despite_velasquez

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That’s basically every westerner passing judgement about China, so I’ll take it that his artistic message punched through

Broke nation sells out national security… more at 11

The demands from this admin are meant to specifically crush the spirit of the EU.

deregulate your car legislation and tear up your pedestrian friendly capitals

deregulate your food safety laws, and allow cheap US slop to destroy the traditional EU food scene (no more gruyère, you're gonna have Cheez Whiz)

deregulate your green sector, time to pump those pollution numbers up

[–] despite_velasquez@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What Trump is doing makes a lot of sense. It's just standard iconoclasm.

Authoritarian regimes routinely destroy historical monuments to erase a past they oppose, promote their own ideology, and control national identity.

[–] despite_velasquez@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We can be as ideologically similar, policy-wise, we’re an obedient dog with a masochism kink.

“Yes daddy Trump, we’ll take all your child killer gas guzzlers and destroy our urban planning for more car friendly cities. What’s that? Yes sure we’ll also take a 15% tariff, and we’ll do it with a smile”

Meta returning to their roots it seems

It has a lot to do with the article, because of our superiority complex and literally EU politicians saying “we don’t need China, China needs us more than we need them”.

Dealing with China would’ve been a good counterbalance against being screwed over by the US tariff wise.

However, now we have to open up our markets to American cars and ractopamine pork from the US (yes, the deal also includes deregulating EU food safety standards).

Our gloating is literally destroying our standards of life

[–] despite_velasquez@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

The name is literally a generated Docker container name, anyways, I’m European.

What propaganda? That China is by all means, the world’s largest manufacturer, and pushing the envelope in terms of Military Industrial innovations, STEM graduates per capita, etc?

I go to China for work regularly, besides people looking to model France’s ability to get people to fall in love with its brands, no one there cares about the EU, because they see it as worthless and stuck.

Jewish exceptionalism is requiring that your hooligans be granted exceptions not normally granted to other hooligans who exhibit antisocial and rioting behaviour, lest you get labelled antisemitic.

Btw, Israeli police recently banned Maccabi fans from attending games in Tel Aviv specifically for disturbing public safety and rioting.

I hate Western European exceptionalism and smugness.

The EU has been a struggling empty shell of an economic project, with no vision, no progress.

EU politicians should 閉嘴 (shut up), be humble, and learn from China.

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