• despite_velasquez@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    When you accept and reframe the situation from the POV that the EU is an American vassal, everything will click into place.

    God forbid we align closer with China and create a Eurasian pole of power /s

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        1 day ago

        The EU should be humble for once and learn how to do manufacturing from the Chinese.

        Ignoring China as a world player is naive

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          24 hours ago

          Are we living in the same continent? I mean if you’re Chinese I get where you are coming from. But your name suggest a Spanish connection. Are more people apart from your curent PM Sanchez, really falling for all that CPC propaganda?

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            23 hours ago

            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.

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                22 hours ago

                I live in Europe, I also prefer Euro grass. I just want us to stop thinking we’re the shit, when we’re actually shit and no one cares about the EU because nothing worthwhile comes from this continent atm

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                  22 hours ago

                  Ok… uhm. But the article was about the dangers of EU- US tradedeal, and the dangers for cyclists with importing US vehicles without any protection for cyclists and pedestrians ?

                  I don’t know who thinks Europe is the shit, like you said . But I also don’t think that we are actually shit.

                  I do believe Europe is being extremely pressured by the East & West and we’re just barely protecting our way of life atm… Also Europe as a whole is still a very new project, srill ways to go and learn too.

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                    22 hours ago

                    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

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      20 hours ago

      Would you ever jog on. I’d bet cold, hard cash that you haven’t been to both places.

      I have and I can tell you that even under the current administration, we are ideologically far closer to one than the other when you talk with actual humans.

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        20 hours ago

        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”