Because many centrist parties in Europe are actually more centre right and neo-liberal and actively hold back progress. They invest little to nothing in public infrastructure, privatise public services, lower taxes on the rich, and weaken worker's rights. They do it more slowly than right-wing parties and extreme right wing parties, but they do it nonetheless. Once in a while they decide to try and balance the scales but not enough.

This has lead to deteriorating public infrastructure, rising cost of living, dependence on private companies (especially foreign ones), more corruption, a frequent attack of workers and green parties, more brash public discourse, and loss of trust with major disdain of politics. Their approach to resolve it has been to adopt right-wing discourse to try and win back their voters who have drifted off to the right due to populism.

As I said, left wing, progressive, and green parties have responded very meekly towards other parties, but respond harshly to parties that share similar ideologies, which leave the right wing field wide open. It is a wide failing of all parties left of right, more progressive than conservative, and non-populist ones.

1w ago

There's another NSFW instance

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atro_city @fedia.io 1w ago

How many porn instances are there?

1w ago

Can Europe break free of Visa and Mastercard? MEPs stall digital euro

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atro_city @fedia.io 1w ago

Fuck these far right parties and their voters. Fuck the centrist parties for not being progressive enough to not give people a reason to slip to the right. And fuck the left wing parties for fighting each other. But most of all, fuck the US for lobbying all these politician fucks to vote against European interests.

1w ago

Will Germany elect a woman as head of state?

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atro_city @fedia.io 1w ago

Indeed I was. My point does stand about their chancellor though.

1w ago

Will Germany elect a woman as head of state?

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atro_city @fedia.io 1w ago

It doesn't matter what's between their legs. What Germany needs is a party willing to tax the fucking rich and go HAM on Pooteen. If it's just another 15 years of letting everything go to waste, it doesn't matter if a man or a woman does it.

1w ago

Labour’s worst fears realised by Greens’ victory in Gorton and Denton byelection

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atro_city @fedia.io 1w ago

Let's hope this keeps up until a national election. If they get into power, hopefully they can !twnw@fedia.io

The country and the world needs it right now.

1w ago

AI Can Now Easily Unmask Your Secret Online Life (Even If You Use a Fake Name)

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atro_city @fedia.io 1w ago

With what level of accuracy? And how do they know they're right?

1w ago

Newish to Fediverse - do I use one account across all services?

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atro_city @fedia.io 1w ago

For sure !piefed_meta@piefed.social is in the list of "magazines" (communities as they are known on mbin) and more communities too.

1w ago

Alternative to 'alternativeto' from Germany: www.european-alternatives.cloud

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atro_city @fedia.io 1w ago

sigh* european alternatives on github...

2w ago

Donald Trump's Parents

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atro_city @fedia.io 2w ago

It's like his dad is wearing a skin mask. What the hell happened there?

2w ago

Newish to Fediverse - do I use one account across all services?

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atro_city @fedia.io 2w ago

Create an account on mbin and it'll allow seeing most of the fediverse. It has a microblog view, a thread view and a combined view. It isn't picky about which services to connect to. I'm subscribed to peertube channels, people on pixelfed, and browse the threadiverse. It works well.

Lemmy can't see mastodon, mastodon seems to have trouble seeing lemmy but can see mbin and piefed, peertube just sees peertube (although comments on peertube can come from all over the fediverse), pixelfed just pixelfed, and so on.

Someone mentioned nomadic identities and federated identities and I would love either of those. But for now, I recommend mbin.

2w ago

In the US we have signs that say No Shirt No Shoes No service. When did this become a norm? Also if I am wearing a shirt and shoes but no pants can I still enter?

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atro_city @fedia.io 2w ago

Fucking prude Christians...

2w ago

3 Hackers Just Exposed The Truth Behind Age Checks

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atro_city @fedia.io 2w ago

What we need is ongoing, free education after school. For many it just stops. People should have gotten digital competency classes with every new wave of applications and then taught that to their children.

Schools also spectacularly fail at preparing people for life after school in any way digital. Most just indoctrinate you to use one single product, not how to use a computer in general. Kids exit school only knowing "Microslop Excel" not how spreadsheets work or what they're good for e.g balancing a budget, keeping track of expenses, weighing options, etc.

Education is also a very large and important part of the answer.