Re:French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit
by hagbard_c on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:09PM
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You do realise the same is true for moves from the left to the right? The left spends until the coffers are empty, gets voted out by those fed up with the miserable state of the economy, the right takes over and brings things back on track through austerity measures, the economy wakes up but austerity is still demanded due to the size of the mess left by the lefties. Those same lefties point at the blooming economy and complain that only the rich get to profit while we live in austerity, vote for us and everyone gets a free beer and pony. People vote the left in, they start spending like crazy until the cycle repeats. Been there, seen it happen several times.
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Re:French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit
by api on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:11PM
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I assume this is Euro centric? In the US it’s been the right that have spent like drunks.
Re:French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit
by hagbard_c on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:14PM
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No, it is not euro-centric. The previous US regime also spent like drunks, did you forget about all the stimulus packages which pushed inflation up to almost 10%?
Re:French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit
by IslandRebel on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:30PM
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The logic is "left good, right bad". In other places that people here would scoff at it, it is the opposite way around "right good, left bad".
Unfortunately, political tribalism is rife online, and it is as bad here as anywhere else.