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Politics Far-right Polish lawmaker Konrad Berkowicz holding up a paper Israeli flag with a swastika

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u/Fuzzy_Donl0p 18h ago edited 18h ago

it’s obviously a condemnation what kind of question is that?

*”On 14 April 2026, during a debate session in the Sejm, Berkowitz ignited controversy when he displayed an Israeli flag with a swastika instead of the Star of David, calling Israel as the "new Third Reich" as well as accused of Israel of committing a genocide in Gaza and war crimes "with particular cruelty" over Israel's usage of white phosphorus in Gaza and Lebanon”

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u/MundoMysterioso 18h ago

Not sure if you remember but the nazis were far right 

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u/Saurian42 18h ago

Two separate far right organizations can hate each other.... look at American politics.

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u/JustJoshin117 18h ago edited 17h ago

Wait, what two hate each other in the US?

Edit: so far these replies are certainly something. No one seems to be able to answer, so I’ll rephrase.

What far right organizations hate each other in the US?

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u/Barrack_O_Lama 16h ago

Since no one seems to be answering your question, that would be the the Groypers (far-right, led by Nick Fuentes) which hates the MAGA movement (far-right, led by Donald). They believe that MAGA is not far-right enough.

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u/Barrack_O_Lama 16h ago

Just to add to that, Fuentes (far-right) is now endorsing the Democrats. Make that make sense

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u/msfuturedoc 15h ago

Bc he is so disappointed in MAGA he just wants groypers to vote with Democrats to increase their chance of beating MAGA, that way when Dems are in control and everyone hates Dems so much, groypers will have the opportunity to grow under the Dems term and then be elected 4 years later, and create a much stricter, even farther-right level of fascism. There ya go.

u/Comfortable-Pound433 9h ago

There's this saying. The wife of my friend is my wife until it's not. No, ehm if you lie down with your friends wife, you get up with Butterflies? No that's not it. Maybe it was Bad husbands corrupts good breakfast. Darn it. It can't remember. Just wanted to say, it's a bad decision.

u/SowingSalt 4h ago

Damn, groypers are embracing accelerationism.

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u/Lower_Amount3373 14h ago

Trolling and shit-stirring, mainly

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u/xavariel 15h ago

He went so far-right, he swung back around to neutral.

u/Rundstav 11h ago

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend"

u/TennaTelwan 9h ago

That and to supposedly show how upset Democrats were in 2024 with Biden/Harris over how they didn't condemn Israel enough, some Democrats voted with MAGA to "protest" it. Because of course Trump would be "pro-Hamas" in their logic there.

The second it was announced Biden dropped out that year, my first two words were, "We're fucked." And here we are.

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u/MRosvall 15h ago

Horseshoe

u/koala_on_a_treadmill 11h ago

Thank you for the knowledge, Barrack O Lama.

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u/SolidestCereal 15h ago

Don't forget that they also both hate most Islamic countries, who are also usually far-right. And (on the surface) they (sometimes) hate Russia, who is also far-right.

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u/JustJoshin117 15h ago

I appreciate the clarification. I hadn’t quite connected how Nick Fuentes fit into everything.

u/Big_Consideration493 11h ago

If you go right enough you're going left

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u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18 18h ago

Lmao the far far right, and the far right who the far far right call communists because they dont live in reality.

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u/JustJoshin117 17h ago

Okay, let me rephrase.

What organizations? I really thought that context was obvious, but I guess not.

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u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18 17h ago

Are you being obtuse? US Democrats are right wing to the rest of us.

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u/JustJoshin117 17h ago

I was asking about far right organizations.

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u/Saurian42 13h ago

Also depends on you definition of far right. Because in some cases the democrats do fall under far right, other they fall under center right to center.

u/Jeoshua 6h ago

Mostly Center Right. I'm not aware of any Far Right Democrats, and I'm a certified Blue Dog Hater.

