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Re: How "Moderates" Serve The Right
DIR By: Project2025
Date: November 13, 2023, 9:36 pm
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Indeed!
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Re: EU
DIR By: Immigration
Date: November 16, 2023, 12:25 pm
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France’s New Immigration Bill Explained
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> On Tuesday evening, the French Senate passed an immigration
bill that would significantly restrict asylum and deportation
policy in France. But despite the passing, it is already proving
to be a controversial topic, both because of its content and
because Macron may once again be forced to use Article 49.3 to
force the bill through the National Assembly. But can this
immigration bill once again send the protesters to the streets,
or can Macron with his deep unpopularity see it through?
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> seven million people
>
> Almost seven million people, or 10.3% of all people in France
that year were immigrants, meaning "born a foreigner in a
foreign country," it said. In comparison, 6.5% of French
residents hailed from abroad in 1968, it added. More than a
third of immigrants in France in 2021 had acquired French
citizenship, it said.
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Re: How "Moderates" Serve The Right
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: December 20, 2023, 9:29 pm
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HTML https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/20/france-immigration-bill-passed-controversy-emmanuel-macron-marine-le-pen
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> Emmanuel Macron’s ruling centrist party was divided and
soul-searching on Wednesday after a strict new immigration law
was approved by parliament but contained so many hardline
measures that the far-right Marine Le Pen claimed it as an
“ideological victory” for her own anti-immigration platform.
> ...
> Le Pen, leader of the anti-immigration, far-right National
Rally party, said her party would vote in favour of the bill,
calling it an “ideological victory”. The far-right MP Edwige
Diaz described the bill as “incontestably inspired by Marine Le
Pen”.
> ...
> Opposition politicians on the left pointed out that when
Macron was re-elected for a second-term in 2022, he had
acknowledged that many voters chose him not for his own ideas
but to keep out the far-right ideas of his opponent Marine Le
Pen.
>
> Cyrielle Chatelain, a Green MP, told parliament there was a
feeling of “shame and betrayal” that Macron had instead brought
in the ideas of the far-right with this bill.
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This will keep happening until leftists understand that when
rightists call for violence against refugees, the only genuine
countermeasure is for leftists to call for total extermination
of those who call for violence against refugees.
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Re: How "Moderates" Serve The Right
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: December 22, 2023, 7:13 pm
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HTML https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-migration-deal-roberta-metsola-refugees-migration-asylum-rules/
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> BRUSSELS — The European Union on Wednesday broke years of
political deadlock by agreeing on a deal that will significantly
change how the bloc limits migrant entry, moves migrants around
EU countries and effectively makes it easier to deport
unsuccessful asylum seeker applicants.
>
> European Parliament President Roberta Metsola hailed the deal
as historic. Negotiators worked through the night to agree on
the overhaul of the EU’s asylum procedures, signalling a shift
to the right
> ...
> Under the agreement, which still needs to be formally
ratified, front-line countries in Southern Europe will institute
a stricter asylum procedure at their non-EU borders and will be
more empowered to deport rejected asylum seekers. Countries
further inland will be given a choice of whether to accept a
certain number of migrants or pay into a joint EU fund.
> ...
> The deal comes just six months before the EU election, with
polls showing a surge in support for far-right, anti-immigration
parties in countries like Germany and the Netherlands. The
debate around immigration is set to be a decisive and divisive
element of elections in Europe in 2024.
> ...
> Speaking to reporters in Brussels later on Wednesday morning,
Metsola acknowledged that the pact was “not a perfect package”
and denied it mirrored proposals from the far right, arguing it
was a instead a political compromise reached amongst centrist
parties.
>
> “It’s a center that does not copy the right, it goes on
pragmatism,” Metsola said.
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STFU. Here is the reality:
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> While EU officials celebrated the agreement on the migration
pact first presented by the Commission in 2020, human rights
organizations and migrant advocacy groups have warned of the
deal’s implications on migrants and asylum seekers reaching
Europe’s borders.
