Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

Just some random nobody then...

So your point was completely incorrect but you still stand behind it? Ok.

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As long as we are reliant on the US economy, our leaders will to some extent bend the knee. Our leaders talk tough on Israel and do nothing about trade with the settlements.

We have to some extent criticise indigenous Irish businesses for this because they have continued to concentrate on English-speaking markets, and not fully availed of EU ones.

For example, agriculture is still very tied to the UK market, and about 29% of indigenous Irish companies exports go to the UK. This compares with 11% of overall Irish exports going to the UK. 40-50% of Irish agricultural exports go to the UK.

The UK at the moment is also bending the knee to Israel. Those critical of Israel have been hounded out of the Labour party or silenced.

Yeah , saying you prefer dogs to Muslims, Jews, Hindu, Christians etc is not racist simple as that.

Muslims are not a race so it can't possibly be racist, I can become a Muslim and I'm white as snow.

He mentioned Muslims in particular because a muslim said they should no be part of the future of New York as indoor pets.People who say stuff like that deserve to be called out on their bullshit.

So that’s where Slot is going wrong.

This is what conservatism in America is now. They're too spineless and weak to admit what they're doing despite it being blindingly obvious.

There's no intellectual foundation for American conservatism. It simply exists to strip the American people and their state of wealth and transfer it to the tiny elite. The performative racism and cruelty are just Bread & Circuses for the modern age.

The goal of people like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk is techno-feudalism. They love to pretend that they stand for grand ideas but ultimately, it's about money. Wealthy European families used to give big to the Church, the Arts and charities while Musk spends his fortune making AI p*rn.

Swings and roundabouts, and you're conflating two different aspects of the subject : EU-wide regulation (or lack of regulation in the case of the US) and local implementation at the level of EU member states or individual companies.

To follow through on your analogy, when I had my own business in the 90s, I could connect to my bank account directly from my PC, set up a new beneficiary and send an instant payment in just the time it took me to type out the sort code and account number, and that was over a 28k modem connection. The security of the transaction was entirely a matter for me and the bank.

Nowadays, I'm told by my bank that I must have a smart phone and I must download their app to validate my activity and I must have enhanced security features enabled on said phone to use said app; then I'm asked for a password to open the app, and must receive a security code by SMS so as to be able to receive a code by e-mail to finally add my beneficiary; and then I have to jump through the same hoops again to actually make the payment. That's largely because this great US-led technological innovation that you praise has allowed so many idiots who shouldn't be let anywhere near the internet to hand their money over to scammers.

There's a reason death rates in the US attributable to just about any metric are so much higher than the rest of the developed world: corporate greed and lack of regulation. Here in the EU, plenty of people moan about the obstacles to innovation and infamously blame the "faceless bureaucrats" - but we've been innovating in every field of science and technology for over 2000 years and have learnt the value of reasonable oversight.

I ain’t arguing about regulations, they have their place and I fully support em especially if they level the playing field and create standards, I pointed out that often businesses avoid the European market not because they don’t want to make profit like the poster I replied to implied but because it’s less hassle to get going elsewhere first as there are still so many cross border and even in country barriers within Europe

but you don’t have to listen to me, sure what would I know

But you might listen to Draghi and Lagarde raising exact same points here

If I understand things correctly, the woman said that dogs shouldn't be allowed inside in New York. This is not an outlandish statement. I, for one, think that anyone having anything other than a small dog in a city is being irresponsible and selfish.

The man then retorted that he would choose a dog over any Muslim, and by extension, saying that despite the clear issues which exist with animals in a city environment, he classed all Muslims as a bigger problem.

Have I got that right?