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  @benroyce@mastodon.social @jtb@toot.wales @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu The disappointment comes in the repeated actions of the Commission, and not from any kind of psyop I'm afraid. Emphatically: What you see in most of the comments isn't some anti-EU sentiment fueled by (typically Russia backed) far-right dolts. It is criticism on the repeated approaches, that one particular, *hard to interact with*, very removed from the People, part of the system is making.

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  @benroyce@mastodon.social @jtb@toot.wales @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu I really, really don't think we're being perfectionists or hypercritical, despite you latching onto those words so hard. Most of us know not to be idealists — hell, I'm coming from the Orbán country where the only solution was for every leftist to vote for a conservative, right wing guy; we're *very* far from idealism and perfectionism —, but we see the repeated refusal from the EC to take a hint...

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  @benroyce@mastodon.social @jtb@toot.wales @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu jtb is correct in that the Commission is unelected — we only directly elect the representatives in Parliament; and the members of the European Council and Council of the European Union, inasmuch as we have direct influence on our heads of state and ministers. (neither is to be confused with the Council of Europe; I wish the EU changed the name of both). We the citizens have practically zero control over the Comm...

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  @simonbs I love the sweet sweet tears of the AI industry in the morning.

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@junesim63/116158310327727350 I continue to find it hilarious that the most anti-immigration, anti-asylum etc. people are at a very high percentage of immigration background.

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  I remember when we called rogue machines on the internet under the control of an adversary "botnets", and they were considered bad, an infection, something to be removed. These days that's just AI scrapers. It's "normal". #FuckAI