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		graemep 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: European Investment Bank to inject €70B in Europea... How is the US anything like the Middle Ages? You did say literally so can you do a point by point comparison? We have other people claiming the US is fascist and one of the aims of fascism was to take European culture and religion back to before the Middle Ages - they wanted to emulate the Roman Empire.

badestrand 4 months ago [–]

That's because many European countries now already had 4 months of basically all media reporting daily of how Trump is dismantling the US.

Public perception for many people is that the US is on its way to become a failed state.

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