• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Europe have offered President Erdogan little resistance

    Yeah.

    Europe, resisting the US is great and all, but y’all need to look in your own backyard, at Turkey, Hungary, and rising alt right parties everywhere.

    It can happen to you, too. And by the time it’s close, it’s too late.

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      Trump is basically the same as Erdogan, and Putin. Same network of “leaders”.

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        That’s pretty undeniable, but the important question is, will European liberals continue to be like Pelosi and Schumer? That’s the question that will determine if free Europe has a future. Fascists gonna fascist. It’s the rest of government that makes it possible for fascists to rule.

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          Depends on how seriously they take things like Trump, le Pen in France, and AfD. Not looking great so far, but hopefully we start seeing something soon.

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        Just like everything else the GOP says, all those looney, raving conspiracy theories about the “new world order” turned out to be projection too.

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      Ah, but that would mean Turkey wouldn’t be blocking the flow of migrants anymore, and we can’t have that now, can we?

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      Best they can do is promote austerity policies and tax breaks for corporations