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  • "America bad. Europe not bad."

    It's nothing we "aren't ready to hear" but things we've heard on repeat for years. We know.

    • Unpopular opinion: I'm tired of hearing the smug 'hurr ur cuntry sucks lol' shit, myself.

      I mean, you see the article this week where poor children were getting scurvy and gettting seriously ill?

      Yeah, that was France, not Kentucky.

      You know, the same country Le Pen has a really legitimate chance of heading the next government of, too.

      Shit's fucked everywhere, so maybe a little introspection might be worth considering on the part of some of the 'europe good, amerikkka bad' crowd?

      • You can even look at Italy now, with Meloni breaking on same-sex parents rights.

        As a European, we are well aware Europe isn't perfect by any mean.

      • And wasn't France also where all those bedbugs were as well, sometime within the last year iirc.:-)

        Nothing is fully good or fully bad, there's issues everywhere as you said.

        • And wasn’t France also where all those bedbugs were as well, sometime within the last year iirc.:-)

          There were high suspicions of this being media fear-mongering, as the whole thing disappeared as soon as another big news happened (7th of October I think)

          Nothing is fully good or fully bad, there’s issues everywhere as you said.

          Just stumbled upon this while thinking about the French kids getting scurvy

          ‘Baby in a dumpster.’ A spate of abandoned newborns unsettles Texas.

          https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/12/28/abandoned-baby-texas-abortion-ban/

          • Thanks for sharing. It helps illustrate that while "Nothing is fully good or fully bad, there’s issues everywhere", yet not equally so - some places bring on their own problems by virtue of their own obstinacy.

            Which despite how I pointed out the link to disinformation campaigns, yet still those could not work unless there was already something existing to tap into. The latter may vary from place to place but like breaking into a home or waging a more traditional form of warfare, eventually it can get gotten around: and yet, the more care and concern is paid to prevention measures the less likely than each incursion will work and thereby the more expensive and longer the whole process takes - which in turn decreases the likelihood that it will work at all (I mean that defenses can be surmounted, but will they is another question altogether).

            And this is why I have less and less hope for democracy in the USA as time goes on - unless ranked choice voting could be implemented, we might already be beyond a point where it is fixable and we could just be coasting now until this fiction is discarded entirely by those who hold the real power and don't see the benefit of keeping the political sphere around any longer. Which would be a tragedy beyond measure and could lead to a very realistic WWIII situation what with all the nukes, but just bc it shouldn't happen doesn't mean that it won't.:-(

            That said, Fareed Zakaria seems to hold the exact opposite opinion and that is strongly giving me pause as I think about what he's saying, as he does know quite a bit more about such things than I:-).

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