| ▲ | whilenot-dev an hour ago | |
> But in reality a big enough proportion of Europeans see the EU as a hostile foreign influencing force. Yeah, I have to doubt your perceived reality here. Can you name some of these "hostile foreign influences"? The big competitor to Apple is Google, whereas the big competitor to Microsoft is Linux/FOSS IMHO. I'm sorry to be blunt, but in the current political climate I couldn't care less what any Americans are using and for whatever reason. EU citizens on the other hand sure got a few reasons during the last decade due to foreign American politics. | ||
| ▲ | carlosjobim an hour ago | parent [-] | |
> Can you name some of these "hostile foreign influences"? The name is the European Union. It is the foreign entity to Europeans. If you doubt that there is a big portion of Europeans who aren't pro-EU, then I guess you doubt that there are Americans who aren't pro-Trump? Anyway, there were referendums in many countries on the subject of joining the EU, and you can look at those and see that not 100% of the population voted yes. So it is a false assumption that Europeans would by default have any loyalty or goodwill towards the EU, although I'm sure that a big portion of them do. Especially in some countries. | ||