Shut the fuck up, nobody cares.

  • AbbysMuscles [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    "Oh look at us we get better bribes under our capitalist systems than you" Meanwhile all it took was a few thousand brown people fleeing horrific war in the middle east and half of the damn continent had their MKULTRA switch flipped and went full fash.

    In all seriousness though, I'm glad that the bribes are better over there and fewer people are socially murdered than here in Bugerland (though that's changing rapidly, and not for the better). I think that people will largely see that European nations tend to have better (or actually existing) social safety nets and extrapolate that to being more egalitarian and progressive in all respects when that's simply not the case. See racism. Mention Roma or Syrians to a European and it's a genuine coin toss whether they reflexively carve a swastika into their arm. I think that since the USA has a much longer and more violent history with overcoming its institutionalized racism, people here are more honest and frank about dealing with it. Euros offload all of their energy into believing that they solved racism when Hitler got owned, and they're extremely unwilling to confront it in modern daily life.