• thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe
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    18 hours ago

    There’s undoubtedly support coming from Russia as well, since it’s also an oligarchy, but can you Americans please stop trying to pin your own obviously fascist state on anyone other than your own goddamn billionaires?

    LOL. I’m in the UK mate. Don’t call me a Yank thanks.

    I’m no fan of them either, and yes, US billionaires are also slinging money at the local fash, but that’s a relatively recent phenomenon - it started with the Russians, and the rest jumped on from there as far as I can tell, if you have some facts feel free to table them though.

    Please take note that you’ve been ruled by organized crime for decades.

    Maaaate, England has been ruled by barely organised crime for a millenium.

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        when people say Russia they don’t mean the whole of Russia as a country that much should be obvious. All the blame obviously goes to oligarchs and likely the goverment of Russia who uses them as a proxy.

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        17 hours ago

        What difference does it make where you’re from?

        Because literally your entire argument bar one point was predicated on the (incorrect) assumption that I was a hypocritical Yank who was blind to the “log in his own eye”. Your entire position unravels when that thread is pulled

        can you Americans please stop trying to pin your own obviously fascist state on anyone other than your own goddamn billionaires?

        Not a Yank, and not a logical statement anyway I didnt mention the Americans and their fall into fascism at all, so I can’t logically be accused of trying to pin that on someone else when it didnt get discussed

        Trump has much more in common with Putin than with an ordinary U.S. citizen.

        True but irrelevant to the discussion of Israel and Russian backing of European fascists

        Israel isn’t the driving force here either

        I’m not sure the original post claimed that, but I certainly never said that

        Its power comes from its billionaire backers—and the U.S. is, without a doubt, the biggest of them all.

        Now that’s partly true, Israel wouldn’t exist without the trillions that the US has given them however the vast majority came from the US taxpayers though, not the billionaires - they don’t like parting with money as a rule.

        Israel didn’t force the war against Iran on the U.S

        Utterly irrelevant to the discussion of who is cosied up with the fash in Europe, it doesn’t really matter whether it was the Bibinazi or the Trumpynazi who decided they wanted to bomb Iran

        And I kept the best till last

        The biggest supporter of far-right parties in Europe is Elon Musk.

        Not even a little bit close. There’s massive amounts of documentation on this - Farage and LePen with their grubby little paws out and getting caught taking Russian money both directly and then indirectly via crypto, not to mention the Hungarian dictator soaking up grants from the EU that were supposed to build infrastructure and redirecting it into funding the other far right wingers. Even as far as US billionaires go Muskrat is miles behind Thiel and Ellison (for example, although there’s plenty of others). Elmo is just as subtle as brick through a window and gets the attention, but if you follow the money, he’s a tight arse.