Yeah, people are right to complain when their local news is being drowned out by american politics but at the same time the political situation in the US is incredibly relevant to any country even tangentially associated with the US. Trump’s trying to do things like drop the nuclear test ban treaty and is actively attacking Venezuela, like, it is important. That the sheer unhinged drama drives engagement to the point that everything else is excluded just means you need to step up and make your own government as fucking crazy as ours is.
I mean Trump does that, but how is the daily minutiae of that relevant to me in Europe for example?
I’ve had the country with the world’s biggest nuclear arsenal threaten to nuke my literal home address like twice in the past 3 years (I used to live near the Rotterdam port for a while), why do I care that the second biggest might someday resume nuclear testing like everyone else already does?
Or that the US might attack Venezuela? I’ve a full blown war, largest European war since WWII, right next door.
Trump getting elected and his policy might affect my life somewhat, likely much, much less than my local news do, or EU news, or news in EU-adjacent countries. Mamdani, ICE abductions, they are mostly just interesting stories to read that nobody actually cares about.
You don’t remember Vitali motherfucking Klitschko, WBO heavyweight champion of 1999 and WBC heavyweight champion of 2004? Also earned a PhD in sporting science?
Yeah, people are right to complain when their local news is being drowned out by american politics but at the same time the political situation in the US is incredibly relevant to any country even tangentially associated with the US. Trump’s trying to do things like drop the nuclear test ban treaty and is actively attacking Venezuela, like, it is important. That the sheer unhinged drama drives engagement to the point that everything else is excluded just means you need to step up and make your own government as fucking crazy as ours is.
I mean Trump does that, but how is the daily minutiae of that relevant to me in Europe for example?
I’ve had the country with the world’s biggest nuclear arsenal threaten to nuke my literal home address like twice in the past 3 years (I used to live near the Rotterdam port for a while), why do I care that the second biggest might someday resume nuclear testing like everyone else already does?
Or that the US might attack Venezuela? I’ve a full blown war, largest European war since WWII, right next door.
Trump getting elected and his policy might affect my life somewhat, likely much, much less than my local news do, or EU news, or news in EU-adjacent countries. Mamdani, ICE abductions, they are mostly just interesting stories to read that nobody actually cares about.
absolutely. it’s international news and could indicate further things of the sort happening; just like what’s happening in ukraine and israel.
I still don’t know the mayor of Kyiv or Tel Aviv though.
You don’t remember Vitali motherfucking Klitschko, WBO heavyweight champion of 1999 and WBC heavyweight champion of 2004? Also earned a PhD in sporting science?
I don’t know or remember him