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Far-right leader Geert Wilders wins Dutch election
Wilders wants to ban mosques and leave the EU. ‘Voters are fed up,’ he says.
www.politico.eu
I’m still processing the results. A mix of the first 4 stages of grief. The 5th… no fucking way.Far-right leader Geert Wilders wins Dutch election
Wilders wants to ban mosques and leave the EU. ‘Voters are fed up,’ he says.www.politico.eu
We have a similar issue with the right in Canada and they are leading in the polls. However, in Holland they only got 37 out of 150 seats in parliament, like Canada they are regressive assholes, but no real threat to liberal democracy as in the States.I’m still processing the results. A mix of the first 4 stages of grief. The 5th… no fucking way.
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I appreciate the sentiment, yes it’s ”only” 25% of voters and there’s a ton of nuance I could add including the fact that a PM with a quarter if seats isn’t nearly as powerful as a potus, but it’s worse than that article describes. There’s a perfect nazi storm brewing. It took the other (center-)right parties only minutes to backtrack on their promise not to work with Wilders. It’s bad, really bad.We have a similar issue with the right in Canada and they are leading in the polls. However, in Holland they only got 37 out of 150 seats in parliament, like Canada they are regressive assholes, but no real threat to liberal democracy as in the States.
Reminds me that The Secretary of War for the Confederate States, Judah Benjamin, got lumbered with the blame for the Confederate battlefield failures. Weird to be kept warm at night by irony, but here we are.The Virulent Antisemite Who Influenced Henry Ford and Woodrow Wilson, and Brought the Worst Anti-Jewish Document to the US
Boris Brasol was behind some of the worst anti-Jewish conspiracies that afflicted America in the early 20th century.www.politico.com
Britain now treating environmental activists as extremists
The right to protest is under threat in Britain, undermining a pillar of democracy
Sweeping arrests of peaceful demonstrators, along with government officials' labeling environmental activists extremists, mark a worrying departure for a liberal democracy, critics of recent measures say.www.nbcnews.com
I think we agree on this. Harassment of individuals, assault, and vandalism are both criminal and outside the scope of content-driven protest.… When does protesting turn into a crime? People have been protesting and getting arrested for it as long as I remember, part of the game. Spray paint private property, chain yourself to impede ________ (fill in the blank). Our Trucker Convoy friends were charged, oh right, Fox News said Trudeau was cracking down on 'the people's convoy'. No, the right to protest does not give you unlimited freedom in your actions.
I have glued myself together a number of times, you really got to be stupid to do it on purpose. I have a love/hate relationship with CA glue.I think we agree on this. Harassment of individuals, assault, and vandalism are both criminal and outside the scope of content-driven protest.
From a legal perspective, I wonder if gluing oneself to a road is different from, say, chaining oneself to a tree scheduled to be logged. If the gluing thing is an infraction, a reasonable penalty would be (to charge the doer with) the cost to government of the time and effort put in by first responders to unglue the person without using a chainsaw.
Acetone forgives many sins.I have glued myself together a number of times, you really got to be stupid to do it on purpose. I have a love/hate relationship with CA glue.
And when you can not find the can, nail polish remover will do it in a pinch.Acetone forgives many sins.
Since it appears to be a transnational and transcultural phenomenon, it might have something to do with globalization, migration and the effects of the internet on societies. Many farmers are not happy about the global food system and fertilizer prices went up 3 times for no real reason, the war in Ukraine can't account for the rise, it's greedflation. There is an increasing monopolization of everything by the 1% with little real competition in many sectors, wall street prospers while main street languishes. Then there is migration and the drive for multiculturalism, immigrants don't assimilate as they used to and with the internet and cheap jet travel can stay connected to their home cultures. Many small countries in Europe feel their unique cultures and even languages are under threat."No beer without farmers," read one protest banner, while another tractor had a poster from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party that read "Our farmers come first."
In short: Germans farmers get a tax break on diesel, government wants to end it. Meanwhile, Germany's economy isn't doing well, on the contrary. In addition to "immigrants", objectively it's whatever, but subjectively there's too many. Housing shortage, teacher shortage, public transport problems. AfD, far right party, is rising. Is nr 1 in East Germany already...
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nr 2 in total, larger than Scholz' party. Yes the actual nazi party is polling higher than the ruling party in Germany. All they need is the support of formerly decent rural farmer types. You know... conservatives.Kinda... Exactly as in NL, where without the farmer party there'd be no path for the probable soon to be far-right minority government in NL. Feels like we're getting f*cked. Not very original of those elite lizzard people to implement the same scenario across different nations. Australia is like copying the US too. The division, the stupid discussions...
From the article: "Calls are circulating with coup fantasies, extremist groups are forming and ethnic-nationalist symbols are being openly displayed," said Habeck.
"The far-right AfD party, hoping for major gains in a string of state elections this year, backs the protest, using it as proof of Germans' dissatisfaction with current leadership."
There's a perfect nazi storm brewing. Statistically, as I told my wife several times over the past decades, we should be happy there's no war (affecting us directly) and that it's unlikely we'll be dead before WW3. What a time to be alive. Though admittedly partly pessimism, it almost seems inevitable. They should have banned AfD. If the good guys win again, there will be zero tolerance for far-right and fascism will still be inevitable. We'll all be "behind the wall", ironically.
It's the stuff that confirms my belief all these conspiracy theorist nuts are just that, nuts. In reality, the world is incapable of cooperating to such an extend. NL's, Canada's, Germany's, US', Australia's problems, they are not unique, yet everyone is trying to invent a new wheel by themselves. It's disappointing, and that's an understatement. I'm slowly starting to understand this EU thing... unfortunately it isn't what it should be. Given the main topic of this site, just look at legalization of cannabis. German's won't even look at decades of experience in NL, and the Dutch won't even look at what Spain did with social cannabis clubs. Every country for itself. Same with Covid.Since it appears to be a transnational and transcultural phenomenon, it might have something to do with globalization, migration and the effects of the internet on societies. Many farmers are not happy about the global food system and fertilizer prices went up 3 times for no real reason, the war in Ukraine can't account for the rise, it's greedflation. There is an increasing monopolization of everything by the 1% with little real competition in many sectors, wall street prospers while main street languishes. Then there is migration and the drive for multiculturalism, immigrants don't assimilate as they used to and with the internet and cheap jet travel can stay connected to their home cultures. Many small countries in Europe feel their unique cultures and even languages are under threat.
Haber-BoschIt's the stuff that confirms my belief all these conspiracy theorist nuts are just that, nuts. In reality, the world is incapable of cooperating to such an extend. NL's, Canada's, Germany's, US', Australia's problems, they are not unique, yet everyone is trying to invent a new wheel by themselves. It's disappointing, and that's an understatement. I'm slowly starting to understand this EU thing... unfortunately it isn't what it should be. Given the main topic of this site, just look at legalization of cannabis. German's won't even look at decades of experience in NL, and the Dutch won't even look at what Spain did with social cannabis clubs. Every country for itself. Same with Covid.
Hey you know what by far that wonderful hydrogen in NL is used for? Fertilizer. N.
Lol, yes I did purposely omit it it this time. There's one thing I do know about German farmers and rural folk, in the west that is, and that's that they aren't friendly, just like ours. But then, theirs aren't necessarily rude either, at least not to me. So I felt it's not up to me to qualify the german farmers with that label. Plus, elementary education in NL: not all Germans were bad, many farmers hid Jews. But then, as DIY pointed out, immigrants don't assimilate as they used to. And when Merkel said wir schaffen das it turned out that many of those immigrants were not going to the cities this time but be spread out, housed in small towns too.