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[โ€“] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 86 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Cowards, who cares about Trumpโ€™s feelings.

[โ€“] gon@lemm.ee 31 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Nobody cares about Trump's feelings; but the EU should care about the very real consequences of a trade war on its citizens, as well as the citizens of the US. This stuff has consequences beyond one guy's feelings.

Agreed that they're cowards, though.

[โ€“] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

Trump is gonna do what he wants either way.

[โ€“] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What about the consequences of letting American companies destroy Europe?

[โ€“] lennee@lemm.ee 72 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well thatโ€™s just embarrassing. I will remember this.

[โ€“] Mihies@programming.dev 19 points 8 months ago

Add another stupid EU decision "bowing before Orange" to the huge pile.

[โ€“] molten@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As an American: fuck the US. Tax and fine the shit out of us. I'll go hungry for a bit if it means real consequences for these pieces of shit.

[โ€“] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'll go hungry for a bit if it means real consequences for these pieces of shit.

I don't get this logic... EU is not taxing you lol

[โ€“] molten@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Sorry. I read it like taxes on incoming American goods. From the US to EU. That would affect the economy of US based business and make things holistically worse by some amount for the business and would affect workers. Cuts, layoffs, etc...

Correct me where I'm wrong though. I make assumptions a lot and skim a lot more these days with all the news but I always like to be more informed.

[โ€“] Soup@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Your comment made sense, the other person just didnโ€™t seem able to make some very easy jumps(and then they sorta did but acted like it was their idea).

[โ€“] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 8 months ago

You are repeatinf regime talking points.

if American business loses even 1usd, that price will borne by the americans!!!!!

I mean sure it can happen but we also know that everything is already priced max it can be.

So first and for most, taxes, fines and tariffs are taken out from income of the corporate parasite. After that corporate gonna try to figure out how to steal from customer

[โ€“] dumnezero@piefed.social 25 points 8 months ago

We need to start shaming businesses and people who have "social media" on those platforms, like with X-Twitter.

[โ€“] ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How can they just "limit the fines"? Aren't they set by a court?

[โ€“] huppakee@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No i think it's more of a commission/ institute that fines them.

[โ€“] ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Ok, I would have thought they are somehow legally binding nonetheless

[โ€“] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 8 months ago

There is a ton of discretion given to agencies when they impose fines hence why lobby is so lucrative ;)

[โ€“] huppakee@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Would be a lot better if these were public cases with public hearings, I agree. I believe they do their research like a detective would, and then decide for themselves wether EU citizens were hurt and if so what percentage of the company would scare them enough to change their behaviour. There are laws on the maximum penalty and such, but weirdly enough these antitrust cases never seem very transparent to me.

[โ€“] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 17 points 8 months ago