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Comment by u_sama

12 days ago

My POV is Americans are not an ally in any case, and all efforts must be made to increase self-reliance and disentanglement from the US. Both parties of the US disrregard european interests.

An argument can be made the Internet is actually Chinese because the atoms your bit relies on are mostly produced in China or Taiwan.

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techdmn  12 days ago

Am American, can confirm. I largely disagree with the idea that U.S. citizens chose their government, there are many, many filters, restrictions and unnecessary complications specifically designed to prevent politics having too much influence on policy, and our militarized police force is only too happy to deal with any inconvenient protestors. (Not to mention literal military deployments to several of our cities.) On the other hand, I am routinely amazed at enthusiasm among the public for surveillance, such as the opinion that FLOCK cameras are justified because they might help catch people exceeding the speed limit. Never underestimate the average person's desire to monitor and control other people.

Edit to clarify: I and many Americans are trying hard to be your allies, but it's not clear we have the leverage to be effective. Shit is locked down pretty tight over here.

m3nat33  12 days ago

> My POV is Americans are not an ally in any case

So you are an enemy of someone because of where they were born?

  • atwrk  12 days ago

    no it means u_sama has (correctly, IMO) observed that the US has made it very clear in the past year that they don't regard the EU as an ally. I mean the openly talk about annexing EU territory right now.

  • Ygg2  12 days ago

    No, you become enemy if someone unlawfully, and uni-laterally annexes a part of your territory. For example see Ukraine.