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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    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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      You’re a absolute fucking moron.

      That’s like WHAT MADE America now, you dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb-dumb.

      It’s like, remember the Alamo? I guess fucking not.

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            I see you saying I’m stupid and mentioning the Alamo? Which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to mention something from 1836 lol.

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              "…the U.S. never attempted to annex other countries because there were a minority of ethnic Americans there. "

              • a dumb dumb dumb dumbo dumbass

              Again, that’s our entire creation story. Everything East of Jamestown and Plymouth Rock. It’s how Hawaii was stolen, you stupid stupid fuck. Like, seriously?!??!?

              I just can’t even…

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                Oh, so you are saying I’m dumb for not acknowledging that the U.S.'s absolutely disgusting policy of Manifest Destiny (the last annexation of which occurred in 1917, and Panama was returned in 1999).

                I guess I’m equally dumb for acknowledging the decolonzation that occurred after World War 2? Starting with Phillipines in 1946? Hell, actually a bunch of island’s had their sovereignty formally Recognized too.

                You know. Its almost like the U.S. does acknowledge historical cruelty. Its almost like some the people here do think that it was a problem. And somehow those same people tend to be made to be enemies of the Kremlin because we are also vocally against the hypocrisy of the Kremlin.

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                  So you’d be cool with a foreign military base in your neighborhood? Just not a Russian one? That’s cool, right? That’s not colonialism or colonialism when we have 800 military bases in foreign nations?

                  One of them, get ready for this, is… The PHILLIPINES. We’re back, BABY!

                  Is Russia arming 80% of the world’s dictatorships or is it the U.S.? It ain’t Russia, buttercup.

                  Trump only had to kidnap one guy by getting one lady to throw him under the bus and now Trump owns Venezuela’s oil.

                  Fuck, we only need to saddle an vulnerable people with predatory loans and we’ve enslaved an entire nation without firing a shot or putting a single pair of boots on the ground.

                  Every accusation is a confession with you fuckers.

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                    Fuck, we only need to saddle an vulnerable people with predatory loans and we’ve enslaved an entire nation without firing a shot or putting a single pair of boots on the ground.

                    Who is we here? Not you and I. Different cultural backgrounds. Different states if I had to imagine. Different values. Different education systems, different languages even.