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cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml to Europe@lemmygrad.ml · 13 days ago

New level of desperation and dysfunction in the Fourth Reich

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cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml to Europe@lemmygrad.ml · 13 days ago
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https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-belgium-hungary-ukraine-loan-war-russia-funds-finances/

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    Ok, would you explain what exactly is incorrect? Is the rest of the EU not changing the rules and using other tools to pressure Belgium into supporting their war effort at the expense of their financial sectors reputation?

    I can’t dig into who is influencing European elections and how, but the rest of it seems to be congruent with the article what (admittedly little) I already know.

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      I mean every single sentence has some ugly falsehood. There’s no point in addressing nonsense like claiming that the EU will “crush” Belgium like it’s crushed Hungary (what), that NATO has been defeated in Ukraine (what), that the EU rigs elections in member states (what). That’s not what I’m here for. These people are lost.

      The important thing is that this person believes, or consistently acts as if they believe, that all these things are true. They’re not being rhetorical, those are the things that inform their opinions. You need to consider this when assessing what they say. Like, if you want to ask about the EU being fascists now apparently, consider that the evidence is things like crushing the independence of union states, rigging elections, and being defeated in border wars. Can we think of any nation state this actually applies to? Why would a person have such a blind spot?

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        Vote Rigging in Moldova’s 2025 Parliamentary Elections

        Moldova’s Pro-EU Party Wins Vote Due To Manipulation And EU Interference

        Romania cancelled elections, banned the leading candidate, and reran the vote so the EU-NATO stooge could win

        EU commissioner threatens to overturn elections: “we did it in Romania and we will obviously do it in Germany if necessary”

        Romania’s stolen elections were only the start: Inside the EU’s war on democracy

        EU interventionism in national elections: Who’s next?

        EU official plotted to ‘organise resistance’ against Hungary’s Orban

        EU Trying for Regime Change in Hungary

        EU Weighs Blocking Slovakia Funds (Due to Opposition to Ukraine War)

        Robert Fico’s failed assassination raises specter of Western plotting

        EU interference in the Czech elections

        EU withholds funds from governments it doesn’t like

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          Of course, that’s the ONE comment that TheOctonaut did not find worthy of a reply. 🤣

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        Welcome to Lemmygrad, maybe you’ll stay a while and expose yourself to perspectives different from your own, and maybe even change your mind based on new evidence.

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          Yeah, no, I’m familiar and as it turns out repeating nonsense from “Telegram sources” isn’t changing my opinions of anything. As someone who has literally voted for communist candidates in elections in the last year, I’m glad to have grown up before this type of American sports-team need for religious unquestioning, black and white adherence to whatever the online bubble is totally organically pushing. If someone wants to in a handful of words categorise Hungary as “crushed” or Ukraine as “Nazi” that’s not a serious line of thought that needs to be interrogated. Its source does.

          Until my new PieFed client figures out how to block instances, please don’t expect me to engage with naked fluff talking points on here. I’m interested in speaking to people about how they themselves engage with it.

          Of course, I’ll likely just be banned, because engaging with other viewpoints is not exactly as encouraged here as you’ve suggested.

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            Of course, I’ll likely just be banned, because engaging with other viewpoints is not exactly as encouraged here as you’ve suggested.

            You haven’t engaged with anything from what I can gather. All you’ve done is come in here and talk down to others about what they believe, how they think, and the sources they’re using. That is the part that’s “online bubble” behavior, that you refuse to even engage with alternatives to what you already think. It’s like coming into a place and taking a shit on the floor, and then saying, “Wow, it stinks in here! You must really like the smell of shit to let it stink so bad in here!”

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              You’ve misunderstood what I meant by “source”. I meant “who is benefiting from making young leftists think like this” not “lol nice substack bro”.

              Rest is spot on though 🫡

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                “who is benefiting from making young leftists think like this”

                Think like what though? That the EU is not a bastion of “freedom and democracy”? You haven’t made it clear what you even believe about anything, other than dropping a random “As someone who has literally voted for communist candidates in elections in the last year”, as if this proves you are clearheaded on everything ideologically. For all I know, you’re talking about Zohran Mamdani in the US, who has been labeled a communist but can’t even stand by AES states.

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                  I’m from Ireland and it was a local election.

                  As it turns out, when you aren’t from somewhere that leftist thought is completely alien, you don’t have to daydream of the collapse of western civilisation to see change.

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                    As it turns out, when you aren’t from somewhere that leftist thought is completely alien, you don’t have to daydream of the collapse of western civilisation to see change.

                    What does “western civilization” mean to you? Because usually when someone touts the importance of “western civilization”, they are standing atop a hill made up of bodies from the rampaging slaughter and plunder of colonialism and imperialism. Something you should have somewhat of an understanding from if you are from Ireland, considering its own dealings with British colonialism; what exactly is civilized about that slaughter and oppression that would have you protective of a notion of so-called western civilization?

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                    Despite being widely viewed as Europe’s most “pro-Palestine” country, Ireland is, per person, the single largest economic supporter of Israel on Earth. In 2024 alone, it imported $3.2 billion in goods and services from Israel, over $600 for every resident. Most of that was dual-use electronics: components that power both consumer tech and military drones. Shockingly, that’s more than 12 times the U.S. import figure per capita. While the Irish government speaks the language of justice, its material role in Israel’s genocide is among the most substantial in the world. Far from practising what they preach, Ireland’s ruling class, by the logic of the free market and the parasitic nature of its economy, simply practices what they leech.

          • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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            this isn’t reddit shithead

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              Ah yogszy! Been a while since I saw your name. How’s the collapse of the west progressing? Imminent, I believe it was. In 2024.

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                It’s progressing better than I could’ve hoped, and if you’re too ignorant to see it happening then what else is there to say. Now go back to whatever hole you crawled out of fash.

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                  I’m glad you see it working out, what’s next (once the likes of me have been dealt with)?

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                    oh look found a picture of you

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            voted for a communist candidates in elections last year

            How’s that going btw?

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              One billion times more productive than posting about Russia on discussion board

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                One billion times 0 is still 0.

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                  I appreciate that you see both as zero, that’s remarkably insightful for this place.

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                    You really should read theory. I think you haven’t yet, so you’re a little lost. It’s okay, all of us learn at our own pace

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                One billion times zero is still zero.

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