• ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I hear the FDA actually controls American food in a much healthier way than European even though the opposite is commonly thought.

    Europeans can definitely be much louder and annoying than Americans.

    Europeans can be more racist, mention muslims or Romani people.

    European democracy is just as bad.

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      I hear the FDA actually controls American food in a much healthier way than European even though the opposite is commonly thought.

      What do you mean by this? Because when I look at lists of banned substances and why, or pesticide limits, the EC seems much stricter than the FDA.

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      10 months ago

      European democracy is just as bad.

      Have you got a particular country in mind or are you referring to EU elections?

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      FDA

      What are you smoking? We don’t even have corn syrup in our soda or chlorine in our chickens, no putrasene for chocolate, in Europe we don’t even know what tums are which seems to be a common thing to take in the US. We have chemical food dyes but just because they’re chemicals - as is everything - doesn’t mean they’re bad.

      I do agree the politics are shit though.

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          More chemical food dyes are allowed by the EU.

          But their regulations are more strict overall. There are a lot of US foods can’t be imported without reformulating the product.

          Which fascist did whatever EU country vote for this term?

          Bruh, we literally just elected a fascist felon who tried to overthrow the government when he lost the last time who openly surrounded himself with fascists pushing project 2025. It’s not even a close challenge…

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              People voting for fascists ≠ bad democracy.

              The democracy in the USA is bad because you have a two-party system, meaning that there’s barely any choice. In the Netherlands, we have a whole bunch of political parties that share space in Parliament, so that representation is proportional to the votes.

              As a result, we have both the PVV and GL-PvdA in Parliament; one is very right on most subjects, the other is pretty leftist.

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      Europeans can definitely be much louder and annoying than Americans.

      I’m general or just in certain topics?

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      10 months ago

      Muslims hated us first though and some of them (that currently live here) want to destroy our civilisation in favour of their barbaric medieval religion, and their continuing growth causes me some concern about when there are enough of them around, and someone has started a sharia party, and all the imams go “you must all now vote for sharia” how many of them will follow that decree (and how many non-muslim useful idiots will too).

      Not enough concern for me to start hating or discriminating against them on an individual basis, but everyone’s different and some are further down that road than I am.