America sneezes, the world catches a drone strike or something
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Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 5 days ago
Well I suppose the answer I'd give is that because of how right-wing the US is compared to much of the Western world, it becomes a patient zero for whatever the far-right is cooking up - which inevitably influences far-right groups in other Western countries
tourist@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 5 days ago
I follow closely what is happening in the US from France because even though we have a very different culture I still think US politics is a preview of what’s to come here.
Right now I consider we are at the step where our media are crumbling and becoming unable to properly inform us. A step that has been reached a couple of years ago in the US in my opinion.
The next step will probably be our own coup attempt in a few years and a steady increase in the division of the country and far right movements.
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I mean Brexit predated the Trump election by 5 months
EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Word Putin planted his seed with Trump in his greatest enemy (democracy/America). It quickly caught on & has spread globally.
TheBat@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Please don’t post your fanfics here 🤮🤮
EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 5 days ago
It’s no fanfic. It’s assessing the enemy. Kind of important to do if you want to beat em.
Don’t be a snowflake. The right is claiming that territory madly.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
You’d rather believe Trump is result of foreign interference, that our own institutions would never result in this without being sullied from outside. It’s fan fic, it’s Cold War nonsense.
Trump is the consequence of our political systems, of our spiteful culture, of our economics that promises success and leaves people sick, broken, and in debt. So what if the Russians had a few hundred Facebook posts? That “seed” would not have taken if the soil weren’t already fertile. Frankly, I don’t think it made a difference. We were barrelling toward Trump with or without the oh so spooky slavs typing on a keyboard.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 days ago
They were making a joke about “planting his seed” meaning impregnating.