Carcharodonna [she/her]

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Cake day: November 12th, 2024

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  • Thing is that Europe is a capitalist economy and people who own companies will make decisions that increase their profits.

    I agree and I don't want to sound like it's just US vs EU here, because there are plenty of capitalists in the EU of course who would certainly love to have more "austerity" and gut public services with as little public backlash as possible. I'm just saying I've seen similar propaganda in the US my entire life, often directed at institutions in the US, and a lot of times it shares similarities with how the US media also treats certain foreign governments.


  • Carcharodonna [she/her]toeuropeEurope’s economic apocalypse is now
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    2 days ago

    It also honestly just reads like standard US news media propaganda that comes up whenever they want something to be privatized, whether that's Venezuela's oil, Chile's copper, Chinese industry, the VA, USPS, public schools, etc. It's basically an underhanded threat and an attempt to lay the groundwork for justifying gutting European public services.

    What's more, the Nordstream bombing is far from the only act of sabotage the US has done to Europe, which also includes stuff like the Ukraine war itself, suspicious fires at ASML plants, and the Suez canal blockage where the ship (for some reason) drew a giant penis before beaching itself.








  • If we're talking only Europe, I might actually say French, just because of how familiar Germans are with English. Most Europeans speak good English, but France is kind of an outlier there. In terms of overall usefulness, however, Spanish is hands down the more useful language to learn given how widely spoken it is in the world.



  • Carcharodonna [she/her]toComicsSuperman: Red Son
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    4 days ago

    Yeah I read this awhile back and it's pretty lib (in some ways). I will say, however, it does seem to do a bit with playing with the reader's expectations in interesting ways.