Comments by "Jessica Dainese" (@JessicaDainese) on "Leeja Miller" channel.

  1. I love these women ❤ I am 49 and antinatalist. Exactly what I have been saying for years. The anti-choice people are responsable for pushing women to take more radical solutions.
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  2. I am from Italy and I ask the same: please Americans vote Harris!
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  3.  @nbxrnbxr  American women are still naive about men. Italian women stopped believing in marriage decades ago. We grow up with Italian men, we can see bs from miles away 😂 I had an American bf for a while, as soon as he started to talk about marriage I packed my bags and left Florida. I think it was after less than a year since we met. In Italy if we do get married, it's after 10 years of a relationship and living together. We do not marry that fast ever. You need to live with a person for years before you even think about marriage.
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  4. Wow that's horrible :-( My parents were born in Italy after WWII but even then women had at most 4 children. My father has 3 siblings and my mother just one sister. I have one sister, and we are both childfree. I had no idea Canada was more religious than Italy in the past. Btw, 3 out of 4 of my grandparents were agnostic/indifferent to religion, my parents are atheist and so are my sister and I. I do not understand why people think Italians are catholic and have big families. The only big families I have met in my life were American.
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  5. Yeah, it sounds crazy to us Europeans 😂 in Italy people are asking for MORE help from the government, not LESS. Americans seem to go against their own interests. It's insane. If a politician cuts funds to pensions, schools, transports, hospitals etc in Italy people go on strike, on the streets, and the following elections that party is dead 😂
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  6. ​ @wrathofainz you know, I think more European people know about Project 2025 than Americans, which is scary. In Europe we are following the American election campaign with anxiety, because our future will be terrible if Trump wins. Please Americans vote well ❤
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  7. As an Italian exchange student in the USA in 1992, I was shocked by teen pregnancies. It was never a thing over here. And not because we dont have sex. I was shocked to see teen pregnancies in the UK too when I lived there. I thought the USA and UK would be much more progressive in this. Also, STDs.
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  8. In Europe she would be center-left 😂
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  9.  @nutmegriot209  and green politics are not necessarly left-wing either.
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  10.  @solarydays  I dont mean to be mean, it's just Americans are more optimistic and naive than Europeans. It's not always a bad thing, but sometimes its dangerous. They rush into relationships, marriage, children. In Europe it's not like that. Also, do not not hook up with strangers, that's dangerous too. They say Italian women are hard to get. Yes, we are, because we want to know you before we go home with you. Just common sense.
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  11. How could the Church in Canada have so much power? How did they force women to have children?
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  12. I have been saying this since 1992, when I went to the USA as an exchange student from Italy: the problem with American highschools is that they do not teach philosophy. European highschools teach philosophy. Philosophy promotes critical thinking. The USA do not want voters with critical thinking, especially not the Republicans.
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  13.  @MCKevin289  it is getting more difficult to comment on yt every day 😞
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  14.  @justaweirdpigeon983  I am sorry 😞 women were miserable when Christianity ruled. Men too, but women were more miserable. In Italian local languages ("dialects") you can tell which ones come from regions where the Church had more political power, because they are rich in blasphemies ("bestemmie") 😂 That tells us how much Italians hated the Church. I was born in one of those regions, Veneto. The guys who united Italy in 1861 were very anticlerical too. Italy was never as religious as people say it was. Today it is definitely post-Christian.
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  15. ​​ @TheRealSkreegle the USA is inherently anti-intellectual 😂 I went to an American highschool for a year. It was like kindergarden compared to Italian highschools. Education is more valued in Europe. We study philosophy and critical thinking in highschool here. I think it is the main reason why religion in Europe is pretty much dead. Yes, even in Italy. Actually, especially in Italy.
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  16. ​ @intuitionz1198 yes, the American system is anti-intellectuals by design. Europeans value education much more, that's why our Universities are usually free. And our highschools are not about proms, sports, and cheerleaders 😂 They are about actually studying. I know not from movies, but from personal experience as an exchange student in the USA.
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  17. ​ @lizcollinson2692 in the USA there is still a huge problem with women dying from pregnancy/ childbirth issues compared to Europe. You guys have no free healthcare, no welfare, no workers rights, nothing. I think Europe can do much better than this, but the USA is so much worse. Apparently in Italy we have one of the best healthcare systems in the world, it is free, and to us, it is going to ruin. People are protesting very loudly. We have American and British people coming to live in Italy because of good, free healthcare. To me, this is crazy. Why are you people not having a revolution over there? Strikes? Something?
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  18.  @AlbertGuilmont  is it a democracy when you basically have only 2 Parties, and they are both pro Big Capital and war? I know European democracy has many faults, and we have seen with Hungary it's always possible to lose it. But at least we have a multi-party system, both at EU level and national level. In Italy we have dozens of parties, and all parties with at least 4% of votes get a seat at the table. Meloni is trying to change all of that, but she can only do it with the consent of most Italians (thou a referendum) and most Italians are against. We actually voted to have more local powers (there are 20 regions in our country) so that the central government in Rome has less power. Our grandfathers learnt their lesson with Mussolini. Do not give too much power to a single man. Trump is a Mussolini wanna be.
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  19.  @MCKevin289  The Magdalene Sisters, a 2002 film by Peter Mullan.
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  20.  @MCKevin289  yeah I remember the movie, how they were treated and the slave labor 😞 I also remember Sinead O'Connor was a victim of this as well. I loved Sinead ❤️
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  21.  @vipermad358  99% of American Democrats are center or center-right.
