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This is yet another reason why Europe needs to develop its own independent nukes without any US involvement
I was reading an opinion piece about this sort of thing earlier today, "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native". It opens by saying:
I'm an eighth-generation American, and let me tell you, I wouldn't trust my data, secrets, or services to a US company these days for love or money.
Lemmy.ml, Hexbear, and Lemmygrad will insist that any allegations of Chinese government wrongdoing are false slander, invented by evil western imperialists
If Trump keeps this up, you think Europe will have our back after another 9/11?
You're right. As you said, Europeans supported the US after 9/11, and died in Iraq and Afghanistan in order to help the US. The only time that NATO article 5 has ever been invoked, it was Europe helping the US. I guess Trump and his administration have no appreciation of that at all.
Like you say, Europeans will not want to help the US if a time comes. Public opinion will be against it.
It's just right-wing keyboard warriors wishing they had an anti-immigration girlfriend who looks like that character
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So I should accept people saying "could care less" when they mean the exact opposite? Not sure I can do that.
If you thought Kamala wasn't paying enough attention to suffering in Palestine, you could have protested and lobbied her to pay more attention to this issue, while still voting for her as president, on the basis that Trump is even more pro-Israel and even less sympathetic to Palestinians.
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Local election wipeout would see off Starmer, MPs say after Caerphilly rout
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I think DHH is talking about ethnicity specifically though, not culture. He said London is "no longer full of native Brits", and he describes "native Brits" as now forming "about a third" of London. White Brits were 37% of London at the 2021 census, so I think that's what he's talking about.
It's possible to express disagreement with a cultural practice without making it about ethnicity. E.g. someone might object to men and women being separated for religious prayer. They might believe that men and women should pray together. It's possible to make that point without making it about ethnicity.
Ethnicity and culture are different. A person can choose to adopt whatever culture they want regardless of their ethnicity. Also if you said something like "I don't want that particular ethnicity to move to my neighbourhood due to their culture" then I think that's probably racist. I think it's fine to object to certain cultural aspects as long as you don't tie it to ethnicity though. E.g. if you said "I object to a cultural practice of treating women worse than men" then I think that's okay.
Is it okay for DHH to express his unhappiness that London is no longer mostly White British? He said "I thought I might move there one day... Now, I wouldn't dream of it. London is no longer the city I was infatuated with in the late '90s and early 2000s. Chiefly because it's no longer full of native Brits."
Let's say a lot of white people move to a previously black area. This causes a prominent person to write a blog saying "I thought I might move there one day... Now, I wouldn't dream of it. It's no longer the place I was infatuated with. Chiefly because it's no longer full of black residents." That would be racist wouldn't it?
Another advantage of the Irish passport over the British passport is that the Irish passport allows you to live and work in 26 other European countries. But hey ho.
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I think my view is that I don't like how oppressive Iran's regime is, but there are many world governments I don't like (including that of the US). I also think the US and Israel probably shouldn't be murdering Iranian civilians with bombs just because Trump and Bibi don't like Iran's government.