Döpfner praised US Vice President JD Vance’s Munich Security Conference speech, where he called for an end to the political isolation of the European far right. Döpfner called the response by European leaders “whiny.”[29]

Yeah, so left wing…

I wouldn’t care if it was every now and then, but recently the frequency of Politico articles being shared here has skyrocketed - mostly by a single user, but I have seen them being posted by others, too.

I made a post.

Also, I don’t know Ground’s evaluation system, but categorising a medium owned by Axel Springer SE and publishing fossile and military lobby articles as left leaning is quite wrong if you ask me.

Fuck Politico, fuck Axel Springer, fuck Döpfner. Don’t share their BS, don’t give them clicks.

C’mon, this is behind a paywall and written in a language not everyone speaks.

The point is not whether it’s “kinda like ICE”. You frame the EU as fascist and Frontex as a fascist organisation, and neither is true.

Read up on definitions. And don’t post memes in communities that explicitly rule out memes as wanted content.

Yeah, whatever…

This is about Social Media that present a threat to european independence, not myanmar. Don’t move the goalposts.

You answered my comment like a counter argument, so I thought I had to drive the points home again.

That does not make it fascist though.

First, neither Europe nor the EU is a nation. Second, while the far right is getting stronger in european countries, they are governing maybe two or three countries. And third, while an important characteristic, that tale is not the only defining characteristic.

The US and the EU are abso-fucking-lutely not even close to the same degree of fascist.

When two platforms are doing the exact same thing, how can one be worse than the other?

So? Nobody questioned that.

No, not fascist. Xenophobic, definitely. Racist, sure. Even dehumanizing mass murder. But fascism has many more defining characteristics that are not met in Europe. For example, one of the most important characteristics are cult like efforts towards a nationalistic unity and strength, as well as a purity cult (as in racial or national purity, not sexual abstinence).

Frontex could be an indicator of a fascistoid regime (like ICE is in the US), but itself it isn’t evidence of Europe being fascist, nor is Frontex a fascist organisation (the first being true for ICE, the second would need more information to evaluate).

Also, this community is not for memes.

p.s.: the US shows additional characteristics of a fascist regime though, like a Führer-cult, purity culture, etc. The US is not a fascist state yet, but Trump’s government and the MAGA-movement are pushing it further towards that kind of regime every day.

Fuck Axel Springer press and fuck Politico though.

*This is the truth, look in the logs.

Hmm…

Fuck off, transphobe.

Edit: unmarked content edits are peak internet behaviour.

But that’s not even what happens. Trans women are allowed to compete in women’s categories at Olympia for years now. You can finger count the examples of successful trans athletes.