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[kittydesade]

Okay, so I'm up to page 85 for tomorrow in the Russian book, it's not so much that it's getting easier as that I have more vocab and am able to put it more into context, though I could probably use a grammar refresher at some point. So, no, I guess it is getting easier.

But what I really want to know is, What the shit is this? Is the Nazi/National Socialist (are they still the same thing?) party actually making a resurgence in Europe? Are we actually heading back to where we were less than a hundred years ago, if not in specific then in general? I knew anti-Semitism was on the rise again, which makes me want to hurl all on its own, but is this shit back too? Anyone in Europe with more current-news awareness care to tell to me a thing about this? I'm also going to go looking for German and French language articles because I haven't yet done my German/French reading practice, and I get that by reading the newspaper anyway, so.

I can't believe this shit is happening again. This has, so far quite literally, ruined my whole day. I want to go home and get really drunk now. I'm so tired. I need to find a way to stop freaking out about this, and so far I haven't been able to.

These aren't even my damn elections! I should not be this freaked out about it! Worried, yes, it's all one world, real people could get hurt, and it's worrisome, as far as I know. But I should not be on the verge of throwing up. Besides, throwing up that perfectly good hummus and chips is not going to help anyone.

I tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to get through the work day however I can, and then I'm going to go home and garden and surround myself with flowers and hide until I've found my cope again. Because clearly it's wandered off somewhere and I'm too tired to chase it down.

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[zero_pixel_count]

*wandering past on network page*

RE: elections: not in so many words, at least not in the UK, but f'rexample on my ballot paper for the European parliament 5 of the 9 parties were basically facists of one stripe or another - anti-EU, anti-immigration, in one case apparently anti-UK which is a rather curious stance for an English political party. It's - a problem we're having these past few years. (It kind of exploded in the folk music community a few years back when one of the parties started trying to co-opt traditional music & rather a lot of musicians told them to get stuffed).

How big a problem, I guess we will find out. Certainly one of the more prominent culprits had their free-post address shut down by the royal mail because people were expressing their opinions by sending them bricks, dog turds, and so on.

[kittydesade]

... I suppose that's kind of like a good sign that that many people are willing to publically call these parties out. Maybe. It's a straw towards which I grasp.

Anyway, thanks for letting me know! Here's hoping it's more of sound and fury than anything ... more bloody, I guess.

[lonelywalker]

Yeah, they're not actualfax Nazi parties (although there is apparently a tiny one in Denmark, of all places). The problem is that there is usually very low turnout for the European elections, so more radical parties can win seats simply by getting their people out, even if they don't actually have so many people.

The big issue in the UK right now is about UKIP, which is severely anti-immigration and pretty white-supremacist, but often manages to put on a respectable face and win a lot of votes in these types of elections. There are other smaller parties too that are even MORE radical, and while it's unlikely they'll win much, even winning one seat or getting close to doing so is seriously alarming. (I think the British National Party won a council seat in Bradford once, and that's like having a random Nazi debating garbage collection.)

[nope]

I don't know the original source, but whoever said UKIP were "the BNP for people who shop at Marks and Spencers" was spot on.

[lonelywalker]

That is scarily accurate.

[kittydesade]

... Denmark's a prison and they'd rather live in a nutshell? No, that explains a lot, and in some ways we have the same problem, just. A different variant, I guess? What with only having two major parties to worry about.

I've heard of UKIP, and am unimpressed. As funny as the idea of having a random Nazi debating garbage collection rather is, I believe the phrase is it "amuses more in literature than in life." Ugh. :/ Anyway, thanks for the update! That was... fairly alarming, actually.