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[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 10 points 1 month ago

Yeah of course industries will collapse. 100 car factories will close, 5 superyacht factories will open, tying up the same amount of productivity. Owned by the same guy.

There will be tons of spacecraft launchpads, private jet hangars, etc.

And wars of course.

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago

The rich will keep trading with each other. Look at housing for an example.

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 26 points 1 month ago

The rich. Companies will stop targeting products to wider and wider swathes of people, just like nobody caters to the homeless now.

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 7 points 1 month ago

Trump got shot at a rally, very minor injuries, would be assassin dead

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago

I saw it after the whole Trump news came out, thought shit was going to go down

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 18 points 1 month ago

The extreme right gained some seats, but they are very far from winning an election. They actually underperformed expectations and are actively losing ground eg. in France or the NL. Even Orbán's regime seems to have found a challenger.

The fight is not over yet, but this election has been very far from a far right win.

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You need a runway and a customs office to qualify. You'd be surprised how small intl airports can get.

Edit: the runway is actually optional, and the customs office can be a dude you can call when needed

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 25 points 1 month ago

As long as Twitter does business in the EU, it has to follow the law.

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 74 points 1 month ago

DSA enforcement is spicy, since the EU can create its own team to fight disinfo on Twitter, and charge it to Musk, in addition to the massive fine.

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

There was no buffer zone. Poland, Slovakia, the Baltics were under Russian military occupation for most of the last century.

Russian soldiers were on the NATO border even back then. Soviet troops suppressed multiple revolutions aimed at creating an actual buffer zone, in 1956, in 1968 and so on. The bullet holes are still there. Some who fought are still alive.

When the Wall fell, all these "buffer zone" countries wanted to join NATO because they knew the Russians will come back.

Ukraine was indeed a buffer zone. Ukraine wanted to be one. Everyone signed that in Budapest. And yet when Ukraine wanted to do something and go its own way separate from Russia, but not into NATO either, Russia invaded in 2014.

Russia broke that buffer zone. And sincerely, Eastern Europe has agency and can decide who its allies are. Russia has always been an enemy, and if you look at Finland, even dealing with the devil itself had better outcomes than giving an inch to Russia.

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 10 points 1 month ago

Mostly a shrug. Live and let live.

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 8 points 1 month ago

Other billionaires making money might have started to be afraid to do so.

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Unironically, tariffs would help here IMO to bring Ukrainian exports to the price levels set by EU wages.

I'd even tie it directly to wages and lift it if the Ukrainian exporter can prove they pay as much as a Polish company.

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