European Union leaders will consider imposing 25 percent tariffs on a range of US imports, including steel, clothes, and food, but not bourbon or other alcoholic drinks, following US President Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on imports from the EU.
For the record, I’m american. Entire current situation aside, I would prefer my chosen operating system have more support and if I can at least get that out of the destruction of the only country I’ve ever lived in I mean that’s something I guess.
But yeah you probably shouldn’t be financing the Nazis of the 2020s that is true, and taxing people who do would probably cut down on that.
As I said, no disrespect to sane Americans.
I’ve lived in the US and travelled extensively around the country (not only Manhattan and north-western part of LA), there are many sane Americans even in provincial pro-corruption hotspots.
But until the sane Americans implement true anti-corruption, judicial and election reforms (no Obama style “hope and change” bullshit), it is reasonable to expect nothing good to come out of the US. Even if a hypothetical Michelle Obama administration takes power in the next election (which is a giant if), that’s not going to change anything until the Americans stop treating their oligarchs and criminal groups as sacred cows.
You’re preaching to the choir man I’ve been beating this drum with increasing volume for years. We need 20 million+ of us on the national mall demanding a new constitution and government under threat of 1789 and I don’t honestly know if that’s possible.
Michelle Obama or any Dem won’t be taking power in 2028, if the above doesn’t happen 2028 isn’t a real election and if it does the United States Government as it currently exists doesn’t anymore so who even knows what the structure of our government will be.
Idk don’t count on us getting our shit together, trump could literally genocide Hispanics on American soil and 1/3 of Americans would strongly approve specifically genociding Hispanics. Even if we recover from this, things will get worse for Americans as our empire crumbles, and in 40 years when I’m the boomer and my friends are all the boomers, we’ll collectively beg for the good old days we grew up in when the American Empire was still strong, and we’ll collectively vote for the new nationalists of the day to make America great again again.
I should mention that while I’m a fan of democracy and would never want to live under another system of government I do not and have never believed democracy to be long term sustainable. Maybe I would if I lived in a real one idk but y’all still got far right problems over there in most of the former empires so idk.
I honestly don’t know what to say other than I wish you luck (no irony intended); it will benefit both you and me and you and our countries (and the world).