Who the fuck emigrates to Europe as a hardcore American fascist? Seriously? What the actual fuck?
Time to bash Americans again
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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
MisterOwl@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Spreading the plague, as insects are wont to do.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
As an American, I would like to apologize profusely for the rank idiocy of my fellow citizens.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We have plenty of fascists here. It’s not like the US have a monopoly. We don’t quite let them run the show yet, but we’re certainly working on it.
Rothe@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Yeah, but a really big part of the MAGA platform is hating on the "communist" and "woke" "yuropoors". She must really really hate it here.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The difference is that while we may have several fascists here, unlike in the US the majority are not fascists.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
We have European fascists here. The point here is: why would an American fascist move to Amsterdam?
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 week ago
*cries in PVV majority*
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They come here to spread their culture, their ideology of violence and intolerance.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
As an American, please enthusiastically tell any American that tries to do this to fuck all the way off and go back to our own shitty country. I don’t want us fucking up your continent too.
RipLemmDotEE@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Europe has its own nest of fascists and they’re gaining popularity.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
Europeans invented fascism so she’s just trying to learn from the best.
crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Could be a military member stationed there. A guy I work with is one of those 4chan “libertarians” and had nothing but “horror stories” about living in Germany. Same guy is terrified to venture into the local major metropolitan area or take the light rail system.
jj4211@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Maybe they needed the more affordable healthcare?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
We need that, and healthcare that isn’t tied to our jobs, because that significantly entrenches the whole wage slavery thing.
sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 2 weeks ago
I’m an American living in the EU, and I’m surprised by that. All the other American immigrants I’ve met so far have been opposed to Trump and Republicans generally. I always figured the conservatives were likely to be buying into AmErIcA iS tHe BeSt propaganda and would thus be uninterested in moving to another country.
Furbag@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s funny, the fascists “won” here, but they are still expatriating themselves to fuck up other people’s countries too.
mhague@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Imagine being racist and wanting to enjoy it instead of making it political. In the US it’s culture war shit. In Europe you can go to a football match and throw bananas at the black players and it’s chill. It’s just easier to be casually racist in Europe because racism doesn’t exist there, and if it does, it’s not as bad as America.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Recently in Spain a football fan got sentenced for racist chants
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
In fairness nobody ever died from a stray banana.
Denjin@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Yeah, fuck off back to your own shit country if you don’t like it
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Expat” is my favourite dog whistle. Because “migrant” is only used for brown people, or other undesirable minorities for racists.
Serpent@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I hate the word for the reasons you’ve said, but I know a lot of black Americans in Portugal that refer to themselves as expats.
Feels to me that the line is drawn along economic privilege lines rather than simply race.
megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
There’s also this level of like, still identifying as being primarily of the country they’re from, like a rejection of assimilation into the place they’ve moved to. I’m not saying that’s inherently good or bad, but, it’s an interesting dynamic, and an option that a lot of immigrants don’t have.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“No war but the class war” strikes again
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wherever white people get mad at black people you hear the word “thug” thrown out a lot and i always wonder if they’re just using that word to substitute another one they’re not allowed to use publicly
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
She has “MAGA” in her display name. Why listen for dogwhistles when there’s a red alert siren?
BTW I had several teachers that described themselves as expats from the UK or US, and they were alright.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
From my own experience as an immigrant in The Netherlands, “expat” is generally used by Americans and Brits and nobody else. I mean, I’ve seen on or two Ozzies using it but it’s way rarer with them and I’ve never seen, for example, other Europeans immigrants there refereing to themselves as “expats”.
I think “expat” is more a thing of people who thing they come from a “great country”, as if somehow it’s a priviledge for the other country to have them there.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think “expat” is more a thing of people who thing they come from a “great country”, as if somehow it’s a priviledge for the other country to have them there.
This is it. If you move from a “better country” to a “worse country” you are an expat (because you think you are something better than the lower people you live among). If you move from a “worse country” to a “better country” you are labelled as a migrant (by the “better” people you live among).
fodor@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I would have said the two words are different by perspective. An “expat” is talking about where you’re from. An “immigrant” is talking about where you are. Also, if you start talking about 2nd generation immigrants, then “expat” can’t be used at all, which means it is narrower in scope, too.
sunbytes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There is technically a difference in the definition, but mostly people use it exactly as you’re describing.
I’ve really had to catch myself when I notice myself using it.
But honestly it’s so expected that people can get confused when you call yourself an immigrant (and you aren’t doing it to make yourself a martyr somehow).
VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
Why would you move to the Netherlands if you are MAGA? Isn’t your country so much greater again now? You ellected your king and then you left?
jdf038@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Yeah this confuses me to no end. I thought they made America great last election?
ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Because they live in a constant state of cognitive dissonance.
pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Trump made it great, but Biden and woke already made it so un-great that the greatness hasn’t all trickled down yet.
hanrahan@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Well, the Dutch are moving right. Gert Wilders is a literal fascist.
AfD in Germany then we have Norway, Italy, Finland, UK, France and on and on. They probably feel at home
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Well, if this wasn’t a troll account, it would probably be for work. The US has a military presence in the Netherlands, and we have a lot of corporate cross-over, especially in the tech industry, like the photo lithography involved in making CPUs. It isn’t that weird.
