this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2025
120 points (96.2% liked)

Europe

5124 readers
1569 users here now

News and information from Europe πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

(Current banner: La Mancha, Spain. Feel free to post submissions for banner images.)

Rules (2024-08-30)

  1. This is an English-language community. Comments should be in English. Posts can link to non-English news sources when providing a full-text translation in the post description. Automated translations are fine, as long as they don't overly distort the content.
  2. No links to misinformation or commercial advertising. When you post outdated/historic articles, add the year of publication to the post title. Infographics must include a source and a year of creation; if possible, also provide a link to the source.
  3. Be kind to each other, and argue in good faith. Don't post direct insults nor disrespectful and condescending comments. Don't troll nor incite hatred. Don't look for novel argumentation strategies at Wikipedia's List of fallacies.
  4. No bigotry, sexism, racism, antisemitism, dehumanization of minorities, or glorification of National Socialism.
  5. Be the signal, not the noise: Strive to post insightful comments. Add "/s" when you're being sarcastic (and don't use it to break rule no. 3).
  6. If you link to paywalled information, please provide also a link to a freely available archived version. Alternatively, try to find a different source.
  7. Light-hearted content, memes, and posts about your European everyday belong in !yurop@lemm.ee. (They're cool, you should subscribe there too!)
  8. Don't evade bans. If we notice ban evasion, that will result in a permanent ban for all the accounts we can associate with you.
  9. No posts linking to speculative reporting about ongoing events with unclear backgrounds. Please wait at least 12 hours. (E.g., do not post breathless reporting on an ongoing terror attack.)

(This list may get expanded when necessary.)

We will use some leeway to decide whether to remove a comment.

If need be, there are also bans: 3 days for lighter offenses, 14 days for bigger offenses, and permanent bans for people who don't show any willingness to participate productively. If we think the ban reason is obvious, we may not specifically write to you.

If you want to protest a removal or ban, feel free to write privately to the mods: @federalreverse@feddit.org, @poVoq@slrpnk.net, or @anzo@programming.dev.

founded 9 months ago
MODERATORS
top 21 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Our european leaders have gotten lazier and lazier over time, with eastern block countries heavily affected by corruption and populist nationalistic propaganda has been spreading like wildfire recently.

It’s time to get off our high horse and start investing in ourselves more and stop looking up to anyone else. They are not better than us, they were made to appear so and we’ve been just taking everything at face value.

We have both the manpower and the resources, we just need to be more united and support and push for more relevant policies in our countries.

Dunno, maybe it’s wishful thinking , but I just don’t want to be defined by what other countries say or do. We have to think for ourselves.

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I feel like this is world wide. People need to stop looking up to someone to save them. It's like humanity as a whole is played out and used. It just feels like all the old methods of what was considered governing are collapsing like the way religion as governing collapsed. There isn't anything to replace it. Maybe that's why they want to use AI.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

About half of us are still with you. This will happen to you too if you don’t keep the wealthy in check

[–] MordercaSkurwysyn@lemm.ee 13 points 3 days ago

It's not like USA didn't profit from being the sole sheriff on international waters for those 80 years. Europe being subdued and mostly not seeking any power projection in that period allowed the US to dictate who buys what from whom and in what currency. None of world policing was a charity. There's no going back to that. Europe has to commit to security, I just hope Von Der Leyen and Tusk will not waste that 1trillion euro they are promising to spend on that and that Americans will take the Russians assets out the Romanian way and become sane again.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Denmark protests against the US wanting to annex its territory, so it's going to buy more US planes to defend itself. 🀑

Europe has more problems than just laziness.

[–] its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Republican politicians. Most Americans haven't changed their minds. We are going through some shit ATM, just ignore us for a while please.

[–] the_wiz@feddit.org 11 points 3 days ago

Well... if you as a nation wouldn't have this big military of yours and the ability to kill 90% of all life on earth, and IF you would stick to your home turf to fight out this rough shit... well THEN it would be much more easy to ignore you.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 36 points 3 days ago

Unfortunately trust doesn't work that way. When you betray alliances, trust is broken and it would take a fundamental change in the US political system and many decades to rebuild that trust.

This isn't Trump's first term. This isn't an interruption of America being it's true self. Biden was the interruption, Trump is the new normal of what America is to the world. Even if a Democrat wins the next election (if there is one) no one can trust that the US won't go back to someone like Trump in a future election.

The US is at best an unreliable ally and at worst an adversary. That's just how it is now.

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Unfortunately the world cannot afford to ignore.

[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is the part that saddens me the most. I don't care if America burns, we deserve it. It's all the bridges burning at the same time that hurts.

[–] RedPandaRaider@feddit.org 9 points 3 days ago

Americans are not our friends. Republican, Democrat or otherwise.

[–] dynamoMaus@feddit.org 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Most? Isn't that what peoples vote means? I think your fucking house is on fire. Ours too by the way.

[–] dryfter@lemm.ee 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Isn’t that what peoples vote means?

Assuming the elections here weren't tampered with, yes. But in this case, it's pretty obvious that there was clearly shit going on to produce the election results that Trump wanted.

Also, the elections here are pretty much a choice between a shit sandwich and a turd sandwich because of the two-party system that has been the standard for decades. 3rd party candidates are basically shunned and seen as a wasted vote. Because of this, a big majority of the voting population just doesn't vote because they feel like their voice isn't heard anyways.

Then take into account that critical thinking wasn't ever taught in schools, tribalism, propaganda, and people just plain trying to survive and put food on their table unless they are wealthy thanks to "trickle down economics".

Pretty obvious how we got here, the house is on fire, the garage is torched, and both neighbors' houses are about to go up in flames. The neighbors are outside screaming at the house that's on fire because the people inside are the firefighters and too busy trying eat instead of escaping and putting out the fire.

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago

But in this case, it's pretty obvious that there was clearly shit going on to produce the election results that Trump wanted.

You mean besides the usual voter roll culling in red states, Trump discouraging mail-in ballots and Elmo promising million-USD prizes to voters?

We're all burning just one of us is burning a little faster.

I hope that European consumer boycotts work. It won't be easy but I hope it creates the waves needed for our corporate overlords to start paying off politicians to allow better relationships between the EU and USA. But one can only hope.

[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Some of haven't. Some of us wish we could leave and lever look back.