{"id":91304,"date":"2024-09-01T03:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T07:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=91304"},"modified":"2024-12-20T13:48:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T18:48:25","slug":"the-supermarket-master-plan-to-defeat-the-far-right-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/09\/01\/the-supermarket-master-plan-to-defeat-the-far-right-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"The supermarket master plan to defeat the “far right” in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are elections ongoing in the German states of Th\u00fcringen and Saxony, and the polls show that the “far right” Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland<\/em> is potentially going to get 30% of the votes, which would give them more representation in those states than any of the other parties. Panic and hysteria have set in not only among the politicos and the mainstream media, but even among some businesses<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In Germany, all political parties have a colour. The Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union are black, the Social Democratic Party is red, the liberal Free Democratic Party are yellow and the evil fascist Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland<\/em> are blue. This coming Sunday, Th\u00fcringen and Saxony will hold state elections, and the blue AfD<\/em> are leading the polls in both states with about 30% support. This has a lot of people very, very upset. Most of them are merely upset with the AfD<\/em>, but some psychologically unstable people have allowed their anger to embrace the colour blue more generally, because there can be no limits when it comes to resisting the evil antidemocratic forces of fascism.<\/p>\n

Among the new sworn enemies of the blue band of the visible electromagnetic spectrum are the marketing team at Germany’s largest supermarket corporation, the Edeka Group. A few days ago, this supermarket chain, whose own logo strangely enough is primarily blue … <\/p>\n

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… ran an ad in Die Zeit<\/em> and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung<\/em> explaining “WHY BLUE IS NOT ON OFFER AT EDEKA”.<\/p>\n

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That wall of text in the middle reads as follows:<\/p>\n