Not exactly... snipers still feel remorse for their first kill at the very least..
Worry not. The second is... Yes, considerably.
Certainly not! They should be HAPPY that we want to destroy their culture, because we view certain aspects of it as being backwards and primitive! Our way is simply BETTER!
Our way IS better. Our civilization IS superior. Those are stone cold hard facts. If you disagree step away immediately from your computer, give up all Western civilization's conquests and feel free to live in moo-slime crapland. Once upon a time we could afford to ignore them but now the world is smaller and the West need to man up and offer them a simple choice: give up or be not. It's not a matter of patriotism, idealism or anything: simply pragmatism. Anyone who doubts our way of life and our culture are not superior to their shit can commit suicide and rid the world of an idiot.
As a euroboy
Shit yourself out of your semen-encrusted asshole and flush, you nazi child-molesting sisterfucking commie cocksucking aryanophile euroturd.
Anyway, why would a "normal citizen" like "a politician" would open a bank account outside of the reach of the European union? There is no need.
There is no need for a lot of stuff, including free speech and owning a PC. Because it's possible, and because actually being the owner of one's own money isn't bad. When things get tough your government is not going after the richest - they can fight back, threaten to leave the country and close down all their operations there increasing unemployment and further reducing revenue - they're going after the middle guys who have little options and do not have vast armies of lawyers. They go after those they can threaten and blackmail. That's why it makes sense. It would make more sense to get the heck out of Dodge and move to more sensible countries but the world is getting smaller and stuff like the US and the EU (though less so) act like they own the world - until another 'Nam or, soon enough, Afghanistan, tells them no, it's not the case. So yes, moving your money elsewhere is a good move. Soon enough it will be China, good luck pressuring them. Gonna be fun. Maybe it will teach a lot of governments that their citizens' money is not something to waste and line their pockets with.
Me? I'll always have a PC of some kind
No, you will not, because once the component makers see there is no more profit to make PC parts since there's so few people interested, they won't make them anymore. Do you believe your PC is going to last forever? Sooner or later one or more parts will be gone and unless you broke your bank to buy spare parts, you will have to join the very flock you despise.
and a hundred other hacked and frankenstein'd gadgets
If you will retain the ability to hack and frankenstein them, which is doubtful to say the least. Do you have a laboratory? Top of the line equipment? Even then, a couple of generations or less from now the tech will be so integrated and locked up that you'll need the resources of an industrialized country to break them open. So no, you won't have those gadgets. And even if you manage to hack some thing, you will be hunted down as a "terr-ow-reest" or some.
Those of us who care enough to invent, create, and make the world a better place, will not.
A recipe for slavery if I ever seen one. You can care as much as you want, if the majority wants Il Duce, Il Duce is what you get. And Il Duce rules over you whether you like it or not. Don't want it? Kill Il Duce.
"Engineering without management is art." -- Jeff Johnson