• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      24 days ago

      Most eurolibs would happily allow European imperialism and justify it by arguing if they didn’t do it someone else would

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        23 days ago

        Is this “European imperialism” in the room with us right now?

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          23 days ago

          No but its in northern Africa and the Middle East, I have been to Palestine personally. Those starving children don’t care that a couple of EU members have strongly worded statements when the weapons flow freely.

          I don’t care what eurolibs have to say, their actions speak significantly louder

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              16 days ago

              We are white and they ignored us too. It’s not about races. It’s a random fact if you are black or tanned-skin. Basically, North of Mexico and South of the continent are full of white persons.

              Colonialism doesn’t respect humans (no one).

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              22 days ago

              Of course the very statement “in the room with us right now” clearly states the intent, that’s somewhere else to people of a different skin color so clearly it doesn’t matter. The average eurolib has no sympathy to the starving and oppressed of the global south.

              In the past the eurolib argued that they were “civilizing” them with Christianity, that has not changed yet the justifications have (now its “women’s rights”, “democracy”, and “human rights”)

              • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                22 days ago

                Yep, they love to just change the meanings of those words to suit themselves.

                I would love for them to have more equality and protections for minorities of all kinds, but just enforcing that from our country or any other country is using political manipulation for a vague gain. If the shoe was on the other foot, they’d scream about election interference.

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                  22 days ago

                  Well I would also love that too but butchering women wont make them more free, bombing hospitals doesn’t increase the sanctity of human life, burning children alive with Incendiary weapons wont teach them to love the west, installing dictators wont make them more democratic, and funding brutal civil wars doesn’t make minorities safer.

                  Eurolibs will insist only Americans did this but the records don’t lie, the EU was a participant and Eurolibs supported it

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          23 days ago

          Oh yeah and we know they totally stopped after WW2, yup no neocolonialism or backing foreign military occupations. Just look at how Europe is treating the Palestinian occupation, they sent them unlimited weapons very strongly as an act of condemnation. Look their feelings are hurt and that’s close enough to real action.

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        24 days ago

        At this point, I’m so miserable, that I agree, and accept our new Chinese overlords. We lost the fight for humanity long ago, I at least want to live a bit.

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      24 days ago

      Nope, the EU population is larger than the US, where we are lacking is in our military power.

      And are ramping up, faster than I would have believed possible 5 years ago.

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        16 days ago

        Then you deserve to feel Trump’s fury hit Europe. If you’re so full of yourselves regarding your power, let’s hope you don’t end up regretting it.

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          16 days ago

          Trump’s fury

          lol

          You mean “Trump’s tantrum”

          The US has lost many long term conflicts with less capable foes in the last decades.

          They haven’t faced a foe with comparable tech and infrastructure since WWII.

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        24 days ago

        It’s almost like people have forgotten history. Europe isn’t a newcomer, I just hope it won’t go to our heads, and that’s where being 27 countries together makes sense for me so hopefully only “good” things will come out of it all.

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          24 days ago

          Well, you kinda need military power, even if you don’t use it, you can’t expect countries to not attack you and just be diplomatic. Also, don’t accuse people of being [insert here ideology], it’s just childish and not better than attacking them

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                It’s not a “strawman.” I understand that most people on here don’t want the weapons going to Israel, which is why I made the point. But the reality is that, once a weapon is built, it’s in the hands of politicians to give to whoever they like. If those politicians are pro-Israel, then even if you want the weapons for the purpose of defense, there’s a significant likelihood they’ll be used to perform genocide.

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                  23 days ago

                  It absolutely is a strawman, no one mentioned Israel in the discussion before you, it is also not a reason to stop increasing defense spending right now that we need to defend against Russia.

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                    23 days ago

                    The fact that nobody mentioned Israel is the point. I stg. It isn’t a “strawman” to point out possible unintended consequences of supporting a policy.

                    “I think I should jump off a tall building.”

                    “Are you crazy? You’ll die!”

                    “Wow, what a strawman. Nobody even said anything about dying. I don’t support falling to my death, only the jumping.”

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            Well, you kinda need military power

            First of all, no. The whole idea of globalization is that if you have economic entanglement the wars will not be profitable.

            Also there are other ways of keeping military strength without having very big military see Switzerland and all guerrilla groups successfully repelling much bigger opponents like the US.

            Also, don’t accuse people of being [insert here ideology], it’s just childish and not better than attacking them

            I mostly agree, but the meme created does represent this ideology and you can attack problematic ideologies.

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              24 days ago

              @JustJack23@slrpnk.net wrote:

              Also there are other ways of keeping military strength without having very big military

              You’re right! Europe can just defend itself with thougts and prayers. Why didn’t all the bureaucrats from Brussels think about this? Omg, you’re a genius!

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              military strength without having very big military see Switzerland

              Switzerland has mandatory military service. If you include reserves, it has a bigger military than Germany, Poland, or the UK. Not per capita, just straight up more people. If you only include active personnel it’s still comparable per capita to most European countries

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          24 days ago

          Only out of necessity, Russia has shown that they are done playing the diplomatic game (though they have been playing it quite badly), the US has fully shat it’s pants and is rolling around in it and China has the carving knife ready for when Russia colapses, if Europe is to survive we need to federalize.

          At an absolute minimum, we need to build a unified military under one leadership throughout the EU, military personal from the south must be expected to defend Europe in the north, and vice versa.

          I don’t see this as being right-wing, I see it as it being a reality we need to face.

          I’ll even share a detail about my general political views, out of all ideologies, I strongly believe that Social Democracy is the best, as it combined a strong government with a regulated free market.

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            Friend, you need to understand: USA could turn off your F-35.

            Simply, you aren’t prepared for USA turning around.

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              No they can’t.

              Sweden doesn’t have F-35’s.

              Neither does France.

              Europe as a whole also have plenty of Eurofighters.

              The US hasn’t really fought any nation with comparable tech and infrastructure since WWII.

              I don’t think they’ll have an easy time doing that.

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              I am living in Sweden, I have done so for the last 38 year after being born.

              I have witnessed the all of that.

              I stand by what I said, including the part of regulated free markets which you didn’t bring up.

              I absolutely disagree with how Socialdemokraterna moved away from the ideology of Social democracy.

              However, this does not change my views of the ideology, only the politicians who has failed it.

              Social democracy requires strong leaders who can withstand trends pulling in either direction.

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                23 days ago

                “I’ve seen with my own eyes social democracy failing simultaneously everywhere in Europe and ruined millions of lives. However, I still support it”.

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          23 days ago

          Ironic comment because almost all anti-EU people in Europe are far-right.