Elon Musk's "Make Europe Great Again" slogan sparks backlash from European leaders, who criticize it as unwelcome interference and tone-deaf rhetoric.
  • NeuronautML@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    2 hours ago

    I’m really not worried. Elon and Trump are about as in tune with European culture as they are with common sense. The only reason AfD is taking them on their support is because it’s any support at all. They have shown repeatedly, like most American CEOs who decide to come to Europe thinking it’s a slighly different America, thus same rules apply, that they fundamentally don’t understand anything about the EU. Not the laws, not the cultures, not the way of thinking.

    It’s not even because Europe is obscure or difficult to understand. It’s this American CEO arrogance, thinking their way of doing things in America is the only way, the best way and all us lowly peasant non Americans of the world just have to look up and let the rays of American perfection and exceptionalism bathe our inferior barbaric ways of life. You know, right before they crash and burn and their companies don’t work.

  • letsgo@lemm.eeEnglish
    28·
    12 hours ago

    What a tosswomble. Europe is already great, and you don’t get great by stuffing your heads up your collective arses, which is what the USA has just decided to do for the next four years. Allow me to join in the great chorus of Fuck Off Elongated Muskovite.

  • VodkaSolution @feddit.itEnglish
    91·
    15 hours ago

    I’ll listen to him when A) starlink will fly in his a$$ and B) he’ll learn position, capitals, history and language of all the EU countries

    • No_Eponym@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      15 hours ago

      I support this party. And I will buy the hat. Can it be blue with yellow lettering?

  • superkret@feddit.orgEnglish
    320·
    15 hours ago

    I struggle to think of a time when Europe as a whole was “Great” and where I’d want to go back to…
    Maybe the mid 1990’s?

    • NotAnonymousAtAal@feddit.orgEnglish
      12·
      12 hours ago

      In the mid 1990’s

      • no matter what a husband did to his wife, it would never be considered rape by German law. (The guy who will most likely be our next head of government voted against the change back in 1997.)

      • violent xenophobic riots took place in Germany, and the government kind of just shrugged and did nothing.

      • same-sex marriages were not a thing anywhere in Europe.

      • racist, sexist and homophobic jokes were socially acceptable even in relatively progressive circles.

      • transgender people even existing was still a taboo. Giving them any rights was completely unthinkable.

    • mvlad88@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      15 hours ago

      Yeah mid 1990’s in Romania where the best, crazy inflation, 70% of the population still had toitlets in the garden, one colored TV per apartment building, those years were the bomb. Would totally do again.