The war in Europe is in my mind and is reflected in the posts I boost and reply to. You're welcome to follow or unfollow as you wish! I'm a real human in the EU.
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Last Notes npub1qgryfs6cspxarmdvd406u8mpjt3c60t5r8uz243z28mdftt2ucfsvklw9u txtx 🇪🇺 Uh-oh, I think I hear another neighborly quarrel brewing 😅 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Franciszek_Kulczycki npub1qgryfs6cspxarmdvd406u8mpjt3c60t5r8uz243z28mdftt2ucfsvklw9u txtx 🇪🇺 it's sort of hilarious reading expert opinions on what the current US administration "strategy" towards Europe should be. They can only comprehend the idea that they are so desperately needed here. They're coming up ways so that they can cleverly play games to somehow trick Europe into doing things they think are best for them. They will never listen to what a European has to say — they know better every single time. It's tiring and old. Just go already or stop whining. npub1qgryfs6cspxarmdvd406u8mpjt3c60t5r8uz243z28mdftt2ucfsvklw9u txtx 🇪🇺 Those "hollow threats" turned out not so hollow after all. npub1qgryfs6cspxarmdvd406u8mpjt3c60t5r8uz243z28mdftt2ucfsvklw9u txtx 🇪🇺 The eastern Pacific is such a large area. Is this near China, Thailand, Philippines, Korea? Could be anywhere. That's just one of the disturbing aspects. These could be fishermen or tourists, their families may never know what happened to them. npub1qgryfs6cspxarmdvd406u8mpjt3c60t5r8uz243z28mdftt2ucfsvklw9u txtx 🇪🇺 Those no kings demonstrations are not going to be enough. This president is a maniac. npub1qgryfs6cspxarmdvd406u8mpjt3c60t5r8uz243z28mdftt2ucfsvklw9u txtx 🇪🇺 Would this new policy apply to F-Droid on /e/ OS and LineageOS? Both of those are 'de-googled' so I'm curious how far that goes. @npub1s3u…fcs2 npub1qgryfs6cspxarmdvd406u8mpjt3c60t5r8uz243z28mdftt2ucfsvklw9u txtx 🇪🇺 I'm a bit skeptical about modelling the pain of tariffs without knowing what the counter tariffs will be? The EU has their own analysts whose job is to design tariffs with minimal harm to the EU while maximizing pressure on US companies. Or does the US exclusively export products to the EU/UK that we have no conceivable alternatives to? npub1qgryfs6cspxarmdvd406u8mpjt3c60t5r8uz243z28mdftt2ucfsvklw9u txtx 🇪🇺 Farmer lock-in is one thing. But I'm talking about EU farming equipment manufacturers like CLAAS, Fendt, Case New Holland etc. having unfair competition from the US due to the Trump tariffs. EU manufacturers (along with their unionized workers) getting shut down so that farm business owners — who generally support right-wing authoritarians like Trump and his European equivalents — get a better deal? I support what @npub1fdr…lvhs is saying but this I don't understand. npub1qgryfs6cspxarmdvd406u8mpjt3c60t5r8uz243z28mdftt2ucfsvklw9u txtx 🇪🇺 Ok but you're an EU farmer and now you can buy a brand new John Deere and service it as you wish? That makes John Deere products *more* appealing to European farmers – not less. It'd be a double blow to European farm equipment builders: because of Trump tariffs, EU equipment costs a lot to import into the US. Meanwhile, John Deere & co get a free pass into the EU because we don't do retaliation. Yikes. npub1qgryfs6cspxarmdvd406u8mpjt3c60t5r8uz243z28mdftt2ucfsvklw9u txtx 🇪🇺 While updated anti-circumvention laws are an interesting idea, Europe giving John Deere and other industrial firms an advantage over our local companies by ignoring tariffs would destroy perfectly good EU industries and jobs. Why should we shoot ourselves in the foot here? npub1qgryfs6cspxarmdvd406u8mpjt3c60t5r8uz243z28mdftt2ucfsvklw9u txtx 🇪🇺 Agriculture business in the US supports Trump so I'm not bothered if it hurts soybean farmers and it's not my problem [speaking as a European here]. Retaliatory tariffs aren't used to punish Americans; they're used to make the US administration think twice about placing more tariffs on exports from the EU, Canada, etc. npub1qgryfs6cspxarmdvd406u8mpjt3c60t5r8uz243z28mdftt2ucfsvklw9u txtx 🇪🇺 The much maligned "EU bureaucracy" doesn't come for free. I pay my EU taxes to keep it running so that we can have a functional single market and all the benefits that come with it. Why should a non-member country get those benefits for free?