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   Peter Kuipers Munneke (pkuipersmunneke@mastodon.nl)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 08:49:31 JST Peter Kuipers Munneke

   Despite the headlines, Dutch #EU #election results provide subtle change, away from centre-right to left, and to far-right

   Progressive, pro-EU parties (Green/SocDems, LibDems D66, Volt, Party for Animal Rights) together won 14 seats (+2 from 2019).

   Conservative right-wing parties (VVD, Christian Dems, NSC, 50+, SGP, Christian Union CU) had the strongest loss with 9 seats (-3 from 2019).

   Far-right anti-European parties (PVV, Farmer's Party, Forum for Democracy) went from 5 to 8 seats (+3).

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     Matti Järvinen (nemeciii@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 17:01:17 JST Matti Järvinen

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     @pkuipersmunneke damn that far right. What's their message in there?

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     Peter Kuipers Munneke (pkuipersmunneke@mastodon.nl)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 17:01:17 JST Peter Kuipers Munneke

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     • Matti Järvinen

     @nemeciii @pkuipersmunneke a popular explanation is that regular, conservative parties have started to mimick far-right parties and adopt anti-immigrant views, and now voters are starting to prefer “the original”, hence the move from right to far-right

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     Graydon (graydon@canada.masto.host)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 17:01:22 JST Graydon

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     • Matti Järvinen
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     @kiennah @nemeciii @pkuipersmunneke The bill for the Carbon Binge either ends all history, or divides all history.

     Nobody gets to keep what they have or to be certain there's anything to pass to their children nor to have any plausible expectation of cultural continuity. (If there are history books, they're going to despise us.)

     What we're seeing in politics is some mix of anger, bargaining, and denial. And none of those ever work, and it's not to be expected they're going to help.

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     kiennah (kiennah@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 17:01:29 JST kiennah

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     • Matti Järvinen

     @nemeciii @pkuipersmunneke mostly “them foreigners are the reason you can’t find a house” and a dash of “The climate is too expensive to fix, trash the Green Deal, and let’s just try to keep the sea out of the country”