Nigel Farage, Geert Wilders, Alice Weidel, Marine Le Pen, Giorgia Meloni, and Viktor Orban Jeffrey Epstein’s good buddy and consent enthusiast Noam Chomsky argued that language was a means of controlling the populace. The powers-that-be decide the terms of this universal vocabulary to shape the debate and decide what’s polite and what’s not. But so often, words get used ad nauseam that they cease to have any real meaning. Like AGI. Tech bros have been announcing the imminent arrival of AGI or Artificial Generative Intelligence with every iteration with the alacrity of your food delivery guy who says he’s just getting there but, like Godot, never arrives.The same goes for the term far right, a word used with such alacrity these days that it has ceased to have any real meaning, to the point that a right inside-forward who drifts a little too close to the touchline could be deemed far right.In Europe, parties as diverse as Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, Geert Wilders’s PVV, Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK are routinely bundled together under the overarching umbrella of the far right.AfD’s recent victory, which saw them win 39 of ...










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