To help us Europeans in 1945, thousands of Americans had to fight their way from the bloody beaches of Normandy all the way to Berlin, under fire, in ice cold trenches, watching their friends die left and right.
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@randahl YouTube?
@livcomp potentially yes.
I earn a living from YouTube which has a monopoly that I cannot easily replace, but for me it was the easiest thing in the world to replace Prime Video with Sky Showtime, and to buy my products from Thomann instead of Amazon, and to not subscribe to ChatGPT, and to not buy a new iPhone, etc.
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To help us Europeans in 1945, thousands of Americans had to fight their way from the bloody beaches of Normandy all the way to Berlin, under fire, in ice cold trenches, watching their friends die left and right.
But to help the Americans in 2026, we Europeans need to sit in our heated livingrooms and hit "end subscription" on streaming services that finance the American oligarchy — and of course no one wants to live through the horror, so fascism it is.
@randahl
One of the major, imho most important, differences to 1945 though:
Back then the troops had the full support of their government.
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To help us Europeans in 1945, thousands of Americans had to fight their way from the bloody beaches of Normandy all the way to Berlin, under fire, in ice cold trenches, watching their friends die left and right.
But to help the Americans in 2026, we Europeans need to sit in our heated livingrooms and hit "end subscription" on streaming services that finance the American oligarchy — and of course no one wants to live through the horror, so fascism it is.
The Europeans are better at managing their own affairs, for better or worse. How can Europe help in the face of a criminal POTUS with vengeance on his mind?
Fascism is merely what becomes of republics when they lose relevance. Instead of "our government" it's "the government".
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@randahl
One of the major, imho most important, differences to 1945 though:
Back then the troops had the full support of their government.@grootinside @randahl I agree this is the key. Plenty of US Americans would have been happy with fascism in the US (most of the Southeast was already fascist in effect). It was the government went to war. Not the people.
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To help us Europeans in 1945, thousands of Americans had to fight their way from the bloody beaches of Normandy all the way to Berlin, under fire, in ice cold trenches, watching their friends die left and right.
But to help the Americans in 2026, we Europeans need to sit in our heated livingrooms and hit "end subscription" on streaming services that finance the American oligarchy — and of course no one wants to live through the horror, so fascism it is.
@randahl 1945 with network router basically, yep.
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@livcomp potentially yes.
I earn a living from YouTube which has a monopoly that I cannot easily replace, but for me it was the easiest thing in the world to replace Prime Video with Sky Showtime, and to buy my products from Thomann instead of Amazon, and to not subscribe to ChatGPT, and to not buy a new iPhone, etc.
@randahl @livcomp Sitting down with my daughter to create a presentation for school, I was surprised to find that YouTubes monopoly is so huge. I have blocked access to YouTube on her computer, but it was impossible to find video material for our purposes from other sources.
On top of that, her teacher forces her to use Chrome and school uses Google Classroom. All very convenient, but questionable in face of current political realities.
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@randahl @livcomp Sitting down with my daughter to create a presentation for school, I was surprised to find that YouTubes monopoly is so huge. I have blocked access to YouTube on her computer, but it was impossible to find video material for our purposes from other sources.
On top of that, her teacher forces her to use Chrome and school uses Google Classroom. All very convenient, but questionable in face of current political realities.
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To help us Europeans in 1945, thousands of Americans had to fight their way from the bloody beaches of Normandy all the way to Berlin, under fire, in ice cold trenches, watching their friends die left and right.
But to help the Americans in 2026, we Europeans need to sit in our heated livingrooms and hit "end subscription" on streaming services that finance the American oligarchy — and of course no one wants to live through the horror, so fascism it is.
@randahl would they have fought the nazis if hitler did not declare war on them?
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@randahl 1945 with network router basically, yep.
twitter, facebook, tiktok, etc = volksempfänger on steroids
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To help us Europeans in 1945, thousands of Americans had to fight their way from the bloody beaches of Normandy all the way to Berlin, under fire, in ice cold trenches, watching their friends die left and right.
But to help the Americans in 2026, we Europeans need to sit in our heated livingrooms and hit "end subscription" on streaming services that finance the American oligarchy — and of course no one wants to live through the horror, so fascism it is.
1944: "Americans had to fight their way from the bloody beaches of Normandy"
2026: Europeans have to fight their way from the bloody b*tches of the White House
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