

Also on Mastodon: @Ooops@ruhr.social
Or (lazily combining Mastodon and Lemmy): @Ooops@kbin.social
Because “including Spain, France and Greece” is a rather lacking description for 30 European countries:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
“five central European countries want the EU ban extended at least until the end of the year.”
(Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia)
And with that we finally reached the point where everyone is Central Europe if they only believe very hard in it…
Left and right are artificial, meaningless constructs
Left and right are very useful construct… as a spectrum… on multiple axis.
It just seems completely meaningless, because so much here is tainted by the US perspective. And neither do they have a spectrum (with just two parties), nor multiple axis (again, two parties can’t represent nuanced opinion on different topics). In fact they don’t even have left and right, just right-wing and more far-right.
No, bots aren’t a thing alhough a lot of people pretend them to be. Trolls are still either human or very obviously fake.
The crimes of the Soviet Union while claiming to be communist are well documented.
FTFY
And not everything left of Eastern European nationalism is communism. In fact 90% of the political spectrum lies between these two extremes.
What’s going on in Europe is being flooded by propaganda and bulshit narratives 24/7, mostly via social media run by US companies.
That would have been the second step after truthfully reporting that the “illegal immigrantion” topic is just the usual right wing dog whistle for pretending legal immigrants are an issue as well as refugees, that are of course badly checked and just illegal immigrants, too.
“They don’t have the money to help poor Americans because they give all the money to Ukraine!”
From the director of “We need more tax cuts for the rich, so the trickle down effect can save America” comes the incredible sequel to the famous “USA can’t have proper social security because they have to spend a fortune on military to European freeloaders.”
Soon on some shady right wing propaganda stream in your area…
You mean “pre-installed with most DEs”…
Gas prices went up two measly dollars compared to normal in 2022, and everyone flipped the fuck out.
Yeah, sure. They flipped out because the love their cars so much and don’t want to change anything. Oh, wait. No, they flipped out because companies and corrupt politicians made them completely dependent on cars so they will starve without them and kept them so poor that even increasing the cost of using the cars they dependent on just a bit again ends with starving.
And here you are babbling none-sense again about how it’s the stupid people buying products -as if they had a choice- and not the companies and politicians that are to blame.
I remember discussing about 2 years ago how PiS and Fidesz are very obviously following the same playbook and Hungary’s approach of media control before gutting the courts seems to be the more successful strategy so far (PS: Obviously it’s also easier for them as their language is much more isolated).
And then I was shouted down by Poles telling me that this is all bullshit as media control will never happen in Poland without the population putting up massive resistence…
When your DNS spam filter blocks a site automatically and each reference you find to that title has a “follow us on truth social” reference…
C’mon… there is actually a lot of stuff critical about cluster ammunition and also some arguments to be made about US hypocrits…
Why do you waste such an incredible propaganda opportunity by bullshit about the US “escalating the conflict and potentially using nuclear weapons”? You can’t think people are this stupid, can you?
Edit: Just for laughs I seriously watched the first minute of that bullshit: “You can’t determine the value of a cluster bomb by who is blown up…” Seriously? More than 16 months of discussions and those propagandists (and their brain-dead audience) have still not understand that this is indeed how it works, but with soldiers vs civilians being the determining factor, not if you are brain-washed to really, really hate a certain victim… So much years on the internet and still my view of people can decrease further.
Close this tab right now and promise yourself never come back to see if someone gave you an easy answer…
Did you expect nuances from someone directly transcribing “The US has officially…” into “the world’s warmongers announced…”?
“We Nazis…” shows a rare honesty at least…