• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    As a unitedstatesian engineer, reading stories about escaping the infuriating (and now, very obviously caustic and manipulative) US monopoly on tech infrastructure companies makes me want to move to the EU and help break the monopoly on that shit. There are other things that make me want to move too, but the opportunity to build some real alternatives that diminish US hegemony over… well, everything, is frankly more than a bit enticing.

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        6 hours ago

        I’m saying I want to make a difference by helping to break the hegemony the country I was born in has on the world. I dare say the only people who would call that a bad thing are specifically the sort of people I absolutely fucking detest in this place.

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          it’s coming from a well known meme: “are we the baddies”.

          You should look it up. It’s basically 2 Nazis wondering, and then realizing they are the baddies…

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            5 hours ago

            Mitchell and Webb.

            “Have you noticed that our caps have actually got little pictures of skulls on them?”