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And I love impotent people.

Governments can and do target individuals, see sanctions on russian oligarchs. How is your memory so bad?

Plus, new tax rules are drafted every single year, to encourage or slap down specific stuff, why you acting like it's impossible when it's not even rare?

I swear I thought this answer was about as accurate as the one that said "dragons".

How steampunk for probably the largest city in the world to use steam in this day and age? I love it...

As China boosts its internal consumption and increases standards of living, along with a growing highly educated population, I can see their values very much aligning with the EU. That sounds like a very decent world order...

They are subsidiaries of US companies. You draft a list of wholly or majority US owned tech subsidiaries, and you tax them out of the wazoo, done.

I'm sure tax and trade experts can come up with better approaches.

The supply of leading world economies who are friendly and democratic is now * does some quick math * zero.

Oh I've had this happen, and the staff were attentive and asked me if I needed them to validate my parking.

It really depends where this is coming from, if its a global policy for all stores even if they don't need it, it's a dick move. If they apply it to only the stores where parking is a big issue, I can understand.

25% on tech services is where you'll see America panic.

Isn't this why Americans are sent to prison? So they can provide free labour?

As disgusting as it is, that seems to be exactly what most of the world seems to be doing, trying to get into trump's good grace and not get fucked by the tariffs.

Well except for China, who seems to have slapped back just as hard.

you people

You reminded me of something I've once read. I hope you'll come to terms with your anger some day.

It was much better to imagine men in some smokey room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told the children bed time stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was Us, then what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

Do you realize how you're quite literally advocating for genocide, and you see absolutely nothing wrong with that?

How are you any different from Europeans? Because you've been victim of oppression doesn't make you any less likely to oppress others when given the chance, as you're clearly demonstrating.

This is standard practice in most supermarkets and even shopping centres that are located in higher density city centers in Europe, because otherwise nobody would be able to find a spot to park...