Although I think Patriot is such a loaded, dangerous word and would usually doubt there is ever an appropriate time for actual grown-ups to use it, I think I have found one use-case: it would be interesting to form a pan-European collective of actually sane, grown-up, people-before-money leaning Europeans (i.e. not the emotionally stunted, tribalism-fuelled morons obsessed with the accumulation of trinkets and perpetuation of endless persecution sprees in service of their hate/anger/stress-based adrenaline & cortisol addictions), and call that new collective "Actual Patriots for Actual Europe". Then just sit back with popcorn and watch the pompous outrage chain-reaction from the PfE kiddies unfold in realtime.
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2025
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MEGA? Really? Who the fuck looks at what Trump does and says "Yes, more of this please?"
I mean besides the voting public in 2024 after getting amnesia about Covid
At the end of the day, Trump won the election, they see that his shit-peddling style brought results, and they're hoping the same thing will happen here. I'd like to think the vast majority of Europeans are too smart to fall for this kinda shit but unfortunately I keep being proven more and more wrong...
Wait. What? We're finally great, struggling to hold on, now MEGA wants to destroy it because they think world War 2 Germany was nice? We need more asylums.
Luigi would suffice. Quicker and cheaper.
Europe is already great.
These guys are making it not great.
It's super simple.
Obviously this sucks, those asshole fascists can fall off a cliff but holy crap MEGA is a much better acronym than MAGA.
Fucking Nazis
Much like America, I have to ask when the "before" was that they want to make great again. Because it always seems like the "before" in the case of MAGA people was "before slaves were emancipated and women were given rights."
So I'm guessing 13th century or so here?
I find it incredibly cringe anyway that all these parties just copy the same slogan. Some weird form of international nationalism, where they all just copy whatever the others are doing. It apparently works very well.
I guess in Western Europe it’s largely focused around anti-immigration and anti-EU sentiments, but with this movement being more and more international, I do notice an uptick in rhetoric concerning sexual minorities and women’s rights, with a lot of anti science and elitism/wokeism sprinkled in. It’s very scary. I’m happy that we don’t have a political system where the winner takes it all in my country, as it’s pretty bad already as it is right now.
I guess in Western Europe it’s largely focused around anti-immigration and anti-EU sentiments
That's part of what's so ridiculous though. Europe is basically a long history of wave after wave of immigration. So the "again" is when, the point when the Neanderthals colonized it?
I don't know much about the history of anti-Semitism in Europe (so anyone feel free to correct me or add more info), but what I've been thinking is that the cause/origin of anti-Semitism is no different from the anti-immigrant panic from today. They both come down to people from a "foreign" or at least different culture coming into a society and getting jobs or opening business. It just so happens that now those foreign people are more diverse, whereas before (centuries ago in Europe) they were mostly Jewish.
This tells me we have learned nothing from our past except for the most surface level details. We learned that anti-Semitism is bad and beat people over the head with it, but we never properly addressed the roots of it, and so now the same thing is repeating but for different groups of people. It's the same sort of thing as when it is said that "people nowadays are more open minded", when the reality is simply that they were taught to be okay (or not) with certain things; but the bigoted though process has not really gone away.
Europe is basically a long history of wave after wave of immigration.
So is the US, and it's even more recent. Don't seek logic in it.
Yeah, mixing with those filthy homo sapiens was a bad idea...
I don't know about other countries' far-rights, but the father of Marine Le Pen was openly racist and said that gaz chambers never existed (he lost a trial about hatred incitement for saying this). He was also proud to have killed algerians during the war. She's more sweet in front of cameras compared to him, but she's the same as he. This party was created by old SS, so I don't think there's something more to add. There's no before for them, it's pure fantasm. They just want control and order.
This doesn't invalidate your point whatsoever, obviously, but what Le Pen exactly said is "Les chambres à gaz sont un point de détail de l'histoire de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale", which basically means that they do existed, but wasn't that big of a deal. Which in a way is actually even more insulting.
You're right, I mixed it up!
Oh Czech's Babiš was in STB (then sort of secret service) and his job was to indict anti state people. His name is in official documents and he lost a trial about being there in Slovakia, so it is 100% confirmed. He was a piece of scum them, he is a piece of scum now. Not talking about all the other shit he did - like being one of the most wealthy people in Czechia and taking European donations for overpriced projects.
Probably 2013, the world didn't end in 2012 and if someone asked me finish this sentence "the last story I read was about Donald......" my answer would be Duck.
They want the 1950s without understanding that means buying a fraction of the amount of stuff most Americans have now.
And the whole "still recovering from WWII therefore nothing is available" thing.
And the "rest of the world is devastated from the war, so there is no competition anywhere".
Nah, 13th century was too decentralised. It’s before the development of absolutism, nationionalism, and then totalitariansm. They are more going for late 1930s Italy/Germany style.
They want before women started working in large numbers and before there were so many brown immigrants.
I knew this kind of shit would happen. This is why it's important to keep an eye on US politics and why US news always kinda fits in 'world' news. Because like it or not, we all seem to be under the spell of the USA's influence.
Take these European variety ass flies following the waft of stink coming from Donald Trump's backside for example. "Make Europe Great Again"? Apparently Europe is joining China in the game of making cheap knockoffs of famous American brands. Or maybe it's just going full circle, considering that MAGA is just a knockoff brand of Nazism. Which was long ago but not long ago enough for everyone involved in it or brainwashed by it to have shuffled off this mortal coil yet.
You can't just say the US are nazis. If they were Nazis they would shut down all gender study, homosexual study and remove all attempts to reduce social divisions. If they were Nazis they would be building concentration camps. If they were Nazis they would have weird forms of Christianity that justify enslavement, the concentration of wealth, and the spread of hate. Finally if they were Nazis they would be doing something super fucked up like resettling White South Africans who were "victims of racist policies"
Wait...we are doing or have done all of these? Looks like I was wrong about which flavor of fascist we elected.
If they were Nazis they would be marching down the street holding swastikas
...wait, fuck
Oh for FUCK sake! They really are all falling in line behind Musk, aren't they?
... I need to find out if the Danish right wing parties are thinking of joining them...
You know they are. Morten Messerschmidt has already been kissing Musks and Trumps asses on Twitter and he visited Mar-a-lago shortly before Trump was inaugurated.
Well, they said this so one can hope they are going to align differently.
Yeah I know. That was a, pretty hurrah moment for me. A Danish person on the floor of the EU, "... Let me use words you can understand. Mr. Trump, fuck off!"
But Denmark does have its more extreme elements, the kind of "Denmark first above all else" anti-European types.
Lol europe was never great. Would be more apt to say make Europe a fractured waring kolonialist mess again
Yes it's a particularly dumb slogan when most of their common "plan" is about destroying Europe. They are basically saying "can we go back to hating and periodically invading each other?".
These guys are united by their dislike of each other. Which is fair enough, because I really dislike every single one of them too. I just wish instead of all this talking they mounted on their horses and jousted, like back then when Europe was, you know... great?
Actually, Europe has been, and still is, great. Of course, there's always room for improvement, but not with the nazis. They are super backwards.
Is there a way to get a list of all parties and their representatives who participated in this event?
Yeah, look in the Kremlin.
Wow, original
“Fascism used to be really disliked, but now the people who suffered under it have mostly died, and the others seem to have forgotten what was so awful about it. And that’s great for us.”