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Someone on TMF used to warn and predict and then laugh.....
That your bubble dwelling snobbery is not only fanning MAGA in America, but in much of the democratic world.
Someone also said that the best thing to happen is MAGA not winning full responsibility but rather, critical mass to where they can thwart your efforts while being able to blame you as they would have little responsibility.
So here you are.
Drill Baby Drill and low taxes on the rich in America.
Europe lurching rightward.
The *sole* negative is it allowed France to be France and get all anti immigrant, much like you and Biden here in America.
But nevertheless, MAGA owns your ass regardless who wins power now.
There's benefits.
Certain Extremist attitudes in Europe might go mainstream.
Go Left. Go UN. Think Progressive. Talk Blue. Don't be afraid any more!
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Dopester:
Dare we dream of a worldwide rejection of the toxic liberalism we’ve had to put up with for the last 20 years??
What's your definition of toxic liberalism? Anything not far right? Any brown people coming across the border?
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You are aware that Marine Le Pen is just short of being a NAZI, right? She's a xenophobe (rejecting, among other things, multiculturalism because -obviously- French culture is best), isolationist, anti-muslim, and supports partially breaking away from NATO (specifically, removing French forces from NATO's umbrella, though not completely cutting ties). She also was pro-Russia, though I'm not sure now since she also advocates helping Ukrainian refugees.
About the only thing she gets right in this modern world is some of her positions on banking (which, interestingly enough, mirror those of Elizabeth Warren).
Oh...and she is scheduled to go on trial for fraud (misuse of funds) later this year.
It is very worrying, the trend towards far-right nationalism. That breeds isolationism (unrealistic in today's highly-interconnected world), xenophobia, and makes ripe the attacking of democracy by folks like Putin or Xi due to the fracturing of the global societal fabric. I'm not saying we're headed for another Holocaust, but it is climates like these that make that sort of thing possible.
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The sole way is punishment .
I'm actually peeved that Le Pen allowed Macron to go Full Racist French and demand certain assimilation, and more stringent immigration of 'certain people'.
I want the "exploding population" of certain people to form a country within a country there.....and, well, it's their business how they achieve such.
I'm not a Judgmental American.
It's tough love.
But I want to love.....they need some love.
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It is very worrying, the trend towards far-right nationalism. That breeds isolationism (unrealistic in today's highly-interconnected world), xenophobia, and makes ripe the attacking of democracy by folks like Putin or Xi due to the fracturing of the global societal fabric. I'm not saying we're headed for another Holocaust, but it is climates like these that make that sort of thing possible.
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As I said, more fun needs to take place.
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It is very worrying, the trend towards far-right nationalism. As predicted. From March-
A Far-Right Takeover of Europe Is Underway
EU parliamentary elections are approaching and populists are planning a frontal assault on the establishment.
https://archive.is/J7SYa#selection-2961.0-2967.109
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Belgium, also. The leftist party there got blasted and their PM resigned.
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According to the euro press, everyone to the right of Bernie Sanders- even slightly- is a Nazi.
Meanwhile, the real Nazis are out marching in the streets chanting 'Free free Palestine'. Yesterday they paid the White House a visit.
Have you ever been to France? They're *all about* French culture as the dominant force. Outside of Paris no one speaks English and they frown on foreigners not making attempts at it. As is their right, by the way.
There is no trend towards "far-right nationalism". What's changing is a worldwide rejection of the kind of toxic, narcissistic leftism that assumes that The Elites know better than everyone else about literally everything.
In Europe their "elites" have been telling them they're growing too much of the wrong kind of food and that the unchecked importations of people who a) don't give a rip about Europe b) are happily there to live off the taxpayers and c) don't believe that the local culture is something to be respected is a great idea. Their citizens have had enough, and now they're doing something about it. I pray we do the same.
I think it's hilarious that after years of downplaying the USSR and Russia that all it took was 1 hoax to get left wingers all riled up about the Russkies. The Europeans understand (and always have) that Putin's crew is no different than what they've always been: A cross between Vienna and the hordes of Genghis Khan.
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"It is very worrying, the trend towards far-right nationalism. That breeds isolationism (unrealistic in today's highly-interconnected world), xenophobia, and makes ripe the attacking of democracy by folks like Putin or Xi due to the fracturing of the global societal fabric."
Nationalism and isolationism were unrealistic 75 years ago. The world has only become significantly more interconnected since then.
The world is interconnected whether we like it or not. What happens to Ukrainians eventually affects the people in the U.S.
We live in a world where a country can send information anywhere in milliseconds. A missile can be sent anywhere within a 1/2 hour. Troops can be sent anywhere in the globe within hours.
