A far-right party is heading for its strongest result yet in Germany's election
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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"
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Misery loves company
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Oh, so far we've got one European or Canadian downcoping and telling themselves "but it really will be different for us".
Fuck around and find out, bud. Hope you don't enjoy your social programs.
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Regarding important economic issues such as healthcare, welfare, taxes, consumer protection & industry regulation this is certainly the case.
The part where the European right mainly differs from the US left is on more recent additions to leftist ideology - such as identity politics & intersectionalism.
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You've heard the saying "misery lives company?"
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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.
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Canada also has a bunch of far right assholes who're currently leading in our polls. Luckily the US clusterfuck is making Canadians think twice about voting for them though and they're dropping in the polls
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Maple millhouse will be so fucking bad for canada
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If it's always been that way, how did things ever get better?
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We used to shun stupidity. Social media and the internet has emboldened stupid people to support other stupid people spouting stupidity. Used to be if no one would listen to you in person, you'd just have to keep your dumb thoughts to yourself.
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I mean yeah the internet has proliferated stupid. But I think everyone was always stupid, but just nowhere near power.
We need a meritocratic system that is also based on modern science and social psychology, and it needs to be diverse, equitable, and inclusive too...
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Agree with your points, stupid people still existed, but would be shunned from important roles once others realized they were stupid. Social media and the systematic underfunding of education and science also is a factor of dumbing down the general population and overall lack of critical thinking. It's one of the reasons so many mistrust scientist or experts and think watching youtube or tiktok videos counts as "research".
Can you imagine, governments made up of highly educated people that are actually experts in the fields their role is responsible for? We might actually progress as a society.
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Oligarchs are targeting democracies.
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They are no longer supected to be right-extremist, they are assured-right-extremist by now.
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That or we'd overspec into stem education and neglect humanities until we get a whole generation of genius niche engineers who will sit down and gladly explain the most eugenicist viewpoint you've ever head from a living human in your entire life the moment you ask them a single question related to social issues...
Oh wait.
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Greed and oligarchs.
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There is a little bit of an assumption of the mad scientist here. Most scientists and engineers are very compassionate and caring people, even if many are excentric. We care about a thriving humanities department.
The psychopath cohort you're thinking of is the executive branch, or the people who made it to sales manager.
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If it happened to us it will happen to you. Guaranteed. Maybe now everyone will get off their high horse and help us figure this shit out so we will be alive to help you figure it out.
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That's not exactly what I mean.. they should be experts in their respective field or at least something related to their role in the government. Not just everyone's a tech engineer.
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How does that even sound ? How would you defend and attack him at once?
