• Spoerbi@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    How is Macron so based? I, as a German, used to hate on France, but they are holy based the last months

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      In France macron is (or at least was) quite unpopular for what he’s doing within the country. But in foreign affairs he’s really based already for years I would say. One of the few persons who had visions for the EU before putin and now trump reminded everyone to be happy we have it.

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      10 hours ago

      Why would you hate France ? We spent years building a strong friendship, sharing TV programs, sending our kids to each other, learning each other languages, making good deals… Let’s stay friends

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        Another German here. I love France. And arte is the best TV Programm. :) just that you don’t feel alone.

        My theory: Many germans just had really Bad French teachers and honestly its not very easy to learn the spelling, so since their youth they are a bit mad at France. I personally know 3 people that had to redo a year because of bad french grades. Nothing More behind it usually. I noticed its the same with French people that had to learn German. Some love Germany now , the rest projecs their dislike of learning the language on the whole country. However, at least in my bubble, people that like France are in majority. Even those that don’t speak french love to visit.

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    10 hours ago

    Yes don’t go to Disney Land Paris. Got it.

    Also everyone should stop watching US movies in the theater, just pirate American movies. Or watch Les Vengeurs made by Marvelle. Or Le Batman by Les Frères Warner.

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    20 hours ago

    As an American, who the fuck even has to be told that, by now? If you know what’s going on, you have an obligation to make American corporations shriek their fucking heads off as they hemorrhage profits.

    As an American:

    FFS STOP BUYING AMERICAN!

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      12 hours ago

      Most people?

      I think sometimes people on here forget we have been filtered out of general society first by joining Reddit and then by moving here we are sort of in a liberal echo chamber.

      When I interact with regular friends IRL, they don’t care and they really don’t understand what’s happening with the world. So it’s a good thing Macron is sayin this as it spreads the message.

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        10 hours ago

        I am in even worse echo chamber, because almost all of my friends are queers, computer scientists or uni students.

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      19 hours ago

      I think it’s a bit hard for most people when there’s such an abundance of goods and services and nobody really knows where everything comes from.

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        It wasn’t until all this kicked off that I learned just how many companies that I thought were European were in fact owned by American conglomerates.

        Which makes MAGA’s “the world is taking advantage of America” rhetoric all the more infuriatingly hypocritical. You spent decades using the strong dollar to go on a massive global shopping trip buying up every other country’s companies, and are now crying foul that those companies you own are supplying their local markets instead of importing from the US?

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        19 hours ago

        You don’t have to be perfect, just try your best to avoid anything made in the US. If it’s unavoidable, don’t stress it, just buy the absolute least you can get away with, while looking for EU alternatives.

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          16 hours ago

          It’s true, just a couple of changes reflects on their books. One “this instead of that” per person goes a long way.

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          I’m just saying how most of the people I meet outside are. They don’t have these lists handed to them. They only see some Tesla stuff on the news.

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            We don’t need everyone to be perfect. We just need a lot of people, each making them earn a little bit less.

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    21 hours ago

    Hey @EU: don’t forget to buy Canadian. We have sweet sweet sugary beavers….and pornhub.

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    21 hours ago

    The French have been avoiding dependence on Americans since de Gualle. The only reason the entire country hasn’t died of schadenfreude poisoning is because “schadenfreude” is a German word.

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    19 hours ago

    Also France: https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/tribunes/non-au-transfert-des-donnees-de-sante-de-10-millions-de-francais-dans-le-cloud-de-microsoft-20250403_HARQIHZNPBHNLNXJCOTYHCCC6A/

    Google translation of a few paragraphs

    You have a one in seven chance of seeing your health data migrate to the Microsoft cloud and fall under American law, and therefore under the good will of its president, Donald Trump, and the Doge’s boss, Elon Musk. So, happy? Yes, you may be among the 10 million French people randomly selected as part of the Darwin EU project, coordinated by the European Medicines Agency and led, in France, by the public interest group “Plateforme des données de santé,” better known as the Health Data Hub (HDH).

    In a decision published on March 11, the French National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties (CNIL) gave the HDH the green light to select a random sample of 10 million people representative in terms of age, sex, and department of residence from the main database of the National Health Data System, the vast majority of which is issued by the National Health Insurance Fund. The objectives are certainly laudable: to determine the prevalence and incidence of drug and vaccine use in France using a standardized methodology.

    Less laudable, the host chosen to store this data is Microsoft. In 2020, as part of a summary procedure, we already warned that sensitive health data of the French population hosted by Microsoft fell under American law due to the company’s domicile in the United States. In October 2020, the Council of State recognized this risk of extraterritoriality of American law. A month later, in a letter dated November 19, 2020, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, urged the government to completely eliminate, within two years, the risks posed by the hosting of health data by an American operator.

    Five years have passed: the technical solution is still Microsoft. The US authorities, now represented by Donald Trump, will therefore be able to issue subpoenas to Microsoft to disclose the health data of 10 million French citizens. In its opinion of March 11, 2025, the CNIL (French Data Protection Authority) warns of the risk of “disclosure to foreign powers of data stored with a host subject to non-European law” and regrets the lack of a sovereign solution.

    Are the very people in government who boast of defending our country’s “sovereignty” leading us up the garden path for over five years? Hand on heart, we are told that a call for tenders is being prepared to select a European host. Words, words.

    Macron is a hypocrite, all talk no action

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    Any American who sides with the EU should pack up and leave. Buy American. Die European.

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      11 hours ago

      I am confused if this is a low effort trolling attempt or if people’s ideas are legitimately this easily swayed by internal propaganda.

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      15 hours ago

      They are welcome to come here. I wouldn’t wanna live in a country with someone like Trump either.