1mo ago

EU views break from US as ‘unrealistic’ amid global tech race

www.politico.eu

For EU citizens and residents: contact your local MEP.

The EU is a big ship and it takes time to turn around. That's fine and understandable, but I feel they haven't really understood the world has radicaly changed and they cannot hold onto the fairytale of US/EU cooperation, even if Trump is undone tomorrow, Hate towards us can come back in 4 or 8 years.

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I'm glad at least a part of us citizens are helping to steer the ship, a lot of political parties are willing to change positions of they see they're losing support. Germany is (slowly) ditching windows for example, the Netherlands wants to leave American cloud services, Denmark is promoting EU products. The fact that there are opposite forces working against this change, also proves it is starting to have real impact. I hope so at least.
- Germany is not ditching Windows. Some federal states do, while other dumbass states go full Office365

We should make an email/mail template if we want many people to contact their MEPs.

Orban: that big ship sail where I permit it. I am the king of the EU. And Fico is... important too. Yeah, we both shit on the whole Europe and they are even paying us for that!

"Brussels and Washington have been joining forces for years to tame the technology giant’s global ambitions, using digital diplomacy tools to convince third countries to ditch equipment from the Shenzhen-based firm."
Well, Silicon Valley based has started to look a lot like Shenzhen based to me lately. And no it is not just Trump (like as it is not Putin).

Well, yeah, the only alternative is China and Europe would rather be conquered by the US than peacefully work with communists.
- a stratified society with a single ultrapowerful dictator is not indicative that the CCP are actually communist…
  
  Whether they are really communist or communist-in-name-only is irrelevant to my point, Europe will not work with them because they claim to be communists and so it will choose to be conquered by the US instead.
  They can't even do State-level investment in building a tech infrastructure because the Eurozone currency bloc prevents deficit spending.
- Can you please for once npt stan for a genocidal regime just because their föag is red?
  
  Where's the ICJ case against them?

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