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[–] [email protected] 198 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Right now, wherever you are, there are people paid by the USA trying their best to make your life worse in order to

  • Align your country's foreign policy closer to the goals to that of the USA
  • Shape your economy so that American corporations can enrich themselves by extracting the maximum value out of your country.

So yeah, there is no escape from America. That's the whole point of being the global hegemon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 44 minutes ago

Yeah but we still have free health care and strong unions/labour laws, so it's not that bad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Yes. Trumps cabinet leveraged the German company SAP to adhere to their DEI agenda. Trumps ideological ilk connects with each other worldwide to share strategies and knowledge, which of course includes our AfD, which used to be pretty vocal about their support for Trump and has now become uncannily quiet about it.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I don't think enough people noticed the Trump regime's demands that EU destroy their own healthcare just so theirs could look, well, not better but less terrible by comparison.

This is not a joke. These people will absolutely do everything they can to rob the few nations on this Earth that manage to take care of their citizens to the point they're all beholden to the same crime lord family.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Here only had public universities. Only. Well, until they found a hole in the rules of our Constitution and the first private universities are going to open this year.

I think this is a pretty good example of the aforementioned policy of the USA.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah, do not even for a second entertain the notion that European companies wouldn't love it if your health insurance were held hostage by your employment like it is in the USA.

The truth of the matter is European quality of life has been coasting on the gains made in the past by the blood and sweat of the unions and the concessions made by the governments to stave off the specter of communism. Billionaires in the US are seeing this slice of wealth and are coming for it via the populist right-wing parties in every country. If anyone can get this fact through the thick skull of anti-immigrant voters, let me know.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I've been in a few places around Europe, and it really seems that in Western Europe, labour movements made big gains in like the 1970s and neolib governments have been squandering that ever since, and we are nearing the point where it all turns fash.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Those were concessions to look good compared to communist countries. There is no need for a good impression anymore.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

That's one way to look at it, but I think it was more of the Reagan-Thatcher generation killing off the left and the rot set in. I wouldn't discount the achievements of leftists as just concessions from capital. They don't give an inch if they don't have to.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

They had to. If life in western Europe would have been worse than in eastern Europe, people would have elected communists.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

The Trump administration is way too incompetent to actually achieve anything. They want that from the EU but they are also throwing away their own good cards to apply any pressure.

If the US pull out their NATO troops from Europe, have their statements leaked that they hate to help Europe, and impose insane tariffs on Europe no matter what, they have nothing to pressure Europe with.

European nations cancel F-35 orders and order Rafaele, Eurofighter, and Gripen instead and there is nothing the US can do about it now. It's the same with healthcare. The US have nothing to pressure the EU with.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

Mexican here, and absolutely. The USA is menacing with tariffs each month even with a treaty signed by the POTUS himself. Who, btw, has a boner for sending troops to "help" us combat drug cartels that are somehow related to the DEA, the CIA, the FBI, or the WTFK. Recently, they send a green-beret warhawk as ambassador. The US embassy in Mexico is the biggest in the world and it had participated in magnicides and coups. So, yeah, the classic American state is dying, but its death will be an authentic superbowl of a shitshow.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

Good thing Trump's absolutely destroyed any kind of international leverage the United States had. That's the one silver lining to all of this: The USA has been on a steady path to fascism for a while, accelerating under Republicans and slowing down under Democrats but never reversing. However, now that you've gone fully mask-off you did it under the leadership of an outright moron, who's making it much harder for Americans to drag the rest of the world down with them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

The US is no longer the number 1. China is way ahead in global influence now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Wait wait wait why this sounds like my country, I think I'm coocked