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On social media, the upcoming generation is expressing more European solidarity than the continent has seen in decades.

A futuristic EU soldier stands guard, laser blaster at the ready. European fighter jets zoom through the sky over thumping Eurodance beats. An imaginary map shows a vastly enlarged EU, swallowing everything from Greenland to the Caucasus.

Welcome to the wild world of pro-Europe online propaganda, where the EU isn’t a fractious club of 27 countries but a juiced-up superpower on par with China or the United States, only wiser and more cultured.

This type of content, which re-imagines the EU as a pan-European empire, a European Federation or the United States of Europe — take your pick — has flooded social media platforms over the past two years, garnering billions of views collectively on X, TikTok and Instagram as the EU has reeled from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and a U.S.-EU trade deal decried as “humiliation” for Brussels in many parts of Europe.

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[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Preferably Catholic? Are those Europeans not aware that Europe has been cut in 3 between Catholicism, Protestantism and Orthodox Christianity since hundreds of years?

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

It's because it's centralized with an absolute authority.

They might not control the pope now, but if they do they control all Catholic priests.

It's full circle back to "a centralized system is the most easily corrupted". Just like this "new EU". Even if the far right doesn't control it from day 1, they want it centralized because that makes it easier to take over eventually.