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This Trump clone just claimed a victory during the elections in The Netherlands *edit*: he was first, but sure as fuck jumped on the Trump bandwagon). He's a right-wing extremist and blocks any Dutch person who points that out. These are going to be a tough four years to deal with.
*edit* There's a Dutch tv program now called 'Eigen Volk Eerst' (Our Own People First). Hesitant to watch this, but maybe it'll give the sensible Dutch people some insights. https://npo.nl/start/serie/eigen-volk-eerst/seizoen-1/eigen-volk-eerst_1/afspelen
harribobs
we remember the nederland division
ReptarsGhost
I was at a bar in Amsterdam as this happened. It felt like a wtf moment similar to the 2016 elections in the states but on a smaller scale. Locals described him the same way
MarkoffChaney
It's always the guy with the weirdest hairdo isn't it? I'm starting to suspect that it's some kind of a hairy alien parasite, that tries to disguise itself as a normal human hairdo but isn't very good at it.
Relictivity
Putin would have a weird hairdo too if he had hair.
MarkoffChaney
Maybe his parasite already ate its way into his brain and nervous system, or then he is the parasite queen as all the others seem to adore him.
DEADGH057
Anti europa partij zeggen ze dan, eerder de pro zuigen aan de ballen van putin partij
brokehackfourlane
why do the right wing always have crazy hair?
donthaveonebrojustlurk
Trump is a clone of him. The Cheeto was still a Dem when this guy fired up the shit engine.
monsster
That is a very darn good point, yes #sadly
fredrikzilla
In Swedish, his first name is pronounced very similar to the word 'stjärt', which in Swedish is a tame version of 'ass'. This was funny to me. Sorry not sorry.
astronomypictures
He's been around waaaay longer than Trump.
DigiT00l
Hey now, he's not a Trump clone, this guy came first! He's the original right wing nut job, he was being crazy before BoJo and Marie le Penn as far as I can tell
ElroydIsGone
Yeah, his name has been floating around as one of the shitnozzles in european politics since many years. He was one of the first ones. Quite since the same time like Jörg Haider in my country :-(
DigiT00l
Tbf, he is the folow up to Pim Fortuyn who was murdered before Geertje got going
Hemispheres
Not going back there til that guys gone.
AxelBeingCivil
His party didn't even get 25% of the vote and the next three biggest parties have all either said they won't negotiate with him to form a coalition with him or don't think it's likely they'd get any kind of agreement from him. How high do you think the odds are he'll actually be able to form a coalition?
SecretCookies
Looks like Homelander with a wig
nomorehate
THANK YOU. Swear I thought it was him lol
StarmineRendezvous
Imagine watching the US shitshow from the outside and falling for the same stuff immediately after, or believing their nonsense at all.
Boksha
One difference is around 2/3rd of the population still hates everything this guy stands for. He'll govern, but he won't have nearly the amount of power as the absolute majority in a two-party system does. This is definitely bad, but it's nowhere near the disaster the Trump presidency was.
tismij
True, also I really hope some of the other parties finally change their tune and become more democratic and realistic. But politics everywhere is extremely divisive now a really big change is needed (binding referendum might help but has to be arranged first).
StarmineRendezvous
Good to hear. Hope they can shake this off soon, this path is always a disaster for everyone involved sooner or later.
JoeMangoJello
Looks like an SNL character with a bad wig.
UsernameMayBeSubjectToChange
Not much fun though
donorkort
The "I want everyone to immediately know I'm a colossal piece of shit after just one glance at me" hairdo.
METROlD
Bingo. Nailed it.
ATribeofAfricanNatives
I could literally call this dude out as a right wing fascist nutzo from just a picture of his hair. wtf
IcyHot1
Not a snowballs chance in hell he’ll make the full term.
bittenicht39
His party has 37 of 150 seats. He first needs to find a majority, meaning finding coalition partners with at least 39 seats. It is not fixed that he even becomes prime minister.
Spoonland
Nazis everywhere. Meloni, Sunak, Trump, Duda, Orbán and so on. And you guys take a look at that MONSTER that won in Argentina. We are awful
iDrawStuff
So, why is the right wing agenda spreading like wildfire these days? I mean, what the fuck people.
bittenicht39
See what Agent K says to Agent J on the day before J starts being a MIB agent. „People are stupid.“
tismij
Because of polarising and divisive politics, the nice big corporations do not want a decent society because then they are held accountable. Start blaming the corporations and the overtly rich people. Billionaires should not exist when there are still people going hungry.
tismij
to add, all politicians can be bought, make laws to avoid this being possible first otherwise nothing will ever change
DrSchlepenstein
He's got the standard cartoon villain look of the typical right wing extremist too.
Huor
Next up: Canada.
industrylife
Seems like more than a few places are voting in far right wing officials. Kinda scary
Xolarix
ehh he has like... 36 seats out of the 150. He "won" in the sense that he gets to create the majority coalition in order to get a majority of seats. Issue with that is that no other party reaaallly wants to cooperate with him, or if they do, that they will ask him to compromise. And in turn, if he refuses, then he just can not form a majority coalition. Cuz yes, 36 out of 150 dutchmen wanted Wilders. Means 114 out of the 150 did not. Quite a difference still.
