• Zyratoxx
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    2 months ago

    A short list of things the FPÖ is famous for:

    A song containing the lyrics “Let’s go! (which can also mean Release gas! - I wanted to mention that since it gets lost in translation) We’ll make it 7 million!”. Then minister of inner affairs Herbert Kickl (who is now likely to become chancellor) reacted not by criticism towards his party, but by criticism towards the “Verfassungsschutz” (Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution) who, according to him, leaked the song. He then ordered a normal police unit, that was meant to arrest drug dealers and gang members, to raid the Verfassungsschutz and they took any evidence for far right extremism linked to the FPÖ.

    Trying to strike a deal with a “Russian Oligarch” to purchase Austrias biggest news outlet “Krone” and turn it into a FPÖ propaganda machine. The “Russian Oligarch” was a bait and high ranking FPÖ politicians had to explain themselves and said they were “having drunk fantasies”. It caused the then ÖVP-FPÖ parliament to collapse.

    The party fund scandal when then head of party H.C. Strache used 10 000€ party funds to purchase emeralds in “Clash of Clans” (I wish I made that up but I didn’t).

    Now head of party Herbert Kickl is also known for:

    Calling the neo nazi group “Identitäre Bewegung” a “project worth supporting”.

    Claiming that horse deworming medication could treat covid.

    Refering to himself as “Volkskanzler” a title also used by Adolf Hitler.

    Having friends that spent money to the Christchurch mass killer and that really wanted to “meet him and drink a coffee if he visits Vienna one day”.

    I bet I have forgotten a lot of shit that has been going on

    • CAVOK@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 months ago

      Buying emeralds in a childrens game for 10.000€ is really funny though. NGL.

      • Zyratoxx
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        2 months ago

        Except if you’re a donator to the FPÖ of course xD

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    2 months ago

    Art school acceptance rate better be sky high rn

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    2 months ago

    Annul the election, ban the FPO and redo it all over again without them. Bam. Problem solved.