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The US is straight out of a dystopia from an European perspective.


Nationalistic flamewar, and any flamewar, is not ok on HN. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

You've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly, including elsewhere in this thread. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.


Flamewar where?


Pejorative putdowns of countries are nationalistic flamebait, regardless of which country you have a problem with.


You should Google flamebait, which is also distinct from flamewar


Would you please just follow the site rules? You obviously broke them, and this petty objection-making is not helpful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


iPhone = Dystopia?


No,

Dystopia = everyone must buy an iphone as solution to the problem instead of just using an app that's not restricted to iphones


I guess the difference is the attitude - “I will try to change my preferences to suit others” vs “I will try to change others to suit my preferences”


It isn't.

Two options: - everyone installs an app that can deal with multiple vendors (like 90% of the messengers) - everyone that is not having a phone of vendor x gets a new phone from vendor x and throws away the old one (or keeps both lol)

The former is almost for free and the latter costs hundreds of dollars .

It's so much worse that you cannot even make out this difference




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