u/jabjoe

So we dont buy US military kit. It's got kill switches and hard to keep running without their support. It's increasing looking like they aren't aligned with the free world.

The consumer can only really be expected to do so much. Fail of governments / regulators can't really be fixed by consumer action. Realistically, you can't get many to understand and care. We need to pressure governments to do their job. Now the problem isn't academic. It's national security and the tax money and control lost to American big tech is now a political problem. Be a lot easier if they hadn't been a sleep on the job and ignoring digital rights and competition experts, but we are where we are.

Sounds like more reason to get off Microsoft/Apple/Google/Meta/Amazon/etc

It was never clever to allow such monopolies, but now it just geopolitically dangerous.

Canada should be trying to move as much to open source as it can, as fast as it can.

And those tiny number of edges cases need to be highlighted to show it does indeed happen. With biology, there is rarely ever truely binary. Biology is too mushy.

If the US falls apart, it will be a bloody civil war. The only winner will be competing world powers. Of which, only the EU is really a beacon of light of enlightened values. In no way is that a good outcome for US citizens or the world. What is needed is a concerted effort to evolve the US from where it is. Two parties is not really a functional democracy. Law is bought and sold, and there is massive inequality.

Oh it may well get worse. FPTP could give them power. Rarely does the power in party have a majority of the population support. Labour need to ditch FPTP for good of the country. But they won't because they could win again, and it's party before country.

https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/half-britons-believe-brexit-has-been-mostly-failure-so-far

Still a lot of fascist idiots. Generally they are old, but that still a lot of people. Poll have changed more because Leavers are aging out, rather minds changing.

This didn't work out well for the US last time.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o7jlFZhprU4

Literally his own words. About his only words that got to my feeds. I keep my feeds clear as I can of Nazi/MAGA/misogyny/toxic stuff.

“Sex is for making children. Any man who has sex with women because it ‘feels good’ is gay. Oh my pee pee feels good this is great!”

Why any teenage boy would hear that and not unsubscribe is beyond me. They are the other way round. They don't want children, they just want sex with women. That's normal for a **heterosexual** teenage boy.

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

Even before that, who would want to be in part of America by choice? The health care horror show and massive inequality are but two reasons.

Trump is basically the same as Erdogan, and Putin. Same network of "leaders".

Also services. Including Google, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. Those American tech monopolies are now a problem for all to see.

I said this to a few people and you can suddenly see the realization that their entire digital life is completely dependent on America and is now being called in question. It should of been before because of anti-trust, not following local regs, or taxes. But it was inconvenient.

Don't know how far it can goes. IP blocks, MAC address blocks, DNS, Root Auths? There is basic stuff that is meant to be international, but is unduly American. America going to break the internet trying to use it for dominance? If you don't want responsibility, or act responsible, you lose the power that responsible gave. If American fucks this position up, they will never have it again.

Yer, it's all tankie/troll stuff. Blocked!