• Optional@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Rogers has arguably become the public face of the Trump administration’s growing hostility to European liberal democracies. Since assuming office in October, she has met with far-right European politicians, criticized prosecutions under longstanding hate speech laws, and boasted online of sanctions against critics of hate speech and disinformation on US big tech platforms.

    Rogers is undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, a top-10 state department role that was created in 1999 to strengthen relationships between the US and foreign publics, as opposed to foreign governments and diplomats.

    Rogers, however, appears to be concerned with winning over a particular slice of foreign public opinion.

    Her recent posts on Twitter/X have included a characterization of migrants in Germany as “barbarian rapist hordes”, a comment on Sweden apparently linking sexual violence to immigration policy (“If your government cared about ‘women’s safety,’ it would have a different migration policy”), and the recitation of the view that “advocates of unlimited third world immigration have long controlled a disproportionate share of official knowledge production”.

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    2 days ago

    The attacks in cologne germany were YEARS ago. If that all that’s she has. Probably never came to Europe, or one of of these “visit 15 cities in 10 days” trips 🤪

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          1 day ago

          The four words “stupid corrupt fascist cunt” shouldn’t be that difficult to translate into every European language (including regional dialects)

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          2 days ago

          You may be right. On the other hand, here in Europe we have other urgent things to deal with: full implementation of the DSA, buy European, wean ourselves of USA high tech… I can’t be bothered with reading about all these US knuckleheads, I need to close down my dependency on US products first and convince all my friends to do so too.

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    2 days ago

    Presidential appointments need more guardrails. One person with a rigged rubber-stamp Senate shouldn’t be able to fuck up the entire federal bureaucracy’s ability to function for 4 years.

  • Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    to quote trump

    “they’re not sending their best, they’re sending criminals and (smth more?)” i.e. US is sending us their criminals and pedos. can we get closer with mexico and such please?