It’s been reported that in the German elections, a far right party has made ‘significant gains’.

In the UK (at least before the scandals) Reform UK seems to have had a significant boost and has even surpassed the right-wing Conservative Party in some polls/predictions.

Even France, one or two years ago, was threatened with a far-right government due to the French far right party gaining a lot of support.

It feels like in the last few years, the far-right has exceeded itself and had a surge in popularity. Is this the case? And if so, wtf is fuelling it?

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    The Left is gaining also. The center is losing because they tied their party to unpopular war and sanctions that have destroyed their economy and climate goals.

    The Left is refusing to arm Ukraine and is offering Mamdani-like reforms in Berlin.

    Give people what they want and you win, and it’s certainly NOT war.

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      The Left is refusing to arm Ukraine

      Which is not true where I am, on the left here we recognize what is going on and support ukraines sovereignty

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        Where you are the “left” gives standing ovations to literal Nazis while supporting the modern Holocaust in Gaza

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        I capitalized it because it’s AN ACTUAL PARTY IN GERMANY, not some vague idea that you don’t even understand, as you surely don’t understand “sovereignty” either .

        Get this straight. Leftist don’t arm Nazis.

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          Leftist don’t arm Nazis.

          Exactly why we need to arm Ukraine, because they aren’t nazis. I dont support russian fascism, and neither should you

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                Well, not the only one, but a prominent one that has caused most of the world’s issues in the past decade.

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                  Bruh. Russia is causing most of the world’s issues? Dafuq?

                  Imagine a world without U.S. “involvement”.

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                    Oh it would be a lot better. But the U.S. never attempted to annex other countries because there were a minority of ethnic Americans there.

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                This is a collage of actual photos, not AI.

                I don’t think you even know what Svoboda is, who Oleh Tyahnybok is, or what happened in 2014. It’s okay to admit it. It’s better than just making stuff up and talking out your ass.

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                  Ah yes, and whole bunch of pictures taken out of context. Very telling. Your Kremlin propaganda bores me. The fact is russia is invading, and trying to ethnically cleanse Ukrainians. No amount of russian spinning makes that untrue

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                    There is context if you even had a clue what I was talking about. You seem to have a lot of confidence in matters that you don’t understand.

                    How many ethnic Ukrainians do you think lived in the Donbass before the coup? How have they been “cleansed”?

                    This should be good.🙄