Europe as a whole is swinging too far too the right. Y’all all are descending back into Fascism. The recent popularity of the AfD in Germany being a prime example. My own parents - who immigrated from Germany - are deeply disappointed in the direction the country is taking.
I think everyone everywhere knows the world over is sliding to the right.
Pot, Kettle, Black. The US Republican party is about as, if not more fascist than the German AfD or Austrias FPÖ.
In comparison, the US Democrats are about where European conservatives can be located on the political spectrum.
This does not imply that the current political direction is not problematic.
Too many people smoke in Europe and it's too widely accepted.
Believe it or not, it was way worse and it's getting better. The horrors of even 10 years ago, man. Smoke everywhere, cigarette butts all over the place, all the surfaces are covered in yellow grime.
GDPR is great, but we all hate cookie banners
The cookie banner law isn't the problem, websites don't have to have one.
They only need to ask permission to invade your privacy.
Too bad nearly every website wants to.
I thought America was racist until I saw a member of UK Parliament tweeting about a boat of migrants sinking with "Good riddance".
Many of your economies strive cause they stolen loads of values from us.
Most of us know about that, so not a real shocker. And besides France we actually stopped
Not Eurpoe specifically but I shared a rather basic comment on YouTube joking about Great Britain causing famines in India but its okay because they brought trains and the result is a mile long thread of pissed off UK suckers telling me I'm wrong, that there was no fammine, the Wikipedia article and its 300 sources are fake, and that the British empire totally went around modernizing civilization for the benefit of humanity. (Was a post about Irish complaining about a very crappy Irish History book made by a British author)
So I guess for any of those people, no GB was just a colonist empire racing to exploit the hell out of resources faster than France, Spain, and Portugal. The technology they brought was used almost exclusively in their conquest operations (Trains used to transport goods and resources) and they actively supported and supplied opposition groups to destabilize and overthrow governments similar to what the USA does today.
I mean seriously, they held immense power over China via opium and are responsible for practically every shill state in the middle east because they provided weapons to overthrow the Ottaman empire.
The iconic pan arab flag is actually a British designed flag given to all the opposition groups they funded to break up Ottaman power.
They fell apart after exhausting their power in WWII and the USA came in to save them so now they gleefully cheer about how they carried in WWII with intelligence services as if Germany couldn't have easily invaded the entire nation overnight had Hitler not been an incompetent moron.
Thankfully, after exploiting half the world, they totally didn't spend the last of their power screwing over every former colony into some long term problem that they could exploit without the need for military power.
Commas are for separating thousands, periods are decimal points. Stop trying to be unique, you're not.
Stop trying to be unique, you’re not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Conventions_worldwide
I see China, India, and NZ that’s over half the worlds population.
So you're aware of this and choose to be wrong!
as soon as you stop measuring things with body parts
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