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  22.  @MCKevin289  there was a movie about it, right? Truly horrible stuff.
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  23.  @yvesleduc7860  in Italy the revolution was much less quiet in the 60s and 70s. Today we have the lowest marriage rate in Europe/ one of the lowest in the world, one of the lowest birthrates in the world (1.2), most "families" are monofamilies (singles, with cats and dogs), and practicing catholics are around 10% and mostly very old people. I live in the North, in Padova, which is among the top cities for singles, leftists, students, atheists. Things are a bit different in a place like Sicily, obviously. But my mother, in the 60s, was listening to the Beatles, wearing tiny miniskirts and hotpants, reading feminist books, definitely not religious, and my dad was a communist with long hair. They were both from small rural towns in Veneto, and they were not rich nor University students. So this behavior was not only common among the "elites", it was common among low middle class, working class, rural class youth. They got divorce laws approved, legal abortions, free birth control, reform of family laws and lots more. They changed Italian society forever. If there ever was a "catholic morality" in Italy, it was dead by the 60s. I think in the North it was never strong anyway. I can not wait till religion is wiped out of Italy completely.
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  24.  @mariethe_patate3696  oh wow, I did not know any of that. I know very little about Canadian history tbh. In Italy we study alot of European history obviously, and a little from other continents. Obviously we study American history (USA). But nothing about Canada. All I knew was that they speak both French and English, there are alot of trees, maple syrup, and they are more peaceful and progressive than the USA. I'll try to read some history. All that religious stuff sounds horrible 😢 poor women. Pregnancy is big horror to me (I am tokophobic). If I was alive back then, I would have probably unlived myself.
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  25.  @solarydays  that's us Europeans about everything 😂 from relationships to politics to religions to shopping etc. Very skeptic. I think Americans who visit Europe don't understand this thing about us. They don't like it. They think we are cold or rude or even xenophobic. Tbh, some are very xenophobic. But mostly, we are just skeptic. If a waiter or sales person is smiling too much or makes small talk, we think they have bad intentions 😂 If a guy flirts, we know they want sex, nothing serious. Anything a politician says, we know they are lying. Forget religion, American evangelicals have tried for decades to convert people in Italy, their missionaries give up after a few years 😂 they say it is impossible to make us care about the bible. Yeah, big skeptics.
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  26. ​ @LogicalThinking-p2s only an American could say that 😂 That bs was never a thing here in Europe, not even in Italy. Condoms and the pill were.
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  27.  @MCKevin289  I am always interested in the horrors done by religions.
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  28.  @vipermad358  most American Dems are center or center-right.
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  29.  @MCKevin289  I think I saw a different one. The Magdalene Sisters, a 2002 film by Peter Mullan.
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  30.  @murddeath  Columbia, Missouri. It was a public school in a wealthy area.
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  31.  @StarGazingMoth  my comments were deleted. I just said that yes, Harris is not a good choice, she's a less evil choice.
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  32.  @AlbertGuilmont  yeah but European democracies are multi-party systems. We have dozens of parties we can vote. They just have to get at least 4% of votes to get into the Italian parliament. Since there is no party that can get more than 30% of votes, parties have to form alliances with smaller parties. So even if you only got 4% of votes, you get a seat at the table. The far-left has about 7% of votes rn, 10% in cities like mine. Mostly from young people, so I have hope their base will grow and stop the far-right.
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  33.  @MCKevin289   @MCKevin289  yeah I remember the movie, how they were treated and the slave labor 😞 I also remember Sinead O'Connor was a victim of this as well. I loved Sinead ❤️
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  34.  @MCKevin289  RIP ❤️ She was so talented 😞
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  35.  @Baconcatboy  a different continent actually. A continent always laughing at American insanity 😂
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  36.  @StarGazingMoth  I do not know why my comments keep getting deleted. I basically agree with you. Strange.
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  37. The question is: why are American women still getting married? Why don't they just say no? No one is getting married in Italy anymore, and we are not exactly the most progressive or feminist country in the world. Or South Korea. They are saying no to marriage and children too. Just stop, they can not force you in the USA right? Unless you are in one of those crazy cults, like Mormons or Evangelicals.
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  38. In Italy we swear on the Constitution, not on a bible 😂
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  39. I am antinatalist for moral reasons, and honestly it would be bad in a perfect world too. So in this one, you gotta be either evil, or very ignorant.
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  40.  @MCKevin289  thank you, I'll look for it!
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  41.  @ChibiHoshiDragon  I must add that cheating has always been "a thing" in Italy (like in France). Especially men (but women too) had a wife and one or more lovers. My grandfather HATED my grandmother, but had to marry her because she got pregnant. He had one lover, a lady he did love, for decades. So, most of the sex he had with his lover, not his wife. I have no idea how they even managed to have 4 kids. I never even saw them kiss. They were miserable. Maybe my grandma had a lover too.
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  42.  @lindamullins1446  I am an atheist from an atheist family, I will never understand religion. You can be nice to your neighbors and everything without Jesus. Jesus is not necessary. Religion is not necessary. And no, it is not "correct". It's fiction.
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  43. @aim302  my grandmother was an Italian catholic, had 2 children and died at 92. My mother is an atheist and had 2 daughters. Italian catholicism after WWII definitely turned to the Left (even to Comunism. We call them "catto-comunisti" 😂). So it depends on the country really.
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  44. The Catholicism you talk about is virtually non existent here in Europe, even in "culturally" catholic countries like Italy, Spain and especially France. It is a perversion. I am an Italian atheist. And the pope hates Trump btw 😂 he said Trump is not a christian. Ps: italy and Spain also have among the lowest birthrates in the whole world 😂 I havent seen a family with more than 2 children in my whole life (I am 49 and childfree, like everyone I know).
