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   Andrew Stroehlein (andrewstroehlein@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 02:15:31 JST Andrew Stroehlein

   If our government makes Jews wear yellow stars now, that upstart Hitler fellow won't stand a chance in the next election. 🙄
   https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/09/starmer-urges-europe-leaders-update-echr-halt-rise-far-right

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     Andrew Stroehlein (andrewstroehlein@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 02:15:30 JST Andrew Stroehlein

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     “For every inch yielded, there’s going to be another inch demanded. Where does it stop?”
     - Michael O’Flaherty, the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights.

     Exactly.

     https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/13/europe-echr-rethink-moral-retreat-say-human-rights-experts

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     Andrew Stroehlein (andrewstroehlein@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 02:15:31 JST Andrew Stroehlein

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     Adopting far-right policies to stop the far right gaining influence - continues to be the stupidest idea in European politics today.

     You cannot "out far right" the far right. If you adopt one policy they want, they will always have more (and darker) policies to push. So, what then? You just keep following them down the path towards more human rights abuses and eventually atrocity crimes?

     And how long will it take voters to figure out you're just a cheap copy and then vote for the original?

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     Andrew Stroehlein (andrewstroehlein@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 02:15:31 JST Andrew Stroehlein

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     Where is the leadership? Rather than copying racist, attention-seeking buffoons, how about doing what leaders should be doing and providing your own vision?

     Aral Balkan repeated this.