I love these posts that are so on the edge that I can't tell if it's sarcastic or for real :)

titanomachy 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The perception in the rest of the world is that America has gone completely off the rails and could do almost literally anything at any time. I don't think this comment is that strange.

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edgyquant 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Which country do you live in?

	▲	titanomachy 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Currently in Europe, but I've spent a few years in the states. (Avoiding specifics, because I think AI will soon make it too easy to mass-doxx HN accounts based on their comment history, and I want to remain employable)

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gammalost 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I do not know what you mean. The US and US-based companies have now become a liability. Global politics change on a day-by-day basis, EU has frozen trade agreement discussions because the tariff situation is unclear. There are open discussions in Sweden about how we can reduce our dependence on US-based companies, because we do not know whether that dependency will be wielded as a political tool against us.

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maypeacepreva1l 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Which part is sarcastic here? As far as Europe as market goes, Software industries have already started to feel the pinch. Right now data protection and privacy rights of common people in the US is at lowest point, as we have seen in the news, anything goes for this administration. One must be living in an alternate reality to not see these things happening.

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edgyquant 3 hours ago | parent [-]

This admin is doing nothing we haven’t seen previous admins do. Blaming the administration for how poorly American privacy is takes the blame away from all other politicians who’ve helped to create the “standards” as we have then today.

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pu_pe 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's true that the cloud act and other data handling issues were already there. There is one thing this US administration did that was unique though, which was to threaten the territorial integrity of an European country.

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krior 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is the first time in decades the current administration has openly threatened Europe with war. Before it was a vague risk. Now it is a matter of national security.

	▲	simonh 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Threatened Europe and Canada with war.

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pbhjpbhj 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Remotely cutting off European allied nations personnel from IT access to private US companies at the whim of someone having a tantrum? That seems new.

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inglor_cz 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is not really true.

This administration spends a lot of effort on cultivating a visibly hostile image to its former allies and emphasizing the role of force over diplomacy.

If there was any sort of tacit understanding that certain American power possibilites will only be used in relatively rare contexts (going after terrorists), it is gone. Nowadays the expectation is that the US will use various tools at their disposal even over relatively minor disagreements and conflicts.

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maypeacepreva1l 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I beg to differ here. There are multiple things that have been either unprecedented or done in larger scale by this administration. We can start the blame from founding fathers for creating an exploitable system (as Godel had correctly pointed out), but to look elsewhere for the blatant abuse of power and disregarding privacy of citizens by this administration is, in my opinion, a biased take on it.

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Juliate 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> This admin is doing nothing we haven’t seen previous admins do.

Well... lots disagree with that statement.

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Braxton1980 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The level is what matters. That combined with Trump erratic behavior and acting without thinking as shown with the 10 15 tariff change