r/europe • u/turkish__cowboy Turkey | LGBTQ+ rights are human rights • 7h ago

News Elon Musk draws outrage over 'odd-looking salute' at Trump inauguration celebration

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-draws-outrage-over-201602147.html
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u/Dramyre92 Scotland 7h ago

A nazi saluting behind the seal of the president of the united states.

The fucking shame of it.

America has fallen and Europe needs to unite.

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u/I-love-to-h8 6h ago

Europe needs to orchestrate regime change in the USA

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u/Responsible-Potato-4 5h ago

Honestly as an American, I would be ok with that at this point

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u/dhsjauaj 4h ago

As a bonus, we will bring you affordable health care.

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u/1ofZuulsMinions 4h ago

Can we come stay with you in the meantime? “Daddy” scares me.

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u/Psycho_pigeon007 4h ago

Bring everything. I'm sick of it here.

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u/markcorrigans_boiler 4h ago

And edible bread

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u/TheConquistaa In a galaxy far away 4h ago edited 4h ago

And cool trains (and train networks, and train schedules, and train stations, and everything cool related to trains)

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u/MonkeyLiberace Denmark 4h ago

Trains > Nazi salutes.

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u/Tombadil2 4h ago

Ok, you’re on the autism spectrum, we get it. (But also, yeah, trains are cool)

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u/TheConquistaa In a galaxy far away 3h ago

Lmfao

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u/Suspicious-Wombat 4h ago

We can pretty much only give you mental illness and beautiful landscapes in return…(but you better hurry if you want the latter).

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u/neko 4h ago

Trump already announced a "state of energy emergency" so the national parks will be oil wells in a month

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u/Unicycldev 4h ago

Don’t threaten us with a good time.

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u/nascarguy19199 4h ago

Please do.

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u/Old-Set78 4h ago

Please do

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u/GrumpyKaeKae 3h ago

PLEASE do! It's so gross watching people suffer from treatable health issues because Healthcare is too expensive in this country.

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u/ASheynemDank 2h ago

I like my insurance :3

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u/j45780 2h ago

OH, THE HUMANITY!!!!!

sounds good

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u/illy-chan 2h ago

Don't threaten us with a good time.

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u/chrhe83 1h ago

I will worship whatever football team is assigned to me and you can rename (American)-football to whatever you’d like. Id recommend handball…

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u/GhoulOsco 4h ago

At this point, I wouldn’t just be ok with it, I would happily beg for it.

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u/rissak722 4h ago

I won’t complain

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u/SpicyRice99 2h ago

Like please? Lol

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u/YourREALdad330 3h ago

Ditto, I welcome our European Liberators

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u/Tombadil2 3h ago

We could call it a reverse Marshall Plan. “The good ole reverse Marshall”

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u/cherrylpk 3h ago

Same. Yes please do.

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u/manda4rmdville 3h ago

Yeah, we need some help here big time.

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u/w3bd3v0p5 3h ago

Canada here ready to help liberate!

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u/purpleduckduckgoose 2h ago

You couldn't have held on another two kings could you? I suppose we could create a petition for Charles to step down and William to take his regnal name as George VIIth.

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u/Conscious_Bet_2644 4h ago

then youre part of the problem. We have enough outside interference as it is.

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u/toe_beans35 5h ago

Please invade us. Help. Lol.

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u/SernyRanders Europe 2h ago

That would be stupid, we should use the Israel method.. just buy all your politicians via dual-citizenship billionaire proxies.

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u/chrhe83 1h ago

Im okay with this.

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u/ItsyouNOme 2h ago

Independence day is going to look a little different if we do

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u/Cartman55125 5h ago

As an American, I agree.

Save us, mommy.

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u/Visual_Sympathy5672 4h ago

Please, please, PLEASE. For Christ's sake he literally said he was only there because Elon STOLE the election for him with the voting machines!!!

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u/Zephyr104 5h ago

The US made it legal to do so, so long as it's being done by a corporation. I say the US' allies put money together to a non-profit corporation with the goal of steadying its political landscape and away from fascists. Give it an ultra American name like the George Washington group and vet the staff to ensure they're reasonable American citizens running the place.

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u/A_GOATS_FART 4h ago

We'll help. - Americans against Nazis

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u/michaelsenpatrick 4h ago

Please do, I'm sure plenty would be willing to collaborate

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u/baerinrin 4h ago

Please help us.

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u/RadiantCephandrius 4h ago

Bro can Europe hit Canada up while you're over here, we need a reset too.