Skuggen
I first learned about this party because a computer club I was in at uni has the same abbreviation, so rightwing nutjobs kept coming into our irc channel to rant about immigration.
LokiOnTheCouch
No offense, but
Holedemort
Slightly unrelated : There's an engineering school in South West France that's called Isis... Twas fun when they've ordered chipsets from Canada...
kinarism
There was also an online payment platform named ISIS wallet who changed their name in 2014 after the terrorist group came to power.
Holedemort
The school kept the name. I guess they don't give a fuck...
mikeatike
kickmyballsrealhard
I’ve never understood people’s hatred toward immigration. It has never once affected me. I couldn’t care less. It’s weird that it bothers people SOOO MUCH that they become angry just taking about it.
Skuggen
thoushaltnotpass
It's a fear and danger deflection reflex. It comes from our programming that we need to protect the endogroup (our family, social class, "race") from the exogroup, who're threatening our lifestyle. It's much easier to scapegoat someone from outside than inside your group and this fact alone explains racism, antisemitism, islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia and a bunch of other despicable behaviors.
AntRam95
Because they don’t have personal accountability, it’s never their fault it’s someone else’s fault, and they think that if they get rid of them then all of their problems will be solved, even though we all know they’ll just move onto something else
sakasiru
I think it's a gut reaction to their own (perceived) economic situation getting worse, so sharing "your" ressources with more people feels dangerous. Of course that isn't how it works in modern economies (or at least it's much more complicated), but many people stop at the info their ape brain delivers: Food getting more expensive -> Kick out everyone who doesn't belong to your tribe.
matshelge
People have a built in hatred of different from what they already know. The line about not being born racist is wrong, you are and need to be trained out it, just like you need to learn how to read or do math. Overcoming natural biases of small communities is a learned skill. What you experience as a youth will harden to "default" unless you keep flexing that open mindedness.
neithermenoryou
The hatred isn't built in. Mistrust of the unknown sure, but hatred is always learned. IMO the problem is that it's far easier to learn / teach hatred because it builds on the natural tendency to prefer routine over the deviation, normalcy over the new. Though teaching the ability to have an open mind and carefully embrace the other isn't all that hard either, but it has only become easier in more recent times. Easier travel, online shopping, online communities all aren't available that long.
matshelge
It's easier if you are middle class either in wealth or in culture. Over 70% of people in the west live within 50km of where they were born. Only 40% have higher education. Traveling is reserved for these people, and online communities are also sources of insulation from the diversity. People are attracted to what they already know. - We have the tools to fix it, but much like prosperity, it is not equally distributed.
Ikwilstroopwaffels
So many people want to kill this bitch that he can't take a shit without an armed security detachment (who taxpayers of course pay for)
monsster
In all honesty (and believe me, I hate everything almost everything he stands for), that is pretty damn sad though.
diggetydug
So if you criticize him, he blocks you? Yeah that tracks with right wing.
ElAburrimientoMePuede
He is a public figure, a government figure, you can probably sue him for blocking you. That is against freedom of speech. I mean he is not a private figure muting you anymore, he is the government muting you.
wademcgillis
netherlands
ElAburrimientoMePuede
In Spain we have freedom of speech, I bet Netherlands does too.
paintingagency
Cough Michelle Rempel in Canada cough
tinyfootprints
That way, once you're blocked, you can say anything you like and he won't be aware of it. Kind of like handing you a free pass.
UsernameMayBeSubjectToChange
I'm ashamed of my country. It wasn't me, that's for sure
ZircZZ
Or me for that matter.
Micah1966
So very very ashamed. It's so depressing that there are so many stupid people here. We used to think the Netherlands was okay, but that went out of the window definitely yesterday....
AyatollahBahloni
Sterkte, from an American who knows what it feels like.
Hemelsblauw
Me neither
LebistusReticulatis
But 1 in 5 voted for him. Still cannot get my head around it…
metalMYA
Right. That’s like 2 million persons? Incredible how they came out of their racist hidings when there were opportunistic hints by other parties of breaching the cordon sanitaire
UsernameMayBeSubjectToChange
Well, to be fair the VVD and their abominsble handling of the Toeslagenaffaire has taught a lot of people that racism is normal, so why not vote for it?
FineousTPushbottom
Now you know how most Americans felt when Trump won.
thepriceisrightbitchez
I was/am ashamed. I haven’t spoken to my German side of the family in years because I just cannot fathom how we let this happen.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
I wouldn't say most. Some felt bad, but plenty were happy about it, and a bunch of others simply didn't care. And apparently still don't, because they didn't vote in the next one either. I'm sure *some* of those were suppressed, but by no means all of them.
LAMovieDesign
Right wing extremism is spreading. It took about a decade, but social media and the internet has allowed the morons to communicate and spread misinformation.
