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Biden urged to stop EU 'unfairly' targeting American tech::5 out of 6 'gatekeepers' are US-based so regulators across pond are just being mean to us, say lawmakers

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Read the title again.

Biden didn't do anything.

He was "urged" to do something by someone else.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

The title can be read either way.

Biden urged [someone]
Biden [was] urged

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Not to mention the way "gatekeepers" is used inside the article to refer to the media companies that are being targeted, and not the EU gatekeeping those companies' practices within the EU. This story is designed to be misleading all around.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah, it's shitty, I understood it the same way at first

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

congresscritters

Did they really use this term? Lol

[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

dude, my bad, thanks!

i stand by my opinion he and the democratic party are really the republicans at this point. there are a handful of democrats and a room full of fascists.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No Republican would've fought for Amtrak expansion as hard as Biden has.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

yeah the one anecdote on one issue doesnt make up for 40+ years of democratic party's conservatism

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just out of curiosity, what do you think the mainstream repubs and the MAGA people are then, by comparison?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

if it walks like a fascist and talks like a fascist and the entire party platform epitomizes fascist ideals, youre a fascist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So, you just think they're all fascists then? What does fascism actually mean to you?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

how about the textbook, which fits perfectly

utahoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't know about perfectly, I don't see the hallmark ultranationalism in Biden, and he also seems to care about election results, which makes dictator a little harder to say. I also don't see force being used to suppress his opposition, since Trump is still free and able to defend himself. Few others, but those are the big ones.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the current republicans are fascists.. the current democrats are just 'conservatives' at this point

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I won't argue that Biden has some conservative in him. I'm not a big fan of it either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He didn't call Biden a fascist; he called the (current-ideology) Republicans fascists and he called Biden a (previous-ideology) Republican.

In other words, he's saying that the politicians are shifted one category to the right of where they claim to be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think you missed a third group. MAGA is not all repubs, there's all the Liz Cheney types they forced out. I assume he meant they were fascist too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I think you missed a third group. MAGA is not all repubs, there’s all the Liz Cheney types they forced out.

You're not accounting for time. MAGA is all Repubs now, because all the Liz Cheney types have been forced out.