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First projections of EU Parliament election results (images2.imgbox.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Young voters did this, ironically enough, according to BBC World News. Young people struggling to get jobs after graduation think that right wing parties will fix that.

So as older generations are trying not to hand-off a burning planet to the young, the young are signing up for a burning planet under some delusion that right wingers will get them jobs. Schools have apparently failed to teach kids that the jobs they get under conservative governance are shit jobs -- lousy pay and lousy benefits.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The Nazi Party’s popularity increased in the early 1930s partly because of its pledge to do what no other political party had been able to accomplish: pull Germany out of the Great Depression and put Germans back to work.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

put Germans back to work

Well they weren't wrong ... :-/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They did it by putting women out of work

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Although that was definitely part of their ideology I'm not sure if they really did accomplish it. Do you have a source, would be an interesting read.

At least during the war more women than ever did/had to do paid work.