• Porto881@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    The French literally burn their country down anytime cuts to social services or tax increases are proposed. They literally can’t stand to budget for foreign aide like the US has done for decades

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      6 hours ago

      This is what happens when your population is educated about history, and when your country has a history of resistance.

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        5 hours ago

        It’s what happens when the past 80 years of your country have been spent entirely subsidized by America’s gross paternalistic attitude to the “Old War.” Western European institutions cannot stand on their own without the bleeding of American capital/labor