This is all a symptom of allowing billionaires to exist.
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2025
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βLook the other way! That immigrant wants to steal your pennies!β, exclaimed the dragon brooding on his mountain-like hoard of the Peopleβs gold.
The problem is we gave those dragons internet access so they now use it exclusively to spend their gold to convince everyone in the world that immigrants want to steal their pennies so they should totaly elect strong immigrant eating dragons to every office.
It's a bit more than that, it's a symptom of rampant misinformation, a distrust in political leadership, a lack of empathy towards others, increasing wealth inequality, etc.
A huge chunk of those issues are triggered by billionaires though. It's crazy how much it all traces back to a small number of insanely wealthy people.
And the same rich assholes keep launching smear campaigns against anyone who dares proposing or even making decent politics. Every country is being run more like a Russian oligarchy each day. The information age with the internet and smart phones in every pocket centralizes power in ways that were unimaginable before in ways we didnβt anticipate. The same tech that could democratize more processes is chaining us.
In Thuringia where they already have a majority in parliament, the AfD was blocking democratic processes numerous times. The goal seems to be to hinder the government from functioning effectively, frustrate voters and therefore gather more votes in the future.
These poll results are a shame and really show the scale of frustration, misinformation and lack of education in the east. This is not easily fixable.
Russia is also funneling money to them so fast that it is as if they have a direct pipeline to Moscow.
It is quite easily fixable by finally banning that Nazi scum. Unfortunately those who hold the power to do so don't have a spine, and/or like to use the Nazis for stupid party political power games.
Well jeez, if only Germany had laws against Nazi parties.
Cowards and hypocrites.
Fascism - Capitalism in decay
We're speeding towards a new age of fascism in the western world.
Weβre speeding towards a new age of fascism in the western world.
There are several more than worrying trends in the "Western world", but other countries are far ahead. Russia Is fascist, China turned to fascist rule, just to name two prominent examples.
What a delicious recipe for terrible world wars that kill billions -_-
See this is what happens when your country doesn't periodically round up it's fascist and hang them. It's like spring cleaning for democracies. Every 30 years or so.
I mean, the assumption after the fall of the wall was that capitalism would magically make everything better. When that didn't, people become disgruntled. It's happening at a slightly slower pace everywhere in Europe.
Apparently we need to relive the 1930s again.
History is cyclical if there's no sufficient collective action to break a cycle.
Except that only happens after the nazis round up and kill people, unfortunately