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[–] [email protected] 111 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Fuck off you orange faced pile of shit.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This comment says it all. No further discussion needed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Actually I would really like to know what the color orange and literal piles of shit ever did to that person that they insult them by associating them with Trump.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

I want this on a t-shirt

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

Dear US,

Fuck you.

Signed, Europe.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What does the US produce that the EU needs? Shitty superhero movies and Google Ads don't count...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Unfortunaly we are so reliant on their tech products, cut the cloud and we are in some trouble.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What can AWS do that European clouds can't ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Software, we have the infrastructure but no EU equivalent of an Azure portal or GCP. I hope we will put the budget there at one point

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

What about nextcloud? What are the use cases for which there is no open source alternative?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Like what? micro$oft and apple?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

AWS is a big one too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They can go fůck themselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Land of the "free" obviously

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 days ago

They suggest that the overall US strategy is to decouple from China, and that any country who wishes to have a trade deal with the US will also have to distance itself from Beijing.

Not a fan of China. The CCP and their army of brown nosers can go fuck themselves. But the same goes for that orange fuck and his cult.

And if you excuse me, I have to decorate my European eggs for Easter.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

Nah thanks, we don't like China and Xi, but anything is better then the US these days so fuck off.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 days ago

Does the US really believe its a more valuable trading partner than China at this point? All the important resources for maintaining basic infrastructure come from there. Sure the US has fancy tech stuff and software but the lights will stay on without those. Without China tho, the lights certainly do not stay on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

They would be foolish to accept such a deal. Trump changes his mind on a whim.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

-put on tariff

-everyone trying to negotiate with others for a better deal

-trying to cut tariff so everyone doesn't look for a better deal elsewhere

-art of the deal

And i thought he got everyone begging him not to do it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Core part of any relationship is trust. I think with tycoons reaching demigod status they forgot about that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

We should demand that the US give the EU first dibs on all their minerals.

[–] avidamoeba 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

The briefings suggest that the US is willing to consider a trade deal with the EU on these terms – but it would also want the EU to limit or discontinue non-tariff barriers to trade, potentially including stringent EU product standards, including some food standards.

At present neither US beef nor chicken can gain entry to the EU market because of strict EU rules – something which has repeatedly been complained of by the Trump administration.

Let's see, on one hand there's chlorine chicken .. on the other cheap solar, wind and maybe EVs (perhaps made in the EU) .. 🤔

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Additionally from an Australian perspective-

US: 6% of our exports

China: 38% of our exports

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

US can go and fuck themselves.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

As a US citizen I agree.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

Any “deal” with an American ain’t worth shit. They’re just gonna stab you in the back.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Nope, we will never trust USA again. Also, you have nothing of value to trade, only tech that we should replace anyway because you use it to spy us.

Fuck you, and by that I mean fuck trump but also all the citizens regardless of their political side.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Victim blaming at its finest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Me ? You must be kidding.

Like it or not, these people represent you, and you've been tyrannizing the world for far too long.

If you think staying here acting offended is enough, you're beyond redemption...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Most of us don't want this shit either. Definitely fuck trump but many US citizens are the victims of a deeply fucked system and doing everything we can to fix things

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm a bit sorry for the Sanders/AOC supporters, but still. You elected this turd TWICE. The whole world has to deal with your shit and gobble US news everyday again, and this is just unbearable.

I swear any EU country would be on fire for way less, with riots and strikes everywhere.

I'm really not sure you guys are understanding how shattered the image of USA is. Even worse than during the Iraq war.

Most people here except our local fascists wants to cut all ties with your country...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I understand that fairly well, and totally get it. The us should never have had the power and influence it had before all this, and it's long overdue for other countries to be more mistrustful based on how deeply broken and unstable the country has been even before trump.

I think it's important to understand that setting the country on fire as you point out is not quite as simple here though. For starters the country is enormous and most people are destitute with limited means of transportation, even getting to their states capital building for example is outside the realm of possibility. Then consider our laws are so backwards in many states anyone who, for example, is peacefully protesting but obstructing a roadway can legally be run over and murdered. And that every trump supporter (1/3 of the county, appx) has a dozen assault rifles at home that they would love to use on anyone who dares complain about their lord and Savior.

None of this is to say that protests aren't possible or the country shouldn't be on fire. Several million of us marched a couple weeks back for example. More violent protests are coming but would be suicide without strong organization, and even with it is very likely to have an enormous death toll. One that many of us will still be willing to pay, once it can be as impactful as possible.

In a much broader sense, though, I would like to say I don't believe it is justified to blame EVERY citizen for the actions of their leadership, especially in "democracies" as deeply broken as the US. I don't hate every Russian because I don't believe the all hate Ukraine and love Putin. I don't hate every Israeli since many of them still don't support genocide and are unable to stop their leaders from being warmongers. I don't hate every German who lived through Hitler since many didn't want that either. Hate the people in charge, hate the people who support them and helped them get in charge, but support the victims of those people. Collective punishment and the notion that EVERYONE in a country should pay for the actions of its leadership is still a war crime and ignores the people who do everything they can to stop it, even when it doesn't work (yet)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Fair points.

But it feels like the BLM riots for example where way more serious than the current protests.

Maybe medias are not covering them, but still : you have social medias, be your own medias.

You are in the country of guns, it's time to all arm yourselves and defending it seriously.

MAGAS want to run over protesters ? Fucking shoot them.

It's now or never, at the pace things are going all of you with a brain will be either deported or put in death camps. And you probably won't get external help, because even your left fucked other countries.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Europe tells trump to stick putin's dick in his ear and fuck off.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

Oh is Diaper Don having another one his deranged temper tantrums? How dare the world not kowtow to his genius! Don't they understand how SMRT he is!

🤮

[–] melsaskca 3 points 4 days ago

"Dance for me and I will pay you well!"

[–] Nemean_lion 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ha ha ha. Eat fuck, shit face.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Oh boy this one will confuse him to no end. 😋
It will make his 2 brain cells collide for hours.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

This is blackmail.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

We do not deal with terrorists.
And we don't deal with toddlers either.