Calling other people’s opinions stupid is rich coming from the country that elected Donald Trump…
Twice…
You should readjust your irony detector.
Somehow I doubt that…
How is the AFD doing lately?
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
But they are not even close to having 50% of votes
Neither did hitler.
Wow straight to the Godwin huh?
Europeans should be self aware enough to recognize that the most devastating criticism of Trump are direct comparisons to historic European tyrants. And forget about Hitler or Mussolini. Donald Trump at his worst can’t even measure up to Leopold II.
Very slight difference to note. Leopold II was alive 150 years ago. Trump is alive today.
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.
EU is just on a slower path to fascism.
Slower path? They are waiting to reboot their original fascism.
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.
America bravely jumped in front of the bus for you, you are welcome.
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!
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.
They didn’t give away Greenland when the Donnie asked. That’s a grudgin’
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 :)
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.
Does that mean if we all stop legit criticisms, y’all stop feeling irrationally inferior and become normal?
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
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
As an American, that’s basically what I want. I want us to change, reform, and learn to live as a valued member in a community of nations.
learn to take the criticism then
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.
Except for the fact that the US and EU count heatwave deaths differently, in the US, its checked if the person actually died because of a heatstroke. In the EU, a lot of other deaths which aren’t heatstrokes but are heat related are counted as heat death.
I’m not comparing heatwave deaths to heatwave deaths though. i’m comparing gun related deaths to heat related deaths. More people die of heat related causes in Europe than gun related causes in the US per year.
My friend, those stats don’t mean what you want them to mean. The narrative you are trying to sell is frankly ridiculous and criminally stupid. And dare I say - American
How do you mean? That heat related deaths do not actually mean heat related deaths? People drowning in an overcrowded pool and kids left in hot cars are heat related. Just like a suicide by firearm is firearm related.
But please, explain to my feeble American mind how heat related doesnt actually mean heat related.
I shouldn’t have to explain it because it’s common sense.
In fact, I’m willing to bet that if we were to change the focus of our comparison from apples and oranges (which is what comparing gun-related deaths in the US to heat-related deaths in European countries comes down to, not to mention the vast differences in data collection approaches across disciplines, countries, etc.) to another pair of equally uncomparable fruit but one that you are not so strongly predisposed to thinkinking a certain way about, you would have the same reaction as I. Chuckle a little bit.
Why, you might ask? For the simple reason that comparing apples to oranges doesn’t make sense unless you’ve been predisposed for it to seem like it makes sense.
And no, this is obviously not a uniquely American issue (I wish it were but it’s definitely universal for all of us chimps). It’s just that this specific comparison, absurd as it is, has a uniquely American flavour because it’s clearly meant to rationalize the exceptially high levels of gun violence in the US.
And yes, “exceptional” is definitely the right word to describe gun violence in the US. You start to appreciate just how exceptional when you compare US numbers to literally any other wealthy nation. Now we’re comparing apples to apples and things start making a lot more sense, don’t you think?
Why?
