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From Germany myself LOL. Lib wanna be “leftist” larpers are insufferable, their cognitive dissonance hurts, especially regarding what you mentioned
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The EU does a lot of cute PR, I understand why people get baited.
Anyone who’s had to deal directly or indirectly with frontex knows what it’s really all about though.
Memes like this one are important, the controversial reaction means it actually challenges how people think.
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LMAL, here to serve 💅💅
Real.
Tho we would probably have to defed half of Lemmy to cut down on the downvotes 💀💀💀
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Should we open a cycle jerk for content like this? /hj Or you can meta post even on here IDC
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based af meme :3
🫡 that’s what I’m here for :3
The euros are getting angry lmao.
Lmao this one’s genuinely great.
I’m borrowing the idea for a twist on it, thanks for making/sharing it.
Sounds great, feel free sharing it here once you’re done. Can’t wait :3
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Feel free to post that on here as well, good shit
let them seethe, they are best served well cooked 😁
Most people cannot understand this, but imperialism bad.
No but see when you psint it red its more good and also faster.
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The EU is a neoliberal technocracy with social democratic aesthetics.
It literally enforces capitalism, austerity (and thereby cuts of welfare).
Very well put, it’s also a xenophobic fortress thanks to Frontex killing thousands at the border each year (and then libs whine about ~170 having died at the GDR’s border). AFAIK border controls inside Schengen, justified with right-wing populist arguments regurgitated even by greens and social democrats, were introduced…
Even having a functioning (read: properly nationalised) railway is incompatible with EU law because of some BS legislation about “fair competition” 💀💀💀
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https://rivals.space/@deuxnise/115032733056555001
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Peter Griffin at a traffic stop - the cop uses a skin color chart to tell if Peter has “schengen / freedom of movement” or if he has to submt to an “anti-terrorism border check”
OMG that’s painfully accurate 💀, feel free to post it here as well
Hang on, I gotta call the based department
When you are an exploitative currency bloc that forces austerity onto people, keeps ex colonies under your thumb, enforced a deeply unjust legalistic framework of international reliations, but you have some decent regulations and don’t axe literally all research.
A liberals’ wet dream
Got anything article-length I can read about this? I’ve always thought of the EU as a docile-ish vehicle for US imperialism rather than its own engine of imperialism.
I can name a few things to get you started.
Exemplary keywords (off the top of my head):
- EU fishing west africa
- CFA Franc
- Neocolonialism
Disclaimer about Wikipedia: it often has a liberal bias in the way it portrays things, but offers a good starting point to get you acquainted with a topic (read: it functions well as an encyclopedia LOL).
In more general terms: it boils down to outsourcing based on globalisation, unequal “trade agreements” and “resource/mineral rights” and the shit France is still pulling with their CFA Francs in Africa.
However you should keep in mind the following: the era of classic colonialism (and imperialism to an extent) is largely over, replaced with their globalised neo- counterparts. Officially the countries are independent, but the old dynamics have only been renewed/remade and obfuscated through the process often called globalisation.
Here is a longer article by Monthly review:
That might be a good read (I don’t have the time to read it right now, but skimming it, it seems solid)
Edit: also general exploitation based on a global supply chain and siphoning off uncountable amounts of surplus value as profit or cheap prises for the global north.
Also note this DW video of Frontex personnel enabling so called “pushbacks” (ie coastal guards with batons chasing down a boat of migrants)
and the comments are just what you would expect from a place with the motto “united in diversity”…
also idk if this is DW being dumb af or just a straight up mask off nazi moment but wtf
DW is basically German Radio “Liberty”. It’s directly part of the government, not (nominally) separate like the other state-broadcasters
based meme and better pfp
nawww, thanks! ~w~
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