Speaking of left-wing purity tests, when the next UK election comes, I wonder if anti-Reform voters will be able to unite around a single party to keep Reform out of power, or whether they’ll be spread into factions between Labour/LibDems/Greens/SNP/Plaid and even the Tories.
If anti-Reform voters can’t unite behind a single party then Farage will surely be the next prime minister.
True. They could be fined more for certain practices.
Yeah regulation is important. Previously you mentioned European democracy. Ideally European companies will be accountable to Europeans through a democratic European parliament. Whereas Americans could elect a government (perhaps the current one) who will tell AWS to seize private data of European governments on AWS servers.
I’ve heard good things about Kofola. I’ll try to remember to buy some if I find myself back in central Europe.
Sure, ideally any European tech companies wouldn’t replicate the enshittification of America’s big tech companies. Still, I think it would be good if Europe had larger tech companies, who can provide what Europe’s companies and governments need. At the moment Europe relies on Microsoft Windows, Oracle, AWS, etc. If European companies could serve those needs then those companies would be accountable to European law. It could avoid a situation where Trump decides he wants to spy on European government data stored on AWS servers, for example.
I don’t want monopolies or enshittification. I think it would be good though to have a European tech sector which can meet Europe’s needs, instead of companies and governments in Europe relying on Google, Microsoft, Meta, etc. The (now more unpredictable) US government could compel those companies to give info from European government customers to US authorities, for example. I read a story about this the other day: “Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam’s clouds and go EU-native”.
Farage would probably trigger the clause and spend massive sums of taxpayers’ money to cut ties with the EU. Anything to satisfy his 19th century vision of the world.
Yes there are different languages and cultures in Europe; I don’t want to diminish those. Integration between European countries is still possible though. Look at Airbus, which is registered as a “Societas Europaea” (European company), and which has manufacturing facilities in multiple European countries. Airbus is one of the leading global companies in aviation. Maybe one day Europe will have some big tech companies with offices across Europe. Currently there are companies like Spotify and SAP but of course they’re not as big as Google, Microsoft, or Tencent in China, etc.
I guess when people talk about Europe they mainly mean the EU and countries allied with it (UK, Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, etc). Russia is Eurasian anyway: some territory traditionally considered to be within the historical borders of Europe, and lots of territory within Asia.
Maybe Europe should have more integration so it can better stand up against the US, China, and Russia, all three of whom would probably love to tear apart Europe for themselves
I was reading an opinion piece about this sort of thing earlier today, “Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam’s clouds and go EU-native”. It opens by saying:
I’m an eighth-generation American, and let me tell you, I wouldn’t trust my data, secrets, or services to a US company these days for love or money.
The de facto most important instance is surely Lemmy.world. So I guess Lemmy.ml can be mostly ignored
Many are, unfortunately
I meant allegations about harassing and attacking
It’s easy to make allegations like that but you haven’t provided any evidence so far
Also maybe the reason why some people aren’t such big fans of Hexbear/Lemmygrad is because they justify and endorse imperialism, invasions, and murdering, as long as it’s non-western countries doing those things.
Well at least you’re not entering “Yes, do as I say!”
Within his power, he was trying
You have not shown that Zelenskyy was rounding up ethnic Russians to have them murdered, in a similar style to how Nazi Germany murdered Jews and other Holocaust victims. Therefore it makes zero sense to try to describe Ukraine as a Nazi state.
he directly had UKR military increase shelling and murder operations in Donbas. Forcing Russian humanitarian action.
The Donbas is Ukrainian territory and Russia invaded it. Ukraine tried to restore order there, as any country would, if they were being invaded. As for “humanitarian action”, Russia was invading Ukraine and murdering Ukrainians. That’s not humanitarian.
Categorically false. Since beginning, no NATO (or US missile bases), and no nazis.
It’s objectively true that the Kremlin’s aim is to subjugate Ukraine. It is no business of Russia’s whether Ukraine joins NATO or not. It’s also no business of Russia’s whether Ukraine has Nazis in their country, although I would guess the number of actual neo-Nazis in Ukraine is very small.
The most evil and stupid war in history, IMO.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is definitely evil and stupid. So why did the Kremlin launch this invasion? Hubris and imperialistic desires I guess.
Ideology ruling Ukraine, thanks to US/CIA, would murder all Russians if they could.
If you believe this then show that Zelenskyy was having all ethnic Russians in Ukraine rounded up and murdered between his election in 2019 and the increase of the Russian invasion in February 2022. I don’t think you can show that, because I don’t think it was happening.
Completely reasonable red lines, the US insisted wouldn’t matter. There is zero basis to call Ukraine war “Russian imperialism”.
Russia’s demands are the subjugation of Ukraine to Russia, and also the seizure of some of Ukraine’s land to be incorporated into Russia. This is naked imperialism.
when you oppose denazification of Ukraine, you support all US empire rule and lies
As I said before, there are some far-right people in Ukraine, just like there are in Russia, and Germany, and France, etc, but that doesn’t mean Ukraine’s government is a Nazi government. As for the US empire, Trump wants to give less and less support to Ukraine. I think it would make no sense to claim that Ukraine is fighting on behalf of American interests. Ukraine is fighting for the right to keep their land and make their own democratic political decisions without being subjugated by Russia.
I read your post but it’s just not true. Ukraine is clearly NOT a Nazi state. Is Zelenskyy a Nazi? Is he rounding up all the Jews in death camps? Is he rounding up ethnic Russians in death camps? No he isn’t. Why are you defending Russia’s attempted imperial conquest of Ukraine?
You can point to some far-right soldiers in Azov, just like I can point to far-right Russians in the Rusich Group, or far-right Germans in the AfD. None of those countries are Nazi countries though, just because they have some far-right/Nazi people within each country. Do you think Germany’s current government is a Nazi government, just because some neo-Nazis exist in Germany? That logic does not make sense.
Fair point. The latest YouGov poll shows 44% of British voters favouring Reform and the Tories so I guess a majority are against the Tories and Reform. But yeah, due to being split between different parties, Reform look likely to win the next election. We really should have proportional representation.