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So for all the narrative about the inevitable slide into anti-immigrant populism, four of Western Europe's five largest countries now have left or center left governments?
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Yeesh. "FN is the party of the future and it always will be" bsky.app/profile/dipl...
The perception of an inevitable fascist victory in Europe is largely just the wishcasting of mainstream media publications saying that fascist victory is inevitable. See how the BBC spins National Rally's loss.
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In the "fusion power is twenty years away and always will be" sense, God willing
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I wouldn't go that far; fusion power would actually have benefits should it arrive, unlike fascism
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Like how soccer has been America's Sport Of The Future since 1975?
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I'm not sure this comparison works anymore given the success of MLS and the US Men's Team currently ranked at 11th (even if they did kinda suck in COPA...)
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I’m sorry but kickboxing has been the story of the future since 1989.
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Tragically, that only lasted until 1991 when Kickboxer II replaced JCVD with Cody from Step By Step
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They may as well have printed "Nazis did nothing wrong." Jesus Christ.
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Macron not so stupid looking now...
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“коммунизм уже на горизонте”
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The perception of an inevitable fascist victory in Europe is largely just the wishcasting of mainstream media publications saying that fascist victory is inevitable. See how the BBC spins National Rally's loss.
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It's like they're disappointed! If it were WWII they'd be looking up at the sky to the retreating Luftwaffe yelling "You'll get 'em next Battle of Britain!"
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Look at British and American media before the war it's pretty much like that
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Something I noticed a lot during Trump is that the news read like a fantasy novel where Trump was the protagonist and everything that happened mattered only as story beats in his ultimately sympathetic and triumphant character arc.
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Oh my god, that’s it. Everything negative is treated like Rocky taking a few hits but building toward his dramatic victory.
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Yeah that phrasing really raised my hackles
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There is no culturally acceptable narrative where the left has a deserved, decisive & expected win So when any of those things happen in the world, the ONLY acceptable narrative is the disappointment of the right, it MUST start and end with that as surely as "once upon a time....happily ever after"
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Why is the left being called radical and the right only being called the “far right”?
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Because the journalists are salivating at the prospect of getting to straight arm salute and to be able to be the bigots in cold print that they are behind closed doors
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Because left wing values are radically different from the writers values. Far right values aren't.
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Technically the far right would be considered reactionary, but I do get what you're saying.
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Fascists get kicked in the face. This guy: It's a pretty big dent in their expectations
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It's worse than that. This is how the BBC spins a win for the left!
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Maybe that so-called mainstream media not only got "Owned", they are Owned by rightwing fascists.....just a thought.
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I hope that’s true for Germany, too, except they don’t have a viable left or labour party to punish the current government. Bavaria just nominated two judges proposed by the AfD. Let’s see.
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Same thing happened in the previous election in France,they got their asses kicked too.All of these crap them winning is a familiar spin by the MSM as it is good for their ratings !! Same thing happened in the US,red wave my ass !!
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Very unfortunate, these journalists obviously can't wait for their "Gleichschaltung" (being forced into line, nazi terminology)
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Just read a BBC article which used the word extremist when talking about Mélenchon but not Le Pen 😫
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Things not going according to plan? Sad
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Wtf is wrong with the bbc????
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"The projections... all SUGGEST...."
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I don't know... do you speak American English or British English? I don't see the inevitability in that headline that others do...
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God damn, Paul, don't sound so disappointed lmao
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They have been watching the Euros and realized every team would be absolutely shit without immigrants.
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this reminds me of when france lost in the world cup and some fash chud said, "this is what diversity gets you." you think france gets that far without diversity, you fucking moron.
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LOL they literally have like 3 guys from Marseille and the rest of the roster was born of African immigrants in the Paris suburbs. If the team was made up of French bloodlines they would get housed by the Columbus Crew.
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i know. one of the most upsetting posts ive seen just because of the blatant insanity of it. "we made it to the qtr finals but would have won it all with pure bloodlines!" uh... what??? white people truly hate true meritocracy no matter how much they pretend otherwise.
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in fact, they need diversity to blame when their lame asses fail.
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The fact that Kylian Mbappe and several other football stars enthusiastically endorsed the left wing ticket I suspect legitimately helped!
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Didn't he recently say he might stop playing for France if they went fash?