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Okay, we know that the US can't be trusted because it's political compass wil lalways be changing. So what now? We need to organize, but how? Volt Europa is pretty weak and several people I have met have expressed dislike for them, the EU is gonna be reactive instead of proactive towards threats as always, Elon is trying to buy out more parties in EU...

How to proceed? Anything to do that doesn't seem hopeless, like voting for paneuropean parties, or leaving US based platforms for EU based, less developed platforms (like Peertube instead of Youtube, or Matrix instead of Whatsapp?

I wish EU was stronger and both the EU and its citizens (and netizens) les reliant on external services (like youtube, reddit, whatsapp, discord, etc.), and I want to do something about it, but I feel completely lost and hopeless.

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[โ€“] poVoq@slrpnk.net 65 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Surveys pretty consistently show that European solidarity is very widely supported by a solid majority and the economic base of the EU is solid despite what some infinite growth pundits like to claim.

The main challenge will be get rid of our own home grown right-wing populists like Orban etc. and avoid getting divided over the support for Ukraine.

The US will be mainly occupied with itself in the coming years, and while we will certainly get to feel some negative fallout from that, it will primarily be a problem for US citizens and I really wish them all the best to get through this somehow.

[โ€“] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Wealth disparity is the number one enemy of the modern world. Every millionaire with a net worth over X is a threat to democracy and actively reduces our chances of maintaining a democracy. I think I remembering hearing X being 10 million from a scientist researching this thing, but even if you bump it up to 20 or 50 million - still insane piles of wealth - removing the rest via taxation would change the world for the better overnight.

Break up monopolies and tax the rich out of existence, that should be the platform of every party, the single policy that we should strive to complete this year, before it's too late. The US is what too late looks like, this is all a consequence of allowing the Uber wealthy to continuously drain the network of the bottom 99% of people.

[โ€“] pixelswarm@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 day ago

Yeah the biggest threat are the same corrupt right wing forces in Europe (which are often funded by the US or other adversaries). They will try to chip away Europe's unity and divide, which leaves everyone weaker in terms of bargaining power or otherwise. Britain already fell into this and they are almost certainly not going to be better off by themselves.

Europe should be concentrating on unity, but also economic and military strength.

[โ€“] HowRu68@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

home grown right-wing populists

corrupted traitors, which are mostly foreign subsidised and supported. Let's not forget that important bit. If they weren't, they probably wouldn't never gotten that far, or so I think