RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116029489613320355
Not only that, but doing this may well work better than force.
Remember, these shitheads are also lost in their own shitty & pathetic ideas of masculinity - they would feel all tuff & manly if anyone went to war with them.
But cut off the money & influence? Then they hurt.
RE: https://mamot.fr/@Martin_Pigeon/115971074479362251
"After generations of Davos-style oligarch worship, there are damned few politicians who dare to unfurl a sail and aim the tiller for a world that works for working people.
But every time some politician does, that sail bellies out with the wind with an audible snap [...] Any ship rigged for a better future is propelled by a wind that is a fiercer gale than any we've seen for generations." - @pluralistic
"... før Trump afblæste truslen..." - det er simpelthen journalistisk forsømmelse, det dér.
📢MAN KAN IKKE TRO PÅ ÉT ENESTE ORD HAN SIGER, I FUCKING IDIOTER!!📢
Så hold dog for hævled op med at behandle ham, som om han blot er endnu en politiker, der bare har en lidt outreret stil; det har aldrig været undskyldeligt, hans historie & karakter er én søgning væk, men efter næsten et årti er det fucking absurd.
RE: https://expressional.social/@DRPenge/115942769366263296
Gudfader, hvor er "forretningsfolk" dog uduelige TIL DERES EGET JOB!...
Hørnuher, bankfætter *nose pinch*, det er IKKE en god forretning at handle med nogen der ikke bare ikke overholder regler & aftaler. Man vil ALTID tabe penge på det, også selv om man tror man er en bedre snyder end dem.
- og nej, man kan IKKE bare handle med "the good guys"; selv hvis de findes er det ikke muligt at være sikker; ALLE aftaler er principielt umulige at fæste lid til.
Spade.
RE: https://bonn.social/@alexandrageese/115928391413156660
If anyone but a member of the modern aristocracy, Rich White People™️, did this, they would be thrown into a dark, dank cell so fast their ass wouldn't catch up with them for a week.
It's fucking atrocious that our institutions keep propping up a system where RWP™️ are above the law & outside common decency without the slightest consequences.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewstroehlein/115921484890202280
- and yet these "top diplomats" still seriously discuss retaliatory tariffs, a.k.a. the stupidest possible response, described by people clearly smarter than those "top" folks as punching yourself in the face & hoping the neighbor says "Ow"...
The main reason the world is in a state is that we are governed by fucking aliens utterly detached from the reality of planet Earth the rest of us live in.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115921805676503254
Well, you gotta admit that accommodating someone for being rich, no matter how much of an atrocious shitstain they might be, is very on brand for Switzerland...
RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115915785727353400
This is Trump's US fixing to lose almost a third of its export market - and that's only the EU.
Considering that even fucking Russia has come out in support of Greenland's sovereignty, it's not unreasonable to assume that other countries might join in & reduce or cut off US trade in response to these aggressions.
Tired of winning yet, assholes...?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@hanse_mina/115899445497765117
Speaking as a Dane: Do we really think the MAGA regime can be reasoned with to not mount an occupation attempt against Greenland, when they are not only willing, but outright giddy to deploy occupation forces on their own soil...?
The good news, however, is that while, yes, NATO should stand firm against the US, there's a bloodless path; They™️ love violence but hate losing money.
Get all our friends to cut off trade with the US & they'll cave immediately.
RE: https://mstdn.dk/@saustrup/115892275144252358
- and crucially, Greenland's inuit population also firmly & unequivocally rejects the idea of being an American colony - this isn't just a "politicians say" situation.
‘Retrenchment Masquerading as Escalation’
https://policytensor.substack.com/p/retrenchment-masquerading-as-escalation
Personally not as convinced as the author that something will really change wrt Venezuela, but we’ll see
RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115871427381296594
"Tax is redistributive and getting money back from American companies after they steal it from [everyone] is much harder than simply arranging the system so it's much harder for American companies to steal from [everyone] in the first place..." - @pluralistic
(sidebar: I for one am glad you enabled quote-tooting, Cory 😁)
RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/115870264008499501
As far as practicalities go, Europe & the US have different jobs in this fight. On the Euro side it's decoupling from the US + monopoly & tax regulation.
Americans, on the other hand, have a literal freedom battle to fight first, starting with discovering what the hell a general strike is - this link is for you: https://generalstrikeus.com/
As usual, @markhurst is spot on & he's right; fixing this seems daunting... 💀
The good news is, while it isn't easy, it's actually extremely simple. All of these problems - and I do mean all of them - are rooted in one structural problem: Monopolies.
The Right™️ succeeded in their deceitful campaign in favor of them long ago & this is them harvesting off of that effort.
Our job is to fight for the truth about them.
https://buttondown.com/creativegood/archive/life-in-an-age-of-extraction/
Stolen from bridge because I wouldn't boost from bridge, and to translate to English. #uspol #venezuela #intpol
RE: https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland/115846940914966096
As @AnarchoNinaWrites said earlier, if you fight back against the US, you win - throughout history the US has spent unfathomable amounts of money on military interventions against laughably inferior opponents, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, & still utterly failed.
It's well past time to stop tickling the US self-image of being the world's "most powerful nation".
It's time to tell the bully to go fuck himself.
RE: https://mastodon.world/@verdantsquare/115844250065112436
When I said this in a conversation a few days ago, everybody acted like I was crazy - but *of course* an organisation made for mutual defense can't survive if one of the members attacks another.
- and yes, US has the biggest single military, but that in no way means they have anywhere near the forces required to boss the entire rest of the world around.
So, you know, we can just kick them out of NATO, which hopefully is the talk behind the veil.
@henriksundstrom NATO is utterly useless. At the beginning of the war in Ukraine I was living in Zagreb and a drone from Ukraine crashed in Zagreb, 100 metres away from a student dormitory (by sheer luck nobody was killed) after flying unobserved through NATO airspace (Romania, Hungary, Croatia) for 50 minutes.
But, is Norway the only European country with a somewhat leftist government?
@henriksundstrom How would it go with attacking a fellow NATO member? Article 5 is invoked, every NATO member is considered attacked by the US, including the US, every NATO member has to defend Norway, Denmark, whomever from the US, the US has to defend Norway/Denmark/whomever from the US?
