It’s simple actually. “Money donations” are not “freedom of expression” like in the US, there are very limited amounts that individuals may donate to political parties, anything above is corruption. This is the general rule across Europe. You don’t want your democracy for sale, you don’t allow it to be bought.

via colonial legacy institutions and the so called international ruled based order which was designed to maintain Western hegemony.

I don’t think that was the main motivation for the current international rules order, but then you should be happy to know that Putin and Trump are breaking them all and trying to bring good old colonialism back.

Also interestingly the far left and the greens today at the European Parliament aligned themselves with the far right (German AfD etc) to sabotage the deal with Mercosur, a deal that would allow Global South countries to trade on an equal stand with Europe. So, sorry for not taking very seriously the people always talking about European colonization, it often just hides eurocentrism and unresolved superiority complexes… When it’s time for action they don’t hesitate to find lame excuses to join forces with racist nationalists that want a Europe Fortress.

European colonization of Africa failed and it’s over. Arab colonization succeed. History is written by winners, so people forget the Arabs were colonizers before the Europeans… funny ah?

Except for France and Russia, no European country has any relevant role in Africa these days. China has a huge one. China a “Global South” country, so a victim? Effectively colonizing islands left and right in the Asian seas…

I’m not denying history, but currently a bit more worried with the present. This obsession with XIX century colonization when there’s old style colonization happening right now, from Ukraine to Armenia, South Sudan, Philippines… and then new economical colonization all over Africa by China… .

Time to drop the eurocentrism, we’re not the center of the world anymore and since a long time.

Oh sorry, I forgot Sweden is in Africa. Or that referring to an app as European implies that Europe is a country. Luckily there are still people like you to educate us all /s

True. I’d be up for that, but honestly more for a real social network for friends and family, like Facebook once was, than for a debate forum like Twitter. That demand could maybe endure that it would remain a friends only network…

100%

Did it though?

If you think colonization is a European exclusive you’re wasting your time with me. Europe is a shadow of its past. China is the new colonizing force.

I’m honestly fed up of that anti-European and simultaneously insanely eurocentric perspective. The struggle for power is nothing new nor racially exclusive. Democracy and rule of law are the relatively rare concepts, of which Europe has been among the best examples for the past decades.

This narrative of guilty peoples, special races is honestly sickening and much closer to the far right views than to the universal values we should seek.

Dead tired of that BS.

Considering the amount of bots and trolls everywhere I can see a certain appeal on an app that requires an id verification to be honest.

Hold my hand and let’s say yes together.

True. So there’s that or submit to fascism instead.

Oh you’re one of those. Are you talking about the same Global South of which China is a supposed part of it? Get real pal… you need more history and above all more critical thinking, and ideally up to date to the times you’re living on.

PS: but I guess asking for critical thinking to someone with “commie” on the name is asking too much…

That depends on the success of the operation.

False, but also he holds all the guns. American justice and political systems are the ones who should be stopping him but failing miserably at it. In a normal democracy (see Brazil or South Korea for reference) he would be in jail.

You’re 100% right, a big part of the left is stuck in 1917. They think Russia is a revolutionary force, Europe is a colonial world power, and the Jews are evil… it’s tiring as hell to be a lefty when this is the level of most online lefties.

You never thought? Europe ended colonization last century already pal, wake up.

Remember the time when Europe ended colonization? It was last century, probably before you were born.

I mean, storming the capitol doesn’t seem that risky considering the precedents…

In fairness, CBP would stop them at the border. They wouldn’t even get an ESTA approved if they answered truthfully.

Please let at least the English fans go, they’re lovely.