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It's not "Berlin vs. Musk", it's "tech bros vs. regulation" - they support Trump, want to destabilize the EU, all so they can continue their exploitative businesses.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"deserts"
That wording in this context implies the German army owed loyalty to X.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes it’s a bit weird isn’t it.

Politico seems to be treading more and more into sensationalist titles. Disappointing…

[–] trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Politico is owned by the German Axel Springer publishing corporation, which runs a bunch of right wing papers, mostly tabloids, like the infamous Bild.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah I’m aware of that. Axel Springer runs the paper that published the infamous Musk op-ed.

Generally though (despite an obvious current western neoliberal order bias) Politico has been decent in the past (outside of opinion pieces), as a sort of basic way to get general facts, but I fear their quality is declining. I’m personally gradually replacing them with EURACTIV and RFI in my reading habits.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

The creator of the article: "why wasn't it France?!!"

[–] M33@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Rather than move to Bluesky, a favored alternative to Musk’s X for many, the defense ministry said it will continue to stream videos and content on Instagram, YouTube and through a WhatsApp channel instead.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ditto.

“This far right Us oligarch is so problematic, let’s do buisness with this other far right Us oligarch instead” 🤦

[–] erin@social.sidh.bzh 13 points 1 day ago

they should have said "Pixelfed, Peertube and through a Matrix server instead"... Bad Move to keep relying on US social media instead of soverign ones, veeery bad move... ><

[–] M33@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, bad move: won’t see them anymore

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Let's be honest, you weren't going to follow them anyway.

And neither was I.