kokolowlander

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[–] kokolowlander@lemm.ee 0 points 12 hours ago

Because they win elections in purple districts. Try running AOC in North Carolina.

[–] kokolowlander@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

EU should look out for ourselves. No need to choose anyone. Work on mutually beneficial relationship, that benefits Europe.

[–] kokolowlander@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Yup. US dollar is not the reserve currency because it's attractive. It is the reserve currency because there simply is no alternative. There simply is no asset that can hold hundreds of trillions of dollar.

[–] kokolowlander@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Let me tell you another irony.

Scott Bessent, Trump's Treasury Secretary, worked for George Soros, and was one of the key architect for the attack on British Sterling. Go read the wikipedia on Bessent if you don't believe me.

[–] kokolowlander@lemm.ee 25 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Not sure how relevant this is to buy European.

But with that said, every gov't should. 3% is not going to deter tourism, and gov't need that money for public service like law enforcement.

[–] kokolowlander@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Trump and his supporters do not care even if it hurts them. It is all about hurting people they do not like.

[–] kokolowlander@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Germany got fascism out of the economic collapse.

[–] kokolowlander@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Tariff is a consumption tax. The poorest spends most of their income on consumption like groceries, clothing, car parts, etc. The price of all of that is going up.

Next stockmarket wipeout reduces wealth of middle class the most, who in turn reduces spending on services that employee working class people.

Poorest always gets hit the hardest in any negative economic event because they are poor.

[–] kokolowlander@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

The term conservative media is using is "globalists".

Easier to whip their voter into panic.

[–] kokolowlander@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Aren't drop shippers finished with the recent tariffs, especially closing the loophole of de minimis?

[–] kokolowlander@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's the Chinese platform Temu and Aliexpress that abuses de minimis exemption shipping garbage quality items at low price.

[–] kokolowlander@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What realistially can EU and Germany do?

EU is already withholding funding, although they have to pay Hungary every time they have to pass something in EU.

Do they even have the vote to suspend voting rights when they have Slovak PM going crazy as well?

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