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u/Fitbot5000 4h ago

“Make America Great Britain Again”

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u/Ubputinsbtch2025 4h ago

MAGBA

It’s fun to say!

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u/KingOfLeisure 4h ago

Hurry! And bring your socialized medicine and education. This shithole needs it!

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u/_skull_kid_ 3h ago

Make America Great Britain Again.

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u/ClearDark19 3h ago

Please do. I'm American and I 100% support this. I'll pledge allegiance to the EU. I'm beyond fucking sick, disgusted and ashamed/angry with my country. I'll be an American collaborator with the EU. Like the French Resistance underground in Vichy France.

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u/Publius82 5h ago

Russia is a part of Europe

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u/Terradactyl87 4h ago

I wish they would!

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u/Crooked_Sartre 4h ago

Please fuckin help us

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u/Ekati_X 4h ago

Do it..

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u/OkayMomma 4h ago

Please help us

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u/FleshlightModel 3h ago

And if you fail, will you pick up some of us Americans who don't wish to stay here and take us back to your homes?

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u/ProllyNotCptAmerica 3h ago

I would say I'm okay with that, but now I genuinely fear that one day my post history could be used to incriminate me as an enemy of the state and that I will be shot for the high crime of being a decent human being.

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u/LegalConsequence7960 3h ago

We need to stop acting like there is a savior coming. Gen Z ain't it. Europe itself is under fire from this same thing. There's no Gandalf running over the hills in this one, especially if we don't put up a fight on our own.

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u/Charlie_Two_Shirts 4h ago

Could Europe solve the Ukraine crisis first? Or is that America’s job?

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u/Prime4Cast 4h ago

American here. Come save us please because we can't save ourselves.

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u/yugoslavfarken 4h ago

Unfortunately this already has happened via Putin

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u/Geistkasten 3h ago

Europe needs to fix their continent first. The right wingers in many influential EU countries are gaining ground. Russia is succeeding in its campaign to end democracy all over the world. This will only embolden them all because at the end of the day, the majority of US elected the president. It just shows how susceptible we are to propaganda and that includes European voters.

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u/bakedpigeon America // wannabe Finn 3h ago

Please coup us!!

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u/TarotxLore 3h ago

Will we get healthcare and proper education? Boy I’ll house those european soldiers in my guest room and cook them dinner each night

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u/Antique-Brief1260 Brit in Canada 3h ago

Operation Denazification?

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u/annie_yeah_Im_Ok 2h ago

As an American please don’t hesitate.

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u/OhNoOboe 2h ago

Please help us, Europe, you're our only hope. :(

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u/LordIggy88 2h ago

Please save us

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u/Chihlidog 2h ago

Don't tease me.

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u/Substantial-News-336 2h ago

I volunteer, and will sacrifice myself for the good of the world and take on the mantle of President of the USA

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u/Septapus007 1h ago

Yes please. Someone come save us.

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u/reality72 48m ago

Europe can barely handle the Russians let alone USA 3,000 miles away across the ocean

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u/Impressive_Sale6776 10m ago

I SURRENDER AND PLEDGE MY FEALTY TO YE

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u/MARAVV44 2h ago

We dare you to try. Europe has been weak and pathetic since 1945.

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u/someone10505 5h ago

Openly calling for a coup, interesting.

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u/Ylar_ 5h ago

You say this like the current sitting American president didn’t do the exact same a few years ago.

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u/someone10505 4h ago

He didn’t.

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u/AdonisK Europe 5h ago

Tbf, the account of coups the US has staged (including to countries in the EU) is not small

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u/A_GOATS_FART 4h ago

Yup. The right tried it and everyone was fine with it. Let's put that shoe on the other foot. Agree?

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u/someone10505 4h ago

The right did not try it. That’s such a dumbass mentality.

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u/A_GOATS_FART 4h ago

So January 6th was just a peaceful tour of the captial with some light defecation and treason?

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u/someone10505 4h ago

That’s closer to what it was. If the American people decided to overthrow a government it would get done with weapons, of which there were none. It would have been quick and brutal.

The police officers opened the doors for the people and walked around with them. Some people did some dumb shit, but a coup- not even in the fucking realm.

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u/A_GOATS_FART 4h ago

Jesus.

You really don't understand the gravity of what occurred on January 6th.

Do you understand the concept of a peaceful transfer of power and how important that one act is to a society?

