Comment on Say what you will about Kirk, but he made some great points in his debating
mmcintyre@lemmy.world 19 hours agoIt’s European culture, too. Idk a whole lot about any of the countries in Europe, but I do know Chega came from nowhere in Portugal to become the #2 party in something like 5 years and England Brexited itself out of the EU, both of them with this same nonsense. And those ain’t the only European countries it’s happening in. It’s everywhere.
Although I don’t know how much is culture and how much is cash. Billionaires are funding all kinds of heinous shit across the planet.
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The US used to export its culture, and people were eating it up. But I actually see an uptick in appreciation of local culture in Europe. As you said, there is lots of external financing to push American culture across the world, but I think that this is just a reaction to people not consuming as much of it as before. I see that here in Ireland as well. So far, we’ve rejected most of it (especially the American religious nutcases who tried to influence our abortion referendum), but it’s a constant struggle.