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  • And the far right will get what they want anyway:

    First, after the October 29 vote, the core trio of far-right parties — PVV, JA21 (Conservative Liberals), and Forum for Democracy — hold forty-two of hundred fifty seats. In 2023, they held forty-one. Wilders’s party lost eleven, yet JA21 jumped from one to nine and Forum rose from three to seven. In total, they control nearly one-third of the 150-seat parliament. This reshuffle is mainly tactical: once every mainstream party said it would refuse to govern with Wilders, many hard-right voters simply parked their ballot with JA21 or Forum, instead of abandoning this kind of politics altogether.

    [...]

    The historically more radical-left Socialist Party adopted the opposite pose as the GreenLeft-Labor alliance. It tried to copy the playbook of Germany’s Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance: talk tough on borders while hankering after a lost social democracy. This may have seemed a viable strategy, since the far right predictably failed to deliver on its pro-welfare promises. But voters are used to governments of all stripes failing to deliver on bread-and-butter economic issues. So those attracted to the anti-immigration message stuck with the familiar far-right narrative — which the Socialist Party helped legitimize. Progressives and voters with a migration background just turned away.

    D66, the Dutch left-liberal party, has made a sharp turn on asylum migration, demanding that asylum applications are made from outside Europe’s borders.

    Party leader Rob Jetten said he wanted a change of international treaties and pushed forward what he called “the Canadian model” as an alternative to the current policies.

    He said “the parties of the middle should take a step forward” to prevent, he said, the subject taking national politics hostage again.

    “The current migration system is broken,” said Jetten. “From migration that happens to us, we will have to move to migration that we control ourselves.”

    Under the Canadian model, all asylum applications would have to be requested outside the borders of the European Union, meaning asylum seekers who applied in the Netherlands would not be allowed in.

    https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/06/dutch-d66-party-calls-for-stricter-asylum-policies/

    Same fucking bullshit everywhere: Centrist parties winning after scandal and failure by right wing or far right party in government celebrates as if it's some return to normalcy, when actually they increasingly adopt far right policy, rhetoric and framing, especially on immigration. At best they try to soft sell it through triangulation and borrowing vaguely progressive sounding buzzwords.

    Meanwhile, no actual meaningful decline in the far rights share of the vote and party representation, and the perfect stage for a one term centrist government as people swap between far right parties and liberals continue to flounder and take for granted their own voters as having "nowhere to go" as they shift right.

    It happened with Biden, it's happening with Keir, and it's the perfect setup to happen in the Netherlands.

  • No actual care or interest in Palestinians and the victims, only about the damage to "Israels image" and the "propaganda blow".

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  • It's so obvious that the dog was trained with a shock collar that the people pushing the idea have just spent the last few days using a clip with one of Hasans streamer/podcast friends popping his chewing gum into the mic as "proof" he's clicking a button to shock the dog...

    For a guy who streams 6+ hours 6 days a week and has done for the entire time he's had the dog.

    Almost like the entire thing is hysteria driven by weirdo freaks who have even weirder hate boners and will make things up based on literally nothing other than circumstance.

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  • I’m not defending the vote so much as pointing out that it was a meaningless vote.

    Just ignore the part where you kept suggesting the Iron Dome was "defensive" therefore it's OK and "not a weapon" (lmao) therefore voting in favour of it would be legitimate.

    Again, you're just an obtuse moron twisting yourself into a pretzel pretending its nuance.

    If MTG brought up an amendment that said everyone gets to live forever and AOC voted against it, would you claim AOC is pro-death or would you recognize that MTG’s proposal was a useless measure that shouldn’t be taken seriously?

    You're just not a serious person. Learn to shut the fuck up.

  • Except I’m not. You literally quoted me saying I don’t support funding the iron dome.

    You are an absurdly obtuse and disingenuous person.

    Iron Dome funding is sending arms to Israel. Iron Dome protects Israel as it invades its neighbours and commits a genocide. It's that simple.

    You are defending a vote against stripping iron dome funding, accusing others of being in favour of killing civilians whilst trying to claim you also don't support funding Israel. You can't have it both ways. You support killing of civilians with your own stupid fucking rhetoric, but you want to dance around the issue and pretend you aren't doing what you are in fact doing.

    There actually was a lot of debate about civilian deaths in the firebombing of Dresden and the dropping of the atomic bombs in Japan. Your lack of historical context and nuance doesn’t help your broad brush arguments.

    You are genuinely a fucking moron. I said nothing about Dresden or dropping nukes. You are literally advocating for sending AA guns to Hitler by equating and reducing all forms of military response as being one and the same as mass murder of civilians to suggest it's legitimate to support funding for the Iron Dome as "defensive".

  • I wouldn’t personally support funding anything in Russia or Israel.

    Yet here you are defending funding the iron dome. Weird that.

    A gun is an offensive weapon. It’s not useful for self defense. You can’t shoot bullets out of the air easily. There’s no need for useless name-calling.

    A missile is an offensive weapon. What do you think the iron dome is? Idiot.

    Except she voted against said funding by voting against the bill.

    Yet she defended funding the iron dome, which is giving arms to Israel.

    The iron dome existed before the current genocide.

    Irrelevant to the point.

    But you’re literally saying that civilians in Israel should die because the people in control of the government and military are committing genocide.

    Irrelevant to the point. You're saying Russian civilians should die by saying you wouldn't fund anything in Russia. You also said the same about Israel, so you also support killing Israeli civilians according to you.

    You're saying German civilians should die because you refuse to provide Hitler with AA guns.

