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Fascism in Europe

swintons:

deafmuslimpunx | pengaling:

France: The National Front, led by Marine Le Pen, won nearly 18 per cent of the vote in April’s first round of presidential elections. The party is eyeing seats in June parliamentary elections.

Greece: Golden Dawn is the chief right-wing movement in the country, an openly neo-Nazi party that is one of Europe’s most extreme. Could take a dozen seats in May 6 parliamentary election.

The Netherlands: The Freedom Party, led by Geert Wilders, is the third-largest in parliament - and brought down the minority government by withdrawing support.

Austria: The Freedom Party, having 34 of the 183 seats in parliament, is the second-strongest party in opinion polls.

England: British National Party has a policy that restricts membership to ‘indigenous British people’. Ten local councillors, a fall from 50 in 2008.

Germany: The NPD has two of 16 state legislators but no seats in national parliament. Support base in former Communist east German states, where unemployment and discontent is high.

Norway: The Progress Party holds 41 of 169 seats in parliament and is Norway’s biggest opposition party. More moderate than many European counterparts.

Denmark: The Danish People’s Party is the nation’s third largest political organisation, and has pushed Denmark to adopt some of Europe’s strictest immigration laws.

Sweden: The Sweden Democrats entered parliament in 2010 with 19 of 349 seats, but has had no major impact on legislation.

Finland: The Finns party won 19 per cent of parliamentary election votes in 2011 - up from four per cent four years earlier.

Hungary: Jobbik won nearly 17 per cent of the 2010 vote, and is one of two leading opposition parties.The conservative Fidesz party of Prime Minister Viktor Orban has passed laws restricting civil rights and basic freedoms that go against the country’s EU membership. 

Truly frightening. And we’re witnessing a major rise in Islamophobia and anti-Semitism all around Europe. Hasn’t anyone learned anything from the past?

LOL what’s a past?

(Source: choongcommunist)

peaceloveandecstasy:

joceln:

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TRY COLOURING IN THAT SHIT WHEN YOU’RE 7 AND HAVE NO FINE MOTOR SKILLS.
FUCKING NUNAVUT.
ASK ANY CANADIAN, I SWEAR TO THE GOD OF MAPLE SYRUP.

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"[RuPaul’s Drag Race] has become the super bowl for a queer America reminding itself that there was once a gay-rights movement that was not just about middle-class white soldiers and their middle-class white weddings, but about color and defiance and danger."

Laurie Penny, “Model Behaviour” from The New Inquiry Magazine No. 4: Beauty

(Source: thenewinquiry.com)

It would be wonderful to say you regretted it. It would be easy. But what does it mean? What does it mean to regret, when you have no choice. | The Hours (2002)

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(Source: cyborglovesong, via sprezzatur-ish)

"Hip-hop was a problem because an underclass that had been left to die didn’t, and instead created a music decrying their conditions that was vivid, troubling and beautiful, a declaration of existence in the face of those who’d condemned them to oblivion. It screwed up the narrative, and thus was born an anti-rap racism in which symptom became cause, laments of violence and deprivation becoming justifications for violence and deprivation. Anti-rap racists hear rap music as proof that black men pose a uniquely violent danger to the American status quo, even as the entire trajectory of that status quo suggests it’s the other way around. As theories of history go it’s both aggressively incorrect and depressingly unoriginal.
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Disliking hip-hop doesn’t make you a racist any more than liking hip-hop makes you not a racist, and I’m sure there are plenty of Stormfront enthusiasts with Rick Ross in their iTunes. If you don’t like Jay-Z because you just don’t like the way he sounds, or you’re sick of his cloying ubiquity, or you wish he’d talk about something other than where he’s from for five seconds—hey, I’m not mad, I don’t like Bruce Springsteen for the same reasons. But if you don’t like rap music—a genre that contains multitudes—because of a self-satisfied moralism, or because you’re scared of it, or because you wish those people would stop talking about their problems and get out of your television and radio and kids’ bedrooms: well."

GOOD || America Is Dying Slowly (via sprezzatur-ish)

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"But suppose that it is no longer in my power to promote the interest of the public: suppose that I am a burden to it; suppose that my life hinders some person from being much more useful to the public: in such cases, my resignation of life must not only be innocent, but laudable. And most people who lie under any temptation to abandon existence, are in some such situation; those who have health, or power, or authority, have commonly better reason to be in humour with the world."

David Hume, On Suicide (via komakino-)

“I hate Gucci,” said Francis.

“Do you?” said Henry, glancing up from his reverie. “Really? I think it’s rather grand.”

“Come on, Henry.”

“Well, it’s so expensive, but it’s so ugly too, isn’t it? I think they make it ugly on purpose. And yet people buy it out of sheer perversity.”

“I don’t see what you think is grand about that.”

“Anything is grand if it’s done on a large enough scale,” said Henry.

Nobody said it’d be easy,

Nobody said it’d be this hard

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