That’s the thing with ignorance. Everyone around is well aware, except for the ignoramus itself. And left unchecked it can quickly go from a nuisance to a real danger.

I mean, yeah. Any good dictatorship encourages people to tell on their ‘fellow’ neighbors. For either side.

If a MAGA tells on an anti-MAGA neighbor, they’ll go for the latter.

If an anti-MAGA reports a MAGA, the regime also appreciates the self-snitching by the former.

“And then they came for me, but there was no one left to speak up for me”.

Yup. Buying our own and fostering our economy and development is the best way to get ahead of the curve.

We often prioritized american stuff, especially on the defense and digital products front, and thanks to our support and mass adoption they managed to refine the quality and competitiveness of those products.

It’s time to prioritize and further develop our own stuff, suited to our needs.

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Yes, that’s excellent. We need our own Google suite. Fingers crossed so that it may come eventually.

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Do try. The more you try to split us apart the more we unite against common foes.

We Europeans might bicker a lot and not see eye to eye on some things, but our lands still bear the scars of mankind’s worst moments. We know better and see right past the vain attempts at manipulation.

And yeah, we have some dumbass extreme-right parties in many countries (including mine) being heavily funded and/or encouraged by Russia and the US, just like we saw with Germany’s AfD. But we’re already taking measures against that sort of influence, thankfully.

Yeah… Agreed. One bad and aggressive statement often takes a whole lot of diplomacy to reconcile. And we should know, just look at Trump crashing the US soft power built over decades in a matter of weeks.

I firmly believe some MAGA somewhere is out there right now expecting a loan approval to buy the most expensive Tesla out there, not knowing an unemployment letter is already being typed out.

One can hope for such poetic justice.

Understandable. They do support Canada, but politics are usually a subtle game, and since the orangutan has less tact than caveman they do better avoiding to upset him with open and confrontational support.

Not like he’s prone to notice such subtleties without someone pointing them out to him on a full powerpoint presentation anyway.

That’s what happens when you give a toddler access to the nukes. Being tactful is a must, until unavoidable.

What happened to the whole “let them fight each other, we don’t need to be there” speech?

Probably the same that happened to all other “on day one” speeches, I assume.

And some will defend them as hardworking people who worked day in and day out for their wealth.

I’m sorry, no intention to depreciate your effort or success, but if you are building a super-yatch and your employees still have to pee in bottles you are greedy scum who doesn’t deserve success. There’s more than enough success to distribute part of it into happy employees who like to work for you, while still leaving you nasty rich.

No one needs untold amounts of wealth, and frankly there should be a cap at “fuck you money” level. Once you can spend “fuck you money” you know damn well you don’t need any more, you just need to maintain yourself there.

Yes, yes, every piece slowly falls into place. *Cue maniacal villain laughter

It’s like they actually studied history, to try and replicate the desired results as identically as possible. Or they didn’t, at all, and this is just 2+2=4 scenario but with history.

Oh? I was under the impression you didn’t need us lesser and grifter nations? That we took you for a ride?

Hm… I propose a fair trade - you might even call it “the best deal ever”. Our eggs, for your cards.

Wait, I forgot. Your cards lost their value recently, as they couldn’t do shit for Ukraine against our common enemy.

Did not see this one coming, for sure. /s

Bet the ultrarich tax breaks are marked with a bright red “Priority No. 1” though, right? 🥸

Yeah. Agreed.

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Shouldn’t even be up for consideration at this point. Buy jets from trustworthy people (like EU), and if you want total defense independence start building the framework to build Canadian jets for when these ones approach EoL.

The Asshole-in-chief and his little bumhole.

I’m sure not-nazi Elon has everyone’s best interests at heart for going there, right? Right?..

Maybe he’s just looking for marketing data to improve his tanked tesla sales. Yeah, must be it.