Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and France’s Marine Le Pen headlined a rally in Madrid on Saturday by Europe’s biggest far-right bloc, buoyed by Donald Trump’s return to power and calling for “a 180-degree pivot”.

Patriots for Europe has realigned extreme-right forces in the European Union. It became the European Parliament’s third-largest force after Orban helped launch it last year to pull the bloc towards the far right.

“Yesterday we were the heretics. Today we are the mainstream… We are the future,” proclaimed Orban, sharing the stage with other leading extreme-right nationalists including Dutch anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini and former Czech premier Andrej Babis.

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    Much like America, I have to ask when the “before” was that they want to make great again. Because it always seems like the “before” in the case of MAGA people was “before slaves were emancipated and women were given rights.”

    So I’m guessing 13th century or so here?

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      I don’t know about other countries’ far-rights, but the father of Marine Le Pen was openly racist and said that gaz chambers never existed (he lost a trial about hatred incitement for saying this). He was also proud to have killed algerians during the war. She’s more sweet in front of cameras compared to him, but she’s the same as he. This party was created by old SS, so I don’t think there’s something more to add. There’s no before for them, it’s pure fantasm. They just want control and order.

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        Oh Czech’s Babiš was in STB (then sort of secret service) and his job was to indict anti state people. His name is in official documents and he lost a trial about being there in Slovakia, so it is 100% confirmed. He was a piece of scum them, he is a piece of scum now. Not talking about all the other shit he did - like being one of the most wealthy people in Czechia and taking European donations for overpriced projects.

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      Nah, 13th century was too decentralised. It’s before the development of absolutism, nationionalism, and then totalitariansm. They are more going for late 1930s Italy/Germany style.

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      They want the 1950s without understanding that means buying a fraction of the amount of stuff most Americans have now.

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    Europe is already great.

    These guys are making it not great.

    It’s super simple.

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        People who are manipulated into only focusing on immigrants and how unfair the government is.

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          Was thinking more about the African countries that are still the victims of Eurpean economic colonialism

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    I knew this kind of shit would happen. This is why it’s important to keep an eye on US politics and why US news always kinda fits in ‘world’ news. Because like it or not, we all seem to be under the spell of the USA’s influence.

    Take these European variety ass flies following the waft of stink coming from Donald Trump’s backside for example. “Make Europe Great Again”? Apparently Europe is joining China in the game of making cheap knockoffs of famous American brands. Or maybe it’s just going full circle, considering that MAGA is just a knockoff brand of Nazism. Which was long ago but not long ago enough for everyone involved in it or brainwashed by it to have shuffled off this mortal coil yet.

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      You can’t just say the US are nazis. If they were Nazis they would shut down all gender study, homosexual study and remove all attempts to reduce social divisions. If they were Nazis they would be building concentration camps. If they were Nazis they would have weird forms of Christianity that justify enslavement, the concentration of wealth, and the spread of hate. Finally if they were Nazis they would be doing something super fucked up like resettling White South Africans who were “victims of racist policies”

      Wait…we are doing or have done all of these? Looks like I was wrong about which flavor of fascist we elected.

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    Oh for FUCK sake! They really are all falling in line behind Musk, aren’t they?

    … I need to find out if the Danish right wing parties are thinking of joining them…

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      You know they are. Morten Messerschmidt has already been kissing Musks and Trumps asses on Twitter and he visited Mar-a-lago shortly before Trump was inaugurated.

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        Yeah I know. That was a, pretty hurrah moment for me. A Danish person on the floor of the EU, “… Let me use words you can understand. Mr. Trump, fuck off!”

        But Denmark does have its more extreme elements, the kind of “Denmark first above all else” anti-European types.

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    Wait. What? We’re finally great, struggling to hold on, now MEGA wants to destroy it because they think world War 2 Germany was nice? We need more asylums.

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    Is there a way to get a list of all parties and their representatives who participated in this event?

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    Obviously this sucks, those asshole fascists can fall off a cliff but holy crap MEGA is a much better acronym than MAGA.

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    This is ironic. Most far wingers are xenophobic. That is because the very fundamental of these right wingers is “my race, my tribe, my group is better / deserves better than the other groups.” This is so ironic on so many levels. The extreme and the far right will forever be the heretics and outcast of today, modern and future world of humanity.