But, is there a method to the madness? Or are they just assholes? Are they voting the biggest idiot because they dont live there and want to watch their country burn (assholes) or do they somehow benefit here?
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Aqarius@lemmy.world 1 day agoDiaspora, while benefiting from free movement and pluralusm, often feel like they’re losing their identity. In turn, they seek to symbolically reassert this identity by remote-voting for the most far-right maniac they can find. The fact that such a maniac would never have let them in, and will ruin the country, doesn’t bother them as they don’t live there anymore.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Aqarius@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Thet benefit by feeling closer to (what they imagine is) their culture. We’re talking about people who left for some quick cash and ended up spending 30, 40 years there. They have a daughter that’s born there, grew up there, and never lived outside of there, and they worry she’ll be sad when she has to break up with her boyfriend “when we all move back home”. They feel like they’re separated from their nation because they are, and psychologically deny this by voting for someone so rabidly and loudly nationalist they can hear him all the way in Frankfurt.
It’s similar to folks from, idk, Boston, who will occasionally vacation in Ireland and conclude “they’re not Irish at all over there, they don’t even paint rivers green on St. Patty’s!”
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
you know having uneducated right wing extremists is not exclusive to america. Every country has idiots. The educated, normal immigrants don’t vote far right and tend to not be mentioned in any news.
nlgranger@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s a misconception/misrepresentation that they are more uneducated or idiotic than average. They may look like it (or the media make them so), but actual idiots wouldn’t be as capable as they are to push their agenda forward.
rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
they also tend to learn language and integrate more easily, because, you know, they aren’t far right lunatics
RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 day ago
A lot of them have family living in the country that they are supporting with money
loomy@lemy.lol 1 day ago
strange
ABCDE@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Filipinos included, oh and Turks.
greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Turks are probably the worst, imagine living in Germany and then voting for Erdogan, that’s a different kind of hatred for your own people
NIB@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A lot of turks living in Germany are(or descended from) poor, uneducated, turkish farmers who were imported to Germany many decades ago, as cheap labour, when Germany needed workers.
Not all immigrants(turkish or otherwise) are like that.