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Re:Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native by gottorf on Saturday January 31, 2026 @10:17AM (#46837379)
> the general anti-intellectual atmosphere

If I may humbly submit, this is not without justification, considering the unadulterated excrement that has been coming out of our institutions of higher learning. There are a lot of people at universities receiving comfortable taxpayer-funded salaries who spend an awful lot of time disparaging the American spirit.

> public education in america has been pretty bad for a while

Large parts of public education in America is currently a loop of tax dollars that cycle between politicians who shovel an ever-increasing amount of money in and teachers' union leaders that get paid very well and return some money in the form of far-left political activism and donations to those same politicians. Actually teaching kids is at best a fourth or fifth priority.

Re:Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native by jonnybgood on Saturday January 31, 2026 @11:45AM (#46838216)
What is the American spirit to you? It seems to not include political activism. Or at the very least political activism you disagree with.
Re:Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native by netfortius on Saturday January 31, 2026 @11:18AM (#46837953)
A country were a lot of its citizens don't have access to basic human or social needs, and equate a demand for that, already available in the rest of developed world, to "far left political activism" - that is really ironic. There is nothing left on the left (pun intended) in today's America.
Re:Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native by Henchman21 on Saturday January 31, 2026 @11:43AM (#46838197)
Sports teams and "after school activitie" are a much much higher priority than teaching. It isn't even close. It seems the only thing we prioritize in education is... entertainment? I'm sure that will be GREAT in a few generations?
Re:Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native by monkey_monkey on Saturday January 31, 2026 @11:55AM (#46838310)
Couching nonsense in faux-politeness just makes you look even more googly-eyed.
Re:Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native by gchamonlive on Saturday January 31, 2026 @10:45AM (#46837631)
Could you elaborate on what constitutes far-left political activism?
Re:Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native by peyton on Saturday January 31, 2026 @11:11AM (#46837883)
I don’t know if this counts as activism, but I was at my university’s Faculty Club and a faculty member walked over and immediately started bitching about Donald Trump without introducing themselves. Like, you’re supposed to be in the business of developing people. What a gigantic waste of time and money.
Re:Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native by tzs on Saturday January 31, 2026 @11:49AM (#46838247)
What about that counts as far left activism?

Nearly every Republican who was in Congress in 2014 would have described at least 3/4 of what Trump has done this term as illegal and totally unacceptable, and would have described at least half of the rest as incompetent.

Unless you can make a case that since 2014 the country has moved so far to the right that even 2014 Republicans are now "far left", about the only thing you can infer from someone bitching about Trump is that they are probably not far right. (Even that one is pretty iffy because he's pissed off a lot of the far right now too).

Re:Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native by jonnybgood on Saturday January 31, 2026 @11:37AM (#46838129)
If they were instead lauding Trump would you also see that as a waste of time and money? If they aren’t doing this in the classroom I don’t see the issue.
Re:Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native by monkey_monkey on Saturday January 31, 2026 @11:56AM (#46838323)
> I don’t know if this counts as activism,

I do. It doesn't.

Re:Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native by mindslight on Saturday January 31, 2026 @12:05PM (#46838401)
> bitching about Donald Trump

This is just basic table stakes socialization and bonding for any red blooded American these days. Would you have similarly condemned them for commiserating about September 11 or Oklahoma City?

Re:Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native by UqWBcuFx6NV4r on Saturday January 31, 2026 @07:32PM (#46842427)
> I don’t know if this counts as activism …

then you proceed to describe something that in no world would be considered activism.