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The odd part is that these bad takes seem to typically come from people that don't even live the EU, and don't understand how it works. They just don't like that it exists.
I live in the EU, understand how it works, and that's why I hate it, and I want my country out of it ASAP :)
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> Most of them will grow out of it eventually. On the other hand, condescension is harder to grow out of.
You're right, they will never grow out of it.
Perhaps you meant "they will eventually sell their soul" instead?
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I live in the EU, understand how it works, and that's why I hate it, and I want my country out of it ASAP :)
As a British person, I'd suggest you reconsider. Things over here are not so rosy. Drugs shortages, crazy inflation, no discernible benefits at all except to a government that hates judicial oversight of any kind.
That said not all the good stuff actually was caused by the EU either. I'd recommend watching Yes Minister but apparently that will get you put on a watchlist these days... https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/1153smh/yes_min...
The fact is politicians at all levels including EU take credit for things they didn't do and try to ignore the fallout from things they did. All the while blaming the voters. Mainly because changing public perception of policy choices takes time and effort and they have limited of both and tend to want to focus on things they actually care about.
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Galileo was down for 5 days in a row in 2019. I won't go in to the details of other issues of, for that Bert Hubert's blog is a good start.
Now that's an indictment! One major outage in nearly a decade. Better write off the whole programme as a waste of money. Meanwhile the whole US government gets shut down seemingly every other year.
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“because of bureaucrats”. with such a nuanced justification, perhaps you should consider the solidity of your position
Bureaucrats -> Horizon and the other incredibly murky EU funding programs that a good bunch of these projects come from, with the ”businesses” ending up only having the lifespan of whatever runway they have been able to build with EU funding I presume thats the gripe with a lot of these ”EU” technologies
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Forgive me for not taking their opinion about an economic block that they don't seem to understand and that their country doesn't belong to very seriously.
Funny cause Europeans always think their opinions of the US should be taken very seriously, and they have a lot of them
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Putting more junk in LEO is a serious problem but SpaceX started this and now others will also enter the market. Why should Starlink have monopolistic control over the high bandwidth SATCOM market?
> Why should Starlink have monopolistic control over the high bandwidth SATCOM market? I agree, but those satellites shouldn't have been there to begin with in my opinion. But it's too late now.
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You're right, they will never grow out of it.
Pot, meet kettle...seriously though, I don't think many people are inclined to "grow out of" advocating for their own self interests by giving up their freedoms to the state/bureaucracy. As long as there are power dynamics, those on the lower rungs will dare to annoy those on the higher rungs by sticking up for themselves...and vice versa Perhaps you meant "they will eventually sell their soul" instead?
Which freedoms did I give up, exactly?
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I live in the EU, understand how it works, and that's why I hate it, and I want my country out of it ASAP :)
I think most Americans have literally no opinions about the EU. I’ve always assumed anybody talking about it lives there. It’s virtually absent from our lives here.
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I live in the EU, understand how it works, and that's why I hate it, and I want my country out of it ASAP :)
I think most Americans have literally no opinions about the EU. I’ve always assumed anybody talking about it lives there. It’s virtually absent from our lives here.