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E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against X

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139 points dotcoma | 1 comments | 06 Apr 25 17:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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jrepinc ◴[06 Apr 25 18:05 UTC] No.43603480[source]▶
Good, it is a start. And much better would be for those EU politicians, journalists and other people to move to Mastodon, Pixelfed, and similar independent platforms. That would make a much better example.
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distracted_boy ◴[06 Apr 25 18:21 UTC] No.43603596[source]▶
No one is truly independent when it comes to politics. Everyone belongs to a political tribe, and if you don't, you are against whatever tribe you are currently engaging with.
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danieldk ◴[06 Apr 25 18:38 UTC] No.43603799[source]▶
I am not sure how that is a reaction to the grandparent, but we also don't fall into the same us-versus-them trap that divides the US. I think most people in the EU agree on several basic principles regardless of their political preferences:

- If you get sick, costs should be covered by universal health insurance.

- If you lose your job, there should be a safety net.

- When you retire, there should be a decent pension.

- Everybody should have access to good education.

- We don't want war.

- We don't want to be powerless against megacorps.

In other words, there is much more that is binding us than what is dividing us (in my country, pretty much every party from extreme left to populist right agrees on these things). For those things that we don't agree on, we should find compromises.

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1. arandomusername ◴[06 Apr 25 19:36 UTC] No.43604263[source]▶
Those aren't that universally agreed upon (except war/megacorps/education) in working class/middle class. It's just that EU has high amount of people depending on those safety nets/pensions that any politician not for it is committing political suicide.