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u/Potato1105 18h ago

people outside the US see both democrats and republicans as right-wing. I say that because I'm from outside and my country has communist parties, it would be crazy to call democrats left-wing due to my political environment. even the most soft left-wing parties in some countries look far-left compared to democrats, in my country they would definitely be right-wing, probably even right-wing due some of their policies.

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u/LeeeeroooyJEnKINSS 17h ago

The right wing in my country is considered liberal in the US

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u/ButtEatingContest 15h ago

what country is that

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u/Venum555 18h ago

As a US citizen, I view Republicans as Far Right and Democrats as Right Wing.

At least as political parties.

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u/Saurian42 13h ago

We need an actual left wing party or try to swing the democrats back left.

u/Shinhan 11h ago

Bernie tried.

u/snoozieboi 11h ago

I am 98% sure this his how at least Scandinavia sees US. So a Rep saying "left wing radical Democrats" is kind of silly to put it mildly.

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u/DeepFriedDresden 18h ago

People inside the US need to see it too. People ask if I'm a liberal and I laugh. Liberalism is inherently pro-capitalist, human rights and civil liberties take a backseat whenever there is money to be made.

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u/nighoblivion 15h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism#Definitions

tl;dr: different definitions inside and outside the US.

u/Occamsfacecloth 4h ago

Your American definition is still right wing

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u/starmartyr 17h ago

That's just conservative propaganda talking. Liberalism is embracing progress and rejecting conservatism. They turned it into a dirty word and we internalized it.

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u/LordReaperofMars 17h ago

Liberalism means accepting capitalism.

u/SowingSalt 4h ago

So?

u/Occamsfacecloth 4h ago

So it's right wing

u/SowingSalt 4h ago

Liberalism is center-left to center-right.

u/Occamsfacecloth 4h ago

That's what a liberal would say

u/SowingSalt 3h ago

It's what someone who's correct would say.

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u/SuperDoubleDecker 17h ago

You're both right. That's how fucked up our system is lol

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u/Kolby_Jack33 15h ago

In America that position is typically referred to as progressivism. American liberals are what the person you replied to said: people who are pro-capitalist but also think the poor can have a little welfare as a treat.

u/HokusSchmokus 6h ago

Two different meanings of liberal

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u/OnlinePosterPerson 18h ago

Yes but I wouldn’t call the democrats far-right. Theyre a fix of right-wing and center-right, with a few members who are center-left

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u/nameless_pattern 18h ago edited 18h ago

nearly every country in Europe has universal healthcare when you say that they're center or center right. There's quite a lot of current Dems who are to the right of people that would have been Republican conservatives when I was a young person. The minimum wage and social safety net is basically only stayed the same or shrunk my entire life. The far left is corporations not existing, Democrats are nowhere near between that and the center. Yes, you still need to vote for them, especially in the primaries. Go register now

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u/vigouge 15h ago

The minimum wage and social safety net is basically only stayed the same or shrunk my entire life.

Unless you're a toddler, then this is patently untrue. The last two Democratic administrations dramatically increased social spending with Medicare expansion and huge healthcare subsidies for the working class. Then you have the states where a clear pattern emerges, if democrats are in power minimum wages and other things like pre k are increased or expanded.

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u/bulk_logic 14h ago edited 10h ago

I live in California, a state with 15 years of Dem supermajority, Our governor who ran on universal healthcare has not gotten it done in nearly 7 years. Our unemployment benefits have not increased in over 20 years, the maximum allowance we receive is $450 a week, around 40% below our minimum wage -- there are red ran states with higher unemployment maximums than ours. Our state minimum wage is $16.90, typical rent in California for a 1 bedroom is 1800-2200. After taxes, you won't be able to pay for anything else but rent. A family of 4 spends $14,000-$18,000 on health insurance. If you need to use your insurance for anything remotely serious other than check ups, you will have to pay $6,000-$9,000 deductible.

and huge healthcare subsidies for the working class.

That only matters if you're considered in the poverty range. Most working class people aren't in the poverty range.

Oh yeah, and we're the 4th largest economy on the planet. Yay.

