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Fundamental rift between US and EU opens up in Munich (www.dw.com)

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At the Munich Security Conference, the "shared values" so frequently invoked by Europeans were called into question by US Vice President JD Vance. So do the US and Europe still speak the same language?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have learned how surprisingly many of my countrymen are damagingly ignorant, racist, homophobic, misogynistic, and just shitty enough to be trolls for lols regardless of the harm. It’s really really surprising how many people are. But they don’t all vote. What is even more surprising is how many decent people can’t be bothered to vote, even if they aren’t totally on board with the “better” side, to keep the objectively worse side at bay.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Because we jerked off about killing the Nazis for like a century and were fat lazy fucks in our ivory towers. Obviously we're ignorant shitty morons we have no real experience and think we do.

America's reckoning was written on the walls and anyone with a brain has seen it just a matter of who would push that button and this president just might