Don’t care, a European Trump supporter is still a Trump supporter

I think something like Twitter hinges on people/organisations being there that are popular for whatever reason. Many people engage with those people’s posts and react to each other. Since there aren’t many such people on Mastodon, there isn’t as much activity.

The problem is not people like him. The problem are newspapers publishing it as though it was important and people giving a shit about it as though he wasn’t a moron.

Might not be new, but I didn’t know about it so I appreciate the post 😀

You’re giving him too much credit. He simply doesn’t know that people usually wear black at funerals.

What is that website? Smells like Russian propaganda to me. Lemmy seems to get overrun with ot lately, unfortunately.

The EU isn’t democratic. As opposed to national parliamentary democracies, the European parliament has barely any power compared to the commission which has no democratic legitimacy.

It’s as democratic as democratic gets on that scale.

That is also completely false. There are numerous proposals that would make the EU more democratic, but that’s obviously against the interest of the incumbent neoliberal elite.

Sorry for the snarky comment, I just personally don’t see the need for meat shaped plant based products that cost 10 times what their ingredients would cost. To each their own though, still better than giving your money to the industrial meat industry.

I like this other meat alternative called vegetables, don’t know what the brand is though

Not long until Kristallnacht now

Lobbyists aren’t inherently bad. The problem is lack of transparency and controls. Without effective controls of course a corporation with millions to spend will always have the upper hand over some NGO that lobbies for the common good.

What I find funny is that one of the favourite memes of the maggots is that painting of the fall of the Roman empire, you know that weak men create weak times bullshit. Meanwhile they’re clearly the ones making that meme come true.

That’s wrong, first of all it’s the central bank that controls money supply, which is independent from the government. In addition, even if the government could magically create all the money it needs to pay its debt, without borrowing more, it would completely devalue the dollar.

Interesting, didn’t know that about Bretton-Woods (or probably forgot), thanks for the info!

Unpopular take, wouldn’t it be better to just not retaliate? We keep saying tariffs are dumb, they just hurt your own economy, consumers will pay the price. This is economically correct. So why impose tariffs ourselves and not let the orange ape destroy himself?

They say they have their own index, but they also say they send every search request to bing…

How would that work exactly? Trade surplus is just an accounting balance. It’s the difference between what US importers paid for German goods and what German importers paid for US goods. The money went to the companies involved, how would it be used to buy gold for the German state?

To me it seems more like it’s there because it’s supposed to be surprising. As if you’d expect such behaviour from others, but not from a CEO. Which is complete bullshit.

Interviewing criminals now are they

What does the fact that the accused is a CEO add to the story?