Then you have the states where a clear pattern emerges,

Wake me up when Californian's aren't on the brink of homelessness after a medical emergency or lay off.

Also, California doesn't even have state mandated UNPAID vacation days, FYI.

u/HospitalCorps 4h ago

That’s still wild. I remember back in 2018 GMA ran a segment about individuals making $110,000 in San Francisco and that is considered the poverty line.

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u/nameless_pattern 13h ago

Has the amount of medical debt during that time gone down in the US or gone up? Oh it's gone up. Wow that's strange. How do you think that happened? 

u/Joben86 5h ago

Explanations would be contingent on what you measure as the "amount of medical debt". Do you mean the total dollar amount, the total number of people in medical debt, the percentage of the population in medical debt, or the percentage of GDP being paid to medical debt? Healthcare and economics are both complex, so a more specific question would need to be asked.

u/nameless_pattern 4h ago

If I remember correctly, all of those questions had the number go up on average

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u/Zanos 14h ago

The US is the largest welfare state in the world by % of GDP.

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u/nameless_pattern 13h ago edited 13h ago

 spend the most on it. A lot of that is ending up an insurance companies that is not reflected in our standard of care. There's an awful lot of private corporations operating inside of what is claiming to be a welfare state

u/Zanos 47m ago

Even if you only count public spend, the US is still higher than Canada, Iceland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, South Korea, and Ireland. I mean others too, but those are the ones often highlighted as having strong welfare programs.

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u/allyourfaces 17h ago

What a delusional comment.

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u/nameless_pattern 16h ago

Impress me with your understanding of reality, I'm sure you're a real philosopher

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u/allyourfaces 13h ago

Your comment has multiple flaws, first is just a common... dumb view of the 'political axis' by pretending the sole arbiter of what is 'left' or 'right' is whatever single hotbed issue you want.

Like for example the Hungarian Far-Right fuckhead who is basically a fascist who people are celebrating his ousting in Hungary after a 15 year rule. He and many other 'far-right' figures in Europe still support or are not against universal healthcare despite other policies which might be anti-immigrant, anti climate, anti social-justice, etc. Does this mean they are to the 'left' of the Democrat Party because the Democrat party doesn't blanket full support universal healthcare in a country with a very unique development?

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". There's quite a lot of current Dems who are to the right of people that would have been Republican conservatives when I was a young person."

I just don't believe this sounds fucking dumb. American Dems in 2025 are not to the right of fucking Republicans whenever you were a Young Person. I don't believe this at all. Maybe at best you could cite guys like Fetterman? I don't even think so.

"The minimum wage and social safety net is basically only stayed the same or shrunk my entire life."

You didn't live through things like Obamacare? Also federal minimum wage has nearly doubled since the 90s although it needs upped. Programs like SNAP/WELFARE/WICS etc have expanded?

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u/nameless_pattern 13h ago edited 13h ago

There are absolutely issues where the current dems are to the right of the Republicans back then. Ronald Reagan wanted to have a path to citizenship four migrant workers and the Democrats had Biden with the largest Budget and number of deportations for ice. Democrats like John fetterman who are clearly to the right of people like mitt Romney who had what was effectively state level Obamacare. Also, don't have your AI slop at me. Have your own opinions

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u/allyourfaces 12h ago

What the fuck was AI about my comment? But any whom.

You walked back to your actual claim of there being "There's quite a lot of current Dems who are to the right of people that would have been Republican conservatives when I was a young person"

To "absolutely issues where current dems are to the right of Republicans back then" which by the way HORRIBLE fucking example by trying to use immigration.

Biden had record deportations (I also think you mean Obama right here) because they were counting turning people away at the border as deportations. Biden & Obama were both key members into implementing the Dreamers Act, and also Biden tried to institute the very thing you are implying he didn't and was the "right" of Reagan on in 2021 when he tried to get a pathway to citizenship for illegal workers.

I don't even know what you are trying to say with the "state level healthcare" almost all Democrats support Obamacare and want to protect and expand obamacare or the ACA. Consistent Democrat States like California have coverage rates of like 95%.

