• TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Of course, one is.

    It’s bankrolled and promoted by Putin via his troll farms online. They all are. It’s his ace in the hole to stop helping Ukraine

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      9 months ago

      That’s overly simplistic and unhelpful. Economic stress has caused a lot of growth in right wing extremism… ignoring the role that neoliberal capitalism has played will just fuel their bullshit.

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        9 months ago

        Also the polish state-run media, especially public tv has broadcast right wing talking points to every television in Poland for almost a decade now. Not to mention the social media campaigns.

        Full of hate and fear against women, refugees and lgbtq people. It plays right into the messaging of this party, that pretends to be against PiS but is actually controlled opposition.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Why is the whole world pivoting hard right!? What the fuck is so attractive about these ideals? Because they’re shit. Society is meant for Unity not complete Individualism.

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      9 months ago

      Maybe because inequality is rising, making daily life harder and harder for the majority of the population. And some of these will buy into that it is because we are spending too much money helping people, and that their own lives would be easier if we didn’t.

      Edit: grammar

      • Dicska@lemmy.world
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        Together with misinformation spreading faster than light. During the rise of Internet I thought we could finally turn the world into a better place, spreading knowledge, educating the planet. Instead, the shittiest, most toxic ideas finally got a faster train to get on. Good luck dumping money into education to help people filter out shady sources. Especially when you actually got into power by spreading that shitty misinformation to begin with (this latter bit is not about Ukraine, more like other countries such as Hungary).

    • Maalus@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Or maybe it’s people like you telling them their ideals are shit.

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          9 months ago

          Nice strawman. The left doesn’t win because of elitism and them telling others “your ideas suck”. Then they pull a surprise pikachu face because how could we have lost, our ideas don’t suck! Meanwhile they keep alienating their voters more each day.

  • Sagrotan@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    When politics fail on an epic scale, when politicians rather do nothing but drive off voters, the extremists rise.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      The thing is that Russia for years has had their fingers on the scales to one degree or another in most of the countries it considers to be “adversaries” (read: any country in the EU or NATO) in various manners both illegal and technically legal, and we just haven’t done a fucking thing about it.

      • Sagrotan@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        That’s the thing with the image of an enemy: it’s like a habit, apparently, and it’s the easy way to control people: over fear. I want to believe that we all on this insignificant planet (on cosmic scale) will overcome that at one point and grow up a little bit. As humans, not as a member of that anachronistic idea of nations.

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    9 months ago

    I’ll never understand why, roughly once or twice a century, a bunch of absolute dumbfucks rise up, and we have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in men, materials, and time to fight them all back to the brink and shut them back down.

    It’s insane that this sort of thing happens with stunning regularity. It leaves us poorer, and entire generations of people are murdered because some jackass decided one day that some group of people are lesser than them. Fucking idiots.

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    9 months ago

    What is the difference between this Party and PiS? Just their stance on Ukraine, the rest is the same?

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      Konfederosja is playing all possible cards. Liberals, nationalism, monarchy, capitalism. Anything that is not farmed by PiS, Konfederosja will try it. Anything and everything goes. You literally have to have zero self reflection to vote for them.

      PiS is social nationalism for old people. They literally peddle Nazism to old people.

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        For added context - the party is called Konfederacja (“confederation”) but some rightfully call it KonfedeROSJA. Rosja means russia in polish so it’s a joke about how this is a party funded by the kremlin.