MicroWaveMar 31, 2025

Trump’s US doesn’t just think Europe is obsolete – it wants to see it dead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Trump’s US doesn’t just think Europe is obsolete – it wants to see it dead - Lemmy.World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

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 threadInfynis
But Europe has the literal Vatican! That’s where the religion comes from!
Mar 31, 2025 at 2:15pmWeb
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.