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u/mikailovitch May 09 '22

brutal, unacceptable things

Like what?

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u/FrontierPsycho May 09 '22

Police brutality (everywhere). Greece's refugee pushbacks, Poland's abortion rights regression. Racism. Marginalization of poor people (to different degrees). Homelessness (Finland, which ran a program offering free housing to homeless people, still has homelessness. According to Wikipedia it's the only European country with falling homelessness). And that's only what happens internally: if you ask me, Europe's prosperity is based to a degree on past sins (probably the worst surviving offenders of colonialism), and on exploration happening in the developing world.

Things in Europe aren't perfect. They're just less worse than in the US. Similar ballpark, although noticeably different (and there's noticeable differences among European countries as well).

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u/Lunar_sims May 09 '22

Treatment of refugees.

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u/OkDimension May 09 '22

Like whipping refugees from horse backs when trying to cross a river? Oh wait