Moderate conservatives be like - eviltoast

From the Finnish comic strip Fingerpori by Pertti Jarla, translated by me. Original:

    • dactylotheca@suppo.fiOPEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      I actually don’t know much about him except that he’s now the Führleader of the SD and supposedly a “moderate.”

      The problem I have with conservatives claiming to be moderates is that even the ones who believe murdering minorities and leftists is a legitimate political platform think that they’re “moderates”. Must be something to do with conservatives being spineless fucks.

      • OccamsTeapot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        Åkesson joined SD when it was openly a Nazi party to “change it from the inside.” Could not be more like the comic. All he got them to do was update the rhetoric. If there was another panel of the comic, all of the same people would be there but they just wouldn’t be wearing the uniforms anymore and he’d be sitting there all smug saying “mission accomplished.”

        Yep, everyone claims to be a “moderate” when it suits them, especially the far right. Like Åkesson they realise the optics are bad and put on a nice suit while supporting the same horrendous shit they always did

        • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          6 months ago

          Åkesson was a nazi, distributing nazi propaganda in the streets before be went with SD. Sure he went there being a not-a-nazi…

          Maybe le pen shows the way, try to fake some populistic show until in power?