    I’d be interested in defending Israel entirely. The conservatives in the majority in Congress will not allow that to happen. However AOC voted or even if she abstained, the results would not be any different.

    ???? nonsensical.

    She literally didn’t say that. If she did, you could quote her saying “Tlaib and Omar are Nazis.” You’re assigning that meaning to her words and then getting upset at your own interpretation.

    "If you believe neo-nazis are welcome and operating in good faith, you can have them!" She said about people voting in favour of the amendment. She called Ilhan and Tlaib nazis.

  • Would you support funding an iron dome for Russia against Ukraine?

    The iron dome isn’t a defensive “weapon.” That’s a contradiction in terms.

    A gun doesn't stop being a weapon because you used it in self defence, idiot.

    She specifically cited an interest in not having innocent people die.

    By funding arms to Israel to protect it from consequences of committing a genocide and invading and bombing multiple neighbours, which then allows it to act with further impunity to keep doing what it's doing.

    She did not call Tlaib a Nazi. That’s a gross misrepresentation of the statement. Ask Tlaib if she thinks AOC was referring to her.

    She straight up declared anyone who voted for it effectively a nazi. She called Tlaib and Omar nazis.

  • AOC herself defended """defensive""" weapns to Israel. She was against the amendment on those grounds.

    Her and other progressives vote for "doomed" bills and amendments all the time, as do most politicians. They vote for them to signal their position and push those positions publicly as much as anything else.

    Rashiba Tlaib voted for the amendment. AOC called her a nazi.

  • Let's send defensive weapons to nazi germany during the holocaust.

    "Defensive" as Israel invades and occupies multiple countries.

    The distinction between defensive and offensive is meaningless.

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  • Imagine thinking you did anything with this response besides shit your pants then trip landing head first in the toilet bowl.

  • lmfao

    Mate this is my first comment in this comment chain

    "in this comment chain" being the operative part, as if people don't have eyes to see you've been doing the same bullshit in this thread.

    said something before a very public turnaround 5 years ago,

    lmfao when this was started it was how could you possibly think he thought or believed anything bad, now it's before several years ago when he definitely for real changed all his views just don't ask me to name what those views are after I keep demanding everyone else provide evidence, next it'll be "but did he say it literally last week???"

    Just shut the fuck up and learn to not be so pathetic. Fucking hell.

  • Mate, are you really just gonna keep moving the goalposts and doing this subpar jordan peterson fan shit?

    Imagine being this pathetically tied to a youtuber, holy shit.

  • He has stated his favourite author is a Japanese fascist who wanted to restore the emperor, Yukio Mishima, who tried to do a coup and killed himself when he failed.

    But I'm sure he just likes the guy for his prose, and has no particular fixation or interest in Nazi and fascist imagery and politics.

  • but as you’re resorting to lame ad hominems

    lmao

    all people who don't share my political naivety are "cultists"

    invokes ad hominem so your argument is invalid

    Perfect representation of STEMlord redditor.

    As a developer and maintainer of FOSS, you are a part of the problem I’m describing

    The problem being we aren't all as absurdly shallow in our understanding of the world and politics as you are? Get your head out of your arse.

  • "He's a nice guy" "being along for the ride" "I saw his transformation over the years" "People hate for the sake of hating".

  • https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/2/17/14613234/pewdiepie-nazi-satire-alt-right

    He has repeatedly and overtly used Nazi imagery, made a multitude of "jokes" like this:

    Mr. Kjellberg says the material is portrayed in jest. He showed a clip from a Hitler speech in a Sept. 24 video criticizing a YouTube policy, posted swastikas drawn by his fans on Oct. 15 and watched a Hitler video in a brown military uniform to conclude a Dec. 8 video. He also played the Nazi Party anthem before bowing to a swastika in a mock resurrection ritual on Jan. 14, and included a very brief Nazi salute with a Hitler voice-over saying “Sieg Heil” and the text “Nazi Confirmed” near the beginning of a Feb. 5 video.

    [...]

    In addition to more overt Nazi symbolism, Kjellberg makes references to the alt-right that are veiled but obvious if you know where to look. In one video from late August, he makes an extended racist joke comparing Harambe the gorilla to Saturday Night Live and Ghostbusters actress and comedian Leslie Jones, echoing the widespread politically tinged, racist harassment that Jones endured last summer, largely from the alt-right.

    And in another video from November, Kjellberg overlays a swastika, along with audio of a speech from Hitler, over unrelated commentary about clickbait YouTube channels. He then goes on to refer to BuzzFeed as “a bunch of cucks” — “cuck” being an alt-right buzzword.

  • It’s not just that, the overbearing FOSS mentality, from Stallmans corner of that world, is that you need to take a damn political position on software to be able to interact with other people that use it.

    FOSS is literally a political and ideological set of positions. The entire thing that makes Free Software and Open Source differentiated from just "normal" software development and distribution are a set of political and organisational positions, which are in limited fashion codified and expressed in software licenses, and also through e.g. structure of organisations around projects and why they're structured that way.

    Without that, you just get companies making money from pawning off a portion of their development and infrastructure costs to volunteers and other organisations (non-profits, other companies, governments).

    Bringing people to FOSS should be the same as bringing them to any other software,

    FOSS isn't about fandom of a particular piece of software.

    and if the ideology behind it is so self-evidently true then - by its own standard - it won’t need significant petitioning to convince them they should use more of it for ethical reasons as well as to meet their needs. This is software, not Amway. They’re trying to write a word document, not to join a cult.

    This is absurdly politcally and socially naive. Also can we please ban stemlords from ascribing every aspect of politics and political advocacy to always being a cult.

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