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You're not gonna like it when you find out where, exactly, America learned those values from.
by lenerdenator 4mo ago
You're not gonna like it when you find out where, exactly, America learned those values from.
- vrganj 4mo agoLuckily, we've gone through that phase around ninety years ago in Europe. We've been trying to avoid it happening again ever since, though right now is a dangerous time here as well. But hey, at least Europe hasn't fallen yet.
- lenerdenator 4mo agoIf you think you've "gone through that phase", you're not paying much attention. European companies exist to extract profit without regard to decency, same as American companies. BP filling up the Gulf of Mexico with oil? European. Wirecard's fraud? European. HSBC money laundering? European. Dieselgate? European. I'm sure I could find more. Hell, Sergey Brin was born in Moscow and raised by Soviet parents. The US was founded mainly as an experiment in European mercantile colonialism. This is just a continuation of that. The downside of there not being any American exceptionalism is that everything you see in America is not an exception.
- rirze 4mo agoMorally fallen? Sure, Europe hasn't fallen yet. Systemically and structurally? Already on its way there. Excessive moral policing results in strangling regulations, which is exactly what Europe is facing right now. The opposite of innovation. Good luck in your endeavors.