Aral Balkan
Folks in other countries who say they don’t care about US politics have clearly not considered what happens next if the proud owner of the world’s deadliest military goes full-fat fascist.
(They might want to ask their friends in countries that have tasted the semi-skimmed version.)
Aral Balkan
@darkphotonstudio Plot twist: I don’t live in the US and I’m not American.
🙊
Dark Photon Studio
@aral the US is far more likely to fall apart before that happens. Also, wtf do you expect people in other countries to do? We have our own problems. Here's an idea, how about you all get your shit together.
Ankit Pati
@aral Then again, the SS was Europe’s deadliest military once upon a not-too-distant time.
Aral Balkan
@ankitpati These things are complementary not mutually exclusive.
Aral Balkan
@darkphotonstudio Yes, we do. One does not negate the other.
Dark Photon Studio
@aral Ok, good for you. Again, what exactly do you propose people to do? Plenty of European countries are lurching to the right. They have their own problems.
Fifi Lamoura
@aral I care and follow US politics but I also can't do anything about what's going on in the US because I'm Canadian, at times those of us who live in other nations need to also pay attention to our own politics (and people in the US would do well to also pay some attention to international politics, the rest of us can't really avoid knowing about US politics because of how the US dominates the world but you guys can easily ignore the rest of the world, to your own detriment).
Fifi Lamoura
@Bossito @aral And the risk is that the firehose of terrible US news can drown out news about what's going on in our own countries that we can maybe actually do something about. What some in the US don't realize is that those of us outside the US realize how this is being organized on a global scale by far right Christofascists but a lot of people in the US (due to American exceptionalism) don't realize this...that is also concerning.
bossito 🇪🇺
@aral yes but, there's not so much we can do about it. Personally it worries me that Europe cares so much about American politics, precisely because from that worry a huge influence is created.. and there's too much of it already.
Fifi Lamoura
@aral I also follow French politics because what happens in France has a very big influence in Quebec and around the world (being yet another nation that colonized much of the world). This is also true of England. The US isn't the only imperialist force out there, even if it's been pretty dominant for a while. It's not great living at the nexus of American and French fascism and trying to get people to understand how they interconnect and feed into each other.
Aral Balkan
@fifilamoura Well said. (PS. I’m not American – my parents are Turkish, I grew up in Malaysia, I’m a French citizen, and I currently live in Ireland.) :)
Aral Balkan
@skinnylatte @sabcatsilver Haha, hi :) Where in Malaysia? (I was in KL. Fellow Alice Smith or Garden Schooler by chance?)
Adrianna Tan
@aral omg you have a very similar complicated background as my wife @sabcatsilver with overlaps in Malaysia and France :) (and Singapore / China / SF)!
Nick @ The Linux Experiment
@aral Yeah, one would have to be voluntarily blind to not see how the rise of Trump and his fascist and bigoted supporters has also lifted the far right parties out of their hiding spots everywhere else in the world. The political climate of the US is generally replicated 5 to 10 years later in Europe, for example. And now we have a fascist Italian government, police brutality in France, and politicians starting to accuse the left of terrorism and using stupid terms like “woke”…
Aral Balkan
@Jayani As a fellow european, I hear you :)
JaY
@aral
As a european, It's not that i don't care - i worry a lot about it.
It's just that I can't do much about it.
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