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Not really. The European elites all attend the same universities, go to the same cocktail parties etc. The end result being ideas fashionable among them sweep through the continent, even when no one in their countries asked for them, and when you'd expect them to be offensive to their culture. This is without touching on the EU, and the member states' obligation to implement EU law.
When it turns out that said subgroups (black people among them, but there was quite a bit of mass immigration from strange countries lately), skew the statistics to the point that without them, the US would be as safe as any part of Europe, I find it less likely that making guns illegal would substantially change their behavior.
The U.S. of white america would not be as safe as Europe, or indeed Canada, unless by ‘Europe’ you mean the Balkans and some ex soviet countries. White Americans also have higher crime rates than all French or all Canadians- although black Americans have higher crime yet still.
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No they don't? The European elites overwhelmingly attend the universities in their own countries, like everywhere else in the world. The Anglosphere universities do suck in some of them, but I can't find a single European head of state or government outside of the UK that was educated in a UK or US university.
Socialisation is similarly within countries, for the obvious fact that Europe is a multilingual continent of dozens of countries and elites aren't all jetting to the same city every weekend. British elites socialise in London, French elites socialise in Paris (in French), Polish elites socialise in Warsaw etc.
As far as I can tell, none of the authoritarian measures you mentioned have anything to do with the EU. The cancelled election in Romania was done by the Romanian judicary. I'm not sure which arrested opposition politicians you are talking about but the ones that Google came up with (Belarus, Turkey, Armenia, Moldova and Georgia) are not in the EU. Legally penalising speech and building digital panopticons is, I assume, a reference to the UK, which is not in the EU.
Do you live in Europe? Because this reads like someone who just thinks of it as the USA plus funny accents, which is wrong.
A lot of them spend their tine in Brussels. And if it's not that, maybe you can give me a plausible explanation for gender self-ID laws sweaping a decent chunk of the continent
Aren't they literally just now discussing mandatory scanning of all chats in phone apps? Weren't they strong-arming Ireland to ramp up their hate speech laws, like yesterday.
Pretty sure I remember EU big-wigs making a lot of oise about this being what they want done. If you mean that this wasn't done with formal power, that doesn't matter, it's not hiw they work.
Was thinking of LePen. She was convicted to prevent her from running in the next elections. She got a prispn sentence, though is allowed to serve it under house arrest, at which point, I suppose we can quibble if that counts as arrest or not. My point is less about being thrown in a cell, and more about using bogus charges to get rid of political opposotion.
Yes, my entire life.
I'd say it reads like someone who lived in several European countries, and noticed that despite the cultural differences, the same dystopian program is being rammed through everywhere.
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