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yesman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
That is an insane argument. You are saying anybody whose country went through a genocidal dictator can’t criticize Trump because he’s not as bad yet? WTF?
irate944@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Never mind that in those examples that they gave, none of them were elected like Trump was:
Hitler lost the election for president; but was later appointed as chancellor by the guy that won after political pressure;
Mussolini was appointed by the king after threats of paramilitary force;
Leopold II was a hereditary monarch
Sorry US bros. I like you and I love you depending on the days. But just like the French will never live down the white flag meme, you will never live down that you elected a pedophile fascist TWICE.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Not that they shouldn’t criticize — but the shear pretentiousness to come in and pretend it could never happen in their countries, when it already had.
blackbeans@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Ah yes. A whataboutism will make everything right. Maybe we should have sent some smarter guys back in 1492
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They weren’t sending us their best, that’s for sure.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Very slight difference to note. Leopold II was alive 150 years ago. Trump is alive today.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
As a Brit I fucking hate the royal family and their soft power and their wealth, but I’d argue that Trump has more of both and is heading for more than a royal has had in a Western country in living memory.
gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Man’s not heading for anything but the grave, have you seen him lately? 50/50 odds he dies of natural causes before the midterms, I bet they’ll try to weekend at Bernie’s him for at least a few days.
Sergio@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
My preferred comparison is to Napoleon III. It’s not a perfect match, but provides a lot of comparisons: the attack on freedoms, the incompetent political appointees, the unwise foreign wars, the puffed-up overconfidence and the sheer mediocrity…
thepig@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Right, Leopold II didn’t shit his pants
adam_y@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Right? Trump’s nothing but a Temu dictator that was actually elected into that position rather than a proper tyrant dictator.
The US can’t even do despotism right.
jasoman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
EU is just on a slower path to fascism.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Slower path? They are waiting to reboot their original fascism.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Nah, it’s a new brand this time
MBech@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
Well yes, because of US interference.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Innocent Europeans would NEVER do a fascism without a wicked Other forcing them to do it!
Tja@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Well, US interference is so blatant and obnoxious that is actually counterproductive. Trump getting elected stopped a few far right movements, and others lost momentum.
Paying 2000 people in St petersburg to shit post non stop about immigration, works. Sending vance to deliver a speech, doesn’t.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Not if we stop the fash parties.
MrKoyun@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You’re probably not gonna stop the facists.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nah, tbh I was shitting my pants a year ago but most far-right parties have plateaued or reversed in the polls recently. I think we just might have too few morons to turn far-right. Juuuuuust might.
zqps@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The entire political spectrum has moved considerably right, with “Fortress Europe” talk and blatant admissions that human rights aren’t something we should care about.
There is no hard divide between conservatives and the far right.
acchariya@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
America bravely jumped in front of the bus for you, you are welcome.
sundray@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
I would never clap back a Europeans criticizing the USA. It would be impolite, and they’re usually right anyway. I’d love to move to the EU someday too; but it won’t happen because the only thing they hate more than USians are brown Muslims 😔.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
You forgot Romani people
tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
God dude looking at comment threads of people in Europe talking about the Romani is genuinely sickening.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Dude Romanians hate them so much it breaks my brain… I hate it here
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I’m not sure about that. Each time there’s conflict between Romani gangs and Muslim gangs the fascists always cheer for the Romani.
Godric@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
sundray@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
Got to honor my South and Central American homies 🫡
schildfrosch@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
facts sadly
ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Our Epstein class let in a ton of brown Muslims, it didn’t went well for the local population.
To be fair, right now all EU is not high on any kind of immigration, because of above-mentioned + housing crisis + working condition going down.
The second you speak the local language though, that perception changes 180.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Our Epstein class let in a ton of brown Muslims, it didn’t went well for the local population.
Uh hyuk it didn’t went well.
We don’t take kindly to racism here. Go away.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Our Epstein class let in a ton of brown Muslims, it didn’t went well for the local population.
What you meant to say, is that we bombed the shit out of their countries and then started screeching about the people seeking asylum?
To be fair, right now all EU is not high on any kind of immigration, because of above-mentioned + housing crisis + working condition going down.
Also we kinda let them drown on Mediterranean sea, and treated the ones coming in like shit, that helped a bit
The second you speak the local language though, that perception changes 180.
Bullshit, then starts the complaining how they speak so badly and don’t understand what you’re saying etc. For some reason many people take it as a personal insult that someone speaks their language badly, rather than as a compliment that the person has gone through the efforts to learn it
erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That’s all us euros would expect from a nation comprised of the rest of the world’s rejects.
andyburke@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
hey friend, we take the good with the bad. most of us like it that way. some of us have forgotten the dream this country was built on. usually it happens when they get too much money. truth is, it's always just been the ones with money making sure the rest of us stay divided. 🤷♂️
it's the ones with money that give a shit about borders and that foment hate between their lessers to make sure we never get it together.
