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No, why would it bother me.

Some people need to voice their opinions loudly, some don't. Doesn't matter much for me.

The number of "I'm switching to Linux" comments or the change in frequency however is a reasonable indicator for public opinion (under the assumption that there is no sudden global increase in extroverts needing to voice their opinion loudly...).

No, you don't have lost track. You are simply reading actual articles and propaganda.

This -for example- is the latter. No, that decision is not the EU backing away from chat control but quite the opposite. They have build the foundation for creating mass surveilance infrastructure without the courts shutting them down as usual because it's voluntary. Up to the moment there is a reasonable big distraction or some neat pretext and it suddenly isn't voluntary anymore and fully running just the next day.

Sorry to tell you but if you believe that headline you are the main idiot here.

That's the opposite of "backing away from chat control" but the base for creating a whole mass surveilance infrastructure now. Then they just wait for a pretext or for a big enough distraction...

That would be minimum for a short note.

Which this isn't, so they could do this thing called ... you know ... journalism.

This outdated stuff where they actually inform people about details like that association being a neo-liberal lobbyism organisation representing about 0.2% of German family businesses. With such "family businesses" as Miele, Dr.Oetker or Henkel (~5, 4 and 21 billion revenue/year).

Edit: Dr. Oetker is officially denying their membership...

What's going on is the usual framing bordering on lies in the media trying hard to normalise the far-right (totally not connected who owns the media of course *wink wink*)...

What they call "family-business" here maybe -technically correct- owned by private families. But we are actually talking about the same multi-billion € companies that already got rich through the nazis back then.

It's like writing "up-and-coming tech start-ups praise Trump policies" but talking about Tesla and Meta.

So in reality it's "ultra-rich think they can benefit from fascists as they always do". But that headline would not fit the agenda.

Fun fact: Because of that decision Deutsche Bank -as if you could think of people with less morals than those- cancelled several business agreements with them. "You are too evil for Deutsche Bank to work with you" is some special kind of statement.

Edit: Rossmann (drug-store chain, 12 billion rev/year - notably not one of those founded in the 1800s and already befitting from a nazi regime once but just 50 years ago) just cancelled their membership. Let's hope it's the first of many...

Edit2: We can add Vorwerk and Melitta to the list...

Those "some" you mention are a miniscule minority.

That official US government account posting from Israel while a big political delegation is there right now? Sure.

Bigger numbers of very active MAGA influencers consistently posting from Russia or Nigeria? All those proud Irish "Celtic Warriors" posting from the US? Eastern European far-right politicians pushing Russian narratives and using Twitter through Russian apps? No, that's a very obvious pattern.

So while your first about a global society is technically correct, it is definitely not the defining portion in this. And stressing "that can happen and is totally normal" when it's an exception has the sour aftertaste of a diversion.

Okay, I will note the difference: there is none; a trillion in the pockets of an US billionair that doesn't pay taxes is the same as a trillion in the pockets of a Europen billionair that doesn't pay taxes.

Also... to add some international facts:

We have also seen such things as Slovakian right-wing politicians with apps downloaded in Russia or Irish nationalists in reality operating from the US.

So totally not surprisingly -for people with more than 2 working brain cells at least- this is not just about MAGA. This is nationalist and far-right narratives and policies being pushed by foreign actors everywhere.

In parts maybe because who is actually producing PULS with KNDS only being more of a local distribution partner. It's Israel's Elbit Systems.

So that "German" system is in reality an Israeli system (with French-German KNDS still looking for partnerships to produce compatible missiles).

And the "US" system is co-developed by German Rheinmetall (with Lockheed-Martin) and fully compatible to the upgraded M270s (called MARS II/LRU/MLRS-I respectively) which Germany, France and Italy already build themselves under license and also run their own targeting software (UK, too, minus the common software project). In fact GMRS is a truckbased solution with the full-sized 2x 6 launcher like on the M270, unlike HIMARS with halfed capactity.

So that German vs US system in the headline and article are kinda skewed...

https://www.armyrecognition.com/legal-information