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by vrganj 4mo ago
I don't belong to any party. I come from a country that was devastated by fascists like the ones the Mullvad founder funds and history taught us anything but opposition is collaboration. Go ask the millions of people murdered in concen
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by vrganj 4mo ago
> When our enemies say: well, we gave you the freedom of opinion back then - yeah, you gave it to us , that's in no way evidence that we should return the favor! Your stupidity shall not be contagious! That you granted it to us i
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by vrganj 4mo ago
"Ever" can never be fulfilled. That's what the word means.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
There's no boundaries to "ever closer union". That's what ever closer means, definitionally. Nobody was duped into anything, countries exercised their sovereignty to come to an agreement. The rest of your concerns is j
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Before the formation of the European Coal & Steel community, the direct predecessor to the EU, we literally had a millenium of non-stop slaughter.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
> Impossible to leave now when you joined 20+ years ago, when the EU was something completely different, which now grew beyond what you signed up for, without fucking your economy. It's called a rug pull with a dead man's switc
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by vrganj 4mo ago
I didn't say it started because of the EU. It lasted because of it. See the Schuman declaration I quoted below.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
> You're confusing the EU with NATO I am not. See the Schuman Declaration [0] for context on why the EU came to be. > It proposes that Franco-German production of coal and steel as a whole be placed under a common High Authority
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by vrganj 4mo ago
> What good did the EU bring that's good enough to make up for the badness of everyone in Europe having all their private digital communications constantly scanned? Peace in Europe. You have to remember that the EU is fundamentally
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by vrganj 4mo ago
First of all, I wanted to thank you for the constructive and interesting exchange of views - I find that too often conversations on EU regulations on HN devolve into caricatures and trolling, its been nice to have a substantial conversation
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by vrganj 4mo ago
> But Americans expect law to in general work more like a list of checkboxes To me as a European, this is a very low-trust view of lawmaking that assumes a hostile relationship between a government and its people. The European approach i
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by vrganj 4mo ago
I think the idea is to host the whole company, physically.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
There's a fundamentally different definition of how laws are supposed to work. EU law isn't a list of checkboxes that you can technically check while going counter to the spirit, it is a philosophical direction, the details of fol
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Once you're no longer in the US, you're no longer bound by their laws.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
You're not paying creators. You're paying the extraction machine that squeezes artists dry.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
The vast majority of the money goes to middlemen, rights holders, investors, executives and other suited up parasites. If you want artists to make a living, you need to end shareholder capitalism, not reinforce it.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Why can the US build data centers that benefit a few rich guys while polluting and poisoning the water for everyone else without any major hurdles, but building high speed rail that the public and the environment would benefit from is nigh-
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by vrganj 4mo ago
It's crazy to me there hasn't been a backlash against that yet
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Yes.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
People can just use language. Don't let clankers take it from us.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Fascism isn't a generic term for "things I don't like". It is a very specific ideology responsible for the worst atrocities in history that needs to be ruthlessly stomped out as soon as it rears its ugly head again. This
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Hi Fredrik, long time user of your service. I have to say, this is a disappointing message. The thing about intolerant movements is that tolerance doesn't fix them, it makes them worse and lets them accumulate power until they can dest
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Its also about pollution and water and similar concerns
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Regulation is a good thing, even if HN hates it. It's a way to clearly agree on ground rules that you can plan around, not more, not less. The alternative is not no rules, do whatever you want. The alternative is executive capriciousne
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by vrganj 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96rebro_Party > Some of its key issues include [...] large scale remigration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration > Remigration is a far-right concept
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by vrganj 4mo ago
There's "personal life" and then theres being 75% of the funding of a party calling for ethnic cleansing...
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by vrganj 4mo ago
About that... https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/1tzbizh/proton_is...
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Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party(mastodon.social)
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by vrganj 4mo ago
It's not "some random whim", it is the law . And yes, one has to work and expend energy to follow the law frequently. I did my taxes not too long ago. Also got my drivers license before getting on the road. Or in another, mo
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by vrganj 4mo ago
I couldn't find anything about VPNs in the link you shared. If that is the case, I disagree with it. But if you serve the UK market, you gotta follow UK law. That doesn't seem unreasonable, does it? I see you removed the VPN refer

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