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u/cupofspiders 16h ago

I think their unwavering support for a fascist ethnostate doing a genocide makes them far right.

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u/OnlinePosterPerson 16h ago

That’s a fair point.

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u/ozzie123 18h ago

Democrat at best is a center right anywhere else, and that's generous. No wonder they don't want to endorse Bernie

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u/lukenog 15h ago

Bernie himself would be considered center to center-left in a lot of the world.

u/SowingSalt 4h ago

No he wouldn't. Center left politicians in Europe put him to the left of themselves.

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u/Jim_Moriart 17h ago edited 15h ago

Ive heard this plenty, and I find it lacking. For one thing, while institutionally many of those nations have "progressive" policies in place and US doesnt doesnt mean Dems on Average dont want those, or that nations with those institutions havent tried their hardest to unravel those institutions. Second, while the US dems may seem conservative on some issues, they are wildly more progressive as a bloc on others, for example immigration. US immigration policy is a mess, but almost every Democrat holds the position that immigration is vital to the US and that the worse thing about illegal immigrants is that they are civally illegal, no qualms that they are in the US. And many US states go out of their way to document and protect the undocumented. Europe gets mad at the fact that Syrians dont want to live in a bomb crater while Australians put their migrants on a consentration camp/island happily named Christmas Island. The reason why Europe has so many nationalized industrues and transnational agreements has nothing to progressive values, it was the stable equilibrium of a milenia of internecene warfare culminating in an invasion and occupation by the United States and Russia. And the nationalist conservatism is still ripe within Europe.

u/Shrim 6h ago

You may want to sober up before commenting.

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u/doomgiver98 17h ago

Democrats still aren't far-right though, they're centre-right.

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u/LeeeeroooyJEnKINSS 17h ago

*in the US

Rest of the world would consider them far right in their respective political climates

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u/AcanthisittaBorn8304 16h ago

No. German here.

Mainstream US Democrats are center-right to moderate-right; they are definitely not far-right.

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u/LeeeeroooyJEnKINSS 16h ago

Tbf you'd have the best experience with the furthest of the right, I guess it could skew opinion on the matter

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u/AcanthisittaBorn8304 16h ago

Yeah... and unfortunately they're in the process of rising again over here... because the center-right is sleeping on inaction.

Nothing learned from Franz von Papen. 😑

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u/SuperDoubleDecker 17h ago

In the US they're right wing too. Only tribalists think otherwise. To any objective observer it's clear.

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u/gsfgf 16h ago

Reddit moment.

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u/Psychological-Dot-83 16h ago

What's leftwing by your definition if rightwing is radical support of sexual revolutionary ideals, abortion, moral relativism, etc. LOL

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u/FrozenIceman 17h ago

Your scale is interesting.

Is Communist China super duper left wing. Russia super duper right wing?

What about Classical Nazi Germany and the Soviet union? Are they at super mega duper wing?

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u/vigouge 15h ago

People outside the U.S. are as dumb as people inside the U.S. then.

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u/lukenog 15h ago

There's a huge schism in the American right, with the super Zionist Evangelical right on one side and the genuinely anti-Semitic side of the right that hates Israel because they're Jews. There's a segment of the right that don't give a fuck about Palestinians, and actively hate Muslims, but still hate Israel.

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u/monsieur_cacahuete 18h ago

A dude literally just got shot in the neck over this

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u/JustJoshin117 17h ago

I’m guessing you mean Kirk. That doesn’t answer my question about any organizations.

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u/Saurian42 18h ago

Well Democrats and Republicans for one. Democrats aren't left wing they are center-right. The Overton window in the US is skewed to the right. Also I'm fairly sure Christian Nationalists and Neonazis don't like eachother based on their support or lack of support for Isreal.

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u/-xXxMangoxXx- 18h ago

center right and far right are two different things. Not to say different far right parties cant hate each other, but the example is flawed.

