I'm not advertising the US here or trying to troll. I'm an European pointing out things about the European system that many here will not have thought about.

>It's a complete false equivalence. ICE agents have straight up murdered two US citizens in broad daylight without consequence and you're querying the nature of some search warrants in the EU.

Maybe keep your US nonsense to yourself?

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y-curious 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I’m in the US and generally pretty level-headed. Nothing makes me become a red-blooded patriot nationalist temporarily faster than seeing Europeans completely ignore the similarities in our political ills. It always boils down to, “but it’s the good kind of authoritarianism we have that preserves social order!!!” as if that has never failed to produce desired results. Thanks for being much more rational. We have a concerning political trend here in the US, it can’t be denied, but the EU is following in step.

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pschastain 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, it's really bizarre how this has to be turned into a competition. We have stupid problems in the EU that don't exist in the US and vice-versa.

The way this particular part of our system works is downright horrifying, but it's exotic enough that very few people (even lawyers) will be familiar with it.

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icfly2 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sorry what? While there are right wing idiots in various governments in the EU, the Trump admin is on a completely different level. Also the bosses of big tech are clamouring over each other to s** him off.

I’m not particularly patriotic or bothered about nations in general, but the yanks can go take a hike.

	▲	dwedge an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Man this whole article and your comment just makes me picture that meme with the fat guy open-mouth drinking from a pipe labelled "media". By the way, sex him off? Trying to decipher the number of characters

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hvb2 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Just saying, the vast majority of services people are moving from would be US based given it is where all of big tech comes from. So comparing it to the US is relevant?

If you're trying to say the eu isn't a saint either, sure.

	▲	pschastain 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>If you're trying to say the eu isn't a saint either, sure. I'm not trying to say anything about anyone else besides the EU. Therefore I'm certainly not trying to compare EU to anyone else. I am an European pointing out issues with the local system, issues that many commenters here clearly aren't aware of given how many replies seem to think that they'll be just fine as long as they don't host in Hungary.