy". The German word "wolkig" sounds a lot like the Nazi expression "völkisch".

[@Crynogar]

The spontaneous closing of the nuclear powerplants backfired hard, as the Companies sued hard and got 2.4 billion Euros ....

[@truberthefighter9256]

This is an interesting translation! Someone seems to have done it as well as he could - yet there are some funny mistakes clearly proving that person not to be natively German - for example, "ein Geringerer als" does not translate to "you could get no minor person than"; indeed it means "it is no person minor than". Thus it translates to the exact opposite. XD Anyway, I would struggle myself, as I lack the English skills to recode it properly.

[@robertdroese4320]

All my respect to Lutz, especcialy if you think that he is left, gay and still is not afraid to join this kind of 'meeting' !!

[@derda1304]

"einfach mal durchkärchern den ganzen haufen" kärcher is a manufacturer of high-pressure-cleaning-tools (for your terrace and stuff)

[@9405alex]

Bismarck was 1870s, not 1970s.

[@derlesende]

On your question of how the AfD has evolved, let's look at the list of the party's chairmen: 1. Bernd Lucke (2013-2015): Lucke was a co-founder of the AfD and is considered a representative of the economic liberal wing. He left the party in 2015. 2. Frauke Petry (2015-2017): Petry was a prominent figure in the AfD's right-wing conservative wing. She resigned from the AfD parliamentary group and left the party in 2017. 3. Jörg Meuthen (2015-2021): Meuthen is a member of the economic liberal wing. He resigned as chairman and left the party in 2021. 4. Tino Chrupalla (2019 present): Chrupalla is a member of the AfD's right-wing conservative wing and was elected party chairman in December 2019. I’m not sure but if all of the previous chairmen left the party itself, something is going on.

[@minicooper321]

In Germany we shut down the last nuclear power plants in April 2023.

[@susannabonke8552]

The song is advertisment for a popular chocolate "Merci" from a German brand ( Yeah).

[@lilg2300]

i've read the English subtitles. In this video they are not well done, unfortunately. Actually they are really bad, I wonder if you really got the sense.

[@LesesesseL]

In german the word "heute" you speak the "e" on the end like a "a" in english. Like: there is "a" tree. Its not a silent e like in english.

[@juliane4695]

Why the writing in front of pic?

[@Schirm08]

Yes, it's true, all nuclear power plants have been shut down. Nowadays, we import (nuclear) electricity, for example, from France when the sun and wind aren't producing enough. This is one reason why energy prices in Germany soaring so high that companies are seriously considering relocating their production facilities abroad. Consequently, our current Minister of Economic Affairs, who is a member of the Green Party, is proposing to subsidize electricity costs for large companies - which, of course, is quite expensive. This has placed Germany in a unique economic predicament. And we naturally believe that it makes a difference when we are the only country on Earth to forgo nuclear power.💪🏻

[@Thomas_P_aus_M]

There are currently no nuclear power plants in Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Luxembourg, Portugal, Malta, Cyprus, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Austria, Poland and Turkey. (Most of them european union) Just ask google instead posting BS. It is so easy.

[@james1909]

Hi,i think u are very intelligent and also got a lot of humour. Watch your videos the whole night, and especially you can laugh about yourself and your country, im honestly, iwould have my problems. So stay the way or how you say,English is not the best.Greets from northern Germany

[@Chuulip]

Who tf translated this? Even super easy sentences where sometimes made to be the opposite of what was said...

[@d.l.3807]

A lot of translation mistakes. 😕

[@4TwEnti-]

Support sadly increased since 2016

[@Legilimentable]

Subtitles were often incorrect...

[@dialektischermaterialist]

So much wrong informations and wrong translation in the subtitles…

[@Justforvisit]

First: The AfD is just a classic "populist party" who will always turn to the most important problems of the time and always either promise that they have easy solutions to complex situations or accusing other parties of doing everything wrong and you can bet on that they themselves never will get helpful in the slightest, classic populists. Second: The guy who did the translation did an awful job in translating and also made horrible mistakes like claiming "Otto Von Bismarck unified Germany in 1970" (OUCH). Bismark lived from 1815 to 1898. Didn't know we had been unified by a zombie....

[@jackreacher963]

Great video but the translation is 90% off. Almost every joke was translated wrong. Btw. Otto von Bismarck didn't reunited Germany in 1970 he was long dead at this point. He was chancellor before WW2.

[@Falk4711]

AFD ? -> Resist the beginnings !

[@Gotenks-e1l]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Gotenks-e1l]

Du bist so durch alter, das gibt es nicht. Das war IRONIE oder?

[@Falk4711]

@@Gotenks-e1l No.