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by piva00 581 days ago
> Are you trying to suggest Europeans shouldn't complain about the EU? Because that seems... backwards.

I don't think anyone said that, EU citizens complain about the EU all the time. But complaining that the EU should be molded on the shape of the US is... Backwards.
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crazygringo 580 days ago
> I don't think anyone said that

When people say "well then leave" it means "stop complaining". So of course that's what was said.

> But complaining that the EU should be molded on the shape of the US is... Backwards.

No. What's really backwards is your jingoism here. That's entirely uncalled for. Countries aren't sports teams. Trying to argue that either the EU or the US is more "backwards" than the other is an idiotic conversation to have. So please take your backwards attitudes elsewhere -- this isn't the place for them.

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piva00 580 days ago
> Trying to argue that either the EU or the US is more "backwards" than the other is an idiotic conversation to have.

It's really not an idiotic conversation considering that the US has a very clear problem with religious nuts accumulating increasingly more power to dictate other people's lives, that's very backwards and should be brought up. I don't want other countries being molded by that. The USA already exported the bullshit televangelicals stupidity into my home country (Brazil) which made Neo-Pentecostalism the biggest religion there with all the problems it entails, it's extremely backwards and stems from America's cultural values around money.

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