• katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    i don’t think it’s so much americans as it is the rise of the european populist far right seizing upon a vulnerable minority to get into power.

    yes they share a lot of the same funding, but you shouldn’t ignore europe’s role in this

    • loutr
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      7 months ago

      Sure, they don’t need any convincing to eat that shit up, but they seem to take a lot of queues from the US. As a couple of examples they straight up copy/pasted the “Brigitte Macron is actually a dude” meme, and just last week we got our first “sovereign citizen” viral video.