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All those upvotes really need to get their heads out of the sand and read the room, the EU is on its way to becoming the US of E and fast.
Pretty stupid comment to make, since this fine to X is clearly evidence of the exact opposite.
Also you vary conveniently omit to qualify your claim in any way. It's just an opinion stated as a fact, but with no evidence.
EU still stands for democracy, international law and human rights. All points where EU is the exact opposite of USA that is abandoning all those ideals, that they used to claim to stand for.
Chat Control and flimsy sactiobs to Russia or Israel say otherwise.
Binary thinking does that to you.
EU has the most heavy sanctions against Russia ever instated in the existence of EU. Some of those sanctions even introduced at great cost.
And many EU countries have sanctions on exporting weapons to Israel. And EU has definitely been critical of Israel for years, also before the current crisis.
And for fucks sake there is no chat control in EU!! You are speculating on an unknown outcome of ongoing negotiations.
You are being unreasonable and irrational. What country or union is acting more fairly respecting democracy, human rights and international law more than EU?
There may be a couple that are better, and then there are 300 that are worse, how the fuck do you imagine EU to do much better than it's already doing?
You are living in lala land.
There is no chat control... yet (that was a very closed call), but worry not, the digital omnibus is on ts way. If that gets rejected, something else will come along to destroy your privacy.. sorry, I mean to save the children.
If your measure is "oh but the others are worse" I guess that says it all.
By all means keep trying to attack me, it's enteirtaining, but you'll be talking to the void.
A democracy among hundreds of millions of people always require compromises.
You are naive, and believe some glossy image matching you personal ideals, and apparently being better than basically everybody else is far from good enough for you.
You are letting perfection stand in the way of progress, your type is outright dangerous, because your thinking is borderline fanatic, because you won't compromise on the reasonably balanced to avoid pure evil.
EU is a work in progress, and has made many improvements since it conception. EU is not going back like USA and Russia, but is standing firm on humanitarian values.