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  45. I am European, and I can honestly say that American republicans are way worse than any actual neo fascist party we have in Europe rn. And we have many, in Italy, France, Germany etc. Not one of them has a program near as bad as Project 2025. Meloni's answer to Italy's very low birthrates is not banning abortion or divorce. She is a single mother herself 😂 It is more welfare.
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  46.  @kellharris2491  i did. I understand HOW. I dont understand WHY.
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  47.  @sonohito5  I hate both too. It's disgusting.
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  48.  @ChibiHoshiDragon  you know women can get pregnant, have a miscarriage and never even know about it, even today, right? So yeah, of course I count only the ones who were born.
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  49.  @watsonroadster3707  Thank you. I am looking into this. I always thought Canada was like the USA but more progressive and less violent. I had no idea the Church had so much power over there while it was losing power all over Europe. The guys who united Italy were backed by the French and very anti-Church (1861).
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  50.  @lazy-gyal0077  I want to know more too! Please suggest some books, merci!
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  51.  @Rakibrown111  I hate all three, but I hate Christianity the most because it is the one that has done more evil here in Italy by far.
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  52.  @Mistak23  My kindergarden (in Italy, late 70s) was run by nuns. I started hating them right there and then. I did not respect any of their "rules" because they did not make sense to me (I was born an atheist and I will die an atheist). Fortunately, 1) my father was a communist (and atheist), and very involved in local politics, 2) my family had a successful business, so we knew people, 3) my mother was a feminist, not interested in religion, and very much against rules (for herself and for her daughters). So I was the only child in the whole kindergarden who disobeyed all the rules, was openly critical of Christianity/ religion and an atheist, talked back to the nuns all the time, and I was never EVER punished in any way 😂 I am sure I would have been abused if my parents were not so relevant in local politics and successful in business. Or if I had a different personality. I find it very amusing I could insult Christianity all the time in kindergarden, and later in religion class (which I ditched once it was no longer compulsory) in elementary and middle school, and they (nuns, priests, religion teachers) could not punish me in any way, because if they dared, I would have told my parents, and they would have raised hell 😂 It is a shame my parents were the only ones in our little town to openly challenge the Church in the 70's. The antagonism between the town priest and the local communist politician was so common in post-WW2 Italy that it became a TV series (Peppone e Don Camillo) 😂 Today in Italy no one cares about religion anymore, not even the ones who call themselves "catholic". They know nothing about their own religion, so you can't even debate with them. No fun.
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  53.  @daveburke5177  they had power in Italy during the fascist regime, when Mussolini (an atheist) made a deal with the Vatican (Patti Lateranensi) that made Catholicism the State religion. It lasted on paper till the early 80s, but the Church did not have any control of the population. The popes after WWII "excommunicated" all communists, but the Italian Communist Party was massive, the biggest Communist Party in the West. So I guess at least one third of Italians were "excommunicated" then, and they did not care 😂 Since my family was among these "excommunicated" communists, I never felt the Church had any control of the Italian population. In the 70s divorce and abortion were made legal and supported by public referendum. The feminist movement was pretty radical and supported by the Communist Party and the Radical Party, so it had a mass base, it was not (only) a movement of the "élites". When in 1984 Craxi "reviewed" the Patti Lateranensi to officially separate the Italian State from the Church (catholicism was not the "official" State religion anymore), the civil society was already pretty much secular. I have to say though that I am always talking about Northern and Central Italy. The South and Sicily were (and still are) more religious. For a long time I believed Italy must be the country where the Church had the most power, since the Vatican is on Italian land and all. I did not know it had so much power in Canada, Irland, Poland, Spain etc. I always compared Italy to France and to Scandinavia, which I saw as much more secular and progressive than us. I think in some countries being catholic was a "political identity", like being muslim can be today for alot of people. The Irish people were catholic vs the English being protestant. The Poles were catholic vs the Soviet Union being Communist/ atheist. The catholic French speaking Canadians vs the protestant English speaking Canadians. We never needed to identify as "catholic" in Italy against an "enemy". And being closer to the Vatican made us more aware of all the bad stuff they did (and still do). I find it relevant that the Italian languages ("dialects") have more blasphemies ("bestemmie") against god, mary, the saints, Jesus etc than any other language 😂 I am from a region (Veneto) famous for our "bestemmie" 😂 I guess the stronger the virus, the strongest antibodies one develops. I hope I made sense 😂
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  54.  @gregorymalchuk272  show me proof of what you said. Thank you.
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  55. @andreannegarant6346  I think that is what I would have done, become a teacher. I am antinatalist, so pretty much anything rather than being a mother is better to me.
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  56. @andreannegarant6346  actually in Italy it's not (just) a rivalry between North and South. It's become more of a rivalry between my region (Veneto) against Rome and the Central government. We actually just got more regional powers. The thing is, Italy is a young country and it was made of indipendent city-states and small reigns controlled by foreign powers. So yeah, every region has a different language, culture etc. But also, my region has become richer and well managed over the decades, and Rome is a hopeless mess. Economically, we are very linked to Germany. Which makes sense, because we were under German/Austrian rule till 1866. The annexiation is still controversial. I personally think we should be less centralized. I do not care about Nation-statehood. It will always sound fascist to me. Italy is a patchwork of "city-states", it's not a nation. I hope you will keep your French identity in Canada.
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  57.  @mscoyote50  it ended in 1871, it started in 1861.
