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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 07:16:51 JST 
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 06:51:59 JST
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Watching Gov. Shapiro in his fervent speech in Philly and I wonder: WTF took you Dems so long? How you could allow the shabby amateurs of Republicans devastate the U.S. for so long? Dems are roaring, and why didn't you earlier? Anyway, fight the forced-birthers, the union haters, the Christian nationalists, the orange clown. #peakfascism is here! -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 09:50:57 JST
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It is said (at least reported so by MSNBC) that various times this day to U.S. Democrats the excitement and energy in the air compares to the year 2008. Which, I think, is an understatement. I sit in a different continent and already I have the feeling of a major breakthrough, a final push through an immense roadblock of agony and despair. To me it feels like #peakfascism is really here (with all the good developments in Europe and even Iran), that this year 2024 will finally see the turning of the tide, with Democrats winning the White House and both chambers of Congress, with Russia losing the war, with international tensions calming down. It already feels like the worst is behind us (it is not, keep working) and that the last two decades of growing authoritarian rule and ubiquitous despair come to an end. And not early enough: Climate change isn't waiting, conflicts need to be resolved, trade needs to be balanced, our alignment with one another strengthened. Perhaps in a few years we will see that this push-through that opened the world again, was finally achieved, made possible, by a lone old man accepting to step aside, to swallow pride, and instead cherish the dignity of all. This is a good day because it is such a day of relief on so many levels. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 03:55:33 JST
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Updated projections even better:
Left-green New Popular Front: 180-205
Macron’s allies: 164-174
Far right National Front and allies: 130-145
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jul/07/french-election-2024-results-latest-france-news-marine-le-pen-national-rally-emmanuel-macron?page=with:block-668ae05b8f08b8c654ee7662#block-668ae05b8f08b8c654ee7662
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 03:24:25 JST
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And France did it! #peakfascism
The extreme-right Rassemblement National of Marine Le Pen lost the second round of the parliamentary elections in France and came in third (!) place, behind the left-wing National Popular Front (NFP) (a coalition of various parties), the centrist coalition of President Macron (a coalition of various parties)
Projection of seats:
NFP : 172-192 seats
Macron's coalition : 150-170
RN : 132-152 seats
Turnout was historically high, more than the turnout for parliamentary elections in 1981.
https://aje.io/b4bw4z?update=3032221
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 14:32:53 JST
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TL;DR : Don't panic.
• In Poland the far-right Prime Minster Mateusz Morawiecki from the Law and Justice party was defeated in the November 2023 elections and Donald Tusk was elected on 11th of December 2023, his coalition government was sworn in on 13th of December.
• In April 2024 the far-right Geert Wilders in the Netherlands failed to form a coalition government and stepped down as candidate for Prime Minister.
• In April 2024, in Turkey the AKP party of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan lost dramatically in the municipal elections; the Social Democratic Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi won in a landslide in all major cities.
• In Italy, the neo-fascist Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been very reluctant to establish far-right policies.
• In May 2024 large protests took to the streets in Hungary against Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his cabinet.
• In June 2024, prior to the European elections, Marine Le Pen of the French extreme rigth Rassemblement National refused to meet Alice Weidel, co-chair of the German fascist party AfD about its plans to "deport" migrants and refugees.
• Also this June, the elections to the European parliament had high voter turnout for far-right parties in various member states. But missed in the national outbursts of angst over that was that in the EU parliament 1) the German extreme right party AfD was expelled from the extreme-right parliament bloc/faction ID, 2) that even with the gains of some such parties in some member states of the EU, the parliamentary bloc of the extreme right (ECP and ID) in fact lost five seats (2024: 130 seats, 2019: 135 seats), whereas the bloc of centrist parties (Conservatives [European meaning], Liberals [European meaning], Social Democrats) still kept their vast majority (2024: 407 seats, 2019: 444 seats), while Greens and left-leaning parties gained more seats.
• On 4th of July, Labour in the UK defeated the Tories in a landslide election victory, handing Labour the absolute majority and Keir Starmer becoming the new Prime Minister.
• In the second round of elections for the Presidency of Iran, the (relative to Iran) "moderate" and "progressive" candidate Masoud Pezeshkian, promising to renew ties with the West, defeated the hardline conservative candidate Saeed Jalili by more than 3 million votes.
Obviously, the second round of parliamentary elections in France on Sunday is still out but even here the extreme right party of Marine Le Pen is likely to lose ground and miss an absolute majority of seats, not the least because of a broad alliance of centre and leftist parties to prevent the RN where possible (by dropping the candidates where the candidate of the other party of the alliance has had more votes in the first round.)
And there is still the big question of the November elections in the U.S.
But I feel it's more than a hunch to claim that we are indeed at #peakfascism : That the height of authoritarian rule, of autocracies, of far-right populism has been reached, their power waning, not increasing, and not only in Europe but in other parts of the world as well.
This is quite contrary to the general opinion and ubiquitous despair. Which is why I mention it at all.
I'm more confident than I have been in a very long time. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 08:27:38 JST
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Perhaps still a bit early to say but given the voting results and trends across Europe (and hopefully in the US in November), #peakfascism is about to become a pretty likely reality. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 11:53:41 JST
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To be more precise:
In this EU election the far-right ECP+ID parliamentary groups are projected to gain 130 seats combined (down [!] from 135 seats in 2019), the centrist-liberal coalition of EPP+S&D+RE is projected to keep its vast majority of 407 seats (down from 444 seats in 2019). Thus even with major influence campaigns by Russia the coalition of centrist parties did not crumble. And that is indeed a further sign of #peakfascism. Lovely! -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 11:14:58 JST
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"Far-right makes gains as Ursula von der Leyen says 'centre is holding' but world in 'turmoil' " https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jun/09/eu-europe-elections-2024-results-news-updates-live-latest?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-666630eb8f08d846f761bfd0#block-666630eb8f08d846f761bfd0
Yes, the rightwing "European Conservatives and Reformists" parliamentary group and the far-right "Identity and Democracy" parliamentary group are projected to gain 72 seats and 58 seats respectively. But compare that to the projection of seats for the the center-right "European People’s Party" (189 seats), center-left "Socialists and Democrats" (135 seats), and liberal "Renew Europe" (83 seats) who form a coalition bloc and will keep the majority. I still count that as #peakfascism
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