looks a lot worse if you compare it to 2019, and account for the fact “other” has a lot of far right parties such as the “SS aren’t war criminals” AFD.
Anti-Islam,
Anti-EU,
Remove Welfare,
Mass deportations (even for people with german passports it they haven’t “integrated” — code word for being white, straight, and able-bodied)
Russian apologists,
“Völkish Nationalism”, — you get the picture
Ever wonder why mainstream social media feeds were filled with right wing content, and far right comments?
Or why left-wing communities get hijacked by people saying you should not vote, or only vote for super far left pro-russia parties.
To avert suspicions, the users sandwich political remarks between neutral articles on travelling, cooking and pets.[25] They overwhelm comment sections of media to render meaningful dialogue impossible.[39][40]
This is why I left reddit. I would say 1 in 10 accounts is one of these. It is crazy.
They wanted to kick out the Swedish Liberal party from Renew because they are collaborating with the far right here. Renew allowed them to stay in the group. So yeah, they are not directly against the far right either.
Putin, russian czar: 'Divide and conquer!'
Orban: 'Great, western ukraine is hungarian territory now!'
Rest of Europe: 'Who would have known? It is the fault of the immigrants!'
/S
I bet, a lot of people felt that way throughout history.
However, given we have the internet, the best access for information we ever had, it's really ridiculous how little people seem to care about spending some time to critically think about their election choice.
I think future historians will also come to the conclusion that a large factor contributing to the current rise of fascism in Western democracies was a very successful hybrid war effort by Putin's Russia.
I mean it's already pretty obvious that European and US fascists have very close ties to Russian agents. Putin is waging a global digital war - combining old propaganda techniques with social media echo chambers - and we're losing hard right now.
It’s the fact that bad actors (rich companies, power hungry people, and especially authoritarian states) can hire millions of people and create millions of bots to intentionally spread their narratives on social media. This is immoral, so good actors don’t do it.
No one talks about the problem or acknowledges it. Social Media needs regulation to prevent this, or it will be our undoing.
We kinda can blame the internet for letting a bot present itself as a human. If secure ID was in the infrastructure, better content. If all value production were rewarded with money and value destruction taxed, even better.
Don't fall for the propaganda, the only thing these corrupted politicians will blow up is peasants and their rights. You wish they would blow up the rulers glass palace but they are just going to sit there and do what other rulers do
You had far right parties winning elections or with great results in major European countries. Even the EPP has some fucked up policies/members and is not shy about talking to the far right.
Yea, we're fucked
Are we?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/09/world/europe/results-european-union-parliament-election.html
looks a lot worse if you compare it to 2019, and account for the fact “other” has a lot of far right parties such as the “SS aren’t war criminals” AFD.
On that subject…
Just in case anyone needed proof that Elmo (Elon) is a Nazi.
Can you share some AfD policies for those who haven't been following as closely? I know they're anti-immigration, but that's broad and vague.
Anti-Islam, Anti-EU, Remove Welfare, Mass deportations (even for people with german passports it they haven’t “integrated” — code word for being white, straight, and able-bodied) Russian apologists, “Völkish Nationalism”, — you get the picture
Huh, wonder why Russian apologists have such a high correlation with these movements.
Ever wonder why mainstream social media feeds were filled with right wing content, and far right comments? Or why left-wing communities get hijacked by people saying you should not vote, or only vote for super far left pro-russia parties.
Behold the “Russian Web Brigades” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_web_brigades
This is why I left reddit. I would say 1 in 10 accounts is one of these. It is crazy.
Putin's idea of making Russia stronger of bringing everyone else down to their level, instead of making actual improvements in Russia.
Not all, some are payed off by the Chinese instead of the Russians
Yes, but the CCP themselves are russian apologists so doesn’t change much.
Lmao that's hilarious. This is quite literally "are my views extremist? No, the libruls must be wrong"
Fuck man, some day Elon is gonna come out and say that people should drink more water or something and I’m going to really struggle.
I mean it’s extremely unlikely because that would be a simple thing we would be doing without anything in it for him, so it basically won’t happen
Am I reading the article correctly when I put the dividing line between right wing and left wing somewhere in the "other" section?
yeah. Renew is pretty neo-liberal but they have lately moved a bit more socially conservative, especially on immigration.
They wanted to kick out the Swedish Liberal party from Renew because they are collaborating with the far right here. Renew allowed them to stay in the group. So yeah, they are not directly against the far right either.
Putin, russian czar: 'Divide and conquer!' Orban: 'Great, western ukraine is hungarian territory now!' Rest of Europe: 'Who would have known? It is the fault of the immigrants!' /S
I need to graffiti my walls so I remember that we live in the stupid timeline.
I bet, a lot of people felt that way throughout history.
However, given we have the internet, the best access for information we ever had, it's really ridiculous how little people seem to care about spending some time to critically think about their election choice.
I think future historians will also come to the conclusion that a large factor contributing to the current rise of fascism in Western democracies was a very successful hybrid war effort by Putin's Russia.
I mean it's already pretty obvious that European and US fascists have very close ties to Russian agents. Putin is waging a global digital war - combining old propaganda techniques with social media echo chambers - and we're losing hard right now.
The internet isn’t bad itself.
It’s the fact that bad actors (rich companies, power hungry people, and especially authoritarian states) can hire millions of people and create millions of bots to intentionally spread their narratives on social media. This is immoral, so good actors don’t do it.
No one talks about the problem or acknowledges it. Social Media needs regulation to prevent this, or it will be our undoing.
We kinda can blame the internet for letting a bot present itself as a human. If secure ID was in the infrastructure, better content. If all value production were rewarded with money and value destruction taxed, even better.
For context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_deficit_model
Too soon.
I'm still knocked out by the results.
Don't fall for the propaganda, the only thing these corrupted politicians will blow up is peasants and their rights. You wish they would blow up the rulers glass palace but they are just going to sit there and do what other rulers do
Yes we are
You had far right parties winning elections or with great results in major European countries. Even the EPP has some fucked up policies/members and is not shy about talking to the far right.
Aren't the milquetoast CDU types still the plurality?