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The most likely government to emerge - most analysts predict - will be a coalition including a hard-right nationalist party for the first time in Spain since the death of fascist dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.
More left-leaning Spaniards are frantically texting contacts, urging them to make sure to vote - despite the heat and it being holiday time for many - to “stop the fascists” in their tracks.The rhetoric this election season has been toxic, with voters becoming increasingly polarised.
It’s a fight over values, traditions and about what being Spanish should mean in 2023.
This kind of heated identity debate isn’t peculiar to Spain. Think of Italy, France, Brazil or the post-Trumpian debate in the US.
At EU HQ in Brussels, there are huge concerns about a resurgence of hard-right nationalist parties across Europe.
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This crap is hitting the whole world and it sucks. A bunch of old farts holding back progress because they think we should be acting like people who’ve been 6” under for decades. So dumb, regardless of country or culture.
People normally think fascism seizes power undemocratically. And it does. But first there are years of voters saying they want tyrants who will only hurt the bad people, never thinking that it could happen to them.
to be fair, quite often the fascists size power through democratic means, just refuse to give it up afterward
but didnt you see those Nazi unifoforms 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
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Real talk, Nazi had the drip. Too bad they were/are such intolerable cunts.
Hugo Boss
Attention Spanish bigots, choosing fascism isn’t going to stop climate change or make your lives better.
People choose the rigth-center party, but the left-center + far-left + separatists are going to rule another 4 years.
The Murdoch Infection Continues Apace
Unfortunately, this is a huge reality happening in almost all EU countries, at least those that accepted a ton of immigrants. I live in Spain, and I can tell you that right and hard-right winning is a no surprise at all. There’s a minor but loud immigrant that simply doesn’t care about anything but themselves: for example, go search the thefts crimes committed in Barcelona these few years: they increased by an alarming rate. In fact, the 60% of prisoners in Spain are foreigners. The overall crime rates have increased since accepting so much immigration. And this is a shame, because obviously not all immigrants are the same, but for the fault of those minor cases, they reputation is decreasing hardly.
And, before anyone crosses me out as a “nazi” or anti-immigration let me tell you: when I was born, my parents didn’t have the Spanish citizenship, so yep, my family and I were illegal immigrants. Also, my parents suffered from discrimination (for example, their university degrees were never validated, people were extra mean to them, insults (“return to your home”, “we don’t speak that language here”… you name it) but even with this discrimination level, they never, but never steal from anyone, they never raped anyone, they worked very hard and finally, after 20 years, we can say that we’re living a normal live.
Tomorrow is the election, and obviously voting those parties in my perspective is stupid, but I can understand why is happening.
The titles not being validated is not discrimination, there is a process for that. There is an standarization with education in Europe and just accepting any title would be troubleshome.
While I understand this, they were college degrees after all. Maybe this were my parents fault for not invastigating better, but even then, this doesn’t underestimate all the other forms of discrimination they (and even I) were faced against.
In my previous work there was this client with an African wife, a doctor, she obviously had the title but she couldn’t work in Spain without validating her title but doing some exams in Spanish, they were working on that.
I will bring my girlfriend from her country here and I told her she will need to do that in order to validate her academic titles. It’s a shame that someone that was top of her class won’t be able to use those academic results here.
It has nothing to do with discrimination, it’s about maintaining educational standards.
Yeah, sorry for that. Unfortunately it’s true that most people will look you weird if you tell them you’re an illegal immigrant, mainly due to the not-so-great stereotype
I’m Spanish and this is inaccurate on many levels
When you see presidents like Macron in France pushing an extremely unpopular retirement law through, bypassing congress, you are going to see more shit like this in more countries. Neoliberals have to understand their corporate romance is killing their platform when people are starving and working full-time. Fascism is only going to make things way worse.
Ribbit
Based on the title I thought this was going to be about sunglasses
Vox can be considered far-LEFT in half of the countries. They are socialists compared to the Republicn party in the US. Even if they get a good result Spain will still be one of the leftiests countries in the world.
It’s inaccurate af. First of all, both Democrats and Republicans in the US are basically the same party with two colors that get voted by extremists of each spectrum. Second, Vox is definitely right-wing, but the “far-right fascist bigot” part can surely be questioned
