The thing about the far right is it tends to get out of control and ends up eating its own. Politicians give it momentum and by the time they want to put the brakes on, it's no longer theirs to stop.
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I once accidentally ate dog shit when I was a kid. Even this lunch tasted better than that. But, as you can see, my standards haven't changed that much.
Yeah it's fake meat. Not classy or healthy or anything. Just brown.
You're right. The hope is that they're not enough and he fails to attract anyone else.
It will not put off his voters. Some of them just don't care about anything international. Others admire Putin as a strongman who isn't afraid to kill his enemies and persecute minorities, a moral conservative, a self-professed Christian, an ally against democracy and a defender of the same bigotries they share.
40.8% of the 43.5% that bothered to vote in 2022. So about 17.7% of the voters.
Man, these NYT headlines. In the article they admit there's no evidence to support Israel's claims that Hamas militants were hiding in the schools and shelters they bombed - all they have is the IDF's word. But in the headline they definitely spin it a different way.
Hopefully people see that they can oppose both Israel's genocide and Islamist homophobia at the same time. There's no obligation to downplay either.
Attacking LGBT people is how they virtue signal to other hateful people.
I think it's worse than that. They are motivated by real hatred and have repeatedly called for the "eradication" of trans people. They must not be given a chance to show us how serious they are about that.
They don't care, so long as those who dislike them can't vote.
Only yesterday I came across this link thanks to Lemmy - be warned it's gruesome:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonarda_Cianciulli