Eat that, all of you fearing the extreme right is “on the rise in Europe”: it is not. That was yesterday. Actually, in some places the extreme right is now really tanking (I can think of Finland, Denmark, Hungary, the Netherlands…).
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Still, the Left needs to deliver on equality and hope or it's all for naught.
apr 13, 2025, 7:13 pm • 6 0 • view
Not looking at Gertmany, are you?
apr 13, 2025, 6:39 pm • 3 0 • view
I think we Germans really should look more towards Europe. (Germans… 😩 20% populists with no real political influence whatsoever other than a few mayors, and yet the „end ‚has‘ to be nigh“…)
apr 15, 2025, 8:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Italy?
apr 13, 2025, 6:43 pm • 4 0 • view
Still a way to go in NL, I'm afraid. But the trend is positive, yes.
apr 13, 2025, 6:35 pm • 2 0 • view
So voters do realize that these parties will not get them out of any real trouble. Makes me wonder why they vote for them in the first place? Can’t complain about this trend though.
apr 13, 2025, 7:02 pm • 5 0 • view
Somebody please tell our ersatz-Riefenstahl and her AfDmob… Then again, Germany: trust we’ll be literally the last ones to get the memo. 🤷🏼♂️
apr 14, 2025, 3:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Musk and Vance speaking out for them really helped👌
apr 15, 2025, 3:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Where center left adopt tough stance on immigration they do well
apr 13, 2025, 7:37 pm • 3 0 • view
Not very if at all meaningful here, and IIRC isn’t even in Denmark the total vote share of radical right parties about the same as in other European countries?
apr 13, 2025, 8:43 pm • 15 0 • view
Everywhere in Europa unchecked mass immigration fuels the extreme right. Take it away and it diminish like in Denmark. Wheather this obvious fact is clear or not to you is of no concern to me.
apr 13, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
"unchecked mass immigration" is itself total bullshit and far-right propaganda and touting that makes one on the wrong side of, well, everything. Sing their songs, be treated as one. There's an empirical reality and you're not in it. Your problem, fix it.
apr 14, 2025, 11:30 am • 13 3 • view
Well i bet you sing your songs and how naive they are. “That we are all just humans and culture does not mean anything”. And i also bet your songs make you feel so good looking i the mirror - nevermind then Africa is gonna double i population soon.
apr 14, 2025, 1:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Nope, you're obviously just a simple racist - not surprising from a Dane these days - and that's it. It's your problem you need to grow up from, not to demand others to give up reality to accommodate your deficiencies.
apr 14, 2025, 2:24 pm • 2 0 • view
You seem to have really naive and simple - and racist - worldview and you're definitely not in a position to talk down to someone with degree in social history, well-versed in anthropology and with years of experience working with people from diverse backgrounds.
apr 14, 2025, 2:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Well spoken - now fuck off
apr 14, 2025, 2:28 pm • 0 0 • view
No, you go away. This is not your place. There are enough other platforms where you can spew your xenophobic bullshit. This is not it.
apr 14, 2025, 6:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Your the one spewing - and im not at your place
apr 14, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0 • view
You are not welcome on Bluesky, fucker.
apr 14, 2025, 6:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Fuck off, chud. Just fuck off.
apr 14, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Fuck you
apr 14, 2025, 6:04 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m somewhat concerned about the facts. One of them is that there is poor correlation between the far right vote share and immigration. In fact what correlation there is seems to show that the far right’s support is stronger in areas and _countries_ with the fewest immigrants.
apr 14, 2025, 4:53 am • 22 1 • view
When you meet immigrants in your daily life you see they are normal people like you. That makes you less likely to believe anti-immigration propaganda.
apr 14, 2025, 1:15 pm • 2 0 • view
That seems to be systemic. The same was true in brexit including the fact that those regions in the UK that received most assitance from the EU, where also most likely to vote in favour of brexit. A sense of value and meaning, means much more to people than Friedmanian economics would admit.
