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  • 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.











  • 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.