Apologies for the meme. Just felt like so god damn European today.

  • thorbot@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I wonder what it’s like to be European and having your dick so far down your own throat

    Wish I was that flexible

    • luk3th3dud3@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Business hours as in rural California where restaurants close at 7 pm? But you are right, vacation is pretty great here…

  • rosymind@leminal.space
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    1 year ago

    As an Americam, I approve of this satire!

    Wait a minute.

    It… it is satire, right?

    As an American, I am also now confused.

    What if… what if this isn’t satire and someone REALLY thinks that being European is better than being American? No… surely it can’t be!

    America is the greatest!

    …RIGHT?!

    Hello?..

    (O_O)

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    1 year ago

    I know this isn’t a popular opinion, but I love what all the EU bureaucracy does for us.

    Ofc it can’t be 100.0% efficient, but why would anyone expect that, or fault it entirely for it. We should be glad we can spend like 1% of our time filling in various reports or talking with regulators or whatever - that indirectly gets us a society not run by corporations, an economy where demand is more of a driver than supply, etc.

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      1 year ago

      It really shouldn’t be unpopular. EU bureaucracy might be slow, but it really does make a difference. Remember how you had to pay ridiculous roaming mobile charges if you crossed into another country? Or how you has to pay ridiculous money to transfer money between countries ridiculously slowly? Or how you had to charge that iphone with a ridiculous connector? Or how EU employment contacts stack up against US ones? Regulation works. The EU works.

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        1 year ago

        And it does not only work against cooperations, but against things like surveillance laws as well. Those have been fought successfully on an European level.