12,000 years of this shit, at least.
Godric@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Rothe@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Americans are unable to grasp the concept of per capita.
trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
Who? Australia?
michaelalf@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oi! You cheeky cunt, we’re not all fuckin drongos down here. Now, hold still while I glass ya.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Is that the gold you stole from the natives?
Godric@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
BlackVenom@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wait is this aimed at America or Europe?
tazeycrazy@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
No. They earned it by mining land stolen from natives.
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No. They earned it by forcing slaves to mine the land stolen from their Indigenous people.
CriticalThought@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sorry. Not all of us were able to get our country’s gold from the nazis.
zerofk@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I’ll have you know some of us got our gold long before the nazis came to power.
We had colonies to exploit.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The Nazis plundered Europe to get that gold. Not sure where you’re getting the idea that the Nazis were a European enrichment scheme, other than maybe for Switzerland.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ya that’s how that works. Don’t talk shit about my homophobic, racist, pedophile billionaire loving shit hole! It’s my God dammed shit hole!
mlg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you really want to piss off Europeans all you gotta do is make the claim that the EU is subsurvient to US foreign policy demands which means they’ll throw away any of their beneficial policies or laws to retain good standing in the US hegemony, no matter how absurd or insane US leadership is.
Napster153@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They didn’t give away Greenland when the Donnie asked. That’s a grudgin’
damwab@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s the funny thing, things are finally changing in that regard! Anti US-led policies and projects to disconnect ourselves from the nasty fingers that have led us astray for far too long :)
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
learn to take the criticism then
Soulg@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Learn to make real critiques instead of stupid pointless shit then
EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Does that mean if we all stop legit criticisms, y’all stop feeling irrationally inferior and become normal?
Soulg@ani.social 2 weeks ago
This comment is so stupid lol wtf
Most criticism is stupid petty bullshit like “ur cheese bad hurr durr” or just spamming the word cheeseburger
EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lol what maybe don’t hang out with children idk cheeseburger
greenMeanHoppinMachine@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This thread is like Monty Python’s “Life of Brian”. Half the people here are the People’s Front of Judea and the other half are the Judean People’s Front.
Or better yet, we’re like the Maya Pei Brigade arc from the first few episodes of season two of Star Wars Andor.
Trump, Stephen Miller, Meloni, Orban, Farage, Weidel, Le Pen and the rest love watching us fight each other. It’s one of their most effective tactics.
Soulg@ani.social 2 weeks ago
So many Europeans in here clearly taking the rage bait yet acting like they’re still the high ground is so funny lol
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If it makes you feel any better, I want you back. Polanski of UK Greens wants out of NATO and into an EU-exclusive military alliance
I want the US to go to rehab and then move back in with us. I’ll even make your favorite dish: string cheese
Gregers@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Same. They need to do something about the educational system and the propaganda machines being run by billionaires when/if they get a sane government again. Otherwise this shit will just happen again
istdaslol@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
At least we europoors know the usa‘s real birthday is July 2nd
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My new favorite statistic is that more people die in Europe due to heat related deaths than people die of gun violence in the US per year.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
I love the flag in the background, is it a fictional one from a timeline where the EU colonized the US? Is it your fetish?
Photonic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Calling other people’s opinions stupid is rich coming from the country that elected Donald Trump…
Twice…
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
The Far Right is rising EVERYWHERE. Before criticizing America, they should realize that we’re just the canary in the coalmine, and they should take care of their own countries, because THEY are next. They should be rooting for the Left to take back America, because that’s what they have to do in their own countries, too.
Besides, wishing for America’s demise is stupid. The economies of every country in the world is tied directly or indirectly to the American economy. If America truly collapses, it will bring down the entire world. Like it or not, it’s the TRUTH.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And that’s undeniably a bad thing. And since US will never allow anything else as long as they’re perceived as strong, maybe their collapse will be the only path forward.
The same was said about EU and Russia before the war started, “everyone” was saying that EU depends on Russian oil so much, the second Russia stops selling, EU economy will collapse. And when it finally happened, it turned out to be a nothingburger.
It’s possible that this incredible American dependence is also a bunch of empty bolstering.
mirshafie@europe.pub 2 weeks ago
My far right wants free health care, free dental, HBTQIA+ rights and higher pensions.
zqps@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The US economy is directly tied to imperialism and massive exploitation of other nations. And we both know that’s not gonna change under any Democratic leadership.
You can’t just go back to the way things were because it worked for you.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We must form an international popular front that includes dissidents of nations that have fallen to the far right such as the US, Russia, and until recently Hungary.
Jiral@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You should readjust your irony detector.
Photonic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Somehow I doubt that…
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How is the AFD doing lately?
Photonic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well, I’m not the one to ask, they’re not in my country. But they are not even close to having 50% of votes, nor have they ever provided a chancellor in Germany