Isolationism just weakens a country. Countries that work together are stronger.
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My impression is that immigration is the driving force for increased populism worldwide. This is only going to get worse as global warming continues to disrupt the more southern and more coastal countries. Lack of tolerance, political unrest, and economic strife will continue to drive people to the north, creating similar problems of tolerance and unrest in the north. The solution is unclear.
Alan
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Lack of tolerance, political unrest, and economic strife will continue to drive people to the north, creating similar problems of tolerance and unrest in the north. The solution is unclear.
Perhaps we need a new Marshall Plan embarked on by the global north targeting the global south with the goal of lifting them out of their hardships. But the confounding effects of global warming will make that especially difficult.
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The solution is unclear.
I've been pounding the table about overpopulation for a long long time.
Religionist opposition to family planning isn't helping.
People respond "No sano, education will improve things." "No sano, technology will save us." "No sano, the rate of growth is slowing down, it'll be okay."
I've written about how in the 1980s the average age south of the border was 10 yrs old, and how all those kids would boom their impoverished populations if the Pope didn't hop on the Planned Parenthood train..... and how US religionists and right-wing anti-birth control and anti-abortion forces were shooting us in the foot.
I said Africa and South America populations would swarm north.
Well here they are and they ain't a stoppin'.
How the US right wing and religionists around the world still don't see the relationship between modern family planning and the numbers of mouths needing food and water is a testament to something.
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My impression is that immigration is the driving force for increased populism worldwide. This is only going to get worse as global warming continues to disrupt the more southern and more coastal countries.
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In the short term, I think the prime driver is war, primarily that in Ukraine. I think people forget how many Ukrainians fled their country and are taking refuge in Poland, Germany and other European nations to a lesser extent. In the bigger picture, these countries have bent over backwards to try to help these refugees. Imagine the strains in your local community if thirty thousaand extra people showed up OVERNIGHT needing apartment space and spaces in schools for their children. Yet countries like Poland and Germany not only opened their borders for these people but their homes as well. Per Wikipedia, over six million Ukrainians have been scattered across Europe alone. But the war has extended twenty eight months. Even for countries that went into this with good intentions and eyes wide open to the economic costs, that's going to produce longer term tensions.
In the longer term, I think you are correct. Climate changes are going to drive migration shifts that will be less predictable than governments might expect. If you suspect rising sea levels will gradually erode beach territory by 50 feet per year on average, that doesn't mean a commmunity can lay out a plan that states every year, some magic line moves inward 50 feet and people beyond the line have to move out in a nice, orderly fashion. A place inundated by rising sea levels may first get wiped out by a hurricane over the course of two days, not five years, creating a spike in demand for people to relocated somewhere else. And the kicker behind climate change is that most of the changes REDUCE the quantity of livable land. The changes aren't merely changing WHERE the liveable land is in some sort of overall zero-sum redistribution. Territory will go under water or become so hot for such extended periods no one will want to live there.
If there's one thing history in general (but especially American history) should teach us is that countries tend to do far better with less strife haggling over the distribution of a GROWING economic pie (especially if much of the growth can be stolen). When the economic pie is SHRINKING...
...Look out.
WTH
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Perhaps we need a new Marshall Plan embarked on by the global north targeting the global south with the goal of lifting them out of their hardships. But the confounding effects of global warming will make that especially difficult.
That would help, but if I remember the Marshall Plan correctly, a lot of the money got spent outside of Europe, building docks and wharves, infrastructure, so the Euros could trade. That's being done as debt by China now. We need limits (caps) with shutdown power, and some way of dealing with those that fly in. We have to redo or reinterpret the Geneva Convention it seems. Not going to be easy.
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Yes, it was predicted even earlier. The only reason I know anything about Le Pen is because of her last run a few years ago. She was highlighted as part of resurgence of nationalism, populism, and xenophobia (i.e. far right) taking hold in Europe.
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Education, and especially educating women, will help us. Most countries that have a well-educated populace, and educated women, and very low birth rates.
Hitchens used to go on about that a lot. Elevating women, educating them, given them control of their bodies...that is the key to lowering birthrates.
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The only reason I know anything about Le Pen is because of her last run a few years ago. She was highlighted as part of resurgence of nationalism, populism, and xenophobia (i.e. far right) taking hold in Europe.
French people are not oblivious to the prior kerfluffle with Islam.
Driving from Paris, especially sightseeing in Tours, to Bretagne and on down to Biarritz (there's excellent surf on the west coast)with an eye to getting some 'cultcha' on the way, there's no missing reminders that France stopped the Islamic empire from taking over Europe and establishing an unbeatable caliphate.
