>NSA science departments being demolished is lowkey great news; as a European
Ironic to read this gloat, given the new spyware, chat control and anti online privacy acts that the EU countries are pushing for, which will also be achieved using US/Israeli tech instead of domestically developed one, because the EU has none.
So your tax money will go to the US big-tech(again!) so that your government can spy on you. I don't think this is something to be happy about just because hey at least the US has domestic issues.
American people voted for Trump who won by majority democratic vote. Just because you don't like that your proffered candidate lost the democratic election, doesn't mean Trump is now "the emperor". He's a clown sure, but he's the clown people elected, he's their clown for better or worse, and in 3 years they can choose another one.
Meanwhile European citizens didn't vote for the corrupt Ursula "Censura" v.d. Leyen, yet she represents the EU citizens on the international stage but they can't vote her out no matter how much they hate her, so it's ironic to virtue signal to Americans about democracy from that position. Plus many European countries are still actual monarchies, with kings and queens.
Bonus Fun Fact: Someone could theoretically become President with a pathetic 23% of the votes in a 2-way race within our not-so-democratic system. (Even less, if there are additional candidates.)
The word 'majority' in the context of elections = majority of the population who showed up to vote, Einstein. That's how elections are won, by that definition of majority.
If I were you, I'd ask the schools you went to for a refund, since they obviously didn't do their job.
> majority of the population who showed up to vote, Einstein.
[sigh] That "49.81% OF VOTES" is already exactly what you're asking for, idiot. That minority (plurality!) of the people who showed up to vote voted for Trump.
Your weird desperation to deny even the smallest and most-understandable mistake has only built a large pile of very embarrassing crazy excuses.
Ironic that you should mention Chat Control, given that the most powerful parties behind Chat Control are all backed by the U.S. (mostly Washington guys targeting EU bureaucrats exclusively, and never targeting U.S. policy-makers in the first place) such as Thorn, weProtect, etc. known to be affiliated with State Dept. and to a lesser extent, the NSA. Thorn has been lobbying for Chat Control since 2012, and it's crawling with U.S. spooks.
There's barely enough plausible deniability, but not enough to fool the journos:
>the most powerful parties behind Chat Control are all backed by the U.S.
Of course the US would benefit from EU's chat control. Duh! Nothing eye opening in your comment. That's like being surprised the shovel makers benefit from a gold rush. If the EU started the demand, the US will happily supply because otherwise someone else will.
However, my biggest problem as an EU citizen is the fact that the EU is implementing chat control in the first, not that the US is happily supplying it since the US government is not accountable to me, but sadly it seems mine isn't either.
> and never targeting U.S. policy-makers in the first place
Why would they shit where they eat or bite the hand that feeds them?
The point is the EU would never attempt implementing Chat Control if it weren't for U.S. constant meddling in the matter. You could make a case that the U.S. spooks are the ones politically implementing Chat Control in the first place! It's hard to blame EU bureaucrats. The U.S. doesn't export SIGINT, it simply DOES it, and at best throws its friends a few bones once in a while. There is no organic demand for this shit in the EU. US lobbying just finds a way, and the U.S. spooks are simply too good at disguising clandestine activities as lobbying.
I find it hard to root for this kind of interference.
>The point is the EU would never attempt implementing Chat Control if it weren't for U.S. constant meddling in the matter.
100% false. It's not like the EU is some tiny third world banana republic under US colonialism that has zero say in how it runs its domestic affairs. So please let's start holding our own politicians accountable for their actions instead of moving the blaming to external factors we can't control since accountability is their biggest enemy.
> It's hard to blame EU bureaucrats.
It is VERY easy to blame them, I'm doing it right now because they're MY civil servants paid from MY taxes and should do what's best for me. They can easily drop the chat control if they want to. But they won't because they made unpopular decisions in the last ~20 years that ended up negatively affecting the working class population, so democracy and freedom of speech is now a threat to them so they seek to control what I see and what I say so they protect their wealth, status and power.
You give politicians far too much credit. There is one driving force behind all Chat Control legislation, and it's the U.S. This is established fact. The only reason it hasn't been passed in the EU is precisely because EU citizens are fighting it. On a different note, to speak of accountability in 2025 is a bit silly: there's none, and it's been like this for years. I dislike EU politicians as much as the next guy, but the real issue is not that they govern too much, it's that they govern too little, and have very little appetite for actual governing. (I subscribe to view of Dominic Cummings on the matter.) This is the reason why they'd allowed themselves to be overrun by the U.S.
I'm not. The goal of all politicians in every country is to manage public opinion so they can keep their seats, it's that simple. And EU politicians they finally realized how important control over internet media and speech is to managing that public option, so they'll seek to control it like the state controls TV broadcasting.
>There is one driving force behind all Chat Control legislation, and it's the U.S.
There's no evidence for this. EU politicians are the ones pushing for this to "save the children" or to "prevent fascism" lol.
>but the real issue is not that they govern too much, it's that they govern too little
Why not both? They govern too much on useless bullshit that hurts the economic competitiveness, and then govern too little on the things we need them for like sustainable policies for welfare, education, housing, immigration, birth rates, etc.
Ironic to read this gloat, given the new spyware, chat control and anti online privacy acts that the EU countries are pushing for, which will also be achieved using US/Israeli tech instead of domestically developed one, because the EU has none.
So your tax money will go to the US big-tech(again!) so that your government can spy on you. I don't think this is something to be happy about just because hey at least the US has domestic issues.