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Wtf is going on Europe? You used to be cool.
~~Lobbyism~~ Corruption
Americanisation.
europe already had shitty practices before americanization could have been an excuse. also, Frontex, AfD, Marine le Pen, Meloni,, all that crap, seems to be stemming from a systemic problem in europe with the right wing actual nazis and actual nazi sympathizers. Spain only stopped being a literal fascist country in the 1970s. It's easy to dunk on America, because America is loudly doing shit that's obviously bad all the time. But it seems to me that Europe is on par with america, except here in europe, you also have to deal with the Fr*nch.
I'm not in any way saying that everything that's going wrong in Europe is the fault of the US. We've certainly had fascists here ever since fascism was invented as a concept, which happened in Europe, as we all know.
What I'm talking about are the recent political developments where all kinds of malignant actors are using US run social media platforms to normalise fascism. There was a time when there was a broad societal consensus that fascism is bad. Now people will argue with you if you say that and the corporate media will report on it as a "controversy".
Enshittification. Oh you already said Americanisation.
Yes, here is some information about the career of the German Chancellor, who is currently using his influence to weaken the ban on combustion engines.
[Translated from German | Source with source references]
No, we didn't... our propaganda is top-notch, tho.