DeepLlama
hopefully not too much damage will happen..if nothing else there is always protests (already happening as I have seen on NOS and AT5)
mygodhasabiggerdick
Ugh.... I didn't know HE was running. (again?) I hate this timeline... When do the Aliens attack...? Soon? Please...?
VibratingNipples
please tell me he is AI generated? right?......
bittenicht39
No. He is politically active far longer than Trump, been around for quite some time before AI.
CouldntCakeLess
Look at the hairdo on that Muppet!
LaughingInTheFaceOfDanger
It's almost like it's a prerequisite for fascists to have bad hair and or facial hair.
GimmeSomeSugar
He looks like if Homelander was a televangelist.
Narwhilian
Why do the fascists always have the weirdest hair
metalMYA
He has Indonesian roots he tries to hide by bleaching his hair.
MadamPuddifoot
I legit thought that was a fake person until I read the caption
OriginalSyn
It almost looks like he had it photoshopped on.
ThankYouForYourTime
What is with giant ridiculous hair and authoritarianism
HashMaster9k
No one can tell them (or is willing to tell them) that they look like shit because these Authoritarians are petty tyrants who would have folks killed for less.
iggylights
Every. Single. One.
Geistbar
Most authoritarians are in deep on toxic masculinity. Male baldness is seen as non-"tough" by them. These asshats go over the top to project "tough" masculinity by having as much visible hair as possible without having the type of long hair that is coded as feminine. An extra dumb part about that is that the best look for guys suffering from hair problems is to just buzz it and go on with life. I'm speaking from experience with that last part...
InfocalypseRising
From what I’ve read he has basically no chance of actually doing much since his party controls very little of the Dutch equivalent of Congress, so it’s not *quite* as bad as it seems. Hopefully he does what Dump did and just fucks up nonstop and then gets ousted next election
NVGoddesscottage
Tubberville. Manifort. There’s plenty of obstruction to go around
fromagewit
He has the biggest party, he is the first one to choose to negotiate for a coalition. The 3 parties he will most likely work together with, have less extreme but similar stances on migration, but they are all more conservative and they are economically far more right wing. One of the 3 already said they are willing to work together. It is as bad as it seems.
InfocalypseRising
Well, shit. Like I said it’s just what I had heard elsewhere
AxelBeingCivil
Two of the parties have ruled out cooperation with him. The one that's said "Maybe we will" does not have enough votes by itself to get him to a majority and has said it's unlikely they'd be willing to work with him. He'd need to get the majority of the small parties remaining to work with him, which also seems unlikely. His government would collapse in under a year, probably.
CyrilConnolly
They already pivoted the same evening. One of the parties said that they would take their political responsibility, and the smaller one that holds the Senate, or many seats in the Senate, has also responded. The party that still hasn't said yes or no is being led by a politician who initially said no, but there are chances that either she pivots as well or her party replaces her.
AxelBeingCivil
Ooor... The second, third, and fourth place parties form their own coalition and leave this guy out in the cold? They end up seeking the best deal they can either way.
CyrilConnolly
That wouldn't matter; the second party would also need to join with a smaller party that holds the key to the Senate, and they outright hate the second party. That said, if they pursued a more centre-left route, all of their proposed laws would be shut down, as the smaller party would simply dictate their own rules. This would likely cause friction within their supporter base and eventually lead to the cabinet collapsing.
fromagewit
They ruled it out before the elections, we are now after the elections. And remember CDA and D66 ruled out ruling with Rutte before the last elections as well, and they were happy enough to do it anyway afterwards
BubblesTheFish
That's what we thought in america.
bittenicht39
He has 37 seats out of 150, he needs 39 more - and all other parties are smaller, so he needs at least 2 additional parties working with him. It is not sure he will find that majority. The record for „Netherlands are searching for a majority to form a government“ is 299 days… yet. So, the current government will stay until a new government can be formed.
Boksha
I suspect we'll be beating that record next year. And after that, it's a question how long he'll manage to keep the cabinet in one piece. Wouldn't surprise me if he loses fraction members along the way either; lots of new people in there that haven't had a chance to get caught with old nazi tweets yet.
tismij
the PVV has been there with 15+ seats for a very long time he is not new. They will form a cabinet pretty fast probably, there is no real alternative. NSC with 20 will join, VVD with 24 will not join but "gedoog" (basically support but not join in supplying ministers) add BBB and in both first and second chamber a majority. He wont get anything extreme done anyway but maybe we'll get some much needed democratic policies done. Some good might come from it.
bittenicht39
As a genuinely curious non-NL citizen: which democratic policies would you expect from such a government? I only know about non-democratic views from Wilders, but my info certainly is limited here.
tismij
He is actually really "for the people", he just wants the focus on Dutch people and Dutch culture first, he is a nationalist but wants a chosen mayor, a binding referendum etc. He is way more democratic then most left parties. PVDA/GL and D66 etc do not want referendums because the few we had all went against their wishes.