At first I thought it might be a standing point for Orbán to point out that they want this (but the bad EU, yadda yadda), but after actually reading that garbage of a propaganda piece, I can only imagine that part is boiler-plate, and noone along the chain caught it or could be bothered with correcting it.
Trump is serving up the distmantling of most US soft powers. Like how is this not a game of chicken for us to bunch up on Ireland and tell them no more fucking around with appl and alphabet. I’d love nothing more than a third level bureaucrat tucked away in Strassbourg to calculate exactly how much societal and global harm these companies cause. We could shift that into dollars (somehow?), and make sure they pay that tax, or we start filtering their sites. I rarely believe restriction is the way to go, but nothing would really be lost here.
I just don’t really understand the bigger picture. Like why are Trump’s handlers letting him get away with this? Which group would benefit the most, if the US’s general purchasing power went down? I’m thinking more Waltons than Putins, but it just doesn’t make sense.
While I do see there is a healthy limit to conspiracy theories (looking at the chief of Health), I cannot imagine people wielding actual power wouldn’t stop this lunacy if it weren’t in their interest for some reason.
Trump is a media genious (let’s give to Caesar what’s Caesars) he’s 80IQ in maths, economics and F- in history. Surrounded with yes men, this is what you get.
History is littered with rulers in similar situations, and surprise, it goes exactly the same way. So here the EU will use soft power or whatnot and just blast that Donald out of the waters. Might take a while worst case, but that’s my prediction!
Naw, I’m not giving Trump a cent more than he deserves. He is as good of a troll as anyone before 4chan could get, but he has nothing else going for him.
I am more concerned about the background service. Like who were the ones that composed the newest sandwich bill? I feel if we get caught up in just the emotional part (he is trolling the whole world, after all), we won’t see the actual harm being caused behind the scenes.
It feels that even this proposal is only there to distract from the actual harm being caused.
At first I thought it might be a standing point for Orbán to point out that they want this (but the bad EU, yadda yadda), but after actually reading that garbage of a propaganda piece, I can only imagine that part is boiler-plate, and noone along the chain caught it or could be bothered with correcting it.
Trump is serving up the distmantling of most US soft powers. Like how is this not a game of chicken for us to bunch up on Ireland and tell them no more fucking around with appl and alphabet. I’d love nothing more than a third level bureaucrat tucked away in Strassbourg to calculate exactly how much societal and global harm these companies cause. We could shift that into dollars (somehow?), and make sure they pay that tax, or we start filtering their sites. I rarely believe restriction is the way to go, but nothing would really be lost here.
Yeah the whole trade deficit is bullshit, with GAFA it’s the other way around.
But USA, why are we not buying your shitty cars or crappy food? One can wonder…
I just don’t really understand the bigger picture. Like why are Trump’s handlers letting him get away with this? Which group would benefit the most, if the US’s general purchasing power went down? I’m thinking more Waltons than Putins, but it just doesn’t make sense.
While I do see there is a healthy limit to conspiracy theories (looking at the chief of Health), I cannot imagine people wielding actual power wouldn’t stop this lunacy if it weren’t in their interest for some reason.
Trump is a media genious (let’s give to Caesar what’s Caesars) he’s 80IQ in maths, economics and F- in history. Surrounded with yes men, this is what you get.
History is littered with rulers in similar situations, and surprise, it goes exactly the same way. So here the EU will use soft power or whatnot and just blast that Donald out of the waters. Might take a while worst case, but that’s my prediction!
Naw, I’m not giving Trump a cent more than he deserves. He is as good of a troll as anyone before 4chan could get, but he has nothing else going for him.
I am more concerned about the background service. Like who were the ones that composed the newest sandwich bill? I feel if we get caught up in just the emotional part (he is trolling the whole world, after all), we won’t see the actual harm being caused behind the scenes.
It feels that even this proposal is only there to distract from the actual harm being caused.