France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US

>>AareyB+(OP)
Such a shame that so many U.S. citizens do not see the ramifications of their political decisions.

Each one of these actions is a stepping stone the world is taking as a direct consequence of U.S. political negligence. And however difficult it was to render this consequence, it will be tenfold, or hundredfold, as difficult to reverse course.

>>spicyu+Ec
A reminder that in the last presidential election, the winner was decided by one of the smallest margins ever, and the winner only won a plurality, not a majority.

Almost as many people voted against the current US administration as voted for it, so although it is true that "so many US citizens do not see the ramifications", there almost as many who do (or some version of them).

>>PaulDa+qr
Almost as many, but not more than :)

>>MiiMe1+vt
Fewer than 50% voted for it, which means more than that voted against it.

>>rootus+d01
Negative. I encourage you to go look at the election results.

>>irishc+222

  Kamala Harris/Tim Walz      75,019,230  48.34%
  Donald J. Trump/J.D. Vance   77,303,568 49.81%
  Various Others               2,878,359  1.85%

So, 50.19% voted against Trump, 49.81% voted for him.

>>PaulDa+cj2
Voting for a 3rd candidate isn't a vote against one of the other two, or does your logic work both ways? so 51.66% of people voted against Harris?

You know what, I don't even care if you respond. The election is over, and we can twist these numbers until the next election.

The logical leaps taken about voting for/against someone are troubling. The tropes around this are disturbing. The emotional vitriol around all of those are even worse.

The dude is the sitting POTUS. He stinks. Bitching about meaningless percentages isn't productive... at all.

>>irishc+A34
> The logical leaps taken about voting for/against someone are troubling. The tropes around this are disturbing. The emotional vitriol around all of those are even worse.

Alright, the next step is to accuse everyone who might try to ground the discussion in truth that they must have TDS. I am not a huge fan of accusing one's opponents of projection, but man, sometimes it really does seem to be the most plausible answer.

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