> the issue is with specifically US politics and social issues being everywhere. It drowns out all attempts at discourse for anything else

Unfortunately, US politics also drives tech issues elsewhere like the EU. For example, local data control is a big thing that some of us have been screaming about forever but nobody paid attention to--until US politics made it a hot button issue.

And, to be honest, if the EU would get off its ass and at least try to foster some alternatives, even those of us in the US would benefit. EU alternatives would mean that people in the US could finally vote against the megajillionaires with their wallets.

> Americans, including people here, seem uniquely incapable of nuance in their thinking when it comes to politics.

Bullets and beatings don't leave much room for nuance regardless of country.

>And, to be honest, if the EU would get off its ass and at least try to foster some alternatives, even those of us in the US would benefit.

What exactly do you want the EU, as in the Brussels based institution, to do here? Because AWS didn't come into existence because Uncles sam came in and twisted Bezo's hand telling him to invent a hyperscaler.