Thread by @Daractenus

With MAGA rediscovering American exceptionalism and thinking Europe to be the underdeveloped backwater, I've decided to do a short thread tackling the most common misconceptions Americans seem to have about Europe.🧵

While "dying out" is one of those things MAGA tends to associate most with Europe, the US currently ranks slightly below Albania in terms of life expectancy, and it must be mentioned Albania ranks rather bad at it among us Europeans.

While the likes of Fox News and Elon Musk tell you daily how unsafe Europe is, the reality is the European continent at large is pretty much the safest place on earth by any measurable metric. The US ranks so low in the list, I couldn't make the snip big enough to fit it in.

Despite lots of MAGA Americans showing their superior wit by referring to Europeans as "europoors", the European continent has places wealthy enough to make the US pale by comparison. What's more, If you check the wealth distribution, things look even worse for the US.

While Europe did see a blowback in its manufacturing industry and as "de-industrialized" as the MAGA think of us to be, we still makes about twice as many cars as the US, tens of times as many ships and significantly more of everything except guns, and that is changing too.

With the likes of Musk and JD Vance seeing Europe as a totalitarian hellhole where free speech does not exist, nearly every single country on the European continent ranks higher than the US in terms of freedom of press, with all top 10 spots occupied by European countries.

Things are so terrible in Europe from an overall quality of life perspective, much like Trump keeps telling you, that last year we barely managed to get 8 countries into the "Top 10 happiest nations on Earth" ranking, as opposed to the all top 10 spots we usually tend to get.

Last but not least, both literally and metaphorically, your United States is neither the center of the world nor as big as you think of it to be.

The Europe that Fox News, Trump, Musk and armies of Twitter propagandists keep telling you about, exists solely in their minds.