Don't worry. This is your first time. In Europe we've been fighting these battles for a thousand years. Democracy is the logical evolution of information. Educate, educate, educate.
Don't worry. This is your first time. In Europe we've been fighting these battles for a thousand years. Democracy is the logical evolution of information. Educate, educate, educate.
yeah no I think Europe causes most of the problems globally
I think you need to recalibrate your timeline. We stopped being empires 80 years ago. Are still calibrating, but currently ruZzia is the main culprit, with the USA firmly holding the 2nd position. With China 3rd.
Sorry yes I did phrase that loosely. Going off your millennia-wide time window Europe causes the most problems. Currently it’s the US followed by Europe together through neocolonialism.
But congrats on privatizing empire and externalizing borders, it is a wonderful innovation in plausible deniability
That's a Thatcher-Reagan idea. Don't blame Europe for that. 😉
And Europe is also the place that brought us the Transatlantic slave trade, after Europeans enslaved other people for centuries. Maybe sit this one out, sugar.
Fact, Cat. And NO, we will NOT sit this one out. We want to make sure you WILL survive this idiot & his clown-car.
Start by acknowledging your condescending comment and maybe read up a bit - Try the 1619 Project on for starters - racism is the original sin, in the U.S. and abroad. Thanks for the good intentions -
Stop the -and abroad-. USA = USA. You fucked up your own country. Mostly by rejected idiots & gold diggers from Europe. People we didn't want went to the USA in the 1600s.
Some of my ancestors came here in chains, asshole. Some of them came here starving, after colonialist Brits decided Ireland needed to ship food abroad, regardless of the fucking famine. Racism was invented in Europe. If you can't acknowledge your own history, you sure as hell have no business here
I am serious here. Your whole Evangelical idiocy stems from batshit-crazy Europeans who were disgruntled they could not find a following in Europe. So they moved to the USA, building these mega-churches. Lunatics from Europe, who had no place here...
That reasoning is reductive, at best. But it's certainly easier to reassure ourselves that we are superior than understanding that race plays a role, as do economics, as do things like generational trauma. But you do you, boo.
Yup. I am sick & tired of "Exceptionalism". Wether it is USAmerican, Chinese, European, or whatever. Stop being stupid, ppl.
ps. You were enslaved by the idiots Europe refused to give a home, because we thought they were batshit-crazy. Keep that in mind. While indeed, we made shitloads of money providing them with slaves, later-on. Still batshit-crazy.
*thaught (?). Thinking in past-time.
thought is correct.
And I wish I could reverse history for you, people we enslaved. But I can't. I can only warn you for what's to come. And I want you to join me, since you're probably the only "protected" population in the USA, together with the natives.
Nazi's were all about exterminating "non-perfect humans". And they considered the Greeks as perfect, for some reason. Idiocracy. NOT a documentary. Just another repeating history.
I am protected (as much as one can be) by my lack of melanin. Native Americans are not safe - and certainly not protected. No ONE except for white men is protected right now.
Thanks! I am always confused with those. Not my native language, of course.
One of my ancestors arrived from UK in 1629, an educated second son ineligible to inherit. Continuing to tell me that my fellow citizens are batshit crazy v. much ignores the trauma visited on them by the generation that fought WWII (against fascism) & the ongoing damage of institutional racism.
OK. History is complicated. But I can't ignore the fact the USA has gone batshit crazy. Sorry.
And I cannot shake off the similarity with 1930s Germany. People went crazy, following a charismatic leader.
The roots in Germany were different, since they were in a real squeeze, but social media has found a way to make-believe people they are in an existential crisis.
Thank you. Seriously. And no, I was not talking about the Black community in the USA. I am mainly talking to the white "majority" who still think they can own you. Ending up with fascism.
Fascism is just a little over 100 years old, bud.
ps. No. Ancient Rome was fascist in nature. It got called fascism due to Mussolini.
Ps. Oh lord.
You can read a book instead. We were taught at primary school about this. Including the similarities between late-time Ancient Rome and Fascist Mussolini.
(But you're right, you guys did invent it. Congrats.)
1880s, I think. And yes, we did. Just like Zionism and Communism. All rooted in German Philosophy, for some reason.
Fascism is Italian bro.
Sorry. Fascism is Italian, for sure. Nazism is German. Based upon fascism. National-Socialism, you know, like the United States, right NOW.
While I hope people calling you out doesn’t go too far (like to harassment/death threat level garbage), what are you even trying to say here? The OP is talking about when people dismiss fascism as “no big deal, it doesn’t affect me.” How is this related? He agrees with you that fascism is bad..
Cal said it best, it’s condescending. And you’re clearly making people uncomfortable.
I'm not saying it's no big deal; I'm saying we've defeated them before. So you will as well.