• butwhyishischinabook@lemmy.world
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      Just FYI, you in Europe should spend more time learning how not to freak out the moment you invite a relatively small amount of Muslim people of color to live among you as refugees and start pushing boats back into the sea to drown. We watch your society start to break apart the moment it drifts even a tiny bit away from white ethnostates. Hungary and Poland fell before the US.

      Don’t get me wrong, we’re a flaming dumpster fire right now, but it gets very tired very quickly listening to you people look down your noses at the US like your shit doesn’t stink as you teeter to and from the brink of far right parties taking power every 3 years on a platform of “no Muslims in Country X.” You’re not wrong, but glass houses my guy. You judge us, but the rest of the world judges us both.

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        And how’s Europe and such doing on gay rights, women’s rights, diversity, privacy rights, health science, climate science, wealth equality, economic policy, territorial threats…

        One comparable out of many doesn’t make a glass house.

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          I think the point was that the far right is close to winning in Europe. If they do, you can kiss all those things goodbye, just like us.

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          Well that depends, how about you go ask TURF Island or Hungary or most of literally everything south or east of Germany. If you’re gonna pretend France and Germany are all of Europe then you should at least be comparing to like, idk, just NYC and CA or something. Again, reeeeeeeal glass heavy house over there.

          https://rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org/

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            I agree with you, trying to compare a single country to a union of countries, where every entity has their own interests and culture is kinda useless. Eastern europe has a lot of catching up to do, but I don’t get how we devolved into fighting under a video of trump using AI to post a video discrediting former president Obama by framing him as a criminal. We all just want a world worth living in, where everybody has the same chances. We ought to fight TOGETHER against these race-ideology idiots spewing hate and fake news

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          I mean, it isnt as bad as in the US yet, but were definitely on our way. Just listen to the garbage that sounds exactly like maga from people around you.

          It feels like everyone is making hate and fear their new identity, and the minorities get blamed.

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          exactly! it’s just a bunch of brown people we have to abandon to maintain our perfect society. I mean they’re barely “people”.

          /s

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          Where do you think the isolationist puritanical Christian nationalism historically began?

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      I’m an American who moved to the Netherlands in July of '22. I spend a lot of time going back and forth. My then fiancé, now my wife, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis during the pandemic. Given the obvious price difference for medication to treat the disease, I decided to move in with her instead of her coming to the US.

      I find it disheartening to see what the rest of the world thinks about Americans up close. I am a rare breed of American, in that I am competently multilingual enough to hold conversations. I have to admit now that I understand why other natively born Americans pretend that they’re from Canada outside of the U.S.

      Despite my embarrassment about the body politic and discourse from my country, I find that the the same authoritarian, isolationist, and anti-intellectual mind-viruses that permeate through society in the United States (especially in rural communities) have a beachhead here in Western Europe. Either that or they’ve always been here to begin with. To me, the difference is that the scale is much smaller.

      The world is a circus, but if you’re born in the United States, you have front-row seats. In that, my new European colleagues and I can find some agreement.

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      They’re trying to insinuate that the accusations on them are of the same legitimacy of those they’ve been throwing at everyone for decades.

      If their claims are rebuked as baseless, they’ll call the claims against them baseless as well. If the claims against them are said to be substantiated, they’ll point to their claims and suggest the same. It’s the “tails I win, heads you lose” of a political scheme.

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        conservatives are more likely to believe fake news, and cons more. eventhough AI is fake, its just affirmation to thier beliefs.

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      He’s flailing so hard he is speed running through all of his tried and true distraction techniques. It’s like watching Jordan Peterson on the Surrounded thing on YouTube. He’s a one-trick pony, and it becomes obvious when you do it that fast.

      I mean … even MAGA caught on. Now, are they going to see the pattern, or are they going to go back to the mental gymnastics and become furious about a book in a school library in a state they don’t live in? Unfortunately, we could safely wager our life savings on which option they will choose.

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        you noticed the threat of Tariffs are having no effect anymore as a distraction even from the magats, and News are just moving on after mentioning it. he used it so much people got tired of listening to it.

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    pedophile president breaking his own law about posting bullshit online

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      That movie promotes eugenics, discrimination and ultimately genocide

      I wouldn’t use it as a comparison. It is made by a Nazi.

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        It’s not being serious. I understand intelligence isn’t a breeding stat, and smart people having kids isn’t going to produce a smart society, if it would only talk about reduced education and cultural trends as the cause of mass idiocy, but that’s really not what the film is about. It’s not actually advocating for eugenics.

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          The movie is a comedy, not a serious attempt to diagnose the world’s or America’s problems, but the emphasis on ‘‘only stupid people are breeding’’ in the beginning of the film is one of the causes of the dystopia, that is eugenics, which is a disproven racist part of academia that had it’s part in the nazi movement. So it’s a dangerous idea to promote, but that’s not what the comedy is about. It’s just a gag.

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      I would have if donny two scoops didn’t keep bringing it up every 5 minutes

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      the ways he’s trying to distract us are telling.

      He’s on the list. Frequently enough his magic sharpie ran out of ink.

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      Correct.

      Do not get distracted folks. He’s on a mission to make you forget about Epstein.

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      I like how Ezra Klein put it, “Trump isn’t trying to confuse you, he himself is confused.” Just listen to him talk, guy can’t focus on a single thing.

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    Epstein’s best friend, convicted felon and adjudicated rapist Donald Trump, is a human trafficking child rapist.

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      You mean the pedophile and convicted rapist, sexual assaulter , con man, incompetent businessman, fraudster, tax evader, and likely insurrectionist ?

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        He is the most prolific traitor in American history, worse than all other American traitors COMBINED. Any list should START with TRAITOR.