>
> More than 50 nonprofit organizations warned in an open letter
that the migration pact would allow countries to arbitrarily
detain children, remove migrants to what the deal called “safe
third countries,” and increase “racial profiling.”
>
> “Today is a catastrophic day for people fleeing war and
violence. With its asylum reform, the European Union is focusing
on detention camps, fences and deportations to unsafe third
countries. This is a compromise at the expense of human rights,”
said Christos Christou, international president of Médecins Sans
Frontières.
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Re: How "Moderates" Serve The Right
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: January 1, 2024, 3:49 pm
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Mainstream journalism gradually catching up to the obvious:
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/opinion/european-union-far-right.html
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> Hans Kundnani’s mixed heritage—he was born of a Dutch mother
and Indian father—frames his very readable critique of the
European project (the EU), Eurowhiteness. When his parents
arrived in the UK in the 1960s his Indian father was, he tells
us, in some ways less of an outsider than his mother – he could
vote, she could not. In his lifetime however, non-white
Commonwealth citizens were “reimagined as immigrants” while the
rights of Europeans continually grew.
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Continuing:
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> the focus on divisions within the bloc obscures a much more
disturbing development taking place beneath the surface: a
coming together of the center right and the far right,
especially on questions around identity, immigration and Islam.
With European parliamentary elections next year, this
convergence is bringing into clearer view the possibility of
something like a far-right European Union. Until recently, such
a thing would have seemed unthinkable. Now it’s distinctly
plausible.
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Actually, I had warned about it well over a decade ago.
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> For the past decade, European politics have widely been
understood in terms of a binary opposition between liberalism
and illiberalism. During the refugee crisis in 2015, for
example, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and Mr. Orban were
seen as political opposites—she the figurehead of liberalism, he
of illiberalism.
>
> Since then, the convergence between the center right and the
far right in Europe has gone further. The lesson that
center-right parties drew from the rise of right-wing populism
was that they needed to adopt some of its rhetoric and policies.
Conversely, some far-right parties have become more moderate,
albeit in a selective way. At a national level, parties from the
two camps have governed together, both formally, as in Austria
and Finland, and informally, as in Sweden.
>
> Yet the most striking illustration of this convergence is the
harmonious relationship between the European center right and
Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the post-fascist Brothers of
Italy, who became prime minister of Italy last year. As soon as
she indicated that she would not disrupt the bloc’s economic
policy and would be supportive of Ukraine, the European People’s
Party was willing to work with her—and its leader, Manfred
Weber, even sought to form an alliance with her. The center
right, it turns out, doesn’t have a problem with the far right.
It just has a problem with those who defy E.U. institutions and
positions.
>
> The two, in fact, can agree on a lot—something that plays out
most clearly in immigration policy. In contrast to its
progressive image, the European Union has, like Donald Trump,
sought to build a wall—in this case, in the Mediterranean—to
stop migrants from arriving on its shores. Since 2014, more than
28,000 people have died there as they desperately tried to reach
Europe. Human Rights Watch said earlier this year that the
bloc’s policy could be summed up in three words: “Let them die.”
>
> The European Union’s distinctive approach to migration depends
on what might be called the offshoring of violence. Even as it
has welcomed millions of Ukrainian refugees, the bloc has paid
authoritarian regimes in North African countries to stop
migrants from sub-Saharan Africa from reaching Europe, often
brutally.
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We have covered this double-standard extensively.
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> today’s far right speaks not only on behalf of the nation but
also on behalf of Europe. It has a civilizational vision of a
white, Christian Europe that is menaced by outsiders, especially
Muslims.
> ...
> figures like President Emmanuel Macron of France have also
begun to frame international politics as a clash of
civilizations in which a strong, united Europe must defend
itself.
>
> In this respect, Mr. Macron is not so far from far-right
figures like Mr. Wilders who talk in terms of a threatened
European civilization. His electoral success in the Netherlands
could be a prelude, many fear, to a major rightward shift in the
European parliamentary elections next June. That would give the
far right substantial power to shape the next commission even
more than the current one—both directly, with the possibility of
far-right figures in top positions, and indirectly, with their
concerns channeled by the center right.
