The poll is seen as a litmus test for the Netherlands and its democratic ideals, as activists decry a hardening of political discourse driven by Geert Wilders
  • Grapho@lemmy.ml
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    15 hours ago

    If Geert Wilders was in a political movie criticizing the right I’d lambast the costume dept as entirely lacking in subtlety

  • unexpected@forum.guncadindex.comEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    Frankly… I find that meme to be pretty tame. And funny how the article says it is like “Nazi propaganda”. I feel like they’re not giving our great American anti-Nazi propaganda enough respect. Like the WW2 era Bugs Bunny cartoons with super ugly neanderthal looking German soldiers and a squeaky voiced hyperventilating little Hitler with a Napoleon complex.

    Maybe the Dutch are a nicer people and have higher standards.

  • network_switch@lemmy.ml
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    18 hours ago

    This has been simmering for like 30 years it was just easy to ignore because US politics is like a spectator sport to feel good about your own country. Should be no surprise that white and/or Christian nationalism wouldn’t look much different in Europe

    • unexpected@forum.guncadindex.comEnglish
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      17 hours ago

      I think it is more of a last 15 years kinda thing. It was obvious this would happen when Europe and the United Nations started funneling all the refugees into Europe and they weren’t really making an effort to culturally assimilate them. It always looked like they were being used like the jews were prior to ww2.

  • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Same as it ever was. Maybe the not so silly members of their society can have some sort of moral code and understanding of the world that allows them to live in it without being eternally fearful racists but, without some basic shared belief in humanistic and prosocial moral truths, Western society will remain largely the same (morons/laypeople are always a majority, their shortcomings come out in different ways depending on the society). Dutch East India Company, never forget!