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She's amazing, Jeph outdid himself with her expressions!

Merkel-Raute intensifies

It also makes sense because BSW is quite clearly a Putin-proxy.

AFD and CDU really are a thing, arent’t they.

BSW is also hostile to LGBT+ - they're not as open about it, but e.g. the issue with the rainbow flag in Neubrandenburg shows they're certainly no friend of the queer community.

I'm European and I've been wondering this myself. Spain looks solid, maybe? Definitely don't go to Germany (where I live), we're on track to elect a guy in 2025 who loves the Republicans, and there's several popular parties that are extremely Russia-friendly and hate LGBT+. And even the current centrist government is engaging in hostile rethoric against "migrants".

unless he goes to war with us and wins.

That's not what "direct" means. Abortion isn't going to be outlawed in my country because Trump becomes president, unless he goes to war with us and wins.

Part of the issue is that Europe largely relies on US media - e.g. there isn't really a European or French/German/Polish/... equivalent of Reddit or Twitter (unless you count the national Lemmy and Mastodon servers, but those are pitifully small compared to Reddit).

He also hates trans people, worker's rights and free speech.

It's gotta hit harder if you're directly affected by the outcome.

Does this count as actual fascism yet?

Lots of these predictions were actually quite horrible. e.g. flying cars would be so much worse than regular cars in so many ways.