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How can progressive "European patriots" protect Europe from the right-populists who want to destroy Europe as we know it? (feddit.org)
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That is what I wonder. Don't know about you guys, but I feel like a European patriot, even though this maybe does not make sense to some.

Being a true European patriot means to me: caring about all of the freedoms we have, our social democracies, is to value the open pluralist societies we developed since WW2, wanting to protect what the reactionaries want to take away from us, stop those who want to lock us all up, back in the small closed-minded nation-states we all come from, which will ultimately lick the boots of either US or China/Russia.

They are well organized, but what is the organization, the movement that fights against this ongoing attack on our shared values and mode of existence?

The post-WW2 Europe is an oasis of bliss in a world which is on fire, and we are all under attack. How can we fight against this destruction from the inside as well as from the outside ?

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[โ€“] Melchior@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Facotries, houses and even companies can not be easily moved. Even something like a bank needs employees, with certain skills and those have value. You usually can not just move those to another country, unless something really drastic happens.

The other part is to organize. Something like the minimum company tax is a really good starting point. Most large countries have relativly high taxes anyway. The only reason tax heavens work is, because they have a tiny population and the few hundret jobs created by the paperwork are enough to support them. They could easily be bullied into having normal taxes.

Also keep in mind the EU has 1/5 of the global economy by itself.

[โ€“] Wanpieserino@lemm.ee -1 points 2 days ago

USA has 6,5% tax on capital EU 20%.

We attract capital because we offer stability.

Taxing the shit out of their made investments does not offer stability. They'd stop putting in new investments.

We'd have decay.

USA is the capital of the world when it comes to capitalism. A world ETF market weighted gives you 60% USA. That's massive.