It never was, but at least people are realizing it.
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2025
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Goddammit. I miss it when we were merely an obnoxious pain in the ass, but still mostly reliable. This sucks. Can’t find fault with the author’s reasoning, though.
I would argue globally more people hate America then they do Russia or china
Very much right. The data privacy treaties and shit between the EU and the US were always 'we pinky promise to not read every last byte of your data, or at least we're not going to do it in a way that you'll ever find out anyways so same thing really', and everyone just played along like this was some grand compromise and was going to allow you to safely use services provided by US companies and that they'd stay compliant.
It was always clearly bullshit, so it's good that people are looking at it and wanting to get rid of that giant lie.
The silver lining in Trump's 2nd term is that it's possible the EU leaderships will be forced to cut reliance to the US.
Hopefully they will make those changes before US switches to a pro US government and no action is taken again.
Reject modernity. Return to bare metal