MAGA’s mission to meddle in European politics should terrify Starmer, Macron and Merz. Will any of them fight back?
Donald Trump has launched a crusade to convert European politics to his cause, mobilizing the full force of American diplomacy to promote “patriotic” parties, stamp on migration, destroy “censorship” and save “civilization” from decay.
The question is whether Europe’s embattled centrists have the power, or the will, to stop him. In its newly released National Security Strategy document, the White House set out for the first time in a comprehensive form its approach to the geopolitical challenges facing the U.S. and the world.
While bringing peace to Ukraine gets a mention, when it comes to Europe, America’s official stance is now that its security depends on shifting the continent’s politics decisively to the right.
Why do people still use Twitter?
The EU were being hypocritical just having an ad account with Twitter.
How?
I love how when I point out it’s owned by a nazi, people rush in to defend their use of twitter and most usually it’s some form of “it’s the best for what it is/it has a huge user base” and me responding with a picture of musk doing the ol’ Hitler Salute saying “okay but you’re supporting this guy, and if you sit at a table with 10 nazis…” usually results in being blocked, people simply ignoring me, or saying something dismissive.
Where else are Nazis supposed to hang out?
Because you can sell things to neo-nazis.
Twatters
The same way elon musk didn’t become the richest man in the world by working hard, twitter didn’t magically become the platform used by every politician in the world. One of the reason peoples still use twitter is because the representatives of their country use (and are told to use) it.
More governments and corporations need to stop using this piece of shit platform.
By more you mean all.
Drop dead musk
he subsists on ketamine and cocaine alone, he gets most of his moistures from wine.
Everything is better with less Musk
Nah unh! The surface of the sun is better with all of Elon Musk.
He is hurting them by taking their revenue away from his company. Ouch! It hurt itself in its confusion.
Who tf still fucking uses Twitter?
Boomers, Bots, and Bigots
Way too many artists.
For many the choices are paying for their patreon or following them on twitter or instagram, both of which are ass.What’s Twitter?
European comission has their own mastodon server at ec.social-network.europa.eu. Why in the fuck they’re still advertising/doing anything on twitter?
Because a lot more people are still using Twitter than have started using mastodon
If all European politicians moved to mastodon, they would drag a bunch of journalists and media behind them. On Twitter, only four insignificant influencers and far-right spammers would remain; all serious debate would shift immediately.
And one party might remain on twitter and have a tremendous advantage in reach over all others.
That kind of irrational fear of being left out is what keeps Musk as one of the richest and most powerful men in the world.
I assure you, this is not an irrational fear. A year or so ago, the only German political party with a major presence on tik tok was the afd, a far-right to extremist party.
They still dominate an enormous share of political discourse on this platform. Arguably thanks to help from the platforms creator, but also because they were uncontested. The platform most teenagers use.
If you think the presence of other groups would have changed that, you don’t understand how the algorithms of commercial social networks work. Twitter is actively promoting far-right content, and believing that occupying that space will change it is absurd; it only legitimizes it through institutional accounts.
It’s as if in the 1930s the communist party had actively participated in radio stations or newspapers affiliated with the Nazi party.
The EC absolutely has the marketing budget to change that though.
By getting the word out in X about their mastodon link?
Or having the members, the respective heads of states, on whose words the entire European and actually world press hangs, promote and politicise it.
European comission has their own mastodon server at ec.social-network.europa.eu. Why in the fuck they’re still advertising/doing anything on twitter?
Because they can control the narrative much better on X
The world is being run by children.
Fucking insane.
Cool, then fuckjng get some balls and block Twitter altogether.
See how quickly they rolled over when Brazil blocked them and they realized everyone was moving to Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon, giving lots of other people the same idea.
That was roughly a month before he caved
Anf that was just Brazil.
No one needs twitter
Xitter.
It’s a cesspool now anyway
This by itself should be enough to have Twitter banned, at least temporarily.
You don’t just get to retaliate for getting fined for breaking the law. That’s how you upgrade a fine to a prison sentence if you’re a regular person.
Double win then.
I thought at one time he was trying to sue people who wouldn’t advertise on his platform.
Aw, did poor little insecure muffin get his butt hurt?
Why would the EU place ads for fascists anyway?
