China is openly supporting Russia in their invasion of Ukraine. As bad as the US government has become, it’s still a far cry from the CCP.

Well, the US hasn’t used tanks to crush protesters into a pulp yet, so I still think they are better. I just wish the EU could outdo them both when it comes to protecting our vital industries.

Edit: forgot a word

Thanks, maybe that’s easier to read than my archive link.

No full plans, no building permit? Should be simple, right?

Well, it was either the Chinese or the Americans. It’s slightly better with the Americans, but I’m still annoyed that we can’t do better in the EU.

Paste the youtybe link into yewtube to get around it.

Playing right into the US hands. They’d love to see the EU disappear so that they can bully the individual countries even harder. Don’t be daft. The way to fight is to make the EU stronger, not to surrender to Washington/ Beijing/ Moscow.

We’re still going to need lots of US military equipment for a long time, so agreeing to that wasn’t too bad IMHO. As for the investment we’ll have to see. What’s the time frame? Perhaps we’ll see a little more sane US after the midterms?

But yeah, this isn’t a win for the EU by any means. It might be less bad for the smaller countries that might have been subjected to the Thailand deal if they had been alone though. But that’s not how the far right and Russia funded anti-eu brigade will frame it.

It’s pretty far from a win. It’s backing down to a bully because you know a fight would hurt you both badly, and that you still need the help of this bully against another.

Shit sucks, but that’s where we are now.

I think the EU is hoping for the mid-terms and that the Democrats take over the house of representatives. With any luck they’ll start doing their job again, and repeal these tariffs that Trump doesnt really have the mandate to set. It should be the house, yet somehow…

The EU gets time to move away from the US and build their own alternatives with reliable allies.

But yes, this isn’t the US of old where mutual benefit was the goal. This is “the US gets whatever it can take and fuck everybody else”.

As far as I understand it, no. It’s just American consumers that gets taxed. Sucks for EU businesses though because all their products will be 15% more expensive.

This might be a good time to remind people to #buyeuropean

You should. It’s an interesting article. Not sure why it got voted down.

Europe avoiding the worst hit while it takes steps to de-risk its economies, ie don’t see the US as a reliable trading partner.

Ok? Then where is it? Give me a Facebook that isn’t shit. I want to connect to a small group of friends, share photos and stories and not be “profiled”.

People i haven’t met should not be able to see anything I post, even if we share friends. I’d make it so you’d have to connect with NFC or something before they could see your stuff.

This influencer crap would not exist there. Nor should it anywhere, but that’s just my opinion.

The fewer workers exist the higher the wages rise. Look at the compensation for people after pest waves.

That’s only true if either the work can’t be moved elsewhere. The other option is that output drops to match the available workforce, like in Britain after brexit for fruits and vegetables for example.

Immigration allows the elite to avoid the consequences of their bad politics. If living conditions were good enough people would have children.

I don’t mind better politics or living conditions, but look at the nordics. Best places in the world to have a kid and we still can’t manage to have 2 kids per couple.

Now people are moved instead of moving production processes to where the people are.

That’s been happening for the last 200 years, which is why most manufacturing is in China and other parts of Asia now. But if we want to keep people in work here we need workers, and there’s not enough of us.

The anti immigrant stance confuses me. I get that this is being used by bad actors to drive a wedge between people, but how is it that people can’t see that migrants are needed to keep the standard of living?

The amount of working people compared to the elderly or sick is diminishing, so you either have immigrants, raise taxes, reduce welfare or raise retirement age.

To me, immigration seems like the obvious choice.

The nukes were in Ukraine, but the launch codes and control of them were in Moscow. Also Ukraine were in no position financially to keep them. Getting rid of them were the best option for Ukraine at the time.

The fact that the Americans voted for a demented felon who appointed Kegsbreath the alcoholic is the real problem.

She did give away a lot of money to charity. About 16% of her wealth when she became a billionaire iirc. Gave to help children in poverty and to fight the disease MS.

I don’t know much about her stance on trans people other than she seems to believe that there is a difference between trans and biological women. Feel free to drop a good link where I can educate myself.

Anyway, reading comments here make it sound like she’s a modern day Hitler that’s never done anything good in her life, and that sounds both unfair and untrue.

So that’s reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon and incompetence instead.

The shooter should still be prosecuted.