apr 14, 2025, 7:10 am • 7 1 • view
Well maybe you should visit Sweden or Germany. They both have some of the biggest far right parties. I wonder why. And Biden ignored the same problem and now we have 4 years with Trump - and a democrat party in shatters. Brexit was about the same. But hey you got your “facts” so ..
apr 14, 2025, 6:24 am • 0 0 • view
🤡🤡🤡
apr 14, 2025, 11:12 am • 0 0 • view
Please take a look at the facts. For starters, here’s two maps of Germany, the first showing Turkish immigration (which is a good enough proxy for the kind of immigration the far right loves to talk about). The second shows the support of the far right AfD party. What do you see?
apr 14, 2025, 6:30 am • 47 7 • view
The AfD is mostly a systems rejection. They reject immigrants only as a tool, they fundamentally reject modernity and liberalism as such. The AfD is the countryside hooligan youth that beats up a hippie. They kill homeless bc those are weak, thats what one does with weak ppl. AfD is Russia.
apr 14, 2025, 5:36 pm • 4 1 • view
Turkish immigration is not the main thing. What gets people riled up (in Germany at least) is immigration from Syria, Afghanistan, et al. Same as in NL - where Maghreb makes ppl angry, not Turkish. In essence it is the NEW not the old immigration. Point is correct though, AfD is not about imm.
apr 14, 2025, 5:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Then look at the numbers at country level. Here’s a good summary. How would you explain that 1) the combined vote for far right PARTIES is not noticeably smaller in Denmark, or 2) the far right tends to do _better_ in Eastern European countries that have practically no immigration to speak of?
apr 14, 2025, 6:39 am • 23 0 • view
A factual correction on Eastern Europe: Russia's 2022 full scale invasion of Ukraine caused a large wave of immigration into Eastern Europe, esp. into Poland. I have no idea if this is linked or not with the political choices, but it's good to get the facts right.
apr 15, 2025, 7:09 pm • 1 0 • view
True, but the far right was pretty strong in those countries even before.
apr 15, 2025, 7:10 pm • 1 0 • view
And there is almost no refugee at all in Hungary. Neither Ukrainian nor other.
apr 15, 2025, 7:13 pm • 1 0 • view
It is very clear that the far right is extremely adept at stoking _fears_ of immigration and immigrants. They play on the atavistic fear of the other, or in other words, racism, very effectively. That is not in dispute. But the maps explain why “being tough on immigration” usually fails to work.
apr 14, 2025, 6:41 am • 29 2 • view
In these Finnish elections in particular, it would also be very hard to point out any policy changes or differences in the immigration stances of the left-wing parties compared to the last elections. So the theory that this almost-landslide victory was caused by tougher stance simply isn’t credible.
apr 14, 2025, 6:43 am • 20 0 • view
BTW here’s the map of our radical right’s support in the previous municipal elections in 2021. Those who know the geography and demographics of Finland will note that as with German AfD, here too the support is anti-correlated with the numbers of immigrants.
apr 14, 2025, 6:56 am • 18 0 • view
And by ”taking it away” I assume you mean becoming the far right, like Socialdemokratiet did
apr 14, 2025, 1:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Or say “wir schaffen das” and see who is the biggest party in Germany latest poll
apr 14, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Did you have an explanation for this already somewhere? bsky.app/profile/jmko...
apr 14, 2025, 2:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Comparing East and Western Europe is difficult. Comparing Germany and Sweden far right with what is left of danish far right is also misguided. Its to broad a chart to say anything.
apr 14, 2025, 2:53 pm • 0 0 • view
But doesn’t that apply to your own argument too? And what about the charts of Germany and Finland that I posted? Are they too too broad charts to say anything?
apr 14, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
No its a common fact that densely populated areas vote more left and rural more right. But you cant ignore that both Sweden and Germany now both have some of the most potent far right parties after practising the most open immigration policies.
apr 14, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view
You shouldn’t ignore the facts that far right is more popular in countries and areas with much less immigration, nor the fact that if you actually look at the far right vote share in Denmark, it is even higher than in Sweden. Even though your theory rested on the assumption it is the opposite.
apr 14, 2025, 3:19 pm • 1 0 • view