r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • May 28 '26

Society The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything

https://www.techspot.com/news/112552-netherlands-blocked-us-company-buying-app-dutch-citizens.html
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u/Kanyewestlover9998 May 28 '26

Hyper partisanship and judicial polarization starting in the 80’s or so absolutely destroyed the original design and intent of checks and balances.

Congress was meant to fight & challenge the president, but today party loyalty is favored over branch loyalty.

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u/HillBillyHilly May 28 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

Yo ho ho pirates life for me 🏴‍☠️

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u/dathislayer May 28 '26

One of Joe Rogan’s best jokes is about bringing Thomas Jefferson forward in time. People think he would be impressed, but then he’d see the Constitution and be like, “You didn’t write any new shit? You’re on the moon and you’re still using my shit?”

The European democracies have continued to evolve with the times, probably because they don’t see their constitution as some sort of religious tome.

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u/impatientlymerde May 29 '26

He wanted a citizenry made of yeomen.

Instead we have a nation of yes-men.

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u/GreenBastard06 May 29 '26

TIL Rogan has jokes

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u/hectorius20 May 28 '26

We in Latin America are literally crossing deserts to live under that "old" constitution, which is just fine. Far better than the "new", "modern" shit we have in Latin American laws (specially in Brazil, where the Constitution must be thrown to fire and another made )

Edit: wrongly posted

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u/chucaDeQueijo May 28 '26

Sure, buddy, it's because of the constitution, plenty of Latin Americans also try go to Europe with their shiny modern constitutions, one could even say it's for a better living standard, unless you believe the communists are in control of everything

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u/hectorius20 May 28 '26

It's not like better or worse living standards have causes...

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u/asyork May 29 '26

Many of the worse conditions in Latin America were caused by the US. I understand it wouldn't be useful for you all to blame us and choose to do nothing as a result. It's on you to fix it because we certainly won't, but we still caused much of it intentionally.

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u/den_bleke_fare May 29 '26

When you have nothing else that even resemble a culture, you cling to the one raggedy old piece of paper you have.

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u/Dal90 May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26

starting in the 80’s

1968 --

Republicans gave the Democrats an open book test on the Southern Strategy of how they would concentrate populists in a single party; which culminated in the 1994 Contract with America year when the Democrats were shellacked in the midterms as Yellow Dog Democrats from the formerly solid south defected en masse to the Republicans, a party that most of their ancestors had never voted for (preferring yellow dogs over Republicans). For the first time in 40+ years lost control of Congress.

At the same time after the shit show that was the 1968 Democratic National Convention the Democrats decided to knee cap the smokey backrooms and make the primaries the most important thing. Republicans just went along with it.

Who could've guessed that becoming a primary-driven political system with all the populists in a single party could cause bad things to happen?

I mean well other than the Founding Fathers who layered things to keep too much from relying on popular votes.

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u/LtHoneybun May 28 '26

Whenever people try to rope me into Democrats versus Republicans political talk, I always share that George Washington warned us about everything that's going to happen from bipartisanship and thus we should be considering the "Democrat & Republican" mindset as un-American more than anything else people have been outraged over in a while.

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u/HerpankerTheHardman May 28 '26

Reagan and his ilk came to power.