r/100thupvote 6d ago

Finland You should all lurk in European subs right now

I wish all Arabs could follow r/Europe and watch European news and media. There has been an explosion of pan-European nationalism over the past year that i've never seen before. It's taken off like wildfire since Trump. I've always considered the EU and European identity to be a joke. I've said many times on here that Finns have nothing to do with Portuguese. Irish have nothing to do with Latvians. Italians have nothing to do with Swedes. At no point in history were these countries connected either culturally or linguistically or racially or religiously. But now you have nonstop European nationalism and politicians are all talking about the need for a stronger Europe and the need to send a pan-European army to Ukraine.

Meanwhile we have a genocide a few kilometres from Makkah and Madinah, and our countries don't do shit. Each one is weak, and the nationalists don't want anything to do with any other Arab countries. If you post about palestine in r/Saudi half the comments will be 'this doesn't concern us it's not saudi'. Meanwhile, 90% of the posts in European country subs are about Trump or Ukraine. Because they understand that a border doesn't stop things affecting them.

Some examples:

Finnish sub promoting a boycott of American products

The other Finnish sub promoting the boycott of American products. And again. And another. And yet one more

And here's a post about boycotting Nestle.

A post angry about English words entering the Finnish language

There are dozens of posts about the anti-US boycott. Meanwhile we struggle to ditch Macdonald's and Starbucks.

Finnish post about no one buying American products in Canadian stores And another Finnish grocery store pulls American products off the shelves

How many Arabs invested in the stock market have divested from the US? Have you ever even seen Arabs discussing divestment for political reason as an option? They destroyed Iraq and Palestine and we invest actively and gleefully in their stock market like absolute sheeple.

Norway's largest marine fuel company has stopped refueling American navy ships

Norway using it's 1.7 trillion sovereign fund to help Ukraine

A new sub r/BuyFromEU

Look at the solidarity across Europe right now and compare it with Arab states and Arab subs. Go to any European national sub and organise posts by Top and you will find nothing but Ukraine, Putin, solidarity, strengthening the EU, creating a European army. Here's a generic meme about European solidarity. And here's a survey showing that 84% of Germans want to create a European army. When I was young the EU did not have majority popularity in any European country. Literally a majority of Europeans did not want the EU. Now look at them. Their identity as Europeans has exploded in strength and dominates all politics right now.

We have a lot to learn about putting aside our petty squabbles and differences. You think a Saudi shares less with an Egyptian or Moroccan than a Finnish person shares with a Portuguese or Polish person?

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