In Taiwan, these people are called 民主二代 (second generation of democracy), oftentimes in a derogatory way, referring to a generation that came of age after Taiwan’s democratization, sometimes seen as taking democracy for granted.

I kinda half don’t blame them, they suffer from the same issues that most liberal democracies face now:

• horribly low pay and worker protections, in your first year working, expect to barely have 3 holiday days offered to you
• never being able to buy property in Taiwan (Taiwanese property market is insane and I could talk at lengths about it)

In this context, Taiwanese politics is a hugely partisan-tribal affair with a lot of drama. A lot of people become apathetic and just go “you can’t eat democracy” (a dig at parties that keep pushing this as their campaign slogan rather than talking about kitchen-table political issues (housing, affordability, high cost of raising kids).

Idk how to feel about this. If this news came from the UK, the replies would’ve been:

you got a loicense for that, mate?

But because it’s China, people will gladly glaze this move.

Living in Taiwan, this is kinda annoying, when one of these cables got cut, the internet was noticeably slower for a couple of days

Don’t care, use Linux.

It’s the ethical choice.

Don’t put yourself in the learned helplessness box

That’s basically every westerner passing judgement about China, so I’ll take it that his artistic message punched through

Depends on the country, of course there were politicians that disagreed on principle, but the voting on the issue wasn’t done by MEPs , if it’s MEPs you messaged

Broke nation sells out national security… more at 11

The rejection of the bill wasn’t on principle, but technicalities, if you look at most countries that opposed, the bill will be back with edits, Denmark is already aiming for December

The rejection of the bill wasn’t on principle, but technicalities, the bill will be back with edits, Denmark is already aiming for December

Germany used to send their car manufacturers to China to do knowledge transfer, they’d surely benefit from some reverse knowledge transfer from the Chinese these days.

What’s the point of being able to criticise someone publicly, if nothing’s going to change to your material conditions? Sounds like yelling at clouds: feels good, but doesn’t achieve much

The demands from this admin are meant to specifically crush the spirit of the EU.

deregulate your car legislation and tear up your pedestrian friendly capitals

deregulate your food safety laws, and allow cheap US slop to destroy the traditional EU food scene (no more gruyère, you’re gonna have Cheez Whiz)

deregulate your green sector, time to pump those pollution numbers up

Milei did it, he managed to turn lazy socialists into savvy entrepreneurs /s

I can see that, tbf, thanks for the explanation

Rotten society

Europe… the guys that want backdoors into all encrypted communication… the guys that want to give Google a big fat contract for app attestatio for their age verification apps…

Europe…? You guys thought of Europe? I feel like the entire EU policy right now is anathema to an Open Source Phone

We can be as ideologically similar, policy-wise, we’re an obedient dog with a masochism kink.

“Yes daddy Trump, we’ll take all your child killer gas guzzlers and destroy our urban planning for more car friendly cities. What’s that? Yes sure we’ll also take a 15% tariff, and we’ll do it with a smile”

Meta returning to their roots it seems

It has a lot to do with the article, because of our superiority complex and literally EU politicians saying “we don’t need China, China needs us more than we need them”.

Dealing with China would’ve been a good counterbalance against being screwed over by the US tariff wise.

However, now we have to open up our markets to American cars and ractopamine pork from the US (yes, the deal also includes deregulating EU food safety standards).

Our gloating is literally destroying our standards of life

I live in Europe, I also prefer Euro grass. I just want us to stop thinking we’re the shit, when we’re actually shit and no one cares about the EU because nothing worthwhile comes from this continent atm