I'm getting fucking sick of this orange fuck lying and causing the United States to fall behind. END THE TARIFFS. If you don't vote you're a part of the problem.

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[–] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

I am aware. The right wing parties (funded by the same forces that are financing the republicans) are doing their best to fracture europe. Our systems are more resilient, and our populace a lot less brainwashed, which makes me hope that we might resist this storm. But there is no guarantee.

Big difference is that even when Europe fractures, i can't even imagine that we might just drop the institution of the EU as a whole or go to war with each other. For the last part there is absolutely no public support in the european populace, outside of a few countries that are internally fractured already, which might cause civil war in the most tensioned countries.

Edit: on the other hand, i can easily imagine a civil war in the US over the future of the country. The culture wars crap has been forced into the minds of the easily manipulated with limited life experience, and it might take a bloody conflict to put the ghost of the confederacy finally into their unnamed graves where they belong.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    It Can't Happen Here (This Time)

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    I didn't say that. I said that the probability of european countries attacking each other is fucking low, and that is because we have worked together for decades now, which is unprecedented in the history of Europe. There is no real animosity between european states, in contrast to the very real and intense animosity between red and blue states in the US. We are also dependent on interstate trade because of the common marketplace, and every state in this union is very aware about the fact that losing access to this common market will spell economical doom on them. Add this to the fact that the militaries in Europe are currently very much occupied to make sure they do not get crushed by russian aggression, and you have a pretty solid block of states that have no interest into going to war with each other.

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