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That’s a great image I have to say.
This clip from Spanish left-wing politician Irene Montero wishing for the great replacement theory will definitely help the European left. 
https://www.elmundo.es/elecciones/elecciones-aragon/2026/01/31/697e5143e9cf4a43448b4599.html
This clip from Spanish left-wing politician Irene Montero wishing for the great replacement theory will definitely help the European left.
https://www.elmundo.es/elecciones/elecciones-aragon/2026/01/31/697e5143e9cf4a43448b4599.html
I like this new world where right wingers can say all sorts of crazy stuff, all day, every day. But when one lady in spain says something questionable it's instantly "will definitely help the European left.
".Yeah, because the crazy stuff the right is saying is never questioned on this forum.I like this new world where right wingers can say all sorts of crazy stuff, all day, every day. But when one lady in spain says something questionable it's instantly "will definitely help the European left.
It is but usually with a statement about how our entire future is fecked and they are winning left right and center.
That lady said nothing wrong. I would also prefer my country to have more hardworking migrants than fascists and give them the right to vote so we can beat the fascists. Only a racist and/or a fascist would prefer the opposite.
What if the migrants are hard working and racist? Or the fascists are hardworking?
Landslide win beckons for centre-left candidate in Portugal’s presidential runoff
Exit polls give António José Seguro 67%-73% of vote over far-right populist André Venturahttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/08/portugal-election-seguro-ventura-presidential-runoff
The moderate socialist António José Seguro appeared to be headed for a landslide victory in Portugal’s presidential runoff on Sunday, with two exit polls putting him in the 67%-73% range, well ahead of his far-right, anti-establishment rival, André Ventura.
The exit polls conducted for the television channels RTP, SIC and TVI/CNN placed Ventura at 27%-33%, still a better result than the 22.8% his anti-immigration Chega party achieved in last year’s general election.
Last year, Chega became the second-largest parliamentary force, overtaking the Socialists and landing behind the centre-right ruling alliance, which garnered 31.2%.
A little bit of faith restored in my country. Now if that piece of crap ventura just disappeared from the map it would be great.
Nice work Portugal.
The far right only won two municipalities in the entire country, one in the continent and just by 0.5%. I was not expecting such a good result.
The grey in the map means voting delayed because of the recent storm and floodings.
The grey in the map means voting delayed because of the recent storm and floodings.
IncrívelThe far right only won two municipalities in the entire country, one in the continent and just by 0.5%. I was not expecting such a good result.
The grey in the map means voting delayed because of the recent storm and floodings.
The far right only won two municipalities in the entire country, one in the continent and just by 0.5%. I was not expecting such a good result.
The grey in the map means voting delayed because of the recent storm and floodings.
What the hell...Orban's opponent allegedly was secretly being filmed while having sex.
The FSB trying to help out it's buddies in the heart of Europe. I hope Hungarian's can see past this and still do the right thing
Well done. Thank you Portugal!The far right only won two municipalities in the entire country, one in the continent and just by 0.5%. I was not expecting such a good result.
The grey in the map means voting delayed because of the recent storm and floodings.
Oh shit - you know what's awkward? That second of those lone two municipalities, that's the Sao Vincente part of Madeira isn't it? That's exactly where I'm heading on holidays next week (or might be our village Seixal is just outside of it). Should I confront the locals?
Posts that sound Seixal.
What justification is there for sanctioning a journalist like this and what does it say about "freedom of speech".
Swedish statement on disrupting a Russian drone.
Not a good look from Merz.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/us/politics/trump-spain-germany-trade-military.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/us/politics/trump-spain-germany-trade-military.html
Merz is an absolute disgrace and a traitor to us Europeans. An obtusely racist and haplessly neoliberal dumbarse who is the worst chancellor since Hitler hands down, and we've had quite a few bad ones in between.
Yeah, the main difference between Merz and Trump's personalities is that the former just isn't able to be more like the latter because the German political system and the general populace just doesn't let him.
But otherwise, very similar individuals. Power-driven, no empathy, no ability to even understand the common man. Deeply racist. Adherents to idiotic economic ideas that have been considered nonsense for years. Bought out by wealthy donors. Easily puppeted by zionists.
That Merz is having a good time being all buddy-buddy with the orange wankstain isn't surprising at all.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but Trump had enough personality to create a cult following. Merz has less charisma than a broomstick
On top of being a person with downright horrible political positions on literally all fronts, he is also such a comprehensively bad politican that even though the Ampel handed him the chancellorship on a platter, Merz would have managed to lose it anyway had the brought forward election date been just a week or two later.
