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Trump’s US doesn’t just think Europe is obsolete – it wants to see it dead

https://lemmy.world/post/27609480

Trump’s US doesn’t just think Europe is obsolete – it wants to see it dead - Lemmy.World

Summary The “Signalgate” scandal confirms the Trump administration’s deep disdain for Europe, viewing it not just as obsolete but actively wanting its demise. There are 3 major implications: an inevitable trade war where Europe must unite; continued US pressure on Greenland despite European pushback; and Europe needing to support Ukraine not just without US help, but potentially against US interests. European leaders who stand firm against US bullying are seeing rising approval ratings. Europe should “with firmness, courage and politeness” chart its own path forward.

Mar 31, 2025 at 11:12amWeb
Show threadAliktrenMar 31, 2025
Europe is a comparative bastion of liberal democracy, hardly suprising facists dont like us
Show threadInvertedParallaxMar 31, 2025
It’s the south, they hate that the coasts respect Europe more, and that it’s generally atheist (atheist in their mind means anything outside of evangelical southern baptists, ie the true religion).
Show threadInfynisMar 31, 2025
But Europe has the literal Vatican! That’s where the religion comes from!
Show threadInvertedParallaxMar 31, 2025

Oh my sweet summer child, you just opened the door to madness.

Southern baptists don’t…they don’t consider catholics to be Christians.

Not ‘catholics aren’t real Christians’ or ‘catholics are heretics’, they’re not Christian at all, they’re like Mormons or Muslims.

I have never managed to understand it, and I had a few SBC try to explain it to me, their attitude is just that it’s not real Christianity like protestantism, it’s something else, something alien.

This is why Irish and Italians weren’t considered white for a long time too, only really white people can be Christian, because of the curse of Ham. Black people like Obama are straight Muslim, full stop.

Feel free to go down this rabbit hole, it won’t get you anywhere good, and the sbc has been trying to quietly backpedal as best they can, but it’s still really popular among the smaller congregations, at least the ones I met.

Show threadInfynisMar 31, 2025
Interesting. Wild, but interesting. I consider Mormons to be Christian too, I didn’t realize it was its own thing, I thought it was just the blanket term for religions that worship Jesus.
Show threadInvertedParallaxMar 31, 2025
Don’t sweat it, everyone is just gatekeeping, because only their specific religion is true and everyone else is just evil and siding with Satan.
Show threadgravitas_deficiencyMar 31, 2025
And they’re all mutually exclusive! So if you’re religious and believe in one of the various Christian offshoots (or really, any faith of Abrahamic origin), no matter which one you pick, you’re going to hell according to most of the others.
Show threadtechnocritMar 31, 2025

Europe is a comparative bastion of liberal democracy,

I think you mean colonialism and white supremacy.

Show threadInverseParallaxMar 31, 2025

As an Asian, please go fuck yourself.

We had just as much, if not far more cruelty to our own people, for instance our caste system was really just charming.

The British brought rule of law, sanitation and medicine, and they stopped the monstrous Muslims from genociding us every time they felt like it.

Seems like a great trade to me.

Show threadSgnMar 31, 2025
Are you from india?
Show threadInverseParallaxMar 31, 2025

Born in America, and that’s about all I identify as.

But the Muslims were absolutely brutal to my ancestors.

Show threadEx NummisMar 31, 2025
This is why “living in interesting times” is a curse. Give me the boring decades where nothing happens.
Show threadDragonstaffMar 31, 2025
TBF, they want everyone dead.
Show threadtechnocritMar 31, 2025
This is capitalism. There are no “allies” in the race to destroy the planet.
Show threadWafzigMar 31, 2025
Meanwhile I’m trying to figure out how best to flee the US and set up in Denmark or some similar place with a much higher quality of life and fewer 21st century Nazis.
Show threadUnfortunateShortApr 1, 2025
Good luck. If you don’t pass as a refugee, you just need money, a job, a place to live and to prove all that to the central bureaucracy