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They are correct though. In the US, it doesn't matter where you go, every state uses the same plug.
In Europe, different countries use different plugs, even though they are all in Europe.
Ireland plug:
France plug:
Switzerland plug:
Italian plugs:
Congratulations, you're just as dumb as the person in the post.
You should travel, see the world, open your mind. You'd find that traveling the EU is just like traveling the US, no borders, no checks, even my cell plan moves, all the same. It's even called the European "Union", you know, like how the States are a Union (pst, it's in the name, the UNITED states). So yeah, it would be the correct comparison.
Maybe you should travel and then you'd know that Schuko works in most of Europe. Also if open borders are your argument you're talking about Schengen, not the EU, which kinda highlights how ridiculous of an argument it is in the first place.
If the lack of compatibility was actually real then it'd be something that is less convenient when travelling the EU than it would be when travelling the US. Still not something the US does better, the EU isn't a country, the question said "Europe" anyway, and the US isn't a continent either.
Except they are not the same. One is and has been a federal state, with the majority of it's constituent states not having ever been independent/sovereign states. Almost all have been part of it since electricity at home became a thing.
The other is a confederation of independent (for example, they can leave the union) states, all of which have existed as non EU members. They have also been either independent of part of different countries for centuries. They 've been electrified way before joining the EU.
However with the relatively low lifecycle of electrical appliances almost all plugs and devices are compatible, either being 'true' shuko or fitting in them. The exception being Ireland and the UK in the past.