“Today’s far-right extremism in Germany cannot be understood without reunification,” said Matthias Quent, a far-right extremism expert and director of an institute that studies democracy and civil society in the eastern state of Thuringia. “It liberated the neo-Nazis in the East from their underground existence, and it gave the far-right in the West access to a pool of new recruits and whole swathes of territory in which to move without too much oversight.”
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Macron has always been about protecting wealth. This is the French version of Nixon’s Southern Strategy. Call it the Algerian Gambit.
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And I am aware that people were pointing this out for a while. But Eric is right that many people were falling all over him for “owning” Trump. Or thinking that because he wasn’t LePen, he’d be harmless.
Surprise, motherfuckers.
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I’ve read that he’s also pushing a law to criminalize the publication of photos of police.
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In case you missed this on-going situation.
There is the hypocrisy issue: how could a man who drafted the Hungarian constitutional prohibition on gay marriage find himself in a room full of naked men at an event described in Flemish newspaper headlines as a “seksfeest” (sex party)?
Fidesz is a party that troubles Hungary’s more liberal European partners with its history of seeking to silence critical voices in the media, extend its control over the judiciary and limit gay rights in the field of marriage and adoption.
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A Moscow court has jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny for three-and a-half years for violating the conditions of a suspended sentence.
The violation is that he did not appear in court… because he was in Germany… because he had been poisoned.
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Evil can be pursued to the ends of the earth.
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Communications shut off and a military take-over of government after unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud.
This all sounds very familiar.
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at least we didn’t get that.
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Depending on the flavour of Q one ingests, we did.
C’mon March 4th!
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