"What I am asking here is the bare minimum"

i stopped reading here. that is a telling lie or a flawed self-delusion. you are asking for perfect, right now. if you don't get it, you will haughtily complain and berate. to a god damn *social media PR account*. what a fucking farce. you are a deeply unserious person

don't worry about it, the world is groaning under the weight of self-entitled karens. you're a dime a dozen

and such low characters helped to kill the USA

"Sorry, but I will use what little power I have"

yeah, avenues exist for you to use a little power. reply guying EUCommission in line with anti-EU troll agendas is not it, deep thinker

nevermind it takes time to play out. "I WANT PERFECT NOW" is your only guide, because you're not a serious person. you're just a useless whiner

i'm not insulting you. that is objectively what you have chosen your online identity to be

right but it's an orthogonal topic to what EUCommission posted. do you like what they posted? it's good isn't it?

you don't care. what you're interested in is uselessly whining, harassing someone who runs a social media account who has no control over that. it's ineffectual and shows you not to be interested in genuine change, but just being a lazy cynical whiner

a lot of people use social media this way. it is of course fucking stupid and pathetic

i don't want you to shut up and be happy. mainly because you'll never be happy, you're an entitled whiner. you want perfect now, and if you don't get it, you shit everywhere and act like you're helping. you're not helping, you're exercising your low character: mindless cynicism

cynicism is acceptance: "everything sucks and then you die, waah"

ignorant. useless

you're fodder for fascism

i say this as an american, as a warning:

MAGA and people like you made us shit

1. it's not contradictory. unless you're an immature "I WANT PERFECT NOW" sort of loser
2. google fucking sucks. the EU should get rid of it. it doesn't happen like flipping a light switch, political science professor. i would ask you to show some maturity and allow things to play out, but i refer to point #1

on the contrary what you have is useless immature whiners endlessly nitpicking and achieving nothing except their own bile pointlessly destroying mastodon

thank you

you are of course right

my only complaint then is how mastodon has had a number of high profile accounts hounded off by this endless sort of reply guy negativity

it would be a shame to lose this one as well, simply for the sake of these whiny entitled assholes

Oh, not to worry - the reality on the ground is nowhere near the mouthpieces you see online.

European politics are turning right, yes - but extremism is generally kept at bay in the real world. You'll always have the outliers shouting the loudest and claiming to speak for the oppressed and the minorities, demanding everyone else respects their ekstremist views while respecting no one.

Everyone on this cursed continent should have a deep thought (and action!) about what relationship they want with this planet.

Like who the fuck do you think you are as a fucking american to tell me, a person who resides in a place that has a heavy say in what the EU is to shut up and be happy? Fucking unbelievable jfc.

Fighting monopolies is one thing, but shall be done properly.

One example could be Valve's Steam store. It is rather a monopoly and even most Valve fans agree on this, however, it has little to no competition. Others provide less features & worse experience.

So we shall embrace competition than just blindly "fight" monopolies.

the inevitable flood of whiny reply guy shit under every EUCommission post. pointless, dreary, insufferable, entitled. also, some is outright trollfarm

i suppose this is just the way social media is. still, it's pathetic

lazy cynicism is mindless and cheap

if that's your online identity?

guess what: this is what fascism wants from you: compliant and resigned. cynicism is capitulation. that's the psyop

i should know, i'm american

and so: that's a warning, europe

"this is a good thing, but i'm not going to acknowledge that. i'm going to go negative, make demands, and act like a jerk. i'm so cool"

Like many political and corporate entities on the Fediverse, they're replying from time to time, provided they see a chance to post a "Learn more about…"-style rubber wall reply. It's occupational therapy though, with zero nourishing yield.

Wrt to fines: yes, we need to follow through, not just impose them. Sadly, the recent corporate takeovers of national DPAs (first Ireland, then the Netherlands) is establishing a pretty bad precedent that reduces the likeliness of that happening.

@EUCommission

Squeeze the fuckers until the pips squeak.