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Not to mention 95% of all mobile app installs are through App stores controlled by 2 US companies.

But to change these things within the past 7 or 8 months would have been impossible. I get what you guys are saying but there's so much of this stuff that is very entrenched and there's decades of inertia to push against, it can't just happen overnight. The story isn't that no one uses American services anymore, it's that fewer and fewer of us feel comfortable doing so and are open to or actively seeking alternatives in a way we never expected to be.

Okay? How does that change anything?

It does not change the situation instantly, but it changes the direction of History, and these changes add up over time.

My point is what you’re saying is so obvious, I’m not sure why you’re saying it.

Do you think the smartphone app store duopoly is not obvious to everyone in this site? Why did you mention it?

Because you seemed to be unaware of it?

Trump, of course, is an unstable person, but why does everyone see the other side as any different? To many of us, they are sides of the same coin - and this, by the way, is more or less reflected in the similar lifestyles they lead. Elite politicians attend elite schools, democrat republican or otherwise. So it puzzles me that only now it's common to be skeptical of the US. Better now than never I guess, but I don't think it's true that Trump is somehow worse than his predecessor. The predecessors are just outwardly nicer. Nice vs kind, etc.

Who was the last Democracy president who spoke openly about claiming the lands of EU member states?

I have no opinion on Greenland.

When dozens of people are stabbed on a train in the UK and Biden and his side maintain that white supremacy is the problem and not minority crime (I am a minority, by the way), then people in fact are willing to consider the other side. What do you make of that?

No one even plans to change that or has any idea how to.

As the GP said, almost all mobile apps are installed from stores run by two American companies (who also effectively control the devices) and the trend is very much to greater reliance on these devices, not less.

We may not like it, but its not going to change.

The OP is an example of increased public and civic appetite to move away from American services. Everything must pass.

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