Thread by @RMistereggen

🧵1/ “The Next Wave”, a new EU-backed report warns that conservative and religious movements are “regaining power” in Europe. A threat, according to elitists. Their crime? Defending biology, family, and facts.

2/ Published by the European Parliamentary Forum (EPF), the report tracks 275 so-called “anti-gender” organisations in 28 countries. Total spending: $1.18 billion between 2019–2023.

Now, how much has the EU spent on their ideology and gender-lobbyism?

2021-2024: 12% of the total EU budget over these four years was marked as contributing to gender equality (scores 1 and 2), amounting to approximately €158.4 billion….

…. Within the 2024 budget year alone, interventions primarily or significantly targeting gender equality made up 19.5%, which represents €38 billion, although this was slightly down from €48 billion in 2023 (due to the ramping down of pandemic‑related funds).

That’s INTERNALY. Imagine the external costs.

3/ These groups don’t use bombs or bullets, like the jihadists the EU imports do, they don’t rape. They build institutions:
•Alternative healthcare (FEMM, HeartBeat)
•Pro-family education
•Drafting laws that affirm sex-based rights

In other words they are competing and hence are an actual threat to the EU bureaucracy.

4/ The report accuses the Vatican, Russian actors, and American evangelicals of funding a “global backlash” against abortion, gender ideology, and sexual politics.

5/ Their biggest fear? That conservatives are getting organised, professional and effective. That they’re finally shaping policy (!!!), not just protesting it.

6/ EPF calls for “countermeasures” 🙄 aka more EU oversight, more restrictions, less funding for these groups. In other words: more censorship and more political blacklisting.

7/ When defending basic reality becomes “extremism,” you know the elites are panicking. And they should be! Their glory days are over.

As Steve Bannon says: this is primal scream of a dying regime. 🔥