They don’t. There are still regulations, particularly in Europe, that restrict what corporations can do. Many countries have strong unions and labour rights such as France, Belgium and Scandinavian countries. Activists document what the powerful do and organise protests against them. Contrast that with actual totalitarian regimes such as China and what the US is turning into.
Because corporate-backed governments want to control their citizens.
Ah, so you’re not advocating for a crackdown in opposition in the case of a hypothetical war with Russia, you are instead insinuating that there is a plan to do that. Do you have any evidence?
What’s the point in defending against Russia if we’re going to be just like Russia?
That makes you no better than Russia, using conflict in order to take away people’s rights and instituting a totalitarian surveillance state.
Let’s hope at least one EU leader does the right thing and scuppers the “deal”.
We should renege on that promise and fund EU alternatives anyway, in secret if necessary.
That’s the kind of situation in which you should apply tarrifs. Instead of surrendering, the EU should apply a 50% tarrif on all US cloud services and subsise the growth of European alternatives.
That’s it. I’m going to vote for explicitly anti-American parties at the next election.
Too susceptible to outside influence. These would be American/Russian/corporate puppet states.
Dafuq? Nothing inevitable about fascism. Also, you’re example is worse than being a surrender monkey, it’s being actively involved in the crimes of the regime.
“Well, it worked out pretty well for my grandparents, so I am not that concerned”
That’s cause the Nazis were defeated.
Once they’ve finished with these groups they’ll move on to other groups and continue whittling down their ingroup until there is no one left.
Also nice job showing that minority groups are an acceptable price to pay for your cowardice.
Mate. Fascists put everyone they hate in camps and torture them to death. Better nuclear war as that is quick and relatively painless.
We have nukes. We can set them off should they invade. Better nuclear war than fascist rule.
We need to elect politicians willing to take a hard line against the US.
You didn’t even upvote your own comment. That’s how stupid it is.
At some point, some country will need to send a task force to El Salvador to liberate people from the concentration camp there.
We should not be signing trade deals with countries that sell out Ukraine, we should instead massively tax their tech companies and try to pop their AI bubble.