Can any Europeans stop laughing long enough to comment?

@TurtlePink
Europe combined is more powerful than the entire USA. Its called economic and financial power, it's called NOT being deep in National debt and its called having stellar moral values, a concept which doesn't actually exist in the United States. But you are right about one thing and that is European men have always been sexy and will always be better looking than American men, that we can both agree on.

@swirlie it takes all the European countries combined to be “powerful” than the US because each individual country on their own isn’t. But still, Europe isn’t as powerful as it was hundreds of years ago.

@TurtlePink
Wrong TurtlePink. Europe is more powerful now than it ever was hundreds of years ago. The USA is financially bankrupt thanks to its National debt load which resulted from the last 80 years of US government incompetence. The longer that Trump hangs around, the weaker the USA becomes on the world stage because every country who's ever dealt with the USA is now distancing itself from the US, which obviously you haven't noticed.

@swirlie they really aren’t. All these wars just weakens the whole continent.

Also, I agree that the US is in self-destruction mode and scaring counties away. I’ve noticed. I mean, I may not surround my whole life around everything that’s going on. I have a life outside of here but once in a while, I do pay attention.

Also, I’m not sure but I think you are mistaking me for being a Trump fan by how you’re coming off lol. Not everything is all black-and-white I mean, I can point out where Europe slacks and still agree that Trump is not fit to be president lol. I can still back up the US and still agree that we are in debt. I can still agree that the US is powerful, but then still agree that we have our own problems.

@TurtlePink A lot like the situation with the US states really. Each seperately run and seperately taxed.😷.

@TurtlePink

Well no, it never occurred to me that you might be a Trump fan, but the way I'm "coming off" as you've described my presentation is how I always talk to everyone, which my friends refer to as me being 'insensitively objective' anytime I become passionately invested in some issue.

@swirlie
Love it. Describes the plaque that has descended on us in this digital society. If you are not an idealogue, and actually think about things, and crave real facts you are ---insensitively objective. Guilty, your honor. Attribute it to aging in my case.

@TurtlePink I don't know if the E.U. will get to the point where the U.S. was until now militarily, but the U.S. as you observed is in steep decline so we may end up in an imminent future in which the current, weaker E.U. would end up being stronger than whatever remains of the U.S.

Very much like how Russia has a fraction of the power projection the USSR used to have, the U.S. seems very determined to go down the same collapse path.

It's an effin' shitshow, the only winners of this all will be India and China, in the long run.

@Elessar yes

@SomeMichGuy But modestly we'll still win on this:
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@SomeMichGuy Definitely not the south, here people almost go even to bed dresses as if they had to go to a wedding lol

@Elessar Well, actually, Napoli & even Roma had these guys, but that was long ago, and having to avoid carnivorous predators curtailed primping...