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The US far right and Trumps allies are actively working to replace Europe’s head leaders with anti-EU anti democratic far right nationalistic parties and leaders (www.ft.com)

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[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago

Here are all of the Epstein Files that have either been leaked or released.

https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.0-combined.pdf (verified court documents)

https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/black-book-unredacted.pdf (verified pre-Bondi) Trump is on page 85, or pdf pg. 80

Trump’s name is circled. The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book. These people would be “The List “ Here is the story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsiKUXrlcac

Here’s the flight logs https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21165424-epstein-flight-logs-released-in-usa-vs-maxwell/

—————————other Epstein Information

https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Calif_Lawsuit.pdf here’s a court doc of Epstein and Trump raping a 13 yr old together.

Some people think this claim is a hoax. Here is Katies testimony on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo

Epstein’s Ex Says He Boasted About Being a Mossad Agent https://share.google/jLMGahKlCzfV1RHZq Epstein and Israel both hired lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who says he’s building ‘legal dream team’ to defend Israel in court and on internationally | The Times of Israel https://share.google/Lb9hDOduBWG4Elpid

Epstein Docs: https://ia600705.us.archive.org/21/items/epsteindocs/

Epstein Bribes/Payments: 1 BILLION+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7IrEi-ybzs

—————————other Trump information:

Here’s trump admitting to peeping on 14-15 year old girls at around 1:40 on the Howard Stern Radio Show: https://youtu.be/iFaQL_kv_QY

Trump’s promise to his daughter: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-dating-promise_n_57ee98cbe4b024a52d2ead02 “I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”

Trump’s modeling agency was probably part of Jeffreys pipeline: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/

A good summary of Trump-Epstein timeline: https://thepresidential.medium.com/we-have-been-gaslit-about-donald-trump-and-jeffrey-epstein-for-four-years-fbda67c20f75

• ⁠Much of this info can also be found on: https://theepsteindocs.com/

Feel free to do your part and spread this info around so it is never “lost”.

[–] Iapetus@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 hours ago

It shouldn't bother me as much as it does that despite everything visibly getting worse in real time around us, and fascism literally being on the rise everywhere, there's still people pushing dangerously stupid propaganda like this thread claiming the earth can support billions more people and that perfect communism is possible.

The mental gymnastics involved here require an ice pick to the brain.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

What a coincidence, that's also what Putin wants.

[–] noMoreDiotz@thelemmy.club -1 points 10 hours ago

Yeah Putin have been put there by the USA

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

Makes sense. Trump is willing to burn america to the ground in order to be king emperor of the world.

[–] noMoreDiotz@thelemmy.club 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

They say that like it's a new thing. The US sponsored nazis in Europe since ww2

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 7 hours ago

yes? and? Is that news to anyone? Why?

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The day I have to bow my head in front of neo-nazis and fascists is the day they cut it off.

Alerta, antifascista! No pasaran!

[–] Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

You're my hero fr

[–] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

People in Latin America: "First time?"

Every time I see another fucking CPAC being held in my country I pray for america to just collapse already.

[+] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world -9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

wait...the way I hear from non-Americans on Lemmy y'all have it so good and we should be like you? why are you succumbing to the same shit we did if you're better?

[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

We aren't, the only thing we have is universal healthcare and cheaper/free education, but otherwise we are almost as alt right as the US.

[–] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Because Fascism Is an American export. We are not having the CPAC here because it's homegrown. American conservatives are actively coming here and doing political interventionism. If China did that in America The military would be doing arrests. And every time Charlie Kirk puts a foot in my country i wish the bastard was arrested and sent to jail along with the traitors siding with these clowns.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Handle them then please

[+] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world -9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

but if you're so much better than America why are:

your citizens falling for the propaganda
your politicians succumbing to corruption

your cognitive dissonance is showing. also, fascism isn't an American export. it's a Russian export.

show us Americans how to protest and stop a fascist takeover! don't be weak like us Americans.

[–] noMoreDiotz@thelemmy.club 0 points 10 hours ago

Russia is an american export. Remember the 90ies when you guys coup'ed them and then they starved for 10 years

And to answer your question, decades of propaganda

[–] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Lets dismantle this part by part:

1: The one who came up with these idea that America needs to model itself after other countries is you. I don't care about America. I want America to stop pressuring other governments to model themselves after them. I want American foreign policy to stop intervening with other countries and in particular the country where I live.

2: It is rich that you are saying with a straight face that our citizens are falling to propaganda when your citizens have voted for two terms for a huckster, sex offender mentally challenged, child molester.

3: There is a latent right wing coalition in my country that is home grown, yes we had years of political tumult. We have fascists down here and everyone does! We don't have a secret to subdue them we have a fragile emerging resistance that has won a couple of elections: We just had presidential elections a few years back; and the very unpopular right wing candidate suffered a devastating loss despite all the very suspicious financial and media support they had. Which means that the population hasn't entirely "succumbed to propaganda." For our next elections, the republicans are already grooming a couple of candidates for our country. One of them is a Catholic conservative that has been spotted with Elon Musk and the rest of ghouls more than a couple of times.