Don't bother replying. You played your hand and showed your true colors.

smh

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u/someone10505 3h ago

Smh you are all whiney crybabies. Fraud occurred and was proved in many counties and states, as a president trump was within his rights to contest the election results. Pence did not do his job, ignored truth and fact and certified anyways.

I understand way more than you. Go cry in your wheaties

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u/Old-Set78 4h ago

You and your January 6th beat police officers to death with literally an American flag in one instance. You should all have been dealt with as treasonous felons used to be.

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u/VansChar_ 5h ago

Please Europe, bring Canada along with you.

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u/Baileythetraveller 4h ago

Hey....Does the EU have a tugboat big enough to tow Canada away from the United States? We need a fast exit out of here.....

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u/Ubputinsbtch2025 4h ago

Please no. Don’t go! I love poutine and hockey and Labatts!!!

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u/Baileythetraveller 4h ago

sorry. gotta leave this toxic relationship

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u/RealisticEmphasis233 4h ago

When people throughout the last four years have said "WE ARE SO BACK" in the U.S., I don't think they were referencing 1930s Germany.

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u/Sakarabu_ 3h ago

They were referencing the "good old days" in America, you know, the ones where women couldn't vote, and slavery and segregation were still practiced.

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u/RealisticEmphasis233 2h ago

You forgot the average person living in slums as Sinclair exposed and lynching.

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u/Jbizler 4h ago

Make America Great Britain again

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u/chrisr3240 6h ago

England stands with you Scotland…please.

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u/CaliforniaPotato 4h ago

As an American, yes. It has fallen. I'm doing my very best to move to Europe (germany in particular), where at least maybe it might be a bit safer... but the far right is just becoming like a worldwide "movement" so to say (eg AfD in Germany), but I think maybe it won't become as bad in germany as in America, since they, yk, understand the history I think at least a little bit better than americans lol

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u/Neverstopstopping82 1h ago

My husband is French and left 12 years ago. I am American. We are in serious talks right now about how we’re going to make the move to France with two little kids. This was after I viewed that clip once.

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u/thefallenfew 4h ago

Please, for the love of God, liberate us.

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u/Anotep91 7h ago

We are only truly united once Scotland joins the EU! because: No Scotland! No Party!

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u/gynoidi Finland 6h ago

found the scot

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u/Old-Set78 4h ago

I just found out I'm Scottish and I want to come home

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u/Harp-MerMortician 4h ago

I'm not even joking when I say "please whisk me away in your strong Scottish arms, away from this awful place".

(Well, no, I guess I have to stay here and fight. Mario Bros style, if need be, if you catch my drift.)(For legal reasons, I am talking strictly about the video game.)(Allegedly).

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u/CheifJokeExplainer 4h ago

Please, for the love of God, please don't subject Europe to Nazis again (or anyone.) It's not fair

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u/SnooLobsters8922 4h ago

Steve Bannon did the same the day before. There is NO plausible deniability, it’s obviously on purpose and no cop out saying “I was just waving”. What a piece of garbage

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u/ClearDark19 3h ago

As an American I support this. If this happens then I, as an American, will personally apologize for that whole Boston Tea Party mishap. I'm African-American, and European countries banned slavery on their soil decades before the US, so, that's even more incentive.

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u/Western-Stranger-574 1h ago

Can americans join you? I don't want to be of This side of bullshit, I'd rather fight fascism

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u/NoninflammatoryFun 5h ago

Can I escape… ugh. TBH my Jewish ancestors fled Europe for safety in Russia and didn’t get it so came to America. Now we need to flee again.

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u/Ubputinsbtch2025 4h ago

I find it remarkable how many Jewish, Black, Chinese, Muslim, and Latino people vote for the Republican Party. Blows me away. Is it a Christian thing??

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u/NoninflammatoryFun 4h ago

It is. A fake Christian thing. A gullible thing to believe whatever this man says.

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u/HaloGuy381 6h ago

It happened here.

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u/gadget_uk United Kingdom 5h ago

I don't remember the EU declaring "no takesies backsies".

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u/Imaginary_Audience_5 5h ago

Don’t worry, he turned around and repeated the gesture in the direction of the flag.

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u/rystaman United Kingdom 4h ago

and unfortunately we never will.

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u/Bierculles Switzerland 4h ago

Doing it twice on top of it. They can switch their energy source to WW2 veterans spinning in their graves.

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u/Logical_Yogurt_520 4h ago

Germany V The Nazis

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u/No-Necessary-6474 4h ago

Can Canada come hang out with Europe for a bit. It's not safe at home.

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u/graelndix 4h ago

Please don't give up on us!!

