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  • melEnglish
    2•17 hours ago

    At some point, we, europeans, need to say “fuck off” to the USA, including (maybe as a first thing) all the IT company (I am biased on this one). X, meta are bad for democracy, microsoft is the software b team for 40 years (I don’t remember the source of this quote but I like it, maybe Ed Zitron) and is enshitifying all the software on the os side, Google is doing kt for the web…

    But the European Union is also a very bad agreement in favor of the capital mainly. In France, the mandatory market for energy is costing EDF a shit ton of money (it was also implemented very poorly in France), detached worker is wtf(?)… and we are still exploiting all the emerging countries and poor contries that suffer from their ressources…

    All in all, the situation is not nices

  • atro_city
    60•1 day ago

    Maybe we can finally let go of our obsession with the USA and forge alliances with better partners that don’t think they are better, chosen by god, or whatever.

    • @cydEnglish
      19•1 day ago

      There are no permanent alliances in a multipolar world. The EU is realizing the danger of relying on a stronger partner, when said partner stops thinking of the relationship as an alliance as more as subordination.

      • no bananaEnglish
        11•1 day ago

        I’ve said it for years now. Our biggest chance of keeping Europe stable is for the EU to federate. It’s not my preferred option in a stable world but we’re no longer in such a world. We know how destructive we can be towards eachother, and we should focus on not letting that happen.