Here is one of the weasels Eduardo Verastegui doing the Nazi salute on the American Financed CPAC:

4: My country has very little contact with Russia. The ultra right wing coalition of my country does not meet with Putin, They meet with Conservatives from the USA. Maybe you are trying to impose your own biases on me. Personally I am frustrated that my government cannot do something about this bastards coming here. At least not for now, while they have all the might of American military power and economy backing them.

5: Lastly. I think America is hopeless. Your arguments are a good case study for why I feel you people are hopeless. Even in your failures and aggression there is a deep seated narcissism where It's our turn to "show you the way"; We don't have to show you shit. We don't owe you anything. You have allowed the plutocracy poisoning your country to fester and I believe it is a problem that runs deeper than just Trump. You will keep shifting the blame, acting all high and mighty and fail to address the fact that you don't even have a democracy anymore. And in the spirit of American exceptionalism even as those systemic issues are reaching critical mass you will continue to try and shift the blame. Nobody improves by neglecting self reflection. If Putin is pulling the strings of your right wing grifters, he has been enabled by the mounting of corruption that eliminated any legal checks and balances for your billionaire and political class. America has lost the ability to enforce it's laws on it's Oligarchy and you are surprised that an international web of criminals are eager to make connections with that dangerous emerging power?

In the end this feels like a conversation about wounded national Ego. "Hey man don't talk about my shortcomings, you all have it much worse."

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Who are you arguing against? Who said "We're just so much better than America"? Seems like a straw man. People say what they don't want the USA to export fascism to their country and some Americans hear "We're better than America" because some Americans react weirdly to criticism of their country.

Fascism is a danger everywhere. The USA is spreading it everywhere. A lot of people understandably don't like this.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

sounds like a red herring to me. I'm not arguing against a person, I'm pointing out the hypocrisy of non-Americans on lemmy that say "Americans bad! Europe is better!" Americans aren't the problem, our government is. And even if it was Americans, wouldn't the rest of the world that claims to be better than America not have problems with fascism spreading if they were as good as they claim?

that said, the US is simply a tool being used by Putin through Trump to spread influence everywhere.

[–] noMoreDiotz@thelemmy.club 0 points 10 hours ago

America empowered Putin. You guys were really happy when McDonald started popping up everywhere while Russians were starving

[–] noMoreDiotz@thelemmy.club 0 points 10 hours ago

America is Europe, idiot. It's not like Americans had any say on how their country is run. Some old white German have been in charge forever

[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pretty sure fascism should be considered Italian given that whole mussolini guy.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

and it's literally the source of the word as a political movement, lol.

[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 3 points 20 hours ago

Yuuuuuuuup.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

As an American: we aren’t your allies anymore. Please, I beg you, treat this situation seriously, and act accordingly. You will be forced to make some harrowing decisions before this settles into a steady state. And please note that trying to preserve the status quo ante (that no longer exists) is a complete waste of resources at this point. Even in the best case, you will almost certainly have to significantly change how you frame your interactions with us.

I don’t say this gleefully. It breaks my heart in so many different ways to have to say this, much less so often, and to so many people. But it’s what’s happening, and ignoring the situation is actively harmful, and will likely (well, is, and will continue to) get lots of people killed, and make a shitload of peoples lives worse all around the world.

[–] noMoreDiotz@thelemmy.club -3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

You never were our allies. It was an abusive relationship from the start

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

I daresay that Europe would look very fucking different in a negative way if the Marshall plan hadn’t happened post-WW2. And we did that for our allies and the countries we had just defeated.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

For the good of the world Trump needs to go.

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

With Friedrich Merz, the US unfortunately already has the German chancellor more or less in its pocket: The man was Head of the supervisory board of Black Rock Germany until 2020, was chairman of the "Atlantik Brücke" from 2009 to 2016, a lobby organization for economic relations between Germany and the US, held various positions in other business-related lobby organizations, and stands for almost the same kind of mindless hate speech against foreigners as MAGA.

In short, it is fair to say that Merz is more of a US lobbyist than a politician.

Source.

[–] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He is certainly not the best pick, was considered very conservative 30 years ago, but I don't think he is an open pro US lobbyist. From what you hear in the news, he seems to cooperate quite well with France and the like.

[–] noMoreDiotz@thelemmy.club -3 points 10 hours ago

The France of "if you don't have a Rolex at 30 you're a nobody" macron? Bitch pls

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Try that again but remove thw word democratic, and also add that the USA is not alone in this effort.

[–] Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

*With help of European allies indd

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Also no

China and Russia back conservatives.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Musk outspokenly supported AfD (German's far-right populist party) before the last election, in 2024 already, and did much the same in the UK. Even though he's fallen out of grace now, the headline is a forgone conclusion.

I'd still like to know more about it, but the article is paywalled :(

And the El Pais link seems borked, here it is again:
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-06-14/the-great-reset-the-far-rights-detailed-plan-to-dismantle-the-eu.html

[–] Cyclist@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Dude by side with Putin.