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Startup CEO from Europe here. How am I supposed to turn a blind eye to the risk that the dependency from the US has become lately?
How is US dependency a risk?
Could we avoid politics on the tech scene? I think we're all better than that, and we know the tech scene thrives through collaboration, not isolationism.
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> Were you in a coma until a couple of hours ago and just read this thread without any prior context? lol whats with you and personal insults. maybe step away from the screen, take a breather, drink some tea or something.
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What kind of values? Hypocrisy at scale?
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You don't see it, like the fish who does not see the water.
Very philosophical and completely empty. (Like almost everything in philosophy)
Trump and the Republican Party wants to get rid of the Entire New Deal legislation and return the US back to a regulatory structure that existed in the Pre Sherman Antitrust Act(1890) days in America when the Robber Baron controlled Crony Capitalistic Trusts had free reign and the US Economy was effectively cornered by the Robber Baron Trusts and hardly free market at all!
The Social Democracies need look at the US as not sharing the same values as the Social Democracies in the world and those Social Democracies should have been taking measures since 1980 to reduce any dependency on the US economically!
The US Should be Actively Labeled a Crony Capitalist Country and one that is Oligarch Dominated and not really a Free Market Capitalistic country!
And Trump/Crony Capitalists are actively trying to destabilize the Canadian economy as well as the economies of Mexico and South America!
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If that is the case, how did this government get a majority?
Trump won 49.x% of the vote. But the US doesn’t have direct presidential elections. It has an archaic, anti-democratic system called the Electoral College, which grants land in Wyoming greater relative weight than people in Texas.
They didn't physically vote, but by not-voting, they are literally saying "I'm OK with whoever wins."
Not every european company embodies european values. As an example, Signal is listed as a US company people might want a european replacement for – and yet Signal represents european values much better than many of the alternatives.
Signal forces you to use Apple or Google phones (which enable spying on users via, e.g., push notifications [0]), actively fights with third party clients and servers, goes against decentralization. They want to be the single point of failure or attack. They also use the AWS. This is all too suspicious for me. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38543155 See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39445976 ,…
It's not necessarily the perfect end goal, but for those who are at an earlier phase of their privacy journey, GrapheneOS + Molly-FOSS is a massive improvement over stock Android + stock Signal, while maintaining a relatively minimal disruption to their ordinary workflows with e2ee messaging on an android-based smartphone.
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Maybe be specific, are there any specific wars you find undemocratic. Afganistan and Iraq was heavily debated, the attack on Ukraine is seen as an attack on Europe but is also heavily debated.
> Afganistan and Iraq was heavily debated Also, not European wars. In particular, only two European countries participated in Iraq.