Its “reconquest” of the EU will be under the banner of “Make Europe Great Again,” and its leaders say Donald Trump’s recent return to the White House signals it is time for Europe to change. “We are living in an historic age, and my message to all the old leaders from Macron to Scholz, to your own Pedro Sanchez: It’s your time. It’s over now. They are history,” Geert Wilders, leader of the PVV party in The Netherlands told an audience of around 2,000 people on Saturday.

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    Evil wins because allegedly good people hesitate. Because allegedly good people promote moderation and calmness in dealing with those who have broken the social contract.

    We lost ourselves as a civilization developing the understanding that rationality against those who are determined it are their own kind of slow evil.

    Alas, Babylon! The empire has fallen. Do not go further to pretend you are any different, aunts and uncles, siblings and cousins of the new world. Take action now, decisive, forceful action. Do not continue to hesitate Europe.

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    You know, about a year ago or so, I mentioned that I thought the single greatest mistake humanity has ever made was in not killing every single nazi at the end of ww2

    It did not go over well at the time.

    Looking like maybe we need to finish that job now.

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      Not the first time the US made that mistake and had horrible repercussions as a result (US Civil War)

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    Fascism is everywhere and I tie it all to the brazenness of the first Trump admin. Fascists the world over saw what he could get away with and got juiced.