Because every day he had done campaigning would have turned people off more. Now we are stuck with this absolute bellend even though noone, not even the right wingers who are aligned with him, can stand him. The whole thing is just tragic.
I completely disagree. As individuals, Trump and Merz are nothing alike, and it's quite an insult to Trump to compare them.
Trump is pure box office gold as an entertainer and troll, a media genius, the wet dream of the American id, a master con artist and populist, and surely one of the greatest C-movie supervillains of all time.
Merz is just some random sad sack of shit, sheltered from forming or expressing any kind of original thought beyond what is lowest common denominator 20th century right wing orthodoxy by the backminded worldview that set and solidified in his goofy head all the way from his small town 'banality of evil' family upbringing to the Sauerland Schüler Union, and then was never again challenged by any form of mature reflexivity.
Merz is a NPC to Trump's supervillain character. And in terms of politics, Merz is the real estate agent to Trump's slumlord.
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Exactly.
Good news for Europe.
https://www.reuters.com/business/en...e-deposit-biggest-europe-jumps-81-2026-03-03/
Trump tomorrow: “We need Norway for national security, and for giving me Nobel prizes”.
For our German posters, maybe any additional context on this?
It’s not surprising at all. Especially young Muslim men in Germany lack a perspective for the future and are often not accepted by our wider society. That makes them an easy target for extremists. And it is visible in everyday life, especially in schools. They put huge pressure on other boys of similar backgrounds to become proper Muslims and often show a demeanour towards girls and women that is shocking. Homophobia is also a gigantic issue in these circles. We have a huge problem there and considering the shift in our political landscape, it will get worse.
But I don’t think it’s exclusive to Germany. Europe fecked up by refusing to provide these people with a reasonable future.
If anybody wonders why the AfD is getting more and more votes: This is the reason. They are the only ones who are very straightforward in wanting to deal with this issue. Doesn't change how horrible lots of their other ideas are, but as this study shows the problem is so severe that many people are willing to ignore that as they consider that the most important issue.
Is that really so? What always amuses me is how often the discussion is just about "those poor Muslims were never integrated properly". How come that basically every Iranian I know in Germany is very well integrated, most Arabs are not at all and Turks kind of half/half (or their children for all of these groups). At first sight you don't really see a difference between them, they had the same chances, yet the outcome is often much different. Cultural issues in the people coming here are a factor as well and we as a society demanded far too less integration from them. Now we see the result. We let too many in who don't share our values and accepted that this cancer further spread.
Those tweets are very much cherrypicking from that study. It's not just young muslims that are increasingly radicalised, according to this paper. They are reporting an increase all across the board for right-wing ideas. In their own words:
https://www.motra.info/motra-monitor-2024-25/
I wonder why those posters on X picked only the one chapter on radical islamism out of the whole 600-page study... hmm...
So yeah, problem's a lot bigger than just young muslims, sadly.
Der Spiegel reported that a former German spy official fell for a cyberattack.
It's pretty much the same process that pushes white young men to the arms of fascist groups. Improve social services and give them prospects of a decent future and most of these guys, christian or muslim, will stop looking for answers in the wrong places.
Poland has become a significant economy.
If (big if...) implemented properly, this could be a massive step forward. Especially as it effectively forces countries which lack digital processes (looking at Germany...) to enable that, at least to act technically as a backend to the EU-portal.
It will never not seize to amaze me how both advanced and technologically backwards Germany is in things. And yes, I'm aware some of it is as a result of very strict privacy laws.
Re the proposal you linked - I am curious but also find it hard to believe it will be very effective - at least in the short run. It seems like every time Europe tried to homogenize things it results in more frustration building in certain corners of the union, especially those with a competitive advantage. Additionally - as anti immigration as the US may currently seem to be - it's still light years ahead of the EU in that regard and a lot of that also brought with it the innovation, entrepreneurship and other things Van der Leyen mentions. Is the EU truly ready to accept *more* people from outside its borders, even if its "just" folks from other member states? Competing states within a single country that also has ample space like here is one thing, competing countries in a landmass that lacks the ability to mass construct almost entire towns out of nothing seems like it comes with quite a few ...challenges?
Don't get me wrong - I'm not saying USA best, Europe sucks (in fact, the US clearly is not alone in those benefits when looking at the likes of a China or even Canada), but I'm just wondering if they truly thought out all the challenges that may come with any of this. Frankly, I hope they manage to punish our orange madman for his arrogance.
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