18 Ways to Hate your Neighbor: Europe's lesson to the World

[JohnT]

http://exile.ru/151/1510101113.html

A sample:

This was it: site of the Eastern Front, the unchallenged Superbowl of European ethno-violence, where the big boys had it out not once, but twice, to see whether the concentration camps of the future would be decorated in black or red. Yessir: from the long hot summer of 1914 to the Spring of ‘45, the trains rolled across these endless plains, carrying the crosscurrents of a thousand village feuds with them. The big question mark here was what would happen when the Soviet oppressors repressed Easties' natural longing to kill their neighbors - or at least poison their dog while nobody was watching.

Welp, when the Evil Empire was rolled back, and its repressive peace overthrown, it turned out that the Easties' deep genetic hatreds had survived intact! One of the first dividends of the new era of freedom was the sight of ordinary folks from Bratislava to Gdansk expressing themselves, demanding the renewal of ancient, revered blood-feuds. Viewers thrilled to hear minor tax disputes enlivened by old village war-cries like, “These Slovaks are drinking our blood!” or “Where a Ukrainian has passed, not even a Yid can find a crumb!”

Today ethnic hatred flourishes on the air, in the streets and along all the complicated borders of this colorful old madhouse we know as “the Big, Bad East.”

But still... it's funny how Europeans have been slaughtered by their very governments, but they want a bigger one to go with all the others. Bizarre as bizarre can be.

[JohnT]

Here's another good article:

Bush-Hitler Comparison Unjust

Let's just compare. When Adolf Hitler took office in early 1933, there were over 6 million Germans out of work; in 1935, that number was already well under 3 million, dropping to under 1 million by the end of 1936. German industrial production soared in Hitler's early years; after steep declines from 1930-1932, Hitler's state-interventionist policies, combined with tax incentives, reversed that trend, so that by 1935, German production roared past its previous record peak in 1929.

Under President Bush, the American unemployment rate has rocketed more than 50%, and layoffs continue to mount. The US economy entered a recession within months after Bush's inauguration, reversing a decade of economic boom. Industrial production is falling, and skewed tax breaks that favored the wealthy have opened a gaping deficit, siphoning money away from both capital investment and state spending, both of which are sorely needed. In short, under Bush, America's economy has entered a free-fall.

The differences don't stop there. Hitler built the autobahns, transforming Germany's and the world's transportation. He ushered in an era of exciting new uniforms. Closet homosexuals found gainful employment in the highest rungs of government, and an outlet to vent their frustrations with the world. It is also thanks to Hitler that the briefly fashionable square-shaped mustache will never, ever come into vogue again.

George W. Bush built a single baseball stadium in Arglington, Texas. Amtrak and America's airlines are bankrupt, putting transportation into its worst crisis in history. The days of casual wear are out the door, while America's homosexuals are pouring out of the closet and into the open at record rates, threatening to overwhelm our large cities. Moreover, goatees are still all the rage, in spite of the fact that the gritty poverty the goatee represents is no longer so ironic.

[Combat Ingrid]

America's homosexuals are pouring out of the closet and into the open at record rates, threatening to overwhelm our large cities.

[Nubclear]

John....New Europe (sans Russia. What do the Russians know about opression anyway?) is our friend and the next superpower of the world

Why are you slandering it? Are you a communist? A terrorist? Or...even anti-american

at the Bush article

[Spiffor]

I love Dr. Dan Higgins' comment.
The helpless peasant is so unable to understand the subtelty that makes Europe so superior, that it makes him, well, pathetic. I mean, "pathetic" as in "American"

[Dinner]

So why is Europe superior? It must be the great functioning central government.. no wait. Er... well maybe it's because they've all held to the Growth & Stability pact for the new Euro. No? Ok, it must be because they have such a great coordinated foreign policy. Damn, wrong again? Hmm, they take national security so seriouslt? Not it either? How about because they controled their borders and kept out terrorists from the middle east? Opps. Maybe because they've managed their economies so well. No? Because they've done so much to promote Democracy? Damn, wrong again?

I guess the Euros really are more pathetic then the Americans.

[Spiffor]

Hear the loutish Yank who cannot see anything with eyes unclouded

To make it simple for you, I will use an American 'cultural' reference: Yoda said you can't properly see with your Eyes, but only with your Heart (sorry, I didn't bother learning it by heart).

Europeans are a mystery to Americans like women are to men. And the Americans are like men who can't understand why women don't dream of the Superbowl

[KrazyHorse]

For all their complaints about US-bashing from the Euros the Americans certainly seem to be getting rather *****y at the thought of an actual unified Europe.

[Spiffor]

In all honesty, the superiority of Europe is that we can afford being smug. You Americans can only afford to be arrogant

And that's it, I'm finally going to bed

[Jon Miller]

who is *****y

ID ofoj't ****ing cvare

more power to them

but if they are ain anctiua; cp,[etiotpr., we;; fir wpo;; ja[[en

Jon Miler

[Imran Siddiqui]

an actual unified Europe.

Americans are getting *****y at a pipe dream?

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
but if they are ain anctiua; cp,[etiotpr., we;; fir wpo;; ja[[en

so I giess I w0pjnt' rpes the poliek

[Drake Tungsten]

Americans are getting *****y at a pipe dream?

Damn, you beat me to it.

[KrazyHorse]

"It will happen, and it will happen in our lifetime..."

[Drake Tungsten]

The death of the EU?