Post #2646414
2026-05-17 10:24 UTC
Replies (9)
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@EF@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-05-17 10:44
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us the extremes will always exist with exteme left and rights forming various governments around the World as proof. Extremism is being driven by endless politicians creating a boiling pot of voters. Whatever promises are made are lies with our lives [collectovely] getting worse which in turn causes unrest and draws people to the extemes. Yes, a march may put the far right in less than ideal light but as votong shows, the numbers are imcreasing. If Reform win, will people's wishes be answered, will mass immigration cease, will taxes go down, will people's lives get better... ? Highly doubt it but people will vote for them just the same.
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@wnd@fosstodon.org 2026-05-17 11:20
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us although hardly an original thought on my behalf, I think Gramsci describes the phenomenon well* in one of his letters from prison under the Italian Fascist government: "When the old world is dead, the new world slow to be born. And in the contrast of light and dark monsters are born". My albeit poor translation. 1/n
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@alex_p_roe@mastodon.world 2026-05-17 11:40
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Well, as certain European politicians have discovered, the current iteration of the #farright which includes #Trump, is coming across as a bunch of half-baked, not too bright, hateful loonies. Additionally, this bunch of bananas is unable to comprehend they are being used as useful idiot tools by billionaires.
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@alex_p_roe@mastodon.world 2026-05-17 12:04
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us “Entire careers now exist purely to keep people in a permanent state of adrenalised fury.” - so, sadly, true, alas. #FarRight
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@KimSJ@mastodon.social 2026-05-17 12:51
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Shades of Farage’s ‘Leave means Leave” march, I think. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/march-to-leave-brexit-nigel-farage-leave-means-leave-no-deal-eu-a8831551.html
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@BackFromTheDud@mas.to 2026-05-17 12:55
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us I read that and thought of the lyrics to "Happiness in Slavery" by Nine Inch Nails: "Slave Screams: He thinks he knows what he wants. Thinks he has something to say. He hears but doesn't want to listen. He's being beat into submission"
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@Lyle@cville.online 2026-05-17 12:59
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us “What fascinated me yesterday was just how incredibly American the whole thing has become”: The name sticks out to me. It sounds like a fawning reference to the authoritarian terror attack here in otherwise lovely Charlottesville, named by its organizers (the same people I guess?) “Unite The Right”
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@shanesemler@metalhead.club 2026-05-17 14:46
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us That's because it's not an ideology, it's a business venture. Of course it feels American, they've been exporting their destructive, corrupt, preformative neoliberal extraction everywhere. The UK has been a client state of the US since WWII, so that's not at all surprising.
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@peterhorvath@mastodon.de 2026-05-17 18:23
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Uk allowed abortion until birth. I would suggest to avoid central London until you can, because the innocent blood cries to the sky.