I use Qwant (though I also use others, but for daily usage, it’s that one). Trying to get as independent as possible from anything American or owned by fascists, and less importantly, getting rid of what’s propietary and/or publicly traded.
Sadly so far only Belgium, Germany, and France. Why those already managed to put in Wero while the rest hasn’t, is beyond me.
Are there actual, practical reasons? Or are other countries’ governments being lobbied too hard to not put through with Wero?
iDEAL from what I know is basically Wero, just local. So you’re already kind of using it, if you do so.
fascist*
Go to IRL places, find IRL painters, pay them.
Deaf/hard of hearing.
Guy who bullied me constantly, calling me slurs and all that. I swore I would take revenge, and broke his jaw. He pretty much stopped after that.
For people in the Netherlands and Belgium: Bol.com.
For elsewhere: AliExpress, Temu, Vinted (European).
For more specialised services:
Furniture: IKEA (Swedish)
Clothes: Zalando (German)
Food delivery: Jumia (German), HelloFresh (German).
Generally, it’s best to buy directly from the companies themselves. Buy from small or mid-sized companies. You’ll skip on the high prices that way, as there’s no markup. Additionally, since you are not one of millions of consumers - but one of a few hundred, they will care more about you.
I disagree. I’m very well off, cishet, white, fairly traditional – and would never consider living in the USA. It’s a country for and by egoistic people, not for families of all kinds. To me, it might as well be a fourth world banana republic, masking as a first world country.
From what I read the issues can give wildly differing results, though.
That said, I’d wage that if they played it accordingly to their own IRL beliefs, most normal people would fall anywhere inbetween these;
The media are deeply insidious and dangerous. What needs to be done, is cutting off access to Twitter, to Facebook, to any of those media that sow hatred.
The only answer is to cut off the access to that hateful propaganda entirely.
They believe they are part of the ‘in-group’ rather than the out-group, which they actually are. It’s the tragedy of the commoners.
Extreme inequality, easy scapegoat, control of virtually most large media by a few oligarchs, algorithms, lack of education on recognising desinformation… they also think they’re part of the in-group rather than realising they will never be considered ‘one of them’ by the oligarchs.
The one answer is to cut off all hateful news from them, by any means possible.
I agree with you. Once a fascist and unwilling to change (even in the face of deradicalisation programs), always a fascist.
I pity them, but at the same time, reserve no compassion for those who would kill everyone.
I pity your dad. May he either turn back and no longer be a slave to fascism, or die as swiftly as possible.
There is no place in the world for fascism.
Wish this worked on hard fascists. Mind you they are very well conditioned to outright reject any questioning of their beliefs.
One can distinguish the two while adhering to neither.
Lol, no. Reactionaries violently upend and attempt to revert to medievalism, conservatism does nothing; the latter might as well be somewhat apathetic.
Hmm, you might be cooking on that. Going to check.
Edit: nope, doesn’t work.