Cosplaying to be anti “American Tech”, then kissing the empire hand for blessing.

This is called “neoliberal euro syndrome”.

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    1 day ago

    Why so many European countries are run by cowards with permanent knee pads on for the US is beyond me.

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          4 hours ago

          Nah that’s gone. It will take generation(s) to become a normal country we trust like a normal country. They really had it all; wealth, soft power, hard power, respect, trust, people saw up to them, wanted to be like them, and they just set it on fire, repeatedly, while dumping manure everywhere.

          Amazing.

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            3 hours ago

            If history is any indicator, it will take one and a half generations of relative stability and everyone that matters will have forgotten. Probably there will be lingering, mostly misplaced bigotry (especially if there is nothing in the way of reparations) but there’s too much potential in the resources (markets, raw materials, laborers, tourism, etc) here to stay sidelined for long. Look at Germany, the UK, China, Japan, Italy, or Belgium. Colonialism, screwing allies, even outright genocide is papered over as soon as the populace blinks to keep things moving.

            Or there’s the Bad Ending where far-right movements control more of the world and we’re a successful part of the new Axis powers.

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          11 hours ago

          What do you mean? We have the least corrupt governments in the world here in Europe. Sure, shit happens from time to time, but just look at Orbàn!

          I hate this “both sides are bad”, “everything is bad”, it’s just playing to the Kremlin playbook.

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      1 day ago

      European countries are run by greedy fucks who love money and are generally fascist assholes.