They are funny indeed - using public election funds (meant to give each party a chance) to put up jokes. Whether you think that's right or not, it's hilarious.
I would go so far as to say that not only is that right and hilarious - it is REALLY important for us as a society, although I cannot put into words why I think that way.
PS: Remember to say NO to an Autobahn speed limit of 130 km/h! 131 km/h is the way to go!
For me it's important because they raise interest in politics. It's more obvious in the EU parlament (IMO), but Martin Sonneborn is great in shedding light on what's happening in there.
To be fair, though, in this election, climate change and COVID raised that interest pretty much on their own.
The "hang Nazis" posters are from the previous election [1], while "hang greens" is a new slogan from this cycle [2]. If I had to guess, I'd say that the party was hoping for the "hang greens" posters to be banned so that they could whine about the "hang nazis" posters being unfairly allowed.
Not AfD by the way, but "Der Dritte Weg", a party that I learned about through the Wahl-O-Mat.
Wow, I thought the AfD was the rightmost of the German parties. I wonder if the fascists (not being hyperbolic, Mussolini advertised fascism as a "third way", the others being communism and liberalism) are localized in Westphalia and Bayern or are more widespread. They can't be very popular. Hang the Greens makes me think this is a western thing. Wouldn't they be hanging Die Linke in the east?
Anyway, a Red-Red-Green result would be just as much an insult as some posters. I wish I had money on the SPD, their resurgence seems to have come out nowhere. I was expecting a big rise in Green numbers after the terrible flooding earlier in the year...
Or maybe they want to hang the Greens specifically because they are less popular in Eastern Germany than Die Linke, so that they don't alienate the large number of previous Linke voters. (And on a less strategic level, the subtitle of the poster suggests that it is about hanging green posters everywhere, because green is also the Third Way's party color. That 'pun' wouldn't have worked with other parties.)
I also wonder if parties like The Third Way or the far-left ones aren't partially ops to split the vote on the ends of the spectrum.
>Aktion Dritter Weg/Liberalsoziale innerhalb der Partei Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, vertritt freiwirtschaftliche Ideen und veröffentlicht sie in der Zeitschrift Alternativen (siehe Georg Otto)
Freiwirtschaft is probably the most neutral/centrist "third way" possible. It's neither leaning toward either capitalism nor communism. Rather, the goal is a natural economic order.
From a glance at Wikipedia, it looks like the "third way" has been used by organizations with wildly different ideologies all over the world for at least a century now (and I wouldn't be shocked if it could be traced back at least to the French Revolution). I guess I associate it with Mussolini because he was the first I read use it.
I wasn't familiar with Gesell and the ideas Freiwirtschaft. It actually sounds like a decent (real) third way, a lot like Georgism, and an idea worthy of debating at least.
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-germany-dortmund-may15th20...