Trump’s US doesn’t just think Europe is obsolete – it wants to see it dead
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Don't sweat it, everyone is just gatekeeping, because only their specific religion is true and everyone else is just evil and siding with Satan.
And they’re all mutually exclusive! So if you’re religious and believe in one of the various Christian offshoots (or really, any faith of Abrahamic origin), no matter which one you pick, you’re going to hell according to most of the others.
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Summary
The "Signalgate" scandal confirms the Trump administration's deep disdain for Europe, viewing it not just as obsolete but actively wanting its demise.
There are 3 major implications: an inevitable trade war where Europe must unite; continued US pressure on Greenland despite European pushback; and Europe needing to support Ukraine not just without US help, but potentially against US interests.
European leaders who stand firm against US bullying are seeing rising approval ratings.
Europe should "with firmness, courage and politeness" chart its own path forward.
The USA is well its way to becoming a danger to other countries and a force of evil in the world.
Worse... It appears this change is intentional and deliberate
Meaning they plan on it getting much much worse
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As an Asian, please go fuck yourself.
We had just as much, if not far more cruelty to our own people, for instance our caste system was really just charming.
The British brought rule of law, sanitation and medicine, and they stopped the monstrous Muslims from genociding us every time they felt like it.
Seems like a great trade to me.
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Europe is a comparative bastion of liberal democracy,
I think you mean colonialism and white supremacy.
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You really believe Denmark is looking at the Trump's administration approach as something to model itself after? What are the common issues Denmark is facing that match the US response?
Listening to those that push for strict immigration in Europe you could easily confuse them for Republicans.
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Born in America, and that's about all I identify as.
But the Muslims were absolutely brutal to my ancestors.
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And they’re all mutually exclusive! So if you’re religious and believe in one of the various Christian offshoots (or really, any faith of Abrahamic origin), no matter which one you pick, you’re going to hell according to most of the others.
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Listening to those that push for strict immigration in Europe you could easily confuse them for Republicans.
Now that just sounds like the arguments from the other far-right party in America in the Cultural Wars used to distract the people from the actual lack of economic prosperity and quality of life for the many.
"Strict immigration policies" needs not be the "so bad we even betray those we invited in" shit of the far-right: something as simple as having limited numbers per year and preferring the provision of help to the worse off refugees rather than economic migrants is a "strict immigration policy" whilst actually being a pretty Leftwing and Humanitarian posture.
It's reasonable that countries which are wealtier can't just allow anybody out of the other billions of human beings living in places which aren't as wealthy to come over and settle there, simply because several times the local population worth of people with far lower average education who can't even speak the local language coming over will basically destroy the very reason the country is a properous as it is (mainly because those people will be far less productive than the locals but still consume roughly the same amount of resources per-capita).
(This is without even going into the cultural clashes and subsequent rise of the far-right that happen when people from totally different cultures move to a country in large numbers within a short time period)
Once one accepts that no-limits immigration is mathematically and socially destructive, the conversation can then moves into
the world of the possible, such as how to make sure it's the most deserving who get invited in, helping those who come integrate (as social clashes with immigrants are almost always just prejudice against the unknown and mismatched cultural expectations), managing the pressures of all those new people on infrastructure and so on: that's things like activelly looking for the worst off people in refugee camps in the worst areas and helping those (including inviting them over), adult education including of the local language to that those coming in can become fully productive citizens of their adopted country, making sure housing markets are properly supplying demand to reduce the pressure of the population growth associated with immigration and so on.Immigration policy needs not be the anti-other hostility to the point of kicking out the very people who have been invited in (quite extreme when you think that treating one's guests well is an important element of lots of cultures) of the far-right, but it can't be the pie-in-the-sky open door policies of neoliberals cosplaying as lefties with Identity Politics.
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Meanwhile I'm trying to figure out how best to flee the US and set up in Denmark or some similar place with a much higher quality of life and fewer 21st century Nazis.
Good luck. If you don't pass as a refugee, you just need money, a job, a place to live and to prove all that to the central bureaucracy
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The USA is well its way to becoming a danger to other countries and a force of evil in the world.
Worse... It appears this change is intentional and deliberate
Meaning they plan on it getting much much worse
The USA is well its way to becoming a danger to other countries and a force of evil in the world.
Lol
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