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  58.  @andreannegarant6346  can you read my replies? Looks like they were deleted. Jfc, they are deleting comments about History. This is a very bad sign.
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  59.  @andreannegarant6346  wow she speaks all our "dialects"?? That's awesome.
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  60.  @andreannegarant6346  I know you can understand 😉 yes, it would be nice if we could accept all different cultures and respect one another without becoming all the same.
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  61. @Somebboddyy  "Magdalene", by Peter Mulland, 2002.
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  62. @Somebboddyy  in some countries it is also known as "The Magdalene Sisters".
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  63. @Somebboddyy  Americans (I am always talking about Europe vs the USA, because I am not familiar enough with other cultures) NEED to study History, Philosophy, Law, Civic Education and similar subject, in Highschool. In Italian public schools (and in Europe in general), all those subjects are compulsory. The study of those subjects tend to create more politically aware, and politically active people. And the USA system DOES NOT WANT THAT. Am I making sense to you?
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  64. @Somebboddyy  study philosophy, history, law and civic education. It's the only way out.
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  65. @paulmakinson1965  maybe in the upper class. I have seen plenty of movies of British working class women who worked outside the house and had children. "Suffragettes", for example. People seem to forget that working class mothers very often had jobs outside the house, in every country.
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  66. @andreannegarant6346  ok!
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  67. @andreannegarant6346  philosophy teach indipendent, critical thinking. It is not compatible with religious fanaticism. It also encourages political thinking and, sometimes, revolutions. It is not taught in American highschools for all these reasons, and never was. It is a compulsory subject in Italian public highschools and all over Europe. I think this is a big difference in American and European culture. The 1968 cultural revolution was born in French and Italian Universities, and philosophy played an important role. All the famous 68's slogans were written by French philosophers.
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  68.  @andreannegarant6346  ❤️
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  69.  @darkstarr984  In Italy philosophers are in every talk show, political debate, even in bars everyone is a "philosopher" after a few glasses of wine 😂 we have a long history of philosophy, starting with ancient Rome. Another ever present voice in Italian politics is Trade Unions. Our Union leaders are as important as any Party leaders. I never saw any philosophers or Union leaders on American TV when I lived in Missouri for a year or in Florida for 6 months. French philosophers are quite important too.
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  70.  @darkstarr984  I live in Padova. Our University is one of the oldest in the world, only second to Bologna I think. Some philosophic doctrines started in our University centuries ago. "Aristotelismo Padovano" for example was the basis for modern scientific thinking and an inspiration for Galileo Galilei.
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  71.  @TheRatsintheWalls  thank you. Yes, I have noticed. They deleted a few whole channels about geopolitics as well. And yes, I would like an explanation about deleted comments too, because mine are never "offensive". They are doing all this because we are close to the American elections, so TPTB do not like people knowing about certain issues.
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  72. In Europe we are very worried about Trump winning and the crazy American religious people behind him. I know there will try to ruin Europe.
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  73.  @petervizzini4006  and you know a child is not a property of the parents, right? In fact, many times we need to separate them for the good of the child. In Europe home schooling is not generally legal, all children must get real education. No religion bs, no "creationism", no flat earth, no anti LGBT propaganda, none of that bs. And sex ed for every child. Teen pregnancies are basically non existing in Italy and most of Europe. It makes me angry to see one of the richest countries on earth (USA) have third world levels of education, healthcare, mortality, homophobia, believes in the supernatural etc. Very peculiar.
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  74.  @kidcoyoteanarchy  of course they are.
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  75.  @donnaroo8042  Ted Bundy appeared like that too.
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  76. Poisoning men is something Italian women were very good at centuries ago 😂 see acqua tofana 😂 Especially in the South where they were more oppressed. I am sure Italian American women still have the recipe if things get bad!
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  77. Leeja, if you decide to move to Europe you are welcomed by me ❤ ALOT of Americans have moved to Italy and other European countries recently. It is going to get really bad in the USA 😢
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  78. 😂 from Italy.
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  79. I agree, but as an Italian woman, why do American women keep getting married and having babies? We stopped decades ago 😂 I am 49, I dont know any married woman or mother my age. Just say no. I know American men, I have lived in the USA. They are terrible.
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  80. As an Italian, I agree. We had to fight very hard in history to push the Vatican out of our politics. In theory it is, in practice... the Vatican is like the mafias. We do not see the mafias, but they have infected all sectors of our country like a cancer. The Vatican is another cancer. CIA, the American military and government yet another. Now the billionaires are buying us. Musk is moving 3 hours from here apparently. This is not a democracy, it is an American colony ruled by non elected forces.
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  81. Yeah, of course, like all the countries that collaborated with the Nazis across Europe. The locals who collaborated were still responsable for any crime.
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  82. I don't think Vance, Trump, or Musk can teach us Europeans anything. They don't even understand that the far-right parties they are promoting hate the USA. Nor they understand that hate speech is not free speech to us. Or that they need to pay taxes on their digital products. Musk is wanted by Italian judges for tax evasion btw. The richest man in the world does not pay his taxes.
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  83. I am not American so I really dont know: why do they discriminate against the disabled?
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  84.  @Whatsup_Abroad  if this is the best, immagine the worst 😂 ww3 is coming, not only climate change and the end of capitalism. Do you hate your future children so much you want them to suffer like this?
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  85.  @Whatsup_Abroad   @cheeeeezewizzz  if this is the best, immagine the worst 😂 ww3 is coming, not only climate change and the end of capitalism. Do you hate your future children so much you want them to suffer like this?
