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There is no apolitical. You think tech is neutral when one of its titans buys elections? The only one ideologically complicit is you if you choose to close your eyes to that reality.

Have you even ever visited Hungary? Do you speak Hungarian? Do you live there and are culturally invested through generations of ancestors there? Why do you care so much about what Hungarians do in Hungary? What happened to democracy?

Yes. The part of Austria I live in used to be Hungary, it's still tightly linked to it culturally and through blood ties. My grandparents spoke Hungarian at home.

Difference is, it prospered, while Hungary proper is poor, run-down and has an antisemitic dictator. Hungarians are the cheap labor prevalent in Eastern Austria, similar to Mexicans close to the border in the US. They clean our toilets, because their government sucks.

I don't want that fate for my Hungarian brethren. Don't talk as if I didn't know, when it's clear it's you that doesn't.

It is you who is the useful idiot for fascists worldwide, out of some misguided sense of nationalism or whatever. The nation state is the obstacle to be overcome. It is what's keeping people back.

I see you created an account just to... publicly sympathise with the Nazis?

The Red Tape is the super power. From India to Mercosur, from Canada to Japan, the world follows rules we write.

You gave up the ability to dictate the rules. You'll still have to follow them.

separate, unique, district, and sovereign countries that can push back against horrible ideas and actions, you end up like us.

The separate, unique sovereign countries are the ones with the horrible ideas and actions. See Victor Orban's Hungary. The whole point is to not let some goulash mussolini control European affairs.

The EU is right now talking about becoming a great military force to fight Russia. That’s the kind of movement you’re advocating for, my friend.

Would you rather... not be able to fight Russia? It's not like the EU is the one with the invasion plans and threats, they're just preparing for the changing world order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV_plc

ITV plc is a British media company that holds 13 of the 15 regional television licences that make up the ITV network (Channel 3), the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom

One could also say people get more conservative as their mental acuity decreases with age, but that too, would be an uncalled for judgement and projection of one's own political views.

Help me understand your thinking. I was very against Brexit (and still am). What is there to be gained, in your opinion?

In my view, you traded being one of the leading voices in what is increasingly shaping up to be one of the world's superpowers for being a somewhat isolated middle power, nostalgic for its former glory.

Why would that be worth it?

It's only self-healing if they actually manage to rejoin...

Which is probably the gold standard for polling the UK Public. Not sure what you're trying to say?

Yup. EU institutional slowness working out in our favour once again heh.

We never actually ratified that deal.

Parliament froze it when Trump started threatening Greenland.

https://archive.ph/OJBM7

Europe is taking over America's back yard as we speak. Power isn't just raw numbers. It's bureaucracy and shaping the rules of engagement.

https://apnews.com/article/mercosur-european-union-trade-agr...

An intricate plan designed to further US interests, wrecked by an ignoramus who didn't understand it.

You might not be living in the same reality as me if you believe any of those claims.

Wealth is intently relative. Absolute growth of wealth is just inflation.

Capitalism working as intended, shifting more and more resources to the already-rich.

A handful of people doesn't own most of the country by accident.

Remember how they were spreading propaganda about a supposed Chinese "social credit score" dystopia?

It was aspirational projection. That is what the American oligarchy is trying to build.

1984 is coming to the west.

As a socialist, I would argue those are both inevitable outcomes of capitalism.

First market forces incentivize consolidation (which imo killed off the vibrant early internet...), then a few players got really powerful.

Once you have that much money and power, and given the inevitable corruptability of politicians, it makes sense to try and use that money to try and manipulate market rules in your favor.

The evolution of the internet has been an in-vitro demonstration of capitalism failure modes and as somebody who liked the internet, that's very unfortunate.

Which is why you write regulations to ban that. Hence, this thread.

If the shareholders are rich because the poor are not clothed then fuck the shareholders and the system that made them rich.

I would hope that that will also be a policy area the EU addresses as part of this regulatory push.

What about the poor in their own countries that might not be able to afford clothes?

You can steer where donations go with regulations. I don't see any downsides of warm coats to homeless shelters for example.

It costs a company nothing to donate an unsold coat to a homeless shelter.

https://archive.ph/cQuHY

https://archive.ph/kccTR

Note that you didn't answer my question about California and New York. Did they "commit suicide?"

as a country means nothing. countries are just bureaucratic units, just like states are.

Why would it be suicide? Do you consider California or New York "dead" because they became part of the US?

I might also point out you didn't address how you would solve for the much more urgent Russian threat.