That is the reason why I gotta just trust that the people running the country and EU know what they are doing.

I am in Finland and I really do trust we are doing what we need to, our defense forces and government is very shush shush regarding defense, every government and defense outlet was adamant that we weren’t joining NATO until the foreign minister and president announced the move. At least in a country of 5 million we are really thinking of each other here. Let’s just hope that is the case for the rest of the EU and the overall union.

Slava Ukraini

One could argue it already is - mainly on a soft power level. Now that Ursula has chopped the chains off the war chest we can get back the hard power as well. I feel very good about this, it’s rare to feel optimistic about the way your country and union is going…

“If you don’t like it you can leave” is such a shit argument that I keep hearing, the whole point of democracy is that if you don’t like it you are allowed to complain and vote to change the situation. Implying someone doesn’t have the right to complain or change an existing system is just how fascism works…

Since you seem to know what platform have they moved to generally?

I am quite hyped for this thing, 20k euro (prob 25k euro here in Finland with the preposterous car taxes) is quite a reasonable price, and 2027 gives me enough time to save up for one.

lol what is there to investigate this is pretty thoroughly documented situation. Maybe next they will start investigating ET

Americans being shocked at European protest actually being protests will never not be funny. For some reason Americans will change their profile pic for a day and think they’re making a statement while Europeans will only recognize an event as a protest when something is literally burning or destroyed

Am I crazy for thinking that this will be fine? Most people here in Europe have some experience or at the very least an understanding of the unbelievable destruction our continent has gone through in the last 100 years. I am in Finland and my country was basically a developing country until the 1980s frankly. We have gone through depression periods in recent history as a continent at various points.

You need to really nuke things for us to not have some optimism to recover. I do not feel that for Americans. I used to live in the USA for close to a decade, and what I noticed is that a lot of Americans have gotten so full of themselves, figuratively unable to close their belts from greed that a disruption to the over consumption is going to cause significant chaos.

I am more worried for the average American about what will happen when the iPhone is no longer affordable and we get into a serious financial depression that Americans haven’t experienced for a century.

Somehow the complexity of using Lemmy compared to other social media sites and the decentralized nature of it has really gotten rid of the trollfarms and bot spam to a pretty good extent. I realize now that Reddit has such an insane amount of bad-faith actors that cause the site to be so toxic, same with all other mainstream social media.

My alternative was to start carrying a wallet with cards. Maybe it’s not wise to give card information for free to a service like that in general.

It’s insane to me that somehow free speech has been successfully twisted into a dog whistle to basically just spread disinformation, actively call for extermination of minority groups and openly attack and threaten other people. That shit is not free speech those are malicious actions - and they should absolutely not be tolerated under some vague guise of free speech.

lol they are giving warnings to people who upvote posts that they deem questionable. Literal thought crime police :D