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  86. This is what most Italians have been doing since at least generation x (me). We have the lowest marriage rate in Europe and one of the lowest birthrates in the world. They want to play stupid games, they are not going to win anything 😂
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  87. ​ @Lorgar64 the only countries with a positive birthrate are some African countries where women have no rights. Great example for the USA I guess 😂
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  88.  @lizcollinson2692  I think it's more about education. Even if in my country there was no welfare, I would never have children as a retirement plan. That is a terrible reason to have children. I would rather just kill myself. In Africa education is low, religion is high, so the poor keep on producing more poors unfortunately. And yes, good healthcare means less infant deaths and so less births.
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  89. Also, how could the Church have that much power in Canada?? Enough to force women to have children? We have literally the Vatican on our land, and the Church never forced women to have children. I am shocked.
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  90.  @MCKevin289  there was a movie about it many years ago. Truly evil stuff. I think Sinead O'Connor talked about it as well. I truly hate the Vatican (most Italians do).
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  91. How could the Church have that much power in Canada?? The Vatican had political power in Italy, but the Church never forced women to have children. Even going back generations (to a century ago) no one in my family had more than 4 children nor was forced to go to church.
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  92.  @MCKevin289  can you see my reply? I think it was deleted 😞
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  93.  @mariethe_patate3696   @mariethe_patate3696  oh wow, I did not know any of that. I know very little about Canadian history tbh. In Italy we study alot of European history obviously, and a little from other continents. Obviously we study American history (USA). But nothing about Canada. All I knew was that they speak both French and English, there are alot of trees, maple syrup, and they are more peaceful and progressive than the USA. I'll try to read some history. All that religious stuff sounds horrible 😢 poor women. Pregnancy is big horror to me (I am tokophobic). If I was alive back then, I would have probably unlived myself.
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  94.  @justaweirdpigeon983   @justaweirdpigeon983  I am sorry 😞 women were miserable when Christianity ruled. Men too, but women were more miserable. In Italian local languages ("dialects") you can tell which ones come from regions where the Church had more political power, because they are rich in blasphemies ("bestemmie") 😂 That tells us how much Italians hated the Church. I was born in one of those regions, Veneto. The guys who united Italy in 1861 were very anticlerical too.
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  95.  @RustyhairedLamialp9575  i am going to look for a video about that, thank you!
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  96.  AlexanderWinterborn-r6p  dont you think I know that? So?
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  97.  @ChibiHoshiDragon  Well actually you can be pregnant, have a miscarriage and never know (even today), so of course I am not counting that. Also, infanticide was a thing a century ago, especially among the poor. So, of course I am only counting the children who made it. I just do not understand the stereotype that Italians had big families. It is just not true. Even Mussolini was worried about low birthrates in Italy. ACTUALLY, low birthrates was a problem for the ROMAN EMPIRE too. So, where does this stereotype about big Italian families come from?
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  98.  @triciamtl  that sounds horrible. In Italy before the country was united in 1861 (1866 actually was when the last region, mine - Veneto - was annexed from Austria), the Vatican ruled the Papal States in Central Italy. They soon became the most anticlerical, atheist, areas of Italy. And the most fiercely Communist ones. We call them the red regions (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, Emilia Romagna) or "red belt" of Italy. I guess that shows how bad the Church was and how much people hate it. That's another Italian stereotype I hate. Italians are NOT catholic. Probably never were. The North is and has long been atheist/agnostic/ indifferent like most of Western Europe, and the South is more "pagan" I guess, more superstitious. Of course the Catholic Church stole pagan traditions, symbols, even people, and pretended they were catholic traditions, symbols and saints, but they did that everywhere. There still are millions of Italians, especially in the South, who believe in witches, the horoscopes, fortune tellers, psychics, tarots, etc etc. I know many more Italians who believe in that stuff than in the christian god. We do not have televangelists in Italy like in the USA. But we do have a big choice of psychis, fortune tellers, mediums and the likes on TV. Some astrologers, like Paolo Fox, are big TV celebrities here. Does that sound like a catholic country? In Italy the Vatican was, and still is, seen as a political entity that wants polical power. It was never a "spiritual entity". Italians are not "spiritual" people.
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  99.  @NI-ko5kt  I am sorry, can you please explain your comment? I wrote many comments, many were cancelled, and I do not understand what you are replying to. Sorry.
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  100.  @ChibiHoshiDragon  my comment to this was cancelled, I do not know why. Telling the truth is impossible on social media today 😞
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  101.  @ChibiHoshiDragon  so there are no christians in Italy. No one here believes Mary was a virgin 😂
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  102.  AlexanderWinterborn-r6p  I have lived, studied, and travelled to different places all around the USA. I know.
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  103.  @handlebar4520  that's why I am antinatalist. Life always suck. Better to never be born.
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  104.  @ChibiHoshiDragon  thank you, but no one on Italy believes in any of that. Catholics/ Christians are a 10% in Italy today, all over 80, and they no nothing about their own religion. It looks like there are more because they count baptized babies or Italians who are "culturally catholic", but a majority do not even believe in any god, let alone the Bible one. I imagine Canada is the same?
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  105.  @ChibiHoshiDragon  I do not know what a brand account is. I just have a normal account.
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  106.  @watsonroadster3707  Thank you. Sounds really bad 😞
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  107.  @ChibiHoshiDragon  thank you. I did not know any of that. Good to know!
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  108.  @kc6810  thank you, but most of my comments are deleted, probably because they go against the mainstream narrative on about every issue 😂 social medias are not places for free speech anymore.
