hikuro93

Ironic thing, we already tried this approach multiple times before, specially on war times. And each time humanity concluded that some knowledge has too high a price and we're better off not finding out some things.

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge, especially with a heavy blood cost, isn't the way to progress as a species.

And I should know, as a person greatly defined by curiosity about everything and more limited emotional capacity than other people due to mental limitations.

This is good. We are doing what we can, but truth be told even if we put everyone together, across Lemmy, Reddit, Facebook and so on, we are still just a tiny bubble compared to the tens of millions that live in the EU.

Even more so if we count in alternative allied markets like Canada or the UK. We are doing what we can, but the 'big guns' (governments, companies, etc.) can do much more than we can with the reach of their influence. They are important in making this effort an actual change-inducing movement instead of a minority fad.

This is a good thing to ask for, and I'm happy they're stepping up along with us.

Anything other than US, specially from Colombia, which was among the first to be publicly humiliated by Trump.

Inb4 Trump, the supposed "best ally and biggest contributor of Ukraine" throws a rage fit citing all sorts of dumb reasons we unsurprisingly will already have heard from Putin's mouth.

That's the thing with ignorance. Everyone around is well aware, except for the ignoramus itself. And left unchecked it can quickly go from a nuisance to a real danger.

I mean, yeah. Any good dictatorship encourages people to tell on their 'fellow' neighbors. For either side.

If a MAGA tells on an anti-MAGA neighbor, they'll go for the latter.

If an anti-MAGA reports a MAGA, the regime also appreciates the self-snitching by the former.

"And then they came for me, but there was no one left to speak up for me".

Yup. Buying our own and fostering our economy and development is the best way to get ahead of the curve.

We often prioritized american stuff, especially on the defense and digital products front, and thanks to our support and mass adoption they managed to refine the quality and competitiveness of those products.

It's time to prioritize and further develop our own stuff, suited to our needs.

Yes, that's excellent. We need our own Google suite. Fingers crossed so that it may come eventually.

Do try. The more you try to split us apart the more we unite against common foes.

We Europeans might bicker a lot and not see eye to eye on some things, but our lands still bear the scars of mankind's worst moments. We know better and see right past the vain attempts at manipulation.

And yeah, we have some dumbass extreme-right parties in many countries (including mine) being heavily funded and/or encouraged by Russia and the US, just like we saw with Germany's AfD. But we're already taking measures against that sort of influence, thankfully.

Yeah... Agreed. One bad and aggressive statement often takes a whole lot of diplomacy to reconcile. And we should know, just look at Trump crashing the US soft power built over decades in a matter of weeks.