LOL, always a few who act like I insulted their mum.

Get a fucking grip.

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And: when will Europe finally return its undeserved Nobel Peace Prize?

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Social rights, keeping us comfy until the boiling water finally cooks us.

@sindarina this is why I haven’t emigrated. Nothing here is really unique to the USA; the details change but fascism is coming for everyone, everywhere. Leaving only delays the reckoning (that delay may be critical for some people; I don’t blame those who do leave). People here pointed and laughed at the UK over the Brexit vote and then got Trump I a few months later.

We’re all in this together. Eradicating fascism from every nation should be the goal. Wish I knew a way to manifest that.

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Everything you wrote is absolutely correct. Alas.

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You are ruining this American's fantasy version of Europe. I need to pretend there is someplace vaguely civilized in this world that I could run away to 😱

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On one side, there are the voters. On the other, a silent mass that never asked for any of this.
People who, most of the time, are tolerant and hold onto their values.
As a Frenchman, fraternity and hospitality have always been part of my principles. But unfortunately, the loudest and most active voices on social media are the ones shaping how we're seen abroad.

So, to those people:
You're not the majority, and karma always does its job. 😘

@sindarina The funny thing -- the really funny thing -- is _where the heck do you think we got it from_? We're all choking to death on 17th century English/French/Spanish/Portuguese colonialism and its' bastard offspring.

This is also the part that makes me want to cry... freaking 17TH CENTURY Western European colonialism. We're poisoned by the political and business aspirations of men who have been dead for 400 years.

I mean, hell, our flag started its' life as a defaced UK trade ensign.

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Yes, I totally agree. Europe doesn't seem equipped to counter American fascism because it's not so far from it ideologically.

As a side nit (about TERF as a European invention), as far as I know the first recorded use of the term TERF was made by the Australian feminist Viv Smythe, who didn't coin it herself. Many of the most active and outspoken TERFs are indeed in the UK. I think it's kind of a global hate group that can't be placed in America or Europe.

@sindarina TERFs are not a EU invention. They definitely are a US invention going back to the mid-1970s destruction of the original radical feminism movement.

The current resurgence of TERFism since Obergefell (marriage equality, Supreme Court of the US) is almost entirely due to the combined efforts of patriarchal authoritarian reactionaries joining forces and money with TERFs in the US and UK (with the influence of prominent celebrities egging them on).