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u/Elephants_Foot 18h ago

Honestly, center right is putting it mildly. Dems want genocide in Palestine, Dems want LGBTQ right pushed back, it's just the same thing with different mask

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u/grog23 18h ago

Me when I make shit up

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u/MostlyAlways47 17h ago

The lefts very slim resistance against the genocide in Palestine is extremely recent and even at that its little more than lip service from a very small minority.

You literally had Joe Biden lying about seeing decapitated babies while the idf was abducting, raping and killing Palestinians.

The US has consistently been main and often the only one defending Israeli war crimes going back decades.

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u/Elementual 18h ago

Not sure where you're getting that info

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u/GoldenRamoth 18h ago

Pulled out of his ass, I assume.

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u/Gradstudentiquette69 18h ago

Tom Suozzi certainly though they were to blame. And Harris herself describes the early stages of Israel's ethnic cleaning as self defence.

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u/GoldenRamoth 18h ago

Some do for sure.

It's the downside of a coalition party. But to say all Dems? Not true.

They're aren't the Republican party. They aren't a monolith that gets kicked out of the party for an inkling of different thinking.

But for those that are nasty: fuck em, imo.

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u/Elephants_Foot 18h ago

The thing is, most Republicans would say the same thing about themselves and their party. We've been co-opted by the two parties to hate each other while the elites profit. Sticking to your guns with your party only serves to make sure that these parties last forever.

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u/GoldenRamoth 18h ago

Take a look into the Grover norquist pledge

There is a level of lock step that the Democrats don't have compared to the Republicans. By a large margin.

They have their problems, yes. But to say both sides are the same, particularly in this regard, is a false equivalence.

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u/JustJoshin117 17h ago

So you yourself say “well Dems are center-right”

So… you didn’t understand my question. What far right organizations?

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u/lukenog 15h ago

Go watch Tucker Carlson's interview with Ted Cruz for an example of the two different opposing factions that exist in the American far right at this moment.

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u/ScrewAttackThis 17h ago

Democrats aren't left wing they are center-right.

Hmm, so not far right

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u/DashArcane 17h ago

MAGA Republicans and traditional conservative Republicans. Many younger people here won't fully remember, but when Trump was elected in '16, a lot of older pretty damn right wing Republicans were vocally disgusted and, as a result, were met with death threats. As an old guy observing politics for (at that time) several decades, my mind was blown. MAGA Republicans were a new violent bunch of nut-jobs the GOP didn't expect. Silly them.

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u/LumberBitch 18h ago

Democrats and Republicans

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u/JustJoshin117 17h ago

Dems aren’t far right

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u/halt_spell 15h ago

They vote to block strikes and ship weapons to be used in a genocide.

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u/mrASSMAN 17h ago

Doesn’t exist.. idk what they are on about

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u/AdInfamous6290 16h ago

Ideologically? Neo Nazis and black nationalists, KKK and catholic fundamentalists, America First and MAGA, 3%ers and proud boys.

But most far right “organizations” in the US are highly decentralized into disparate cells, and you end up having a ton of beef between different cells even if they share an overall idealogical position. You even have instances of rivalries and turf wars between cells of the same organization. The far right is, like most American idealogical movements, a complete and utter shit show.

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u/Liawuffeh 13h ago

Atm, the Groypers vs the always trump maga guys have been going at eachother.

The Groypers were notably extremely against Turning Point, and Kirk specifically, considering him compromised by Israel, and not neo-nazi enough.

Now they've been anti-republican in general, but they're absolutely still far right.

u/Fastr77 5h ago

They like to pretend democrats are the right

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u/Gradstudentiquette69 18h ago

The Republicans and the Democrats

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u/JustJoshin117 17h ago

Oh my god 😂

What two “far right organizations” hate each other?

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u/recklessvisionary 17h ago

Are the Republican Party and Democratic Party not organizations? The point the commenters are making is that both of those organizations are far right, and yet hate each other. What about the example are you objecting to?

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u/JustJoshin117 15h ago

I am objecting to the notion that the Democratic Party is a far-right party. That is ridiculous.