[OC] My feeling as European reading news on Lemmy/Reddit

Gods, this is so accurate. A part of me wish we could just isolate the U.S. for a bit, because I'd be curious to see how that'd affect the discourse in the rest of the world. The rise of the far right and Trump legitimately being voted in as president legitimised the far-right movements in my country as well. Last election people were literally pushing for the stop-and-frisk BS to become a thing here.

I hate that I know what stop-and-frisk even is.

We need a new internet, without shootings and two party politics!
- But with blackjack and hookers!
Yup, they're bringing the whole world down with them
- You're just jealous it's not Europe's job anymore.
- Like the rest of the worlds shit is any better. Right wing facists are on the rise everywhere. Ours are just fucking stupider.
  Italy facists, brexit, climate, etc fucking whole world is a dumpster.
He wasn't legitimately voted in, though.
- In 2016? I would’ve loved to see Hillary be President but that’s not what we got.
Every time I mentioned Trump on Reddit’s world news sub, I got shouted down for talking about “irrelevant” US politics. I tried to explain his potential impact on the politics of other countries, but they didn’t want to hear it.
- Trump was important for the rest of the world when he was... you know... the president of the US... now it's just a little mediocre guy and I understand that all the little advances in bringing him to justice are pretty important to you guys, but I couldn't care less.
  If he ever gets elected again for some reason, then we will see the potential impact, but for now he is pretty irrelevant im afraid.
By the gods, were it to be so!
I would too so enjoy if, as if from some casement unseen, a pair of disembodied, godly hands were to reach down shoo away those br-r-rown masses from Albion and her sisters, to keep them pure!
It is a crime against Balthūre that they invented fascism in 2016!
In the meantime, I will be feasting for this day!
If that happened, the rest of the world would still find a way to talk about the US the whole time.

Sounds like Europeans need to step up on being a dumpster fire if they want as much coverage as us. Be the change you want to see in the world!

Hey well seems that most of EU is working on it sadly
Between Meloni, Órban, PiS, the True Finns, etc. I think there are plenty of dumpster fires
- the True Finns
  I didn't know the Samis were in charge of finland now
Let’s open nomination for “Florida Man”, EU
There's an active war in Europe. Mediterranean countries are struggling with illegal immigrants and straight up sinking their boats. It's not all sunshine and rainbows.

Google tells me there's like 332 million people in the US and like 750 million in Europe. I get that they're different countries, but different states here might as well be.
Are there posts Europeans make that I'm just not seeing (beyond complaints like this one), or is there something else that keeps them from posting and upvoting the content they apparently want to see in places like world news?
- Europeans tend to prefer discussing local matters in their own language
- Different states are not like literally different countries.
- I get that they’re different countries, but different states here might as well be.
  ^ This guy Articles of Confederation.
  (Seriously, the European Union basically has the same kind of structure now as the United States did between 1776 and 1789.)
Europeans still don’t have enough population, money, or influence to change the status quo.
English is the issue. There are only about 80M people who speak English as a first language in Europe, out of 0.8 billion or so. Yeah, plenty of people who are relatively fluent in English participate in English social media, but many also spend a lot of time in social media in their own language, something English-speakers never see.
The Fediverse has a pretty big German-speaking population, but not as much French, Italian, Spanish, etc. I don't know where they are -- probably Facebook / Instagram.

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I could have sworn the original had better than 240p quality...
- Oh it totally can be, this is the result of a 5 seconds search, haha.
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Try being Canadian. We've lost all sense of self-identity here

I knew you guys were screwed when i read about Canadian screaming about "the 1st amendment" when getting arrested by the police.
- We talk more about Trump here than our own politicians.
  And our politicians are Trump supporters.
- Even the Newfie slang is less common

America is part of the world.

Checkmate, earthists.

They sure as hell don't act like it though

Not a shitpost, it's a FACT. Lol

https://lemmy.world/c/notuspolitics

!notuspolitics@lemmy.word

(I don't know which of these you're supposed to share, but it's a good community).

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !notuspolitics@lemmy.world
Thanks!

I've been trying to upload it for 1 hour, sorry for the peoples whi saw it 3 times already 😬

Nice gif

Facts

This is so accurate you could use it as a scope to shoot a fly from a rat ass all the way from across the next town.

Th...thanks ?
- Welcome buddy.

American local news cycles from city to county to state to national, and then starts over again.

American national news is just one outrage after another.

American local news cycles from city to county to state to national, and then starts over again.
And virtually never international, unless there's a strong US angle.

ITT Europeans once again acting like American politics don't affect them in any way.

Anyone else think it's funny that Britain got Boris around the same time America got trump?

Just because we have a huge cultural effect doesn't mean europeans want to be drowned out by our issues, some relatable and some unique.
It's not like news is just politics. Today a helicopter (yeah yeah, it was an Osprey, not a regular helicopter, whatever) with a bunch of US soldiers crashed in Australia and I can read about it in German and French news, this most certainly doesn't affect me at all.
The reason you see a right shift in many countries is because more people are feeling left behind. Also, people build conservative echo chambers online that reinforce certain arguments regardless of your nationality. So it is no surprise that right wing rhetoric is on the rise in many places.
- How does more people feeling left behind lead to conservatism though? This is a genuine question.

OC for the one of the most oft repeated memes is like kissing your sister

Wholesome?
Right?

...that's right, it goes in the square hole.