Reminder for my fellow Europeans;

It’s as bad here as in the United States, and, in some cases, worse.

The world's deadliest migrant border is ours.

We actually built that wall.

We have the large migrant camps.

We deport migrants to authoritarian regimes outside of our own borders, and pay those regimes to keep them there.

Women's rights are under assault everywhere, including in so-called 'liberal’ countries like the Netherlands.

Same for LGBTQI+ rights.

TERFs are basically a European invention.

Most elections are won and lost on migration, 'anti-woke’ hate, etc.

We are just as racist, sexist, *phobic, etc.

Wake TF up 🚮

@sindarina

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 😱

@Mikal @sindarina oh, I can tell you now as someone who has been there and here that it’s a lot of the bad things about here, some of it worse, but with a lot more ‘but we aren’t as bad as America and how dare foreigners insinuate otherwise that we are not perfect’

@skinnylatte @sindarina

Facetiousness aside, the advantage to a lot of European (very broadly inclusive) countries are things we don't have like healthcare, efficient transit, less gun violence, and so on. If I had frictionless freedom to move, I could go to southern France or Italy and do the same migrant support work I do here, with a similar climate, but not have to worry about healthcare. So, you know, there's that.

@Mikal @sindarina on the other hand you might also risk up to 18 years in jail in Italy for ‘abetting clandestine migration’ (a charge they’ve tried to get various EU citizens working on improving migrant conditions on)
@Mikal @skinnylatte @sindarina As for example a German you would need extra foreign healthcare policy if you would travel outside Germany in EU countries. Plus you need to speak different languages. Just some aspects of friction in freedom to move.