Frankfurt; Berlin
Today is the official tenth anniversary of the founding of the AfD.
And all because of Angela Merkel's snark from 2010 over her handling of the ramifications of 2008 that hit Germany and the EU, wherein she used the word "alternativlos" ("alternative-less"), a shorthand way of saying that there is no alternative. Though in later years, it would come to be an untrue urban legend that she used the full phrase "there is no alternative." Yet and still.
So someone went out and made one.
FAFO, Ang.
I realized last week that I've been (in an undisclosed way) affixed with the AfD for just about four and a half years now, which means almost half of the time that it has been existence. And just in that time, I've seen the riding high in April, shot down in May, back on top in June, the puppet, the pauper, the pirate, the poet, the pawn, the king, the up, the down, the over and the out.
There are some things that you can only learn by being there and pressing flesh, that you can not and never will get by merely consuming written and video content.
Luckily, this the tenth anniversary is coming during election time in Berlin, in its case, the do-over from the September 2021 clusterfuck. (As I look in the general direction of Arizona). Which makes the logistics of everything a lot easier.
Of course, there's someone else who recently FAFO:
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