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> European policy debates often become Americanized because of the American domination of social media. No it doesn't. And America doesn't dominate social medi
by felooboolooomba 4mo ago
> European policy debates often become Americanized because of the American domination of social media.
No it doesn't. And America doesn't dominate social media in Europe, except repeated administration scandals, paedofiles and history's largest pedo ring cover-up.
- cindyllm 4mo ago[dead]
- drnick1 4mo agoLol, Europeans are quick to adopt all the worst things from America related to tech, including social media, streaming services, proprietary software, iPhones, and random IoT garbage.
- ben_w 4mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Survivorship-bias.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Survivorship-bias.svg Every European you meet on social media is necessarily the subset of Europeans who adopted social media. A subset of the population adopting a subset of the stuff doesn't mean adoption in general is as universal as you might assume. e.g. podcast I was listening to the other day had a German complaining about their bank, after the bank suggested they send a fax.
- general1465 4mo agoChinese adopted them too, so what is the differece?
- constantius 4mo agoAmerica does dominate social media in Europe. Most Europeans probably know more American politicians than they do their own, and have opinions about every American event. During US elections it's impossible to talk to anyone without their starting to opine about things they have no control over within a minute. American culture wars are polarising societies that share nothing with the American one. The last thing Europe needs is more Americanisation.
- felooboolooomba 4mo ago> American culture wars are polarising societies that share nothing with the American one. True, but that's because of considerable joint effort headed by the likes of Thiel, Musk, Bannon, ...
- constantius 4mo agoI think American culture wars would be a great meme (in the original sense of viral ideas) without any billionaires or politicians pushing it, simply because they are perfectly marketable, appeal to our desire for outrage, and can be weaponised to their advantage by attention/power-hungry parts of the population.
- thewileyone 4mo agoIt like watching car crash videos ... It's hard to look away ...