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marmar

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Tue Jan 20, 2026, 10:15 AM Tuesday

One of the things I hear more frequently discussed in this MAGA/Tech oligarch fixation on Europe...... [View all]


...... at least on social media, perhaps not so much the MSM, is that there are "few things harder to put up with than a good example."
There's the bluster about "preserving Western civilization" and preserving Europe's whiteness, but the actual target is the fact that well-regulated capitalism with a strong social safety net works. They've just about destroyed it here, so their target is Western Europe. fElon Musk and the tech oligarchs are out to kill the EU's efforts to regulate them.
Again, there's no MSM discussion of this, but I'm hearing it more and more from the social media I consume.


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