Dear Europe,

Joris Meys

@alexwild
True. And it's largely funded by the US as well...

Alex Wild

I can't tell you enough how the "look at what those dumb Americans did to themselves" blinds you from what is happening to all the established institutions, and sends you down the path to further disintegration.

Rob Cinos :verified:

@alexwild In every western country.

This is an international attack of unprecedented scale and funding.

Mab_813

@Nymnympseudonymm @alexwild

The AfD is full of neonazis, I don't think that christianity plays a big role there? Germany is more secular than the USA.

Kierkethumbs up convincingly

@alexwild Don’t think for a second we’re unaware of the consequences of having a neonazi party setting the agenda in a weak government

Szescstopni

@alexwild It shouldn't blind, but it does. "It couldn't happen to me" is standard defence reaction. The systems work similarly all over the world. Some countries have built better safeguards, but they might not be enough. All this hate is so sad. And predictable.

Magnus Ahltorp

@robcinos @alexwild In almost *every* country that is not already authoritarian.

Merovius

@alexwild I mean, we are aware and worried, trust me.

But to be clear, a lot of the rise of the far right in Europe is a US export. The 2008/09 financial crisis was caused there. Even the EU migrant crisis has causal ties to US imperialism in the middle east. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube come from the US. Trumpism is being actively imported here. And now, the US has made it official foreign policy to undermine European democracy.

Divesting from the US is part of getting our house in order.

grrl_aex

@alexwild

Honestly, the global right wing is a cancer within humanity.

Noortje Van Leeuwen

@alexwild trust me , i am both yelling at the usa as my own house....

Johns

@alexwild No one is saying that the US has a monopoly on racism, but we strive to have a better society for everyone, as difficult as that might be.

And as a catalan believe me when I say I've seen and gone through some discrimination, but never to those extremes.

GrooveMD, Queer Time Machine

@alexwild In Winston Churchill's history of the years prior to WWII, he bemoans over and over again how Europe could have kept Germany free and peaceful, if only they hadn't taken up the policy of repeatedly capitulating to a madman.

Why am I reading this now? No reason...

Alex Wild

@Merovius Yes, divesting from the U.S., and sanctioning our officials, are definitely part of getting your house in order.

A lot of the fascism is coming from the United States. But there is huge interchange among the U.S. and the British and Hungarian fascists in particular. It's not entirely one-way, and it isn't clear to me the coup in the U.S. would have worked without the international assist.

olliestudio45

@alexwild Correct. The anti-migrant psychosis brewing across much of Europe and the world, which was triggered by neoliberal policies designed to squeeze as much wealth as possible from society, is just one manifestation of the massive problem we are facing. Sweden specifically has a long history of racism, which they are in denial of but any search engine will confirm, Denmark too and the UK. Add into this mix the algos and you get what we are seeing in the US today or Myanmar some years ago.

benny

@alexwild we know, but it's the same as at your place. Most do not care enough.

Francis Cook

@alexwild @Merovius sure. Look when the US has sorted itself out, we can talk. Until then this “oh look other countries have problems as well” is just deflection and your bigger problem is none of us are going to trust you.

Nymnympseudonym

@Mab_813 @alexwild Guessing you haven't hung out with AfD types lately.

USA is, like the rest of the world, becoming less religious as a whole. But the MAGA South are doubling down on Faith (also known as "belief without evidence")

Disisdeguey🔻PalestineAction🇵🇸

@Szescstopni @alexwild This moment in "Cabaret" movie is just so perfect. This man represents all of us, watching and nodding with perplexity.

Gueule d'atmosphère

@NatureMC @alexwild
Carney talks a good game. I even think he meant most of what he said. But at home he gutted the national climate change policy (prompting its architect to resign from Cabinet), is gutting the public service at the worst possible time. He is leaning hard into the Canadian petro-state, which in the end is a cog in the omnicidal machinery we're dealing with. He is putting in mechanisms that will allow the executive to circumvent established laws.

Blue

@alexwild also, hypothetically, anyone doing anything about it who has a lick of sense isn't talking to journalists or documenting their day on social media.