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MAGA’s mission to meddle in European politics should terrify Starmer, Macron and Merz. Will any of them fight back?

Donald Trump has launched a crusade to convert European politics to his cause, mobilizing the full force of American diplomacy to promote “patriotic” parties, stamp on migration, destroy “censorship” and save “civilization” from decay.

The question is whether Europe’s embattled centrists have the power, or the will, to stop him. In its newly released National Security Strategy document, the White House set out for the first time in a comprehensive form its approach to the geopolitical challenges facing the U.S. and the world.

While bringing peace to Ukraine gets a mention, when it comes to Europe, America’s official stance is now that its security depends on shifting the continent’s politics decisively to the right.

  • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    I’ve gotten pushback from places I really wouldn’t have imagined for saying that we all need to kill our social media, starting with Twitter.

    I do not care if you keep a facebook account open just to talk to your dear aunt Ethel over the holidays but PLEASE, Lemmy lefties… speaking directly at you right now.

    DO NOT KEEP USING TWITTER.

    When you use twitter you generate views for other things, those views translate into monetary rewards for people in other countries who have been paid to destabilize your country. You are not saving anyone, you’re not helping anyone. It’s a half-dead platform that empowers some of the worst people in the world.

    “But people use it in other countries to organize resistance and several other excuses that make me sound addicted!”

    I do not care. They have other means. You’re not a revolutionary. Just put it away and spend that scrolling time walking and meeting people and reading about local progressive candidates in your area you can back and support and actually make a fucking difference instead of trying to get your twitter arguments clipped and shared on reddit.

    • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      I do not care if you keep a facebook account open just to talk to your dear aunt Ethel over the holidays

      I do care. Aunt ethel got used to twitter, she got used to facebook, she got used to messenger when they forced that switch… she can get used to signal/matrix/xmpp or whatever else you desire.

      • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        Oh I would advocate for learning to pick up the goddamn phone and just calling your family members and saying hi, but that is such a lost art that I don’t even try to recommend it to younger people who don’t even know what the number-pad on their phones is for.