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  • EldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    14 hours ago

    Sorry if I’d like ANY response to the attacks on trans people across Europe, the UK, Canada, and plenty of other places.

    I want people out there like the Black Panthers, too. I want Europe to divest themselves from the American military industrial complex. I want to watch American companies who support and enable these fascists see their profits shrivel up as the economy collapses. I want to watch Google and Facebook and Twitter burn.

    But all I hear from Europeans on here is how all Americans are fascists for not being in open war with the regime while fascism tightens its grip on your own right-wing parties, and I’m sick of it. If you’re not proactive, you’ll be in the same boat as us. Italy had fascist gangs attacking people in the streets a few years back. We used to say “it could never happen here” when reading about Nazi Germany and wondering just how they could let it happen. And then it did happen here. Now you’re the ones saying it.

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      14 hours ago

      Sorry if I’d like ANY response to the attacks on trans people across Europe, the UK, Canada, and plenty of other places.

      Italy’s current governing party is declaredly fascist. It still hasn’t done anything as bad as the US government had been doing before Trump, never mind after. Nonetheless, there’s been multiple general strikes during their mandate, protests, and so on. Our ports were blocked in protest of the Gaza war, something we have WAY less influence on than you guys do, and those protests in my city drew the biggest crowd I’d ever seen at such an event.

      Are we perfect? No. Should we do more? Yes. But please don’t put us on the same level. All I hear from Americans is “oh no, I’ll lose my job and starve on the street”, but I live in a country where the average salary is half that of the US, with electricity two times as expensive and fuel almost three times as expensive compared to the US, so well, sorry if I don’t fully empathise.

      If you’re not proactive, you’ll be in the same boat as us. Italy had fascist gangs attacking people in the streets a few years back.

      Italy INVENTED fascism, we’ve been fighting it for a century, it was born out of opposition to communism, and it wasn’t eradicated at the end of WWII because our new overlords, the US, were just as afraid of communism as our previous ones, so yeah, we know, we’re working on it, we’ve been for a long time.

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        8 hours ago

        I live in a country where the average salary is half that of the US, with electricity two times as expensive and fuel almost three times as expensive compared to the US

        ok now do housing

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            7 hours ago

            Ok, I guess, even though you’re the one making the claim lol

            Housing in Italy is projected to cost $1,070 per month on average, for a total of $1,970 per month on average for overall cost of living.

            For some reason that site doesn’t have figures for all of the USA, but on average, costs are higher in the USA both for housing and overall cost of living.

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              6 hours ago

              I asked for yours, not ours. I know ours. Btw you just cited a monthly cost of living that’s higher than the average monthly salary.