omg the thought alone makes me moist
this post was submitted on 30 May 2025
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Oddly enough, this guy Wolfram Weimer is a die-hard right-winger. So I was quite flabbergasted when I first read the headline, and still am doubting whether he really intends to follow through with this or rather is only floating this idea in order to introduce another bargaining chip in the trade negotiations with Trump.
Ah u know, I think we are about to see two types of right-wingers, the we have to hold out against trump to be strong ourselves and the suck up to trump types. Both created by trump in their current form. I honestly dont rlly care who said it in this case cuz the idea being out there is gonna make some waves regardless of who started saying it.
I would expect surface level nationalism from a right winger and Google is very much a foreign interest in Germany.
Why only 10%?
Yes, I was thinking... How much tax on Google will force it to get out? I'd say it's definitely a lot more money.
Also, what's interesting is that... If Google got kicked out... Nothing would happen. There's libre software for everything Google does.
Maybe to not scare of the big G for now?
Just increase the percentage every 2 years to boil the frog slowly :)
We should start turning up the heat in the other pots too, so there are fewer alternative "pots" to jump in to.
I would assume they will just raise the price for everyone in D(ACH) to faciliate the 10% increase.
They won't yield and eat the 10%.
Maybe if the whole EU did that. Maybe
Most of their revenue is from ads and selling user data, what prices are they gonna raise?
Youtube, Google one (or whatever that's called now, etc etc.
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