Average lemmy political ideology

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.

Real.

Tho we would probably have to defed half of Lemmy to cut down on the downvotes 💀💀💀

Should we open a cycle jerk for content like this? /hj Or you can meta post even on here IDC

From Germany myself LOL. Lib wanna be "leftist" larpers are insufferable, their cognitive dissonance hurts, especially regarding what you mentioned

🫡 that's what I'm here for :3

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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changed "inside shengen" in all caps to being stylised in Markdown, since it would be spelled out by screen readers instead of being read properly

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No but see when you psint it red its more good and also faster.

A liberals' wet dream

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:

• Five Characteristics of Neoimperialism

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

nawww, thanks! ~w~

The EU is ready to go on the knees before the USA on a whim (see Von der Leyen with recent tariff talks.) 💀

At least the concept of the EU in the sense of a common economic area and a union of peoples isn't as grotesque as that of the "U"SA. Still, the EU is rotten to the core since it's very foundation is built as a union of financial capital...