Gods, this is so accurate. A part of me wish we could just isolate the U.S. for a bit, because I'd be curious to see how that'd affect the discourse in the rest of the world. The rise of the far right and Trump legitimately being voted in as president legitimised the far-right movements in my country as well. Last election people were literally pushing for the stop-and-frisk BS to become a thing here.
I hate that I know what stop-and-frisk even is.
Yup, they're bringing the whole world down with them
Every time I mentioned Trump on Reddit’s world news sub, I got shouted down for talking about “irrelevant” US politics. I tried to explain his potential impact on the politics of other countries, but they didn’t want to hear it.
Trump was important for the rest of the world when he was... you know... the president of the US... now it's just a little mediocre guy and I understand that all the little advances in bringing him to justice are pretty important to you guys, but I couldn't care less.
If he ever gets elected again for some reason, then we will see the potential impact, but for now he is pretty irrelevant im afraid.
By the gods, were it to be so!
I would too so enjoy if, as if from some casement unseen, a pair of disembodied, godly hands were to reach down shoo away those br-r-rown masses from Albion and her sisters, to keep them pure!
It is a crime against Balthūre that they invented fascism in 2016!
In the meantime, I will be feasting for this day!
If that happened, the rest of the world would still find a way to talk about the US the whole time.
Sounds like Europeans need to step up on being a dumpster fire if they want as much coverage as us. Be the change you want to see in the world!
Hey well seems that most of EU is working on it sadly
Between Meloni, Órban, PiS, the True Finns, etc. I think there are plenty of dumpster fires
the True Finns
I didn't know the Samis were in charge of finland now
Let’s open nomination for “Florida Man”, EU
There's an active war in Europe. Mediterranean countries are struggling with illegal immigrants and straight up sinking their boats. It's not all sunshine and rainbows.
I can only inagine how sick of hearing his name europeans are, I've been sick of it since 2015 and I'm American. Honestly at this point I just want to go one whole day without hearing his fucking name. I can't think of one other person that applies to in politics, celebrities, anything.
Honestly I'm more sick of hearing of Musk by now. At least with Trump there's a sadistic part to me that keeps wondering how low reps can go, but with Musk, I'm just sick of him. I don't care about his little tantrums at all and every little shit gets hundreds of upvotes.
In the same timeframe, we had Brexit which was our own local annoying piece of never ending shitshow
See this is my biggest gripe on people complaining about Trump.
During brexit my feed was full of Boris memes and news. It was really fucking weird watching two different countries get fucked by a fat old man with fake blonde hair
Extreme incompetence is news worthy.
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I love how most of the Lemmy instances are hosted on European servers, yet Europeans still don't have enough population, money, or influence to change the status quo.
US politics does not belong in World News, yet the upvote counts say otherwise. Europeans need to step up the game and encourage more other Europeans to join Kbin/Lemmy. This will never be fixed without the numbers.
Europeans still don’t have enough population, money, or influence to change the status quo.
English is the issue. There are only about 80M people who speak English as a first language in Europe, out of 0.8 billion or so. Yeah, plenty of people who are relatively fluent in English participate in English social media, but many also spend a lot of time in social media in their own language, something English-speakers never see.
The Fediverse has a pretty big German-speaking population, but not as much French, Italian, Spanish, etc. I don't know where they are -- probably Facebook / Instagram.
Google tells me there's like 332 million people in the US and like 750 million in Europe. I get that they're different countries, but different states here might as well be.
Are there posts Europeans make that I'm just not seeing (beyond complaints like this one), or is there something else that keeps them from posting and upvoting the content they apparently want to see in places like world news?
I get that they’re different countries, but different states here might as well be.
^ This guy Articles of Confederation.
(Seriously, the European Union basically has the same kind of structure now as the United States did between 1776 and 1789.)
America is part of the world.
Checkmate, earthists.
They sure as hell don't act like it though
Not a shitpost, it's a FACT. Lol
https://lemmy.world/c/notuspolitics
(I don't know which of these you're supposed to share, but it's a good community).
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I've been trying to upload it for 1 hour, sorry for the peoples whi saw it 3 times already 😬
Nice gif
Facts
This is so accurate you could use it as a scope to shoot a fly from a rat ass all the way from across the next town.
Th...thanks ?
Welcome buddy.
Gif is too small. Needs at least another 100 megs of weight
...that's right, it goes in the square hole.
OC for the one of the most oft repeated memes is like kissing your sister
Wholesome?
Right?
ITT Europeans once again acting like American politics don't affect them in any way.
Anyone else think it's funny that Britain got Boris around the same time America got trump?
Just because we have a huge cultural effect doesn't mean europeans want to be drowned out by our issues, some relatable and some unique.
The reason you see a right shift in many countries is because more people are feeling left behind. Also, people build conservative echo chambers online that reinforce certain arguments regardless of your nationality. So it is no surprise that right wing rhetoric is on the rise in many places.