• Alphane Moon@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    The one silver lining about the new US administration is that it has helped undermine some fundamental notions around American exceptionalism.

    American oligarchs are not that different from oligarchs in other countries.

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      1 hour ago

      No, I don’t think it’s any particular election. I also don’t think those companies were somehow more liberal when Democrats were in power. But it’s a really bad tendency that they gradually lick the boot more and more. It means they are big enough to be controlled and threatened, and it means governmental overreach is strong enough.

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      6 hours ago

      Its been wonderful purging all my american owned crap from my smart speakers to reddit. Looking forward to getting a linux desktop for the first time in nearly 10 years!

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        6 hours ago

        Agreed, moving away from American tech stuff is becoming a priority.

        American oligarchs are no better than the oligarchs who work with putin or Xi. Perhaps even worse because they tend to be much more dishonest in their rhetoric (constant pompous rants about “changing the world for the better”).

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        6 hours ago

        I just switched over to Linux Mint and, while it’s not perfect, it’s so much better than windows.