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by wqaatwt 2y ago
The “Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation” (its official name) would like a word.
782.
by wqaatwt 2y ago
Like trying to “reduce the deficit” by firing 20% of all people employed by the IRS (which is already underfunded)? That alone will probably offset any benefits of their other cuts.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> QEMU Isn’t it still crippled and unusable for any non ancient platform unless you have a jailbreak? Seems like you still need to side load AltStore Classic to get the full version.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Well obviously but the idea is that if tariffs achieve their intended purpose (i.e. increase local production and competitiveness) those costs incurred by the consumers are at least partially compensated through higher wages.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> These were not "colonial possessions". For example, Britain had colonies. Would you define Ireland as a colony? It preceded all other British colonies and they used very similar methods to those that the USSR did in its “colo
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
If you’re purely a consumer and your income does not depend on the overall state of the local/national/European economy then yes, that would be the most beneficial approach
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
So “tariffs” wouldn’t make much sense then and would be paid entirely by European businesses and consumers?
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
How do you calculate the proportion of value coming from: - data centers operated in the EU - R&D done in the Europe (almost all major tech companies employ lots of developers etc. across Europe) What if European companies have offices
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> Apple products Which would effectively have to be implemented as a tariff on products manufactured in China and Taiwan and imported and sold by an Irish company. It’s impossible to do that without some massive legal changes which are p
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
What do you mean by that? That’s not how VAT works.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Can you tariff software? How exactly would that work? Does a legal framework and system which would allow that even exist? How do you determine where exactly is software “manufactured”?
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Do tariffs targeting US goods apply to products manufactured in China or Taiwan (by American companies)? Why would they?
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Well you’d (average EU citizen) could be losing your job because European companies would lose a significant proportion of sales to the US while still having to compete with American companies locally.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> Even China and Russia have issues trading in their own currencies with each other Because EU and US sanction Chinese banks and company that do that. What does that have to do with the exact currency? they’d have the same issue if they
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
I’m not sure in what way do you think US “financed Hitler and Mussolini” (or whatever’s going on in your head for that matter..) But it’s a weird thing to say when the USSR/Stalin literally bankrolled the Nazi invasions of Norway and F
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
How exactly was NATO or Ukraine an existential threat? In what way? You can’t just say “existential threat” and justify everything thing you do while repeating that you’re protecting yourself from [imaginary] “existential threats”
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Weird argument to make. > completely ignore who funded this work, when, and why. Well yes, because it’s tangential. Also who funded it? Are you implying that the USSR’s colonial possessions didn’t contribute anything economically?
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
For starters I would say that Afghanistan certainly lost. Taliban might have won but certainly not Afghanistan. > Americans would like to advertise their loss I couldn’t care less about that. Fact is that the defeat was primarily and alm
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Could you actually explain what fascist regimes did US establish in Europe? Greek Junta perhaps, but it was anything but stable and it collapsed because of a war in Cyprus with another NATO member.. Or are you claiming that Americans put Pu
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
I’m not sure what you’re implying? > tell me again I never told you any such thing. Nor did I defend or express support for Hezbollah or other islamist terrorist organization. That does not mean that during the civil war the Christian si
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Well of course. They saved Europe from tyranny. It would be the definition of historical revisionism to claim they could do anything wrong after that. Also I wouldn’t say that Waterloo was more important than Leipzig or Napoleon’s trip to M
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
I’d guess Stalin’s idea was to fund (literally, Germany wouldn’t have had enough oil without the Soviets) the nazi invasion of France and then swoop and “liberate” Europe after a couple of years of brutal WW1 style fighting.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Depending on where live now you can try asking for asylum in North Korea? They’d probably love a western defector in a time like this. Also you want what back? To be younger? Because all of those things are available in much of western wor
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Do you lack the general sense of time and can’t tell if we’re living in the 1940s or 2020s? Surely Russia can’t be imperialist wither because they defeated Napoleon back in 1813? (your “argument” makes about as much sense).
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck then what do you think it might be? So because Russians did something right* 80 years ago they have a permanent moral high ground in perpetuity? How does that make any sense
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
It still seems very moderate compared to the fascist imperialist spirit amongst the elite (and majority of the overall population) of that other country..
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> Christian majority They had less children, there was a a massive influx of Palestinians and it was much easier for Christian Lebanese to migrate to other countries? The civil war was pretty brutal and both sides committed some horrible
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> Do you think you got what voted for? They want whatever Trump tells them to want. Just look at how Zelensky was polling amongst Republicans before and after the “incident”. Specific policies are irrelevant, they’ll just pretend that t
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Trident is made by Lockheed Martin, though. Or does the UK have the capacity to perform maintenance and manufacture make spare parts on their own? I guess there would be enough time to switch to French rockets even in the worst case.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
US doesn’t have to make “anytime” why export products when you can just export cash? US economy, trade and budget deficit are subsidized by the rest of the world which buys their bonds.

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