• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I have a bad feeling that there will be a significant reduction in the EU making pro-consumer moves like this. EU parties are experiencing a major swing to far right populism right now.

    I hope there’s still an appetite for holding tax-dodging, anti-competitive multinationals to account.

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      4 months ago

      God, how do right-wingers suck so fucking bad? Jesus, they basically have the backwards view on almost everything…

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        4 months ago

        It is crazy when you think about it. Everybody learns about right-wing takeovers of government in history and generally agrees the outcome is pretty horrible, and yet it just happens all over again. I guess fear is a hell of a drug.

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      4 months ago

      I wonder, too. Pro-EU centre-right parties and social democrat parties still hold a majority, so on these things I’m not sure we’ll see a major shift, but I genuinely haven’t checked the voting record to see if the far right parties generally take a different stance on the more pedestrian consumer protection regulations or not. I probably should do that.