I think there's an easy solution. Left wing parties should start tackling the problem of immigration, because yes, it's a problem and the sooner we realize it, the sooner we can stop extreme right wing parties from using that as a lever to come into power.
Or wait check this out: they promise to fix housing and solve things people want.
iTsThE IMMIGRANTS fAuLt!!
My man, if you knew how much of the economy was based on immigrant work you'd tout another tune.
I didn't say we should stop immigration. But everybody can see that some immigrants don't come to Europe to work, not at all. And people are angry about that; left wing parties should tackle that problem in a rational way. Otherwise people get fed up and then they resort to vote for extreme right wing parties.
Oh no only 99.7% of immigrants come here to work! Let's kick them all out!
Shouldn't we kick out any people if they don't want to work with that logic? I hope you're having a job!
Smh
Every time someone pointed out problems caused by migrants, legal and illegal, they got downvoted. Now I'm sure that the left and those infected by the woke virus really hate their country. No one in their right mind would ignore damages done to their own country.
Every time someone pointed out they hate groups of people, in arbitrary subcategories, they got downvoted.
There, I fixed that for you.
Every time someone pointed out the truth, they got downvoted.
Nah. This version is more precise and concise.
Every time people try to blame immigrants for problems they don't cause they get downvoted.
Fixed that for you.
That's the woke virus talking through you. How blind can people be?
" I don't have any valid claims to make or evidenced arguments to cite, so I'm just gonna say 'woke virus' a few times to dismiss everyone else's position. I'm so edgy and smart."
Check the picture i shared somewhere here. You blind bastard.
Imagine acting like white American citizens don't do things that horrible or so.much worse literally every fucking day. This is nothing but racist propaganda by a braindead parrot taught only enough to repeat the words his master trained him on. If that wasn't an illegal immigrant, you never would have heard her name unless you lived in that specific local community, because mental illness and human atrocities are everywhere and immigration has nothing to do with the incident.
Really, where? Be honest, we don't see that kind of news every day. Because it's not real. You just made that up.
There were 52.7 homicides every day in the US in 2023, most committed by US citizens. As a follower of true crime podcasts, I assure you, every week there's a new twisted, horrific murder straight out of a horror movie. Again, the vast majority of which are by US citizens. Pretending violence is an immigration issue an not a human issue is, at best, woefully ignorant, or worst, deliberately xenophobic and harmful.
Wow, now that's an argument. The woke virus... Are you a conspirationist?
The bastard even smiled after stabbing a girl. You know what nationality he is? People like you are the one enabling the crimes perpetuated by those people.
Yes let's bag all people from that country together because of one douchebag.
Where are you from, so that I can mark everyone from that country as racists?
You're the only one here who's saying that all people from that country do that.
no u
Dude fuck off, we don't want you here. Why don't you emigrate from this platform?
Now you sound like the far-right militants. Lol.
Just speaking to an absolute cock like you in words you'll understand.
You should start calling yourself a Nazi for the words you said earlier. Lol.
What part of "dude, fuck off" were you too simple to understand?
Speaking like a true Nazi. Lol.
Why is the whole world getting shittier?
Media conglomerates pushing right wing propaganda
History repeats itself, especially because people don't remember or don't know what happened in the past.
Because a lot of people feel like the world is getting shittier, and so they're voting for the parties that tell them "the world is shitty and we have the solution. It's simple and straightforward and someone other than you will bear the brunt of it."
If the left wants the far-right to stop gaining then it has to defuse this argument. They should be working to make people feel like the world is less shitty, convincing people that they have solutions for the world's shittyness, and ensuring that those solutions are simple and straightforward and put the brunt of the effort on someone else.
This is the downside of democracy, you have to do what the people want. Sometimes that's kind of annoying and difficult.
Because propaganda works.
And the only antidote is to understand media, the main driving force of so many things in the world. The media ownership will not be doing that. Governments, under control of the media ownership, will not be doing that.
Therefore: shittier.
There's more stupid people than there are smart people. Stupid people always have more kids. They raise their kids to be stupid.
We're doomed.
Oligarchs are targeting democracies.
Greed and oligarchs.
This hits extra hard given Tim Allen's MAGAness.
To those saying Germany is experiencing the same dynamic that lead to the anti-democratic government takeover in the US: Hold your horses.
There are way more differences than that, but I’ll stop here. We’re far from what’s happening in the US. The trend is concerning though, and if the economic crisis continues, together with soaring inequality and the creation of an oligarch class of the super-rich, we might be in a bad spot in a decade or so.
There's also the small issue of "history doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes".
The rest of the world watching the US be an extra dysfunctional mess for the last forty years and finally blow its own legs off: "well, okay, but they said it'll be different for us"
O good, it's not just us in the US
The entire world including lots of Europe has been shifting significantly right despite what leftist US haters often say about the US left being a European right. That hasn't been true for a decade or more.
They are no longer supected to be right-extremist, they are assured-right-extremist by now.
They even have a convenient Hitler face appearing as a watermark in their leaflets.
Got a link to an example?
Ofc i just demonstrated against them today and grabed one of their hate pamphlets just because I was made aware of this fact:
Front: 
Back: 
Truth: 
LMAO ok that's hilarious. Thanks for sharing. What a bunch of losers.
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