It's insane, but it should be expected. Fascists have been using social media, traditional media, and surveillance capitalism — big data and analytics — to wage psychological warfare for decades. Most of the major players are American corporations, and all of the world's elite/oligarchs are all invested in them; they're all just as anti-democratic, pro-authoritarianism, mentally ill, criminally corrupt, and depraved as each other.

This is the expected result when fascist state media like News Corp are allowed to exist; spewing disinformation 24/7. When a class of ultra-wealthy are allowed to exist, and the multi-tiered "democratic" and "justice" systems they create. When criminals are allowed to operate behind the liability shield of an LLC.

I'm going to assume they only asked half. Dear god.

The other half is the one that always vote for right wing parties. He's their hero.

Europe is quite right wing, just european flavored right wing nationalism instead of christian/god fearing right wing nationalism like we see in the us

As a Canadian I feel particularly vulnerable to his rhetoric and bullshit. America has a shit ton of crazies that would just love to invade this country and kill everything that moves.

A menace to all liberal, democratic societies that value human rights and believe in real market competition that brings down prices and forces companies to focus on the needs of their customers and workforce (so not fake American-style competition rhetoric).

Idk American geopolitical rivals are probably laughing their asses off looking at him.

Which country is fascist run in Europe? Or what do you mean?

The opposite of "enemy" is not "friend".

I was about to say: half? Is the other half stupid? I thought everyone in Europe had internet. Are Americans confusing Europe for Afrika again?

People ain't that different. Ironically, the great effectiveness of the same racist rhetoric in different cultures proves that.

If we had started in 2016 we could maybe do that now. Remember Krim happened in 2014. If we weren't a little slow we'd be there today.

Yep... All those Europeans getting high and mighty about how we need to "fix our county" need to realize they're right behind us on the pipeline

This is a global problem

Living with the same misinformation also. People here in EU spew the same B's talking points as in the US

There are people who did not get how these tariffs are bad. Imagine the stupidity.

I believe it's the same thing in France. People despise and mock the US administration yet love the local versions of Trump. Their minds are taken on by a oligarch media frenzy mixed with massive russian/Chinese social network attacks against western values replacing them with hate towards our own people but different from the historic skin color/religion and a focus on exaggerating the perception of corruption among those we have freely elected.

They lack clarity to the point I hope solar flares soon knock out the internet for a few weeks before elections. The short and long term damage from said solar flares would probably be way lower than what we might otherwise see happen! I can't believe I'm saying this seriously, yet I see it.

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No, pretty sure the entirety of Trump does that.