• tetris11
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    4 months ago

    it really feels like it’s at a boiling point though right now. World governments have all shifted more to the right on average than they have in the last 80 years.

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      4 months ago

      governments have all shifted more to the right on average

      it appears to be the case. though afaict none of it appears to be organic.

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      3 months ago

      There’s been some surprising upsets recently though! We were all bracing for a fashy-wave but lots of progressive leaders have been elected lately, after it looked like their hardline iron-fist nationlist counterparts were gaining ground.

      By no means a reason to take it easy and give them a breather, oh no! But we should definitely acknowledge every little bit of dystopia we manage to collectively avert. Even if only a little.

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        3 months ago

        the fashy-waves were manifested by centrists leaders that we learned were very fashy-friendly after those upsets made those leaders intrigue with the far right; as is happening in france with macron; or clinging on to conservative policies; as is happening in the uk with starmer.

        the people voted left; but all of the leaders went right anyways.

        harris and trump are doing something similar with harris ignoring the will of 68% of americans when with comes to the genocide and trump with project 2025.

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      4 months ago

      Because the right offers people stability, authority, etc. People like that.

      They don’t like left because it’s too vague and complicated to understand their points of view.

      Trans people = bad is a lot easier for the average person to understand, than explaining to them what a transsexual person is and isn’t, and the various types of trans/queer identities. That shit requires a dictionary of trans terminology and hours of time to understand.