This is s troll though
smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
Gotta spread the freedumb
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Gotta say, thats a pretty good burn.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
As a Canadian, I would very much like some sort of barrier between my country and the United States. We’ve got our own brand of crazy up here and have absolutely no need to import any junk from the USA.
klemptor@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Build a wall, make the USA pay for it
(Kidding, mostly.)
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
As an American, I hope Canada gets some sort of barrier between it and the United States.
I would gladly go with my family and volunteer to help build it. If my family "accidentally" ends up on the Canadian side, I'd much rather stay though and help offset the crazy you have there....
nexguy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean if you are there putting the last bricks in and you are standing on the north side you really don’t have much of a choice.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Because we don’t have regular mass shootings in schools because we don’t give every single person the money for a ticket to a gun show a gun and where we do, we legislate that they keep their gun in a gun safe. You know, like the rest of the world…or the USA in 1792.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
It’s not JUST the guns tbh. Everyone in Switzerland has a gun and they don’t shoot eachother up. American society is fucked up on multiple different levels and the guns are just adding extra fuel and oxygen to a forest fire.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Everyone in Switzerland has a gun and they don’t shoot eachother up. American society is fucked up on multiple different levels
Whenever i mention the Swiss having as many guns as the US, if not more, and yet the former has practically zero mass shooting incidents, and pointed out the problem of America is cultural, Americans tend to turn a blind eye to it.
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It’s a dumb comparison, as their reason for owning guns is entirely different and tied to national defense, not self-defense and “freedom”
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
we don’t give every single person the money for a ticket to a gun show
Erm, wut?
cathfish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And we don’t have people walking around with guns (yet).
sexy_peach@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Europe has gangs and guns and whatnot. But people have more to lose I think. Something like that. Better education maybe?
Could be way better here as well
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This was a troll account. It was a Dutch guy pretending to be MAGA to point out how arrogant Europeans are. He succeed thoroughly
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is it arrogance when you’re just correct?
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
metal detectors and xray scanning of backpacks made me feel like I was going to prison lol
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
I can’t imagine going to school like that bro.
Like is it scary and you always wonder if some lunatic is going to come and shoot it up or no?
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
Honestly I believe it’s to train the younger generation to accept a police state and continuous surveillance.
madjo@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
A MAGA in Amsterdam? ewww, I wish we could close our borders to the likes of them.
Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You know what would be weird? A president of USA doing anything that trump’s doing…
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Most British schools have bars to keep the kids in.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Narrator: The problem wasn’t the kids it was the US.
Clarification: venues getting shot up is a specifically elevated problem in the US (exacerbated by availability of guns, but that’s not really the root of the problem). The thing is, the root of the problem (right-wing-leaning low-information constituents – lumpenproletariat in left-wing speak – suffering from precarity sometimes turn to violence) is being visited on European nations where two-party systems have taken root, and neoliberalism has set in. It’s the old King Log vs. King Heron problem. We’re seeing violence and counterviolence in the EU, just with less frequency and fewer guns, but it will catch up to them.
pseudo@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
I remember the exact day they closed up the college with fences and the look on the face on the children who started to feel like prisoners. I also remember the day they started to locked all doors but one to inconvenience potential invaders in high school forcing surveillance on who’s coming and who going on grown teens.
Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Have you heard of “induced demand” courtesy of the FuckCars community?
Well, the same applies to violence.
If you have police on campus people subconsciously expect violence. It’s a self-fullfilling prophecy. The more security theatre you add, the more actual security you’ll need.
Normalizing shootings by giving them such media attention also doesn’t help, if the prospective shooter craves it. Neither does the fact that it occupies a large part of the US public consciousness.
Some kids do it because others have already, and because school shootings are such a hot media topic.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I like how Lily tells us she’s not worth bothering with in her username.
TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I’ve seen security in European schools. Usually in the morning, due to congestion traffic concerns.
tauonite@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Shots fired
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
After columbine my school banned all black clothing. And forbid boys picking up sticks in case we used them to pretend they where weapons.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
They call themself an expat that’s all I needed to hear
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The truth hurts.
Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To be fair. We deserve all the smoke.
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Again? When did everyone stop?
robocall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why is this a picture of grass?
alzjim@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If I must
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How big is the ocean between Europe and Russia?
TheBat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Can someone tell this bitch to go back to where she came from?
hOrni@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For those unaware, an expat is an immigrant, but white.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I always thought expats had to live in little expat communities, keeping themselves aloof from the rest of the population. It’s a level of snobbery beyond even still caring where you’re originally from. That was my understanding from all the little compounds I saw in the global south.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
ms_lane@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think Japan also gets ‘Expat’ credentials too.
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 week ago
Core memory unlocked: Looking at a store called “Expat store” or something in that vein in Den Haag as a little boy, asking my parent what “expat” is. “That’s an American immigrant.” “So, why are they not just an immigrant?” “That way they feel better about themselves.”
I only just realised how based my parents are.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Not an expat, an immigrant. I hate the term expat.
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I’ve always assumed it depends on what your context is. If your perspective is the country that the immigrant is from, then they would be an expat. If you are in context of the other country they are an immigrant.
Ie
“My friend is an expat who went off to The Netherlands.” “My friend is an immigrant that came here from The USA.”
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 week ago
I feel lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/30883044 applied to “expat” as well.
kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
We don’t want her back. Throw her into the sea and let nature take its course.