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Re:I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over by csmpltn on Saturday February 21, 2026 @10:42AM (#47101782)
Victim mentality? Explain what stops Europe from producing a worthy LinkedIn competitor that challenges LinkedIn's hegemony.
Re:I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over by gib444 on Saturday February 21, 2026 @03:58PM (#47104675)
> Victim mentality

Oh please.

Re:I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over by foxglacier on Saturday February 21, 2026 @10:13PM (#47107748)
He's right though. Blaming someone else for your own failures is victim mentality - regardless of whether they really are the cause or not. Notice how China managed to break free from US tech dominance, no matter how difficult it was, by making itself strong and capable instead of accepting helplessness which is victim mentality.
Re:I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over by Barrin92 on Saturday February 21, 2026 @11:47PM (#47108270)
>Notice how China managed to break free from US tech dominance, no matter how difficult it was

They did this because in the Chinese narrative Americans are a bunch of hegemonic brutes and self sufficiency was a matter of survival. Europeans don't use LinkedIn because they're victimized, they use American products because there was a belief that the United States is a civilized country whose companies and government can be relied on.

That Americans of all people now adopt the rhetoric of the Chinese about themselves and Europe, which has some terrifying and unflattering implications about their own self image should make people think about what they're saying. Europe didn't go for a different route because of victim-hood, but because the rule of law and the so-called Western values do still mean something on the old continent.

If Americans now openly say, Europe you losers you should have treated us the way the Communist party told you to, fair enough but mind you that's how people talk who are at the end of their own civilization, I'm German I know the attitude very well.

Re:I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over by gib444 on Sunday February 22, 2026 @06:00AM (#47110036)
I will not take the bait. We all know the meaning of victim of mentality and know it doesn't apply in this discussion.
Re:I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over by csmpltn on Sunday February 22, 2026 @07:15AM (#47110399)
> I will not take the bait.

I simply asked you to qualify what makes the EU a victim of the US, and why that's somehow the reason for things never being built or done in the EU.