Yeah yeah the whole volk thing is cringe but I fucking hate proprietary chargers. It used to be worse, there used to be a different charge not just for each brand but for each and every phone within that brand so your old chargers didn't work.
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Standardizing is good, don't get me wrong. The phrasing though... ๐ฌ
I have some bad news for you about the vernacular nomenclature of the BRI
First of all, "One Belt, One Road" is missing the third part, the appeal to national unity ("One Europe) which is what makes the slogan in the EU tweet sound like the well known Nazi phrase.
Secondly, it hits very different when it's a European institution led by a bunch of Germans and other people with Nazi or Nazi collaborator ancestry and a generational obsession with destroying Russia that are saying it.
First of all, "One Belt, One Road" is missing the third part
a European institution led by a bunch of Germans and other people with Nazi or Nazi collaborator ancestry
the worst one i remember was a camera (i think? might have been an mp3 player?) i had where between models they changed the shape of the plug slightly so it wouldn't fit and swapped two of the pins so it wouldn't work even if you stripped the plastic off
This is a good thing, though? All the Chinese companies already use USB-C. Just force Apple & Co to comply, and you cut down on so much inconvenience and lost time, not to mention e-waste.
more about the phrasing
what about the phrasing specifically?
This is a common rhetorical device that is itself built out of two fundamental devices; call for unity and rule of three. It's use here doesn't seem noteworthy to me. The only reason to conjure up Hitler is to attack the message as a reaction against electronics standardization.
I really don't think Yog has anything against USB-C standardization. We all think it's a good thing, or so I would think. But this specific wording, "One x. One y. One z." is not that common and exactly like one of the most common Nazi slogans, and it's the EU Commission saying it. It's just a silly shitpost, I think.
Yog mass reposts with little scrutiny which is great for keeping the place alive but does mean they're prone to dredging up some crap from time to time. Deep read the xcancel thread in the op if you want to understand the motivation behind associating hitler with usb-c. You will also find many comments associating usb-c with communism and Islam which I somehow think might not based on the phrasing of the original tweet...
Every Twitter post where someone points out something fascist is inevitably going to have some chuds commenting how this is actually communism or Islamic sharia or whatever. It's just background noise.
I know that there are weird reactionaries who complain about it for other reasons and it would make sense for this to only come to Yog's attention due to them bellyaching, but what was reposted was the original post from the EU Commission itself, so I don't think it makes sense to project this sort of thing onto it. The repost isn't a blanket endorsement of what every chud on twitter is saying in the replies.
I wanna charge my car with a type-c
In Poland you never know when you would have to power your concrete mixer with a laptop.
Nazi particles aside, what's with the EU self-fellating over a policy that came into force like a year ago? And one that didn't really do anything in practice beyond force Apple to use USB-C a couple of years earlier than they were gonna do otherwise.
This is the flagship statute from the world's premier self-styled technocratic treaty organisation, and it's a rubber-stamp of something the private sector was self-regulating towards years earlier.
It's consumer palpable which, depending on where you are, is something the average person doesn't see the EU do a lot. The other big one would be EFRE funds with accompanying large posters saying this is paid by the EFRE funds but that's kind of region specific.
Previous favourite would've been Schengen, but even removed from the fact that that predates the EU, it's also a hard sell now that everybody is back to being used to backed up border crossings on account of getting too racist to keep one of the good parts of the EU going
Imagine if Germans only stayed focused on technocratic governance like this. It would be great! But no, they always have to be conquering Europe and supporting genocides instead.
Everything technocratic the german government tries to do still sucks. It's either magic fuel to keep building ICE cars, getting scammed in a number of ways to introduce 2005 state of the art IT into the bureaucracy or trying to reinvent urban planning in a way that's climate friendly, pedestrian friendly and also allows me to drive my car straight into the last Karstadt.
They support QGIS and several other open source projects since the state uses open source.
The technocratic shit Germans do leads to the genocide
if only they could be like the British and French and only do it in the Periphery and to brown people .. and spread it out over 300 years..
somebody please think about the poor belgians and all the other innocent Ingroup people of the Imperial Core...
Some volta enjoyer is going to base his whole ideology on this.
That's quite a stretch to compare the two. We can't even throw electronics into fires.
We can throw tech billionaires into fires though
How much does this actually help?
Are we really at the point where we're making slogans out of... Charging Cable? How much does any of this actually impact?
Does Europe even make anything besides ideology and good PR that libs love?
What phone does Europe even make? Fairphone? But that's made in China
Then in Germany you have Gigaset ... 
Of course it's nice to have a standardized port and removable battery, but nobody is buying these phones. And there's worthless plastic crap everywhere in the supermarkets, every holiday they make more plastic crap to sell to you there's more plastic crap in the grocery stores than there's food nowadays.
The eu doesn't do anything but protect the capitalists of Europe and the occasional minor trade regulations that kinda help people like this.
They literally need this or else people would begin to realize that it doesn't help them
I mean the whole travel/live wherever within the EU is nice too. Of course no borders would be nicer, but you know, it's nice.
That still is only there to benefit the capitalists of Europe, especially the larger economies as it makes brain drain from places like eastern Europe easier and faster
It literally makes it harder for the economies of poorer EU countries to hold onto skilled workers
Yeah I am aware how capitalist systems exist to enforce capitalism and all actions in the end serve that goal. If everything was rainbows and gumdrops I'd appreciate not having any borders at all much more of course. But things being what they are, I am happy about being able to travel and live without a visa. Hopefully that will function as the groundwork for something better some day.
As it is right now it is nice for what it is
I don't know where you are in the EU, but at least from where I am, this "freedom" to travel and especially work wherever has never applied to anyone apart from the ruling class and labor aristros/nepo babies/upper middle class.
it's giving "good jeans" tbh
Really makes you think