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Overview of the German AfD email leak

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AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50163502

It's baffling that these kinds of organisations which are obvious targets of attacks are still using stuff like Wordpress, and then getting exploited through it. Competence doesn't grow on trees ...

They don't become Nazi's because they're smart.

It's touching to read that important AfD members went to Hitler's birthplace and lit a candle for him but that was already known. The leak contains their whining about it, plus a bunch of antisemitic discussions, lists of doxed enemies with 25k entries, and a bunch of Sieg Heils and svastikas.

They're not Nazis, though, as they do not cease to emphasize. Not at all. How could they be Nazis? Elon Musk supports them!

From what I can find, they are knee deep in Hitler yada yada crap... Don't they get tired of it? it has been almost a 100 years..

Likely that unemployed have economic anxieties and resort to this crap but you know the right wingers specialize in tax-cut lingo to serve zillionaires... emails apparently show that zillionaires are funding them according to the leaks.

Nazi party died. Nazis never did.

This is what most people don't understand about Trump today. Everyone is so quick to think that the administration is the source of the problems. Even if the pendulum swings the other way, the people that voted for Trump will still exist and carry those ideals into the future.

Nazism is white supremacy under the hood, but also, it requires brown shirts to execute their plans you know; don't you think they are almost getting there in some places and the world is regressing. They can get elected democratically like Nazis did and "then" they will subvert democracy. Trump admin is product of it and not the creator obviously. They voted for him twice so vast populations know what is under the hood. Those ideals have to be exposed to public so people at least know the details of what they are buying into, don't you think.

Germans probably know this better than anyone else. From what I understand the engine for this originally was the economically disadvantaged areas of ex-East-Germany where the apposition to socialism was ultra encouraged and they are now delivering.

I appreciate the reporting from a technical perspective but it seems unethical at some level to do this.

The privacy you’re concerned about is largely an illusion. All you have to give up is your illusions, not any of your privacy.

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