This newspaper article’s title read like a smuggie so I turned it into one.

https://www.gfsbern.ch/en/news/if_europe_voted_on_frontex/

I did, but a long time ago :)

Just reusing old content

This meme is proving itself true. People romanticize the EU too much and/or don’t know about what’s going on in here.

I spend a lot of my free time helping migrants in my home country (France), they do get rounded up and sent in camps called “Centre de Rétention Administrative”, some really really really bad places. Our police has been controlling IDs of parents outside schools, doing surprise ID checks at workplaces, etc. for a very long time. What ICE is currently doing isn’t new to us. For example, earlier this year, we had a very public and pretty big ICE-like operation, and believe it or not, the general public cheered.

Mate you tell me to not talk about Frontex, well too bad, I will. The official death count is now at 66 519 as of 2025. That’s just the documented death count, imagine what the real one is. We’re not even counting Libyan torture camps and other similar lovely places paid for by our taxes. Some of my friends lost family members because of Frontex, I won’t shut up about it just to please you. ICE is bad but it’s not an exclusively american evil, it’s a standard and expected incarnation of capitalist imperialism.

Yes, I’m happy to be living in the EU rather than in the USA. I do think the USA is a much worse place right now. But the difference is much easier to argue about when you’re not on the wrong side of those massively murderous policies.

TL;DR: We have our own camps. Greece has one that’s reminiscent of your Alligator Alcatraz. Chill tf out.

Go for it!

I used to draw like this two years ago, and like this a year ago, it’s never too late to get into drawing. If I started from literally nothing in my late 30s, then so should most other people, it’s all about regular practice. Even simply drawing silly stickmen comics every single day will eventually get you somewhere.

What helped me get better recently are this free book and this other free book + doodling a lot every day all summer (so many full sketchbooks). If you get into it seriously, you can actually improve really fast. For example, I’ve been working on illustrations for a card game I’m working on, here’s where I was a month ago vs current card designs. Do it, jump into Gimp!

MSPaint and a mouse lmao.

When making OC stuff I start with a physical doodle pad and have some style guidelines, but for redrawing already existing things (like memes) it’s simple enough to put them on one screen and draw them on the other.

Oh if that’s something you actually want, hit me up whenever you think a meme deserves to be upscaled and if I have time I’ll do it.

Remade this one too but I don’t think it needed a quality upgrade tbh it’s just for fun/to enlarge my collection of image replies:

Thanks a lot for coming up with it, it’s simply perfect ❤️

Based on this meme shared by Azolus, had to remake it as a smuggie because I wanted a cleaner version to share in french places and tbh I just can’t wait to see people pissed off by it

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Lmao this one’s genuinely great.

I’m borrowing the idea for a twist on it, thanks for making/sharing it.

The EU does a lot of cute PR, I understand why people get baited.

Anyone who’s had to deal directly or indirectly with frontex knows what it’s really all about though.

Memes like this one are important, the controversial reaction means it actually challenges how people think.

But I was told by reliable sources that Clinton was a communist trying to turn the USA into the USSR 2.0…

The same excellent sources that also told me COVID originated in a Chinese lab, they would never lie!

Ah yes, peak lefty meme: a meme about a manufactured controversy using the sexism variation of the racist meme template.

Can a bro not do an innocent roman salute or two anymore in this day and age?!