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  109. @andreannegarant6346  so, you guys had a "silent revolution" in the 60s? It was pretty loud here in Italy. I actually always considered the whole of Canada a more progressive country than the USA. I found out later about Catholicism in Québec. I did not know it was insulting to mix Québec with Canada either 😂 sorry. Maybe it is a case like North Italy vs South Italy/ Sicily? Or is Québec indipendent?
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  110. @andreannegarant6346  oh wow I did not know the French people of Canada feel this way. You know, France and the UK are probably my fave countries (language, literature, pop culture, etc). I think minorities rights should be respected of course.
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  111.  @nonya.bizness  Imagine applying that to Italy 😂 especially "don't take the lord's name in vain": my region would be all in prison in a day 😂
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  112.  @lindamullins1446  I am an atheist, so to me religion is not real. But I see how Christianity has been distorted in the USA. Their "prosperity gospel" is the OPPOSITE of Roman Catholicism. The Evangelicals have NEVER been able get get a foothold in Italy. They are too far from our culture. Italian catholics are closer to socialism than right-wing ideology.
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  113.  @andreannegarant6346  yes of course it's history. I meant STILL feel like this today. History is a very important subject, like philosophy. That's why in American highschools they do not teach philosophy, and that's why the (American) Republicans are so concerned about History teaching in schools. They want to manipulate History and brainwash students. The brainwashing is easier if you do not teach Philosophy (critical thinking) and History. The brainwashing is also easier if you already believe in religious bs.
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  114.  @andreannegarant6346  Can you read my comments about Philosophy?
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  115.  @andreannegarant6346  can you read my comments about teaching philosophy in schools??
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  116. @andreannegarant6346  what do you mean?
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  117. @andreannegarant6346  I am sorry, I have no idea how to count them.
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  118. @louisAudet  oh yeah I know about Canadian history! My grandparents grew up in fascist Italy, but things changed after WWII.
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  119.  @therealrobertbirchall  why did women accept that? You know, in countries with a big patriarchal culture, like we can see today, women's response has been to stop dealing with men, marriage and children. See South Korea, Japan, Spain and Italy for example. If the men keep on wanting a monopoly of power, they will get no marriage, no children, and not even sex. I expect they, than, will start more grapings and forced pregnancies. It is a very dark day for American women today.
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  120.  @therealrobertbirchall  tell every woman you know to not get married to a men. Especially today, especially in the USA. It worked in Italy, we have one of the lowest marriage rates and childbirth rates in the world. If they do not want to change the system, the system will collapse. I am 49, I have been a feminist activist for decades. All women in the world need to follow South Korea's 4B movement. That's the biggest power us women have against the Patriarchy. Refuse marriage. Refuse being controlled.
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  121.  @andreannegarant6346  I asked if you can see my comments about why they do not teach philosophy in American highschools.
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  122.  @seraphim_sounds  my parents had 2 daughters, and both my sister and I are childfree. The "big Italian family" is a myth from 2 hundred years ago. The fact that Italians are religious is another old myth. Plus, all of the Italian stereotypes "belong" to Sicily and most South Italy. Here in the North, we are closer to the French (in regions like Piedmont and Aosta) or the Germans (Veneto, Alto Adige), than we are to Sicily. Our (Veneto) identity is complitely at odds with Rome, Sicily, the Vatican ecc. We do not feel Italian at all.
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  123.  @seraphim_sounds  do you live in the South or North? Because the North, especially Veneto, is the land of the single and childfree today 😂 none of my friends have children, and we are all in our 40's and older.
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  124.  @Somebboddyy  you are welcome ❤️
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  125.  @networknomad5600  i do not mean they force a woman by putting a gun in her face. Their control is thru "traditions", religion and all sort of propaganda. The means might be different, the goal has always been the same: controlling female power, controlling female bodies. Us women need to dismantle the patriarchy today more than ever.
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  126.  @networknomad5600   @networknomad5600  i do not mean they force a woman by putting a gun in her face. Their control is thru "traditions", religion and all sort of propaganda. The means might be different, the goal has always been the same: controlling female power, controlling female bodies. Us women need to dismantle the patriarchy today more than ever.
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  127.  @networknomad5600  the fact my comments about feminism (and philosophy) keep being deleted really says it.
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  128.  @networknomad5600  christian advice = control over women. The Italian feminist movement started as a 1968 movement. Lets not forget the 1968 movement started in Italy and France. It was actually more radical in Italy and lasted way longer. The Church lost the battle over women's rights in 1968. They lost their cultural egemony. Gramsci was Italian after all ❤️
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  129. @Somebboddyy  yt has become an instrument of propaganda, like many other social medias. They cancel all voices that go against their narrative.
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  130. @Somebboddyy  It seems I just can not have some conversations on YT, even if I try to write "in code". This is a very bad omen of things to come.
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  131. @Somebboddyy  the point is: the American education system is a failure. I am not saying the European one doesnt have problems (it does, and they started in 80s/90s), but the difference is huge.
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  132. @Somebboddyy  I think THE most important battle in the USA today is about cultural egemony. Read what Antonio Gramsci wrote about this. The American Evangelicals and the far-right do not have a cultural egemony in the USA right now, and that is their #1 goal. Their banning and burning of books is exacly what the Austrian guy with the funny moustache did. Now they want to dismantle the Office of Public Education. The USA is going thru the same process Europe went thru 100 years ago. It ended in fascism, a world war, and a re-boot of the system. Learn about history, otherwise you have no idea what is happening today, or what will happen tomorrow.
