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Clearly the US has been meddling in elections around the globe for a decade and needs to be sanctioned! I don't really get the snark. Yes, of course the US has

• filleduchaos 6y ago
  My comment was only partly tongue-in-cheek, believe me. Even beyond the obvious physical meddling, yes I really would prefer a world where American companies didn't have a de facto hegemony over the internet[0] though I despair of it becoming a reality any time soon. At the very least I'll settle for a world where more Americans acknowledge the existence of that hegemony instead of thinking of themselves as neutral and clutching their pearls over other countries exerting a fraction of that influence! 0. This actually extends far beyond the internet and apparently now into space. Just imagine the absolute uproar if Starlink had been launched by a Russian or Chinese company.
  • blfr 6y ago
    I, too, dislike American corporate hegemony. I'm absolutely certain though that I would dislike Chinese Communist Party hegemony much more. So yes, it would be better if Americans weren't meddling around but it's not better if the Chinese are meddling as well. Let's clutch some pearls.
• romanoderoma 6y ago
  > Yes, of course the US has been meddling in elections around the globe for multiple decades up to and including staging coups and sending military personnel It's true It was also much more expensive both economically and in terms of human losses Meddling by wire is unequivocally cheaper and safer.