alt Hacker Newswe do not love the EU government because there are billions being poured into promoting the discourse that the EU is a bad thing by both private and state actors.
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This was really lame cope ten years ago and it's really lame cope now.
Because the European Union has come up with shitty laws and regulations.
It mandated USB for charging everywhere, but didn't do a thing about driving on the right side of the road.
We have the digital markets act, yet when someone tries to send emails to some big American email providers, they have to register first, otherwise they don't even make it to the spam folder. But hey, let's have a big round of applause for fining X/Elon Musk and Meta because we hate them. Who cares about decades old protocols and ways of doing things?
My problem is the lack of democracy through the too-indirect way that the commission is elected. Von der Leyen was an extremely unpopular and horribly incompetent (at least in charge of defense) minister in Germany, then somehow she became president of the EU commission. Her skill seems to be politicking with other politicians. That would not have gotten her elected in an election by the people.