De Hoog-geleerde Dr. Antonio Magino, proffesoor en Matimaticus der Stadt Bolonia in Lombardyen.
I specifically block American(-focused) instances and communities so I can get news from places other than America, which I feel I read too much about anyway considering I’m not from there and don’t plan to ever go there either. It’d be nice if it didn’t spill over into communities which are specifically about other areas than the USA.
How is this European news?
Immigration figures are decreasing at the moment anyway. But facts are irrelevant; in the words of our sad excuse for a Prime Minister: ‘people are experiencing a migration crisis’.
While Wilders is unlikely to ever become Prime Minister, he has already succeeded in pulling the whole political landscape to the right. Indeed without much opposition of the media, that tend to have an academical appreciation of what Wilders is doing to ‘hack’ them (so to speak), but without it leading to any (effective) countermeasures.
Wilders is just following in the footsteps of Goebbels.
I’d like it to be true that his followers have lost faith in him, but it doesn’t seem like it to me. Of recent polls, only Maurice de Hond puts the PVV at a significant loss.
Wilders has been trying to frame all issues with his cabinet as having been the result of unwillingness by the other coalition parties in following through with his (clearly illegal and unconstitutional) demands, especially NSC. It remains to be seen if he was successful - there’s still quite some time to go till late October - but at the moment it seems like he has. If you go to public forums with lots of PVVers, you hear them repeat this talking point quite fervently.
I’m also not confident that the new VVD-supported cordon sanitaire will actually hold after the elections, though at least the VVD is looking to lose quite a bit of their seats. This motion was supported by the so-called ‘liberal’ VVD themselves, anyway.
Wilders’ party is the PVV. A recent poll puts him at 32 seats, a tiny loss compared to 2023 (37, so about -5).
The VVD is an old conservative liberal party that has been the senior coalition partner since 2010. Though Wilders was from among their ranks, and they have been pulled to the right a lot by him - especially recently under Yeşilgöz.
Here a source from an actual newspaper.
Still, I don’t understand why the (Dutch) liberal media feels it has to treat this like it’s incredibly important.
But it’s not the fascists publishing obituaries in the main newspapers.
I really don’t understand why anyone over here cares some far right propagandist on the other side of the Atlantic got murdered.
It has been getting constant media attention… Why? What is this idiot’s relevance to Europeans? I get why our far right cares, but why do I need to be bombarded with every tiny detail about him by regular newspapers?
And the moments of silence for some random American piece of shit are even worse.
The Dutch government refuses to call these rioters extreme right, ‘judgements as to their motives we leave to the public prosecutor and the police’.