It may have been 1300 years ago, and it's something we in the USA (unless you're an American Indian) don't have in our subconcious, and yes, Josephine Baker was hugely popular (as a representative of American jazz culture) but the French sense of history still warrants a wariness of minarets and minarets imply.
We're witnessing something similar in the US. There's a long running joke that Mexico will retake it's lost land not militarily, but by outpopulating the WASPs. Gotta change the corpus of the gag to include Asians, Africans, and Middle Easterners.
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One thing worrying me is that Venezuela might be an example. Budding BOlivarian socialist country slides into authoritarian oligarchy, and in the slide nationalizes one of our companies assets. We sanction the hell out of an economy gone south, creating a situation where Venezuelan asylees flood our border. We indirectly and directly are the cause of the flood. Have sanctions ever worked to make a country more democratic? We lifted the sanctions as a carrot for freer elections - didn't work.
Maybe we ought to rethink making our borders look really attractive and make policies like safe third country real.
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"Education, and especially educating women, will help us. Most countries that have a well-educated populace, and educated women, and very low birth rates."/i>
'Help us?' You keep telling yourself that as population and migration issues intensify.
Some of the biggest and most densely populated nations are are back on the pro-birth kick to sustain overall economic growth.
Think about it.... increasing numbers of Chinese emigrees are knocking on our southern border even as Xi's gov is urging them to have more kids. WTF !!
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Yep. But Europe had to deal with waves of immigrants marching across Europe, huge encampments, on the shores of the Mediterranean, boats crossing and sinking, kids drowning, migrants jumping trains to get to England, Orban blocking off Hungary, etc. You could watch it develop. Same thing here, only it started with the GFC, overnight it seemed that illegal immigrants were responsible for all our social ills. And it ahs continued. Tremendous staying power and very useful to the far right.
Now we have cartel gangs branching into moving people to our border as a lucrative sideline. Start in Ecuador and bring them up. People from Turkey are flying into Nicaragua and paying for a 96 hour Visa, and high airport fees till they can get out. And it benefits Republicans not to deal with it, just use it as a platform and a cudgel. How did we get here?
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Think about it.... increasing numbers of Chinese emigrees are knocking on our southern border even as Xi's gov is urging them to have more kids. WTF !!
And there will be more of that.
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I've been pounding the table about overpopulation for a long long time.
Religionist opposition to family planning isn't helping.
People respond "No sano, education will improve things." "No sano, technology will save us." "No sano, the rate of growth is slowing down, it'll be okay."
I've written about how in the 1980s the average age south of the border was 10 yrs old, and how all those kids would boom their impoverished populations if the Pope didn't hop on the Planned Parenthood train..... and how US religionists and right-wing anti-birth control and anti-abortion forces were shooting us in the foot.
I said Africa and South America populations would swarm north.
Well here they are and they ain't a stoppin'. - sano
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Well, I'll be dipped. Something we agree on. I would add that population growth (and third world modernization) is at the top of the list of significant emitters of CO2.
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Well, I'll be dipped. Something we agree on. I would add that population growth (and third world modernization) is at the top of the list of significant emitters of CO2.The way to fix overpopulation is prosperity. Not dumping on religion or promoting abortion.
The fact is that as China and India - the world's two most populous countries - gain prosperity their birth rates are declining.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-populat...China's population drops for second year, with record low birth rate
Summary
China's population drops 0.15% y/y in 2023
Birth rate at new low, death rate at highest since 1974
Total new births drop 5.7% to 9.02 mln
Total deaths rise 6.6% to 11.1 mlnhttps://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/...
Falling fertility rates have left India staring at the spectre of looming demographic challenges that have caused big problems for other Asian powerhouses like China and Japan.But back to Europe.
The natives over there are also being told they should expect to freeze in the winter Because Climate Change.
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The way to fix overpopulation is prosperity.Reality check. Prosperity ain't raising all boats. Record numbers of people -actual numbers, not percentages- are impoverished and homeless.
Not dumping on religion or promoting abortion. Opinion of a cultist includes a strawman. No surprise there.
The fact is that as China and India - the world's two most populous countries - gain prosperity their birth rates are declining. So what. They're still foundering under the weight of their populations.
Prosperity benefits a minority in India. It does not result in broad access to income.
India has "18 million street children, with 11 million being urban. More than three million men and women are homeless in India's capital city of New Delhi alone."
Tip of the damned iceberg.
Prosperity that, cultist.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings...