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  133. @Somebboddyy   @Somebboddyy  I think THE most important battle in the USA today is about cultural egemony. Read what Antonio Gramsci wrote about this. The American Evangelicals and the far-right do not have a cultural egemony in the USA right now, and that is their #1 goal. Their banning and burning of books is exacly what the Austrian guy with the funny moustache did. Now they want to dismantle the Office of Public Education. The USA is going thru the same process Europe went thru 100 years ago. It ended in fascism, a world war, and a re-boot of the system. Learn about history, otherwise you have no idea what is happening today, or what will happen tomorrow.
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  134. @Somebboddyy  again, comments deleted. I am sorry, please research on your own. YT like all social media is controlling and brainwashing.
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  135. @Somebboddyy  read Antonio Gramsci.
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  136.  @Somebboddyy  you are welcome ❤️
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  137.  @Somebboddyy  you are welcome ❤️
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  138. @Somebboddyy  you are welcome ❤️
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  139. @TheAlyssa2469  that sounds like my worst nightmare. Did the women have any way out at all? Like moving to another place, or become nuns. I mean, I am an atheist but I would have chosen to be a nun rather than have even just one child. What happened if you refused to marry and have children?
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  140. @paulmakinson1965  one of my favorite poets, Sylvia Plath, had both a career and children. Actresses (Audrey Hepburn), musicians (Yoko Ono), fashion models, etc too.
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  141. @seraphim_sounds  my mother had 2 and my sister and I had zero 😂
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  142. @andreannegarant6346  are "alternative schools" private or public?
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  143. @andreannegarant6346  American religion(s) scare me more than the Vatican.
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  144. @andreannegarant6346  philosophy teaches how to think critically and indipendently. The USA does not want that for its citzens.
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  145. I was an exchange student in the USA in 1992 (from Italy). My English was not very good, but I still got straight A's in every class. I was a junior and they moved me to senior classes. American highschool was like elementary school for me 😂 if things only got worse from 1992, I am horrified. Plus, there already was disrespect for teachers back then (from students and parents), I was shocked.
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  146.  @darkstarr984   @darkstarr984  Italian philosophers are always present in Italian talk shows and political debates. Union leaders too. I lived in the USA for periods of time and I never saw philosophers or Union leaders on TV. French philosophers are pretty important too.
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  147. The Boys ❤
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  148.  @StarGazingMoth  oh I know, I totally agree. I personally like Jill Stein. But Stein would never win, so Harris is the less evil compared to Trump. In Europe there is alot of talk about this. Trump would be a tragedy, Harris would be more of the same (which is not good either, but not a tragedy). Some people though think Harris is unpredictable, since she changed opinions about alot of stuff. I think the best thing for us Europeans is to get away from the USA. Build our own European army so the USA cant give us orders anymore. Trump is hated in Europe also because he was giving orders to his allies, instead of being more "soft" like Biden. The result will be the same, Europe has been doing whatever the USA wants since post WWII. But our politicians of course do not like being treated like servants, like Trump does.
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  149.  @TheRatsintheWalls  in some cases, it IS intentional. Blinken himself asked YT to remove content considered "anti-American". Even here in Europe they censor information about the Ukraine war for example. Everyone who disagrees with the mainstream narrative is accused of being a "Russian bot" 😂 Everyone who is against the war on Gaza and Lebanon is "antisemitic". There is a lot of censorship going on in the USA and Europe lately.
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  150.  @TheRatsintheWalls   @TheRatsintheWalls  in some cases, it IS intentional. Blinken himself asked YT to remove content considered "anti-American". Even here in Europe they censor information about the Ukraine war for example. Everyone who disagrees with the mainstream narrative is accused of being a "Russian bot" 😂 Everyone who is against the war on Gaza and Lebanon is "antisemitic". There is a lot of censorship going on in the USA and Europe lately.
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  151.  @TheRatsintheWalls   @TheRatsintheWalls  in some cases, it IS intentional. Blinken himself asked YT to remove content considered "anti-American". Even here in Europe they censor information about the Ukraine war for example. Everyone who disagrees with the mainstream narrative is accused of being a "Russian bot" 😂 Everyone who is against the war on Gaza and Lebanon is "antisemitic". There is a lot of censorship going on in the USA and Europe lately.
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  152.  @TheRatsintheWalls  do you see my reply?
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  153.  @TheRatsintheWalls  do you see my reply?
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  154.  @TheRatsintheWalls  my comments were deleted, again. I give up.
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  155.  @TheRatsintheWalls  so my comment was deleted again. I give up.
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  156.  @lunarumbreon7699  I actually saw poll results that showed more Democrats than Republicans know about Project 2025 (in the USA). If they do know and still vote for him, that's even worse. It's obvious the guy is a liar. I also do not understand why poor people vote Republicans when they will be the ones to suffer the most from a Trump presidency.
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  157.  @TheRatsintheWalls  nevermind, not important.
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  158.  @lunarumbreon7699  do you see my reply? All my comments disappear here.
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  159.  @lunarumbreon7699  I mean my answer to your question. I can not see it.
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  160.  @TheRatsintheWalls  I give up!
