That’s not my point; I’m trying to counter the common European/Anglophone idea that the current state of America is due to unique American flaws and not the end result of a West-wide trend due to greedy, powerful and unresponsive elites. My point is therefore that, because the underlying problem and many catslysts are the same, people living in these countries have to do something about their greedy, powerful and unresponsive elites if they don’t want to go fascist like America. America was also much better ten years ago, but it rapidly got worse because the underlying conditions made it inevitable.

I mean, there’s a good chance that whoever downed the plane did say Allahu Akbar in celebration.

True, but such flaws (either the same or different ones) also exist in—or are being carved into—the law in European systems (see: chat control). Europeans are also in general more nationalist than Americans since they actually live in nation states, making them in general more susceptible to rightwing spacegoating. The specific events might differ, but the mechanism is the same.

Where’s the democracy, accountability, rule of law?

That’s supposed to be Congress and the Supreme Court, but both are thoroughly compromised. This will happen to insert your favorite democracy here if their local elites don’t give something to the masses; this didn’t happen because America’s system is exceptionally vulnerable.

I don’t believe in arrests for speech, but justifying shooting up an airport is not my idea of anti-imperialism. Unless the case is being misrepresented, in which case fuck whoever made this arrest.

Absolutely not. Zionists have a lot of money, but most of those Zionists are not in fact Jews. Western imperialists see their interests aligning with Israel, so they support it with money and influence; it’s really that simple. Thinking Israel controls the West is like thinking the hammer controls the carpenter because he doesn’t want it stolen.

Hell no they didn’t. Hitler and crew didn’t need any help massacring everything that moved, and they were backed by German moneyed interests (you know, the people that stood to gain from his rule), not a worldwide Jewish conspiracy. In the first place, WWII didn’t contribute nearly as much as you’d expect to the creation of Israel; if anything it made the British acquiesce to Palestinian demands to secure their support. WWII was the culmination of European great power politics; besides, interwar Poland was one of Zionists’ most important patrons, and its loss almost destroyed the whole project.

Muslims don’t need places to do so (Friday prayer aside), but they have to pray somewhere and they’re also forbidding praying in the street.

Freedom of religion moment.

Most people did not want this.

Yes, because it affects them. There were people who were fine accepting everything that led up to this because they thought they would come out scot-free. This isn’t what they wanted, but it is a consequence of what they wanted that they were warned about repeatedly.

Many were misinformed or had bad education.

Willful ignorance is not an excuse.

There are so many good people in the US.

You can find anything in a nation of 340 million people. What I said still applies to the vast majority. I’ve seen how even center-leftist Americans talked about even the most lukewarm anti-imperialism (thinking of Uncommitted here); a majority of even the people who claim to care are never going to do anything about it.

Okay you seem to fundamentally misunderstand the current state of the EU.

They are both not as rich, and their power is way better regulated, for instance we don’t have the moronic super packs.

Regulations are tools for the elites to protect democracy (or generally their preferred status quo); they’re useless (or less than useless, see: Germany and Palestine) when the elites don’t want the thing you want. That’s why the so-called political opposition is so soft on fascism and incapable of providing credible alternatives to it; they’re not paid to do that.

With Russia collapsing and losing the war to Ukraine, EU countries that are acting in the interest of Russia, will be way less of a problem, and the traditional values of Democracy in EU will be reestablished.

No offense, but this is downright naive. Russia is a backer of fascism in the West, but it’s far from the cause. Fascism isn’t something that just appears because a bunch of internet trolls want it to; it’s a tool for the elites to distract from their intentional misgovernance. The Nazis didn’t need Russia to bankroll them. If democracy was working you wouldn’t get fascism. Besides, TF do you mean “collapse?” Why are you assuming that Russia will collapse? There’s literally no indication of that happening. Even a significantly weakened Russia can and will keep backing the far right.

But EU has proven able to act when necessary during the Ukraine war.

Uh… the EU spent three years putting all sorts of limits and conditions on the weapons they export to Ukraine, still can’t get off its ass and take Russian money in its banks and has done nothing to restrain the US and Israel from messing up geopolitics in ways that harm it and Ukraine. If reform was forthcoming, it’d have happened to free that hundred billion dollars of Ukraine aid that Hungary is holding up. And this is before we even get to the consistent failure of most member states to meaningfully address the most important crises of the day, such as the climate crisis, the housing crisis, the demographic crisis and the ongoing fuel crisis. Meanwhile they adopt the far right’s anti-immigrant and (even more) pro-rich platform, to the active detriment of all the preceding crises and to the advantage of the fascists. Again, if the EU wasn’t a dysfunctional mess, the far right wouldn’t find such purchase in most of its member states. There’s a reason it’s called Alternativ fur Deutschland, not It’s Going Super Well fur Deutschland.

Also around the world the respect for EU is increasing, and acknowledgement of how EU works for international law, is recognized as being different from USA, where previously we were seen as an American puppet,

Uh… got a source for that? Because let me tell you, y’all are still rightly seen as American puppets outside the Global North bubble. Besides, the EU’s commitment to international law is almost as much of a joke as international law itself; you can tell Palestinians about how the EU works for international law.

This will pave the way for way bigger international recognition and cooperation, and make EU stronger both internally and in outside relations. EU is built on cooperation that benefit us all, this is both among the member countries, and with EU allies and trading partners.

Literally none of this is based in reality. For a representative example of the EU decidedly not benefiting trading partners, look up EU fishing in West Africa.

Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever seen international diplomacy this competent before.

I disagree; plenty of people do deserve this. People who voted for him obviously, but also people who defended the system that produced him and/or the evil shit his predecessors did. I wish all genocide supporters in particular a happy visit to an ICE detention center/concentration camp.

Just in case, this is Democratic and Republican voters. Democratic politicians mostly agree with Republicans on this but in a pinch will means test 100 hungry people to find and feed the hungriest of them.

China also knows Gulf oil is a Sword of Damocles hanging over their head, so they were more prepared than Americans who seem to (not unjustifiably tbf) believe they’re the kings of the world.

The real reason mainstream media is so unwilling to condemn rightwing nonsense is that it’d break modern physics: Rightwing goalposts constitute a perpetual motion machine. It’s a global conspiracy by Big Thermodynamics.

Fucking please do.

“Look at what you made me do!”

I mean the US’s most powerful geopolitical tool is a toss up between its weapons industry, its dominance in global finance and being the richest country in the world, but yeah NATO is a close third/fourth.

Hezbollah participated in Iran’s defensive war against Israel. They “started” it in the sense that Britain started WWII. Also, you know, Israel was committing ceasefire violations on a regular basis and still had Lebanese territory under occupation.