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Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! (lemmy.world)
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[+] -33 points 4 months ago* (10 children)

Our far right wants free health care, free dental, HBTQIA+ rights and higher pensions.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    Oh, the Swedish Democrats party? Yeah, they're cool with gay people existing, but think marriage certification should be allowed to be denied on a case by case basis. They also hate foreigners and trans people.

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  • [+] -6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I'm not endorsing SD, I fucking hate them. I'm just saying that there's a world of difference between the far right in many European countries, compared to the far right in the USA.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    That's called lying and hiding their true agenda.

    Which is exactly what happened in the US. (Pre Trump, obviously)

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Also moving the overton window.

    It only took a few years for our "alt right" to replace the suits talking conservative economics with demagogues spewing racial purity on national television. Self-radicalization is built into the far right mindset.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    They say they do (except the LGBTQ+ part, I don't really see that) , but they actually don't. They make wild promises (with no plans), only to then "realise" that it's harder than they though.

    They just say that to make them more palatable and undermine actual left wing parties. The amount of times I've heard from far-right voters in my country that the difference between their far right party and the socialist party is really small and that they are "economically pretty left", is insane.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    The suck, I'm just saying the Overton window in much of Europe isn't really comparable to the discourse in the USA. It would be instant suicide for them to even appear as though they want to limit free health care, abortion or gay rights.

    They got rid of a really competent (not praise from me, just an assessment) top politician over her resistance against the right to free abortions. That's where Sweden's far right is.

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