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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Pro-Euro vs anti-US. The "buy European" movement is generally occupied by a mixture of genuine anti-US protestors, as well as various European nationalists. Kinda like how cottagecore got captured by the far-right, the lack of a cohesive line is leading to some groups pushing Euro-flavored fascism as an alternative to US-flavored fascism, as far right parties increasingly gain ground in the EU.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You can't generalize so much, the reasons are much broader. It is mainly that it is not desirable that a single country controls the largest part of the internet, and until now that the EU depends almost entirely to applications and services of the US, which, especially in the current situation and the policy of Trump, this dependency and subordination will have dire consequences. Is to promote the technology of european, to convert the EU as a sovereign state at the height of the eye with the current giants technologicas that account for all the market, many times abusive. Monopolies are never desirable, because they tend to be destructive..

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Generalizations will always miss finer details, I agree, but this is a phenomenon I have noticed.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 days ago

The main reason, at least for me, is the mencioned. Too long the EU was the Frog, boiled by the US.