You westerners are way too delusional about the world we’re living in.

I just had a conversation with American colleagues about life in Europe. And the things that stood out were “cookies policy,” trash recycling, and such trivialities.

Meanwhile, Europe is already at war. China openly wants to dismantle the good life Americans take for granted. Their news is full of militaristic propaganda, day after day.

This isn’t the 90s. It’s not the 1950s either. You didn’t “win” the war. You cant build, you can’t manufacture. And yet you talk about freedom?

Reality is going to catch up very soon. Many of you will lose not just your comfortable lives but your freedom too.

Take Denmark’s policy with LLM monitoring. What’s wrong with that? China and Russia do it already — and they benefit. That’s how you prevent both external and internal threats. That’s how you build a strong state.

If your adversary monitors and you don’t, you’re already in a losing position.

And don’t forget — the subject country is directly part of the brewing conflict in the Baltic Sea with Russia.

Manufacturing:

> The United States is the world's second-largest manufacturer after the People's Republic of China with a record high real output in 2024 of $2.913 trillion [0]

I believe the US' manufacturing capability is the core of your comment and I also believe it's incorrect. Sure we don't manufacture fast-fashion or junk products and we may have lost quite a bit of tribal knowledge[1] with respect to that. But it's nothing that can't be re-gained.

And the benefits China and the Russia get from their spying programs? Americans by-and-large simply do not care about them. Denmark can do whatever they want with their tech as long as their citizens approve. Like you said, they're in a different position given their geographic location - thus, they have different priorities. But Americans do not feel like they have such an existential threat so they are (generally) not willing to give up their privacy.

Whether "reality" catches up to your predictions remains to be seen.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_St...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY

> If your adversary monitors and you don’t, you’re already in a losing position.

You can make this same argument about any authoritarian or totalitarian policy.

"your adversary"?

I think this post makes clear who our adversary really are.