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On a more general note.
I’m not US American but in the past 10 years I have realized that the rise of far-right populism globally is tied to US American politics; if it ends there, it will have a knock-on effect everywhere else.
Yes, I’m that hopeful. Don’t accost me with doomerism.
tied to russia and israel specifically, which funds US far right and “center right” politics, and other countries, most of the funding far right groups in eu were by russia alone, musk was a recent financier.
They don’t like to talk about that though, and they all look to the USA for new tactics.
OK, increasingly towards Russia, too.
Yes, MAGA is by far not the only thing that enabled the rise of neofascism but its demise would have a seriously dampening effect.
Also this US election is a huge blow for Putin. As for Netanyahu I don’t see how he could have much chance of [political] survival after the elections, though Israeli politics are fucked and I’m ready to be disappointed.
No, no, you are right. Most of the far right waves we see in Europe are basically people simping pedohitler as an example for the right. Losing to gays, muslims, blacks and women is not just a defeat for them, is a debacle, is a tragedy. pedohitler has lost against the people who he and his simps hate most, that is something nobody in the far right will get over. The far right in Europe is looking at these elections with fear because they can’t keep claiming pedohitler is a winner.
I think a lot of the weirdos in Europe already started distancing themselves from Trump. Whether they’ll be successful at it remains to be seen.
I’m pretty confident it didn’t start in the US in particular. It’s a global thing. The US just does it a lot louder. If it did start in one place it was Russia or Israel.
The US is a huge influence for sure, and this is huge for everyone everywhere. But Serbia and Brazil proved that the rejection of the far right is something that’s happening all over the world already! :)
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Hungary too. Emphasis on far.
For sure. Hungary and Poland are not exactly forces of progress just yet, but they show that democratic institutions cannot be easily swept away even by powerful forces in young democracies. In a way that might be the most important lesson at the moment - the damage done by the far right to institutions is reversable. Hopefully by rejecting it we can build something better in the long run, even if it’s not immediate.
Hmm, I never thought of former Eastern Bloc countries as “young democracies” - since most of them had already been democracies before they got annexed. But there’s something to it esp. wrt yonger generations.
Pop! Pop!
Well said Magnitude.
Decided to celebrate by shaving after two years of not shaving in protest as an intersex person generally seen as a woman! 🥳
54/47 in the Senate
214/126 in the House
Both for Democrats.🥳
It looked pretty tight yesterday, much more like 50/50.
If somebody wants to explain what exactly people are voting for in the midterms and how the difference is relatively small in the Senate, and relatively large in the House - I’m all ears.
well see if schumer and hakeem will block any meaningful legislation.
I’m just glad that MAGA got a ticket.
I’d say they have to deflate a little and come back to the ground of reality now, but I’ve been watching this for long enough to know that won’t necessarily happen.
Let’s just hope pro-democracy sentiment prevails until the big one in 2 years.
With a gap bigger that 2 that doesn’t matter.
I don’t even get the question. Thats massive in the senate. Every 2 years only a third of the senate comes up for election. We need voters to remember what the republicans did through 3 election cycles. Also keep in mind the brain damage democrat so the senate is really 53/48 at least.
Every 2 years only a third of the senate comes up for election.
TIL
Things are looking hopeful, but I am afraid of premature celebration.
Imma start celebrating!
even if, it may not last 2028, because voters and other republicans have short memories.
Great news :3
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I keep blocking the politics comm but this post keeps coming back to the top of my feed. How can I get rid of it? I couldn’t care less about American politics.
Did you block this politics community though? On the Threadiverse, the community name includes the instance name as well - so this is !politics@piefed.social, which is distinct from !politics@lemmy.world (this is the enormous one that you likely blocked), !politics@beehaw.org, and !politics@hexbear.net (this is a horrible instance full of toxic trolls, you probably already have the whole instance blocked by default, thankfully).
You can also use keyword filtering to eliminate all posts including words like “senate” or “Trump” or “Musk”, regardless of where it came from. If you are using a 3rd-party app you might not be able to create a new filter using it, but if you apply that to your account using the web browser method of accessing PieFed.social then it will continue to work in your app afterwards.
Yes, I blocked this specific comm. I’m already using keywords to block trump, musk and the others, but I guess I should’ve blocked “midterm” as well.
You might want to make a bug report in !piefed_meta@piefed.social then, because posts appearing from communities that you have specifically blocked - not merely unsubscribed from - definitely sounds like unexpected and unwelcomed behavior to me.