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  161. Leeja, I follow and support your channel from Europe ❤ Thank you for the work you do to inform Americans. Unfortunately, whatever happens there has an impact here too. And most of Europe agrees that Trump would be a disaster for both the USA and Europe. Let's hope sanity wins next month ❤
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  162. ​ @ChadAgain if I am allowed to express my opinion as a non American (European), I agree with you. Things will not change for the better if you keep voting for the less of 2 evils. In recent European elections, where the far-right is gaining power, so is the far-left. The losers are the centrists, which in American politics are the Dems. People understand that the centrists (neoliberals) are just one step close to fascism. Here in Italy the centrist parties have disappeared. In France, Macron is done. Young Italians are voting for Left parties en masse. Not for Meloni!! Good luck Americans Lefties ❤
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  163. ​​ @ChadAgain ​@ChadAgain if I am allowed to express my opinion as a non American (European), I agree with you. Things will not change for the better if you keep voting for the less of 2 evils. In recent European elections, where the far-right is gaining power, so is the far-left. The losers are the centrists, which in American politics are the Dems. People understand that the centrists (neoliberals) are just one step close to fascism. Here in Italy the centrist parties have disappeared. In France, Macron is done. Young Italians are voting for Left parties en masse. Not for Meloni!! Good luck American Lefties ❤
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  164. ​ @sw-fast 😂
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  165. Do they watch Fox News? 😂 I am not American, but I have seen clips of Fox News online. Insanity.
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  166. We have been saying this for years in Europe (Yanis Varoufakis) but of course none of the mainstream parties care. They all want a piece of the pie, they do not care about our country or the people. They are selling my country (Italy) bit by bit.
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  167.  @petervizzini4006  why do some Americans hate LGBT people so much? What have they done to you? I just dont get it.
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  168.  @petervizzini4006  you know that is a lie right? You are born gay or trans or whatever, it is not something that you can be "pushed into". I am bisexual since kindergarden, and I went to a catholic kindergarden lol in the 70s. In Italy. No LGBT "propaganda" then. But I was still bi. Never a catholic thou, that WAS propaganda. And why do you think LGBT people want to "push children" into being like them?? Dont you think they are just telling them its ok to be who you are, even if bigots think otherwise? Again, you are born LGBTQ+++, there is no other way. It's all that homeschooling, isnt it? Thats why so many Americans are ignorant and bigots?
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  169. I am an Italian, I know what fascism is. We invented it unfortunately. And let me tell you. Trump and Project 2025 is WORSE than both Mussolini's fascism and todays/ Meloni's fascism. Why? Because 1) Italian fascism was and still is pro welfare (although not as much as socialists). American right wing is very against welfare. 2) Trump and Co. are crazy religious. Mussolini was an atheist who later used the Catholic Church for his goals, but was never really on board with religion. In fact a big number of the partisans who later fought against fascism were Catholic (biggest group after the Communists). 3) Mussolini was not a socialist in economy of course, but not a pure capitalist either. Trump is uber capitalist. So, I think Trump is worse than Mussolini, and I am antifascist so... Please Americans choose well in November, otherwise the whole world is doomed.
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  170.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  I know what corporativismo is. It is not socialism. Mussolini ended all workers unions but the fascist one. No strikes nor protests were allowed. He did nothing for workers rights. The fascist regime in fact started with the murder of socialist leader Matteotti. Only Americans would think Mussolini was a socialist. They see socialism or communism everywhere. Are you American?
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  171. If you read books on the Vatican and Italian politics since post WWII you would think you have gone crazy. Beyond any conspiracy 😂 but it is all true. The knights stuff in Malta. Opus Dei. Comunione e Liberazione. P2 (propaganda 2). Gladio. The banker of god. P3d0s. Missing girls. Murders. Mafia. Neo fascist organizations. And of course: CIA 😂 ps: the pope has said a few times lately that there are too many gays in the Vatican. Hypocrites.
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  172. Musk is wanted for tax evasion here in Italy. The richest man in the world doesn't pay his taxes.
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  173. I am Italian and I would have totally killed myself if I got pregnant and could not abort. I am glad it is not a risk now that I am 49. I am positive the number of suicides, homicides and infanticides will go up in the USA if the Republicans get their way. I dont understand if they know this.
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  174. That is just evil. They want to take away womens rights. Some people are saying very misogynistic things in Europe too rn. I am just glad I am single and childfree.
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  175.  @MaxRamos8  I am an Italian atheist, I am not really sold on the existence of "Jesus". But if he did exist, obviously he was a "socialist". No doubt about that. He was not "white" either, that is another big lie most christians keep telling.
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  176. I think the best solution is we just stop having children. Let the rich people reproduce. That way their plan will not work. They need many poor people for the plan to work. I am childfree in one of the countries with the lowest birthrate 😂 Musk is very worried about low birthrates. So the solution is just stop.
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  177. No offence, but American women are kind of naive. I have lived in the USA for 2 years, I got to know many women. I also know Americans here in Italy. Tbh, alot of American men are naive too. You guys still believe in marriage, children, the American dream etc... in Europe we are so much more realistic. We have seen alot more shit I guess, and we stopped believing in fairytales a long time ago. Same thing with religion. No one in Italy is religious like in the USA. Half of Italian do not believe in god, even the ones who say their are "catholic". Americans have been living in a bubble for decades. I think some are waking up now.
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  178.  @solarydays  yeah, Italians always wear sunglasses so we can avoid eye contact 😂 ignore the catcalls. Do not smile to strangers. It works for us. Where are you from?
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  179.  @solarydays  yes, being blunt in the USA is very much a no no. And yes, hooking up with strangers is not being sexually forwards 😂 it's just risky for women. The USA is still a sexually repressed society. The puritan culture is still alive and well there. They freak out about a female nipple in public. It's the same about drugs. We are just more about damage control in Europe, not repression.
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  180.  @solarydays  European things 😉 We are all different in Europe, but all united when compared to the USA 😉
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  181.  @chichi77tim  grazie 😀❤️
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