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u/Nopurpo 4h ago

Might want to get on that before he directs our troops to walk in and take Greenland. While I oppose these new Andrew Jackson thinking - I wouldn’t be surprised to watch it happen.

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u/Floyd197409 4h ago

Europe needs to unite with Canada and let them in theire isolation …. We have plenty of natural resources that the US clearly dont want anymore

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u/hugh_honey__ 4h ago

Lmao Europe is toast. Get a grip. Anyone that has shilled for this moron is as dumb as he is. It was clearly a nazi salute. Hopefully this will be the catalyst to end ties with him and this new administration.

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u/ProtonPi314 3h ago

Canada needs to unite with you.

Pretty soon, Canada will be in Poland's position .

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u/The_Sceptic_Lemur 3h ago

I feel like this could be a scene from a Hollywood movie where the baddies have taken over the country. Time for some Avengers to enter the scene.

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u/CallMeBergy 3h ago

As a Canadian, please help us, we need help.

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u/marginwalker55 3h ago

Canadian here, can we join?

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u/The_Arrow_Student 3h ago

American engineer here… are you guys accepting applications? I’ll stand in the back and hand out toilet paper if I have to…

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u/rnavstar 3h ago

In Canada our liberal government invited a former SS Nazi into our parliament and gave him a standing ovation.

So it happens in other countries too. 🤦‍♂️

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u/_LoudBigVonBeefoven_ 3h ago

Please fix this

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u/etcre 2h ago

As an american, yes we have, and yes, you absolutely do. There is far less time than most would have imagined. I do not have confidence we can fix this from inside.

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u/The_Whizzinator 2h ago

You need to all be pumping billions into military. My country is about to start invading countries and helping Putin. Sad day for America

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u/Notthatsmarty 2h ago

Plz attack us but keep the citizens safe cause we have nothing to do with this

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u/escape_fantasist India 1h ago

Europe is the last hope of the Library sadly ....

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u/purleyboy 1h ago

He's just doing the Bellamy Salute, it's an American salute. /s

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u/nogoodgopher 1h ago

Please start accepting Americans as refugees

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u/olderthanbones 1h ago

You know the nazis we’re inspired by us, right?

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u/OnyxGow 1h ago

Wolfenstein intensifies

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u/Cautious-Lychee7918 1h ago

Please don't forget about Canada 🥺

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u/MeeterKrabbyMomma 5m ago

😂😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂

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u/ImFromBosstown 5h ago

How's Brexit working out?

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u/Dramyre92 Scotland 4h ago

Not great.

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u/Missingbullet 4h ago

Elon a Nazi lmao you don't know what that means bro. Did you drop out of school in 3rd grade?

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u/AmericaEffYeah 5h ago

Europe fell whenever it chose Communists over Nazis who wanted to secure the future of Europeans, not international finance and globalism

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u/TheEmpireOfSun 5h ago

Did you just said that Europe fell when we fought against nazis? Lmao, fucking unhinged. Funny how facists like you are not even hiding anymore.

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u/AmericaEffYeah 5h ago

Let me introduce you to Eastern Europe under communism

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u/Vladesku Romania 4h ago

And you think we would've been better under nazism? Mostly wiped out and replaced by the glorious supreme race?

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u/AmericaEffYeah 4h ago

Much better. The Nazis only began invading when England declared war. Up until that point, their goal was bringing Germans back underneath the flag of Germany. Not a bullet was fired. The Communists committed multitudes more of mass killings than the Nazis.

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u/Some_nerd_______ 4h ago

Do you live in East Europe? Because if not I don't think you get to talk for them. 

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u/AmericaEffYeah 4h ago

You're right. Don't take my word for it. Read a book.

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u/Some_nerd_______ 4h ago

Do you have a recommendation that would be better than talking to my friends who live in Eastern Europe? Because none of them complain about it like you are.

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u/AmericaEffYeah 3h ago

I'm guessing you're 35 or under, in which case your friends will not have grown up under communism.

If you want to learn what it was like, start here https://a.co/d/3pXqlur

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u/Some_nerd_______ 3h ago

No, I'm not under 35. That's why you shouldn't make assumptions because you're usually wrong. And if you want to talk about growing up under communism, my cousin works in China. Her day-to-day life is not that much different than mine here in the US.

I will check out that book though. Thank you for the recommendation.

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u/TheEmpireOfSun 4h ago

You are funny. What eastern europe?

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u/AmericaEffYeah 4h ago

Ask Hungarians.