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This is why I said back in 2015 that Hungary should have been
nuked the moment it refused to accept refugees. The reason all
of the above is happening is because Hungary was not held
accountable promptly and ruthlessly.
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Re: Leftist vs rightist moral circles
DIR By: antihellenistic
Date: March 17, 2024, 9:45 pm
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Western Capitalist way of life Make People into Degenerates
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> Studies suggest that mere exposure to money, for example, can
increase self-centeredness and diminish altruism (Vohs, Mead, &
Goode, 2006). Societies that have embraced market economies tend
to foster individualism (Taras, Steel & Kirkman, 2016) and
exacerbate inequality (Bettache, Chiu & Beattie, 2020) over
time.
>
> Social class also influences self-perception, with individuals
from higher economic classes placing greater emphasis on
personal choice and achievement (Stephens, Markus & Townsend,
2007). Moreover, marketing strategies stoke the flames of
materialism and have a significant impact on well-being (Kasser
& Kanner, 2004).
>
> Capitalism also interacts with biases and stereotypes related
to race, gender, and competition. Discrimination often arises
when capitalism prompts individuals to view others as
competitors (Bobo & Hutchings, 1996).
>
> Gender biases, for example, tend to be more prevalent in
societies with greater economic inequality (Glick et al., 2000).
Neoliberal ideologies that commodify race can further perpetuate
racism (Goldberg, 2009). Even the widespread bias in which
individuals perceive themselves as "above average" can be traced
back to capitalist values of individual success and competition
(Zell et al., 2020). By examining these biases in the context of
competitive capitalism, we gain a deeper understanding of their
origins.
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Source :
Bettache, Karim. (2023). How Capitalism Shapes the Mind Have we
overlooked an "invisible hand" that's shaping our psychology?.
diakses pada 17 Maret 2024, dari
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Re: How "Moderates" Serve The Right
DIR By: antihellenistic
Date: March 17, 2024, 10:13 pm
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> People who lean socialistic tend to feel good about community,
sharing, and collaboration over competition. They often feel
that the greatest good accrues from self-sacrifice for the
common good and feel good about redistribution until all lives
are much more equal. Of course, that was foundational to Karl
Marx’s famous exhortation: “From each according to his ability,
to each according to his needs.”
>
> Such a psychology translates into sadness, often anger, even
fury, that top executives make millions, owning mansions while
other people, despite government and private charity, live a
meager existence. Socialist-leaning people also tend to feel
government is more aligned with their values than is the private
sector.
>
> ...
>
> In addition, capitalists are more likely to believe that
psychologist Abraham Maslow's theory of self-actualization over
social contribution leads people toward selfishness and away
from prioritizing needs of the collective. Capitalists point to
the communes in the U.S. and kibbutizim in Israel, most of which
have long since disbanded because, in practice, individualism
(ahem) trumped the collectivist ideal.
>
> Hence, people who lean capitalist are more likely to support
Republicans, including Donald Trump, even though they may
dislike his personal style, his past, and that he’s been
inconsistent in his capitalism, for example, imposing a tariff
on Chinese goods. Capitalist-leaning people ignore those because
they so advocate many of his other positions—perhaps most
conspicuous, his calling for a merit-based immigration system,
as opposed to the Democrats’ approach of amnesty for all except
for major felons. Also, capitalists' belief in people's tendency
to selfishness leads them to embrace Trump and other
Republicans' wariness of trust but rather an insistence on
stronger sanctions on Iran, a bolder defense and that Europe be
pressured to pay its fair share of NATO expenses.
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Source :
Nemko, Marty. (2019). The Psychology of Socialism and Capitalism
Toward voting for the best candidates, not the best marketing
machines. Accessed on Sunday, 17th March 2024, from
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Re: How "Moderates" Serve The Right
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 3, 2024, 8:10 am
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Re: How "Moderates" Serve The Right
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 17, 2024, 8:10 pm
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Re: How "Moderates" Serve The Right
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 18, 2024, 9:14 pm
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