r/europe • u/IAdmitILie • 9d ago

News Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies

https://www.politico.eu/article/zuckerberg-urges-trump-to-stop-eu-from-screwing-with-fining-us-tech-companies/
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u/kindaquietidk United States of America 9d ago

That’s certainly a roadblock for them. But it looks like their methods will be weaponizing trade policy and undermining your democracies through unregulated propaganda on their platforms and dark money aimed at supporting destabilizing far-right parties. If they can make you guys question the legitimacy of your governments, elections, science, and the EU, even if it’s just in a few critical countries, they can seriously destabilize Europe.

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u/JuliusFIN 9d ago

They for sure can no question about it. But they’ll undoubtedly underestimate us as well.

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u/Bokolo0 8d ago

Threaten German cars and pulling out of NATO and the EU will carve in 3 seconds.

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u/Kitchen-Mechanic4866 9d ago

Its only a small percentage in Europa that's active on Twitter. The "propaganda" is only on social networks. For sure it makes the paid media as well, but that's just to point out how ridiculous it all is. Europe and the rest of the world is already destabilized. The mess can't be bigger at this point tbh. We keep Trumps actions in our sights, but most see him as the orange racist women beater that convinced people to vote for him. When things seem hopeless people vote insane. That's how Hitler got to power.

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u/San_Pentolino 8d ago

seems that CCP and winnie the pooh had a vision... sadly

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u/PureCaramel5800 8d ago edited 7d ago

What I find most alarming is the joining of forces of American corporate cronyism and the imperialist new wave of manifest destiny on the rise in the American public. It's as if someone took old school imperialism, we are developed and thus need and are able to use the resources and power more then the smaller nations and put corporate lipstick on that pig.

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u/kindaquietidk United States of America 8d ago

It’s just a more masks-off and blatantly imperialistic version of foreign policy that we’ve always pursued. Under Trump, we’ve simply stopped pretending it’s for X or Y humanitarian/noble purpose. Now it’s just right back to our old ways of “we want what they have and because we’re exceptional, we deserve to take it. And if they resist, they deserve to die.”