Just forbid X and filter out their IP range. Problem solved.

China has the advantage that they still have the rest of the world to make business with.

This is Trumps America shooting themselves in the foot with a cruise missile.

Nah, we have popcorn corn in Europe, too.

He doesn’t realize that this is a war that can’t win, right?

He was never smart enough for that.

Oh, we do. The popcorn is great.

Pharmaceuticals can be made anywhere

Good luck with that. Like with all basic industrial ingredients that the US imports because they are cheaper elsewhere, you have long lost all the machinery, the sites, and the skills you need for producing them at home.

Besides Oil, USA doesn’t actually need a lot of imports

Just to remind you: how many screws and nails are made in USA? How many electronic parts - not the devices themselves, but the itsy bitsy things on the mainboards like resistors and capacitors - are made in USA? How many of the basic chemicals needed to make pharmaceutical and other chemical products are still made in the USA?

The truth is: NEARLY NONE.

With “we didn’t vote for it”, do you mean you voted for Kamala Harris, or did you vote third party, or didn’t you vote at all?

There won’t be much bread to wait for. The billionaires won’t finance it, and the government won’t have the resources anymore.

Just wait until the Chinese cut off basic industrial inputs like chemicals, screws, nails, electronic parts.

The problems with US tariffs is that they build a wall around the USA. All the other countries still trade with each other. China can sell their goods elsewhere, and they can buy what they need elsewhere, too. It might involve some losses, but it will be far less painful for them than the US.

Imagine what the US buys in China: many basic chemicals for the pharmaceutical and chemical industry, nails and screws for industry or building, electronic parts of all kind to build about any kind of electronics.

If the US industry loses access to the basic, mass produced ingredients for their production, the current stock market developments will only be a small precursor before Wall Street implodes.

On the long term, the US won’t work without Chinese products and markets. It will not be funny for China, but it will seriously hurt the US.

Winning what? Profit for other people?

OK, PayPal. Keine Option für Leute, die ihre Daten nicht an die Welt verkauft haben wollen.

OK, wie machen die das in Schweden, oder genauer, was machen die anders als hier?

OK, wie geht das?

They are an odd shop, anyway. I recently looked where to get a certain LEGO set. At their own shop, it cost €99, at OTTO, the exact same set was €179.

Weil sich das einfacher besteuern lässt. Deshalb.

Es gibt halt auch Geschäfte, wo Kartenzahlung nicht realistisch ist, weil die Infrastruktur einfach fehlt.

Wochenmarkt zum Beispiel. Dass der Gemüse- oder Fischhändler dort eine krückelangsame Kartenzahlung für Kleinstbeträge über Mobilfunk hinstellt, damit einer drei Äpfel oder einen Hering mit Karte zahlen kann, ist Unsinn.

The French have some experience in dealing with absulotist leaders. They might lend you the necessary tools, if you ask nicely.