Is that the gold you stole from the natives?
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Submitted 18 hours ago by Godric@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
tazeycrazy@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
No. They earned it by mining land stolen from natives.
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
No. They earned it by forcing slaves to mine the land stolen from their Indigenous people.
yesman@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours 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 7 hours 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.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Very slight difference to note. Leopold II was alive 150 years ago. Trump is alive today.
blackbeans@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Ah yes. A whataboutism will make everything right. Maybe we should have sent some smarter guys back in 1492
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
They weren’t sending us their best, that’s for sure.
thepig@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Right, Leopold II didn’t shit his pants
adam_y@lemmy.world 5 hours 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.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 13 hours 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 12 hours 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 15 hours 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…
jasoman@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
EU is just on a slower path to fascism.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Slower path? They are waiting to reboot their original fascism.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Nah, it’s a new brand this time
MBech@feddit.dk 17 hours ago
Well yes, because of US interference.
Tja@programming.dev 2 hours 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.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Innocent Europeans would NEVER do a fascism without a wicked Other forcing them to do it!
DmMacniel@feddit.org 17 hours ago
Not if we stop the fash parties.
MrKoyun@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
You’re probably not gonna stop the facists.
erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
That’s all us euros would expect from a nation comprised of the rest of the world’s rejects.
andyburke@fedia.io 15 hours 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 14 hours ago
Rothe@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Americans are unable to grasp the concept of per capita.
trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 13 hours ago
Who? Australia?
michaelalf@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Oi! You cheeky cunt, we’re not all fuckin drongos down here. Now, hold still while I glass ya.
sundray@lemmus.org 17 hours 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 16 hours ago
You forgot Romani people
tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
God dude looking at comment threads of people in Europe talking about the Romani is genuinely sickening.
Godric@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
sundray@lemmus.org 13 hours ago
Got to honor my South and Central American homies 🫡
ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 9 hours 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 3 hours 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.
schildfrosch@feddit.org 17 hours ago
facts sadly
mechoman444@lemmy.world 12 hours 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!
EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Does that mean if we all stop legit criticisms, y’all stop feeling irrationally inferior and become normal?
istdaslol@feddit.org 16 hours ago
At least we europoors know the usa‘s real birthday is July 2nd
Photonic@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Calling other people’s opinions stupid is rich coming from the country that elected Donald Trump…
Twice…
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 hours 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.
mirshafie@europe.pub 2 hours ago
My far right wants free health care, free dental, HBTQIA+ rights and higher pensions.
Jiral@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
You should readjust your irony detector.
Photonic@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Somehow I doubt that…