This woman is named Ramona Storm. She’s an AfD representative in the Bavarian state parliament, and that makes her an extremely evil and dangerous woman. Like everyone else affiliated with the AfD, Storm may at any moment erupt in a spontaneous fascism. Too many such spontaneous fascisms will destroy Our Democracy and reconstitute the Third Reich, which is why all spontaneous fascisms must be resisted and suppressed, lest we find ourselves back in 1933 again.
The last time Storm emitted a spontaneous fascism was two years ago, when she attended a rally held by a local right-leaning populist group called the “Citizens’ Initiative for Franconia.” Storm met some counter-protesters at that rally, one of whom was a crazy old man who threw up his right hand in a Nazi salute while with two of his left fingers touching the space below his nose to mime a Hitler moustache. He did this, obviously, to suggest that the Citizens’ Initiative for Franconia are evil Nazi Hitler fascists, which I’m sure we can all agree is a deeply original and compelling political critique the likes of which nobody has ever heard before.
Now, it is generally speaking illegal to throw Nazi salutes in Germany. They are among those very dangerous spontaneous fascisms I mentioned in my first paragraph. Thus Storm took video of the incident and the organisers of our rally even informed the police. Our Nazi-saluting man turned out to be an 83 year-old retired teacher, and prosecutors indicted him before the Aschaffenburg District Court. There, he explained that he was not actually doing a fascism, but that he was rather trying to warn against fascism, and although it turns out that there is no optical distinction whatsoever between real fascisms and warning fascisms, the court dismissed all charges after our elderly antifascist said he had spent his whole life opposing “right-wing extremism” and after he furthermore promised to perform 30 hours of community service.
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