Is nobody going to point that far right + conservatives form a perfect butt plug?
this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2025
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It's clearly the dildo on the end of a fucking machine. Look you can see the piston on the left.
"Over 75% of Europeans against hard right and nazis"
Corrected for you.
Except a very large portion or the conservative 25% would support the Nazis and massive amount would at least sell out their souls to them if the Nazis came in to power in governments, depending on the country.
So more like "50% against hard right and nazis and 25% undecided"
I've found that trump managed to turn the pro right sentiment into anti right sentiment since the rightwing parties brownnose trump, who sucks off putin. And second hand sucking off putin is called "treason" here.
Most popular in most western nations even. I don't understand why.
All I know is that the more educated people tend to vote either liberal or left. Also many countries have a voting system that tend to disadvantage urban citizens over rural ones.
Have you not noticed that mainstream social media is full of fake accounts pushing thos narrative? There has to be a billion dollars or more poured into paid trolling on social media. Even small town facebook groups are full of fake right wing accounts. They even pretend to be leftwing and attack people for being "nazi appologists" or "tankies" there's even some accounts on here that do it. Those people are getting paid to do it.
Yeah, I know. :(
It's also the internet fully emerging as a propaganda medium, with the biggest sites controlled by rightwing billionaires.
Truth.
Populism.
They managed to make low income people across the ~~continent~~ west vote directly against their own interests.
Because "immigrants". With such incredible promises as "banning illegal immigration".
Its a shitshow and I'm losing hope that we an recover in the next decade
Either that or the "woke left ideology" or "trans people".
Exactly. Does it also remind you of a certain time in history?
Yeah.
Just last year I had started the series The Man in the High Castle. I had to stop watching because it was too depressing. It's way too close to reality.
"yeah, but the egg prices..."
This is /c/Europe lol
That's not even an issue in Europe.
the more educated people tend to vote either liberal or left
And this might be the reason. More educated, middle-class, from large cities are 'the elites', but not a significant majority. Poor, less educated people, from rural areas feel excluded in the world made by and for 'the elites'. So they are going to vote against what the elites want. And, on top of that, the opportunistic rich '1%', with means to influence politics, abuse those feelings for their own gain.
That's obviously not good. However, there are of course levels in hell and "hard-right" here seems to include some, but not all, ECR parties, plus all of PfE, and all of ESN. I'm not a fan pf any of them, but some of the parties behind the numbers are a far bigger worry than others; as they differ a lot on crucial topics.
However, there are of course levels in hell and “hard-right” here
Doesn't matter. There are the insane ones and then there are the stupid ones that think they can totally be moderate while fishing for voters on the fringes of insanity without a) legitimizing the parties there and b) losing voters.
The alternative for conservative parties would be sane politics over populism. But as they are conservative, so inherently unfit to find any solutions for modern problems, they all chose to copy "hard-right" talking points and populist bullshit. And they will all canibalized the exact same way.
The difference you see isn't one of substance... just different parties in different countries running in slightly different time frames.
Another approach for mainstream parties is to woo the hard right’s voters by adopting some of their preferred policies. ... Research by Tarik Abou-Chadi of the University of Oxford shows that when mainstream politicians adopt anti-immigrant positions, it only serves to remind voters why they might vote for hard-right parties in the first place.
"But I'm different, I can do it" - every conservative leader