Where’s my eye bleach emoji?
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Thanks for that overview. Crazy times
In other wild news, Alain Finkielkraut, one of France’s foremost Jewish intellectuals says he might be “obliged” to vote for Le Pen in order “to block antisemitism”.
As a reminder Le Pen’s party was co-founded by Pierre Bousquet, a former Waffen-SS…
…?!?
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section leader (Rottenführer) in the Waffen-SS Charlemagne Division, Bousquet was the first treasurer and a founding member of the National Front in 1972.
(per Jimbopedia)
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Oh yeah, I wasn’t doubting the nazi bona fides of RN, but the decision of a Jewish leader to ally with them
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Maybe he is a PKD fan…
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Another high-level executive said the prospect of either far-right or leftwing parties setting France’s economic strategy was “a choice between the plague and cholera”.
But given the choice, let nobody be under the slightest doubt: they’ll pick fascism every time.
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Funny how every ‘conservative’ party anywhere makes the same administrative errors…
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Austria is now trying to prosecute one of their own government ministers for her vote in favour of this new EU environmental law.
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So basically, the new Axis powers
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Hey Orpo, do you know the people with the dog whistles in your cabinet?
A column in Helsingin Sanomat examines the use of ‘doublespeak’ by members of the nationalist Finns Party — meaning the practice of deliberately disguising a controversial statement behind innocent-sounding words.
HS cites as one example a post on X by Finns Party MP Ari Koponen, in which — on the surface at least — he bemoans the spread in Finland of lupines, an invasive plant species.
“The alien species arrives uninvited and unexpectedly. It spreads and multiplies uncontrollably until it has spread so widely that it leaves the native species behind. In Finland, especially in the south, this is already a big problem. Go and voluntarily remove the lupines,” Koponen wrote.
HS notes that Koponen may indeed be referring to the purple plants that adorn Finnish roadsides, but it’s also possible that he is continuing the Finns Party habit of saying one thing but meaning another — for example a coded reference to immigration.
“The use of irony makes it possible to address different audiences at the same time: A wink to one’s own supporters, another message to others,” political researcher Johanna Vuorelma said.
As well as citing other examples of this phenomenon within the Finns Party, HS writes that the timing of Koponen’s post on Thursday afternoon has drawn widespread criticism.
Later that day, a 12-year-old child was stabbed in a shopping centre in Oulu, with police suspecting the attacker was a well-known far-right extremist.
HS ends the column by noting that it tried to reach Koponen on Friday, Saturday and Sunday to ask him to clarify the meaning of his post on X, but without success.
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