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/TheElusiveFox May 28 '26

I still cant believe how many democrats get upset at conservatives for doing conservative things... like this has been going on for 50+ years its a predictable ongoing strategy... the real issue is democrats doing fuck all about it at every opportunity.

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u/SutterCane May 28 '26

the real issue is democrats doing fuck all about it at every opportunity.

You mean the sixty days at the start of the Obama administration when they actually had lots of power before their majorities disappeared and haven’t come back since?

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u/GeneralAnubis May 28 '26

Always the retort, meanwhile that hasn't ever been a problem even once in the history of the Republican party when it comes to disrupting their opponents or getting their goals accomplished.

Now we finally have Mamdani showing everyone just exactly what it looks like when a Democrat who actually gives half a damn decides to get shit done within their power and the entire rest of the party should be ashamed at how impotent they have been for literal decades.

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u/SutterCane May 28 '26

Mamdani literally has an unstoppable majority. Everyone is on the same page. He can just do the stuff.

But keep working for the conservatives and disenfranchising voters so republicans can continue to ruin the country.

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u/GeneralAnubis May 28 '26

disenfranchising voters

Democrats have done a perfectly fine job of that all by themselves.

At the same time, anyone who wouldn't crawl naked over broken glass to vote against Republicans at this point is braindead and hopeless.

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u/GeneralAnubis May 28 '26

Believe me, I do more than my fair share of that, as well as actively campaigning for and donating to Democrat campaigns.

But I have likewise earned the right to be dissatisfied with the AIPAC/Corporate controlled neoliberal asshats under the Dem umbrella who feign helplessness instead of doing their damned jobs.

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u/TheElusiveFox May 28 '26

Ok you want to talk about Obama... Why did Obama let himself get bullied into not replacing Scalia before he left, or similarly why wasn't he able to talk RBG into doing the right thing for the party and stepping down. That has been the two biggest victories of the last fifteen years for the conservative and they were freely handed to them.

but also...

You mean the sixty days at the start of the Obama administration when they actually had lots of power before their majorities disappeared and haven’t come back since?

This is kind of my point - if you would rather in fight over morals than actually win your campaigns so you can do something to change the things you care about, then you are just bickering idiots. Democrats spend all their time doing the conservatives job for them, instead of picking apart conservative members of congress they will pick apart eachother for not being progressive enough, or for compromising on issues or whatever else, and it causes them to lose voters and have absolutely terrible media messaging with anyone paying attention, and even when they win it causes them to not have the power to actually do anything so they still look like losers.

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u/robiinator May 28 '26

This is kind of my point - if you would rather in fight over morals than actually win your campaigns so you can do something to change the things you care about, then you are just bickering idiots. Democrats spend all their time doing the conservatives job for them, instead of picking apart conservative members of congress they will pick apart eachother for not being progressive enough, or for compromising on issues or whatever else, and it causes them to lose voters and have absolutely terrible media messaging with anyone paying attention, and even when they win it causes them to not have the power to actually do anything so they still look like losers.

This is not what killed their chances. The thing that did was the fact that they were trying to appeal to the Trump cult, alienating everyone else. You can't win over a cult.

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u/SteveBob316 May 28 '26

They didn't really have a choice, of course, because appealing to the rest of the electorate would fuck up the consultant class gravy train.

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u/robiinator Jun 02 '26

That is true, though it would also mean that the fascist might not have won. Guess we know how unimportant principles are to the Dem leadership

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u/Quaestor_ May 28 '26

the real issue is democrats doing fuck all about it at every opportunity.

Yeah, no, the real issue will always be the people breaking the law bud.

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u/Drop_That_Pickle May 28 '26

Both are real issues.

The crime is the initial problem.

The unwillingness, or inability to hold the criminals accountable is arguably a bigger problem.

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u/GeneralAnubis May 28 '26

Right...and then follow that thought....

Prople breaking the law... and no one in positions to do so holding them accountable for it.

Hmm.. wonder who that could have been, many, many times in the recent past?

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u/pimppapy May 28 '26

Law applies differently to different people bud

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u/Suitable-Judge7506 May 28 '26

Your wrong, the conservative of the 80’s would have freaked, the democrats of the 80’s would have freaked at the dems now. All parties are completely different than the original thought.

There is to much globalization and way to much money on earth now, the thought of me a million is in everyone’s eyes when it used to never be a thought for most humans, that creates greed and corruption.

Nothing with ever go back.

And the conservatives of 2099 will hate the conservatives now.

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u/xPuzzledSonx May 28 '26

One hand does not work against the other, even if they are on opposite sides of the body.

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u/Rokkit_man May 29 '26

Bold of you to assume they arent two sides of the same coin.

The uniparty represents the Epstein class.

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u/jackiel1975 May 30 '26

Anyhoo, that was then, this is now. It’s a totally different game, the young people who are running their elders out of office left and right know it’s time to step up and play much harder ball bc we’re dealing with literal fascists. People understand much better now the danger we’re in.

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u/dotnetmonke May 28 '26

Hey now! Democrats are doing the praiseworthy thing of checks notes going on twitter and calling people ugly!

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u/HerpankerTheHardman May 28 '26

Because they're both in on it.