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"Performative radicalism" is a problem left and right

Look at UKIP, blaming the cluster fuck of the Brittish economy on immigrants, who are weak, other and easy to blame for damage caused by making taxpayers pay for banker's misfortune and Brexit

I am in New Zealand and we have the same problems, on the left and the right.

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Given that UKIP don't really exist anymore as a major party may I gently contend that it may be slightly more complicated than you imagine

Reform: UKIP lite. The Russian money and dog whistles remain.

How do you feel about WWI era Germans funding the Bolsheviks in Russia?

Short-term or long-term?

It's too early to tell.

Short term it was effective. It backfired though.

It got the Bolsheviks to take over, and one of their main goals on international stage was to estabilish Communism in Germany. They didn't get to it only because they were defeated by Poland in 1920, and you can't get to Germany without conquering Poland first. So, Germans funded a party that nearly started a war with their own country. That's a hell of a gamble.

The story doesn’t end there though. After that, what the Bolsheviks created utterly destroyed Germany then occupied it for 40+ years.

Pedant

Quite obvious what I mean

Yes and you're wrong but I was being polite

Reform is continuation UKIP its fair enough for someone to confuse the two.

UKIP still exists, I reserve the right to judge someone who wants to comment but someone hasn't noticed this now almost decade old change

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