• Asafum@feddit.nl
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    3 months ago

    Think about it this way: leftist politics = I don’t get to be a billionaire and I have to care about other people.

    Now think about everyone you know and how they might think. Then try to imagine the type of egotistical asshole that runs for any type of office.

    It’s a goddamn miracle that anyone runs on the left. Most people just suck as they’re supremely selfish/self centered.

  • casmael@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Anyone French care to explain what in the living fuck macaroon thinks he’s fucking doing

    • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      When German Liberals Teamed Up With the Far Right

      Since 1945, Germany’s parliamentary parties have refused all alliances with the far right. That changed yesterday in Thuringia, when liberals and Christian Democrats teamed up with neofascists to throw the Left out of office.

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      Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party never managed to win a majority in a national election; instead, it was helped into office by conservatives who were more terrified of real socialism than they were of Hitler’s “national socialism.” Surely none of them could have anticipated the depths of cruelty to which the Nazis would eventually stoop, but they had little problem with curtailing democracy and repressing the Left if it guaranteed their hold on economic power.

      Historical analogies are necessarily oversimplified, and the AfD in 2020 is light-years away from the Nazi Party in 1930. Nevertheless, with Germany’s parties of the Left declining in the polls and the AfD currently doing an excellent job portraying itself as the true party of the opposition, yesterday marked a worrying omen of what could become the new normal in Germany in the years to come.

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      3 months ago

      Approximately for the same reasons as Jews, leftists, and other “undesirables” would have been freaking out in the late 1910s, early 1920s.

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        3 months ago

        I don’t know why people are downvoting me, honestly I was stating a true fact found on many many many news articles and other websites, to downvote me is to basically shame me for telling the harsh truth (it’s not even that harsh, or harsh at all)