You can’t just drive around and vote everywhere . You’ll need permanent residence.
EU citizens are allowed to live and work anywhere in EU, so by default they are also allowed to vote in their municipality where they live. info
I don’t know if the following applies everywhere, but where I live this also includes people from outside EU, if they are allowed to live here permanently.
National elections require citizenship.
SEPA is not instant. It’s still one day as standard.
You can’t use SEPA to pay in the grocery store, because the cash register has no way to confirm your payment until tomorrow. That’s the thing cards and various apps like WERO solve currently.
Most of these apps are tied to a traditional card, but some are tied directly to the bank account and some can do both.
Anyway, the independence from American software is still far away, since most people will be using Android or iOS to use those apps…
Imagine if it’s a live stream, changing the plot as you watch dependent on your reaction.
At first it might be fun to see what happens if Frodo doesn’t throw the ring in the lava, but eventually you gotta ask yourself why you’re wasting your time in front of a screen watching weird cat videos.
The people who pay taxes don’t have extra money to pay extra taxes, so they will not be able to pay extra taxes and no extra tax will be collected.
Nobody benefits.
When Reddit changed the layout (new/old) some ten years ago, I started using a 3rd party app, because “new reddit” was everything that I hated about other sites. I stopped using it when they killed 3rd party apps, but that was really just the final nail in the coffin anyway. It was rotten to the core long before that.
Oh yes it’ll go on for a long time and might never return to the previous state.
American products got world wide recognition in a time when USA was the peak of western culture, technology and quality.
With or without tariffs and boycotts, people everywhere in the world will once again have to question if they even want America products. This doesn’t go well with the increased consumer awareness that is happening everywhere else but in USA.
UK turning down clorinated American chickens is the funniest thing today, like eew brother, eew what’s that?
The supply chain of clothing is very international.
Most European brands have their clothes manufactured in Europe. It does not matter if the specific brand is French, British or Scandinavian etc. They all use the same factories, roughly speaking. Parts of this might involve outsourcing to China and who knows where else the salary is cheap, but generally the sewing is mostly done in EU still.
However. The textiles used for manufacturing almost always come from various parts of Asia depending on the material. For instance, silk and synthetic fabrics are from China, denim/cotton from India, wool from Turkey etc. It’s very difficult to find textile elsewhere in any meaningful quantity. It might be possible to find a few tiny brands doing something local, but overall, Europe is in no way self-sufficient in textiles. An outlier is Italy. Italian fabrics are known for good quality, but they cost more, so it’s mostly used by luxury brands all over Europe.
Maybe Americans should consider not paying taxes in the first place.
Never mind the money. Think about this: Is the American lifestyle self-sustainable?
No? Why not?
Because they use more than they produce? Yes, and where do those things come from?
Imports? Yes.
Trump litteraly put a stop to the American lifestyle.
It would be nice to know if he’s even alive.
CS:GO is the best we can do. It’s a EU decision. Can’t change it now.
This was a topic in 2016, where Trump was all over keeping the coal workers in jobs. How many coal workers does actually USA have? Go ahead, look it up. Also look up how many he saved.
When I last did, I found that there were about 40 000 people employed in coal related jobs in USA, and he didn’t save a single one of them. The coal employment decreased during his term and ever since.
Every year, there are more than 3 million people born in USA. All of those will need a job in 18-25 years or so. Every year, 3 million people will be looking for a job. If the unemployment queue is increased by all the 40k coal employees being laid off at once, you would hardly notice it in the statistics.
I also looked up the Finnish companies. They gradually laid off 400 people from 2022 until today based on the decision to stop the coal power plants. It’s completely neligable. They can easily do other jobs. Even in the same industry, just not coal.
The whole talking point is a nothing-burger.
Economic sanctions is one alternative. See North Korea. It doesn’t work very well against Russia because they do have a lot of resources and their population is used to scarcity. This tactic would be more efficient against, say USA, because quite frankly, the western lifestyle is not self-sufficient.
Another alternative is to use Putin’s own “special military operations” where instead of fighting a war front to front, they attack specific targets or throw people out of windows.
This is difficult for Europe to do, because we like to align with each other before doing anything serious. That way, actual democracies are not fit to do this kind of stuff in comparison to a dictatorship, but it’s possible if anyone feels it’s necessary. However it rarely has a positive outcome. It’s like flipping the table and hoping something better comes up.
Overall, all agressive behavior leads to a losing position. Nobody has ever won a war or even a street fight. Both sides lose. The victory goes to those who wins the peace. So that’s what Europe is constantly trying to do by diplomacy.
Even if I dislike spending ressources on military, it might make sense to armour up, just to keep a seat at the table of peace negotiation.
VAT is (almost) the same idea as American sales tax.
The difference is only how it is managed in wholesale, how it is displayed to consumers in retail and obviously the rates. Otherwise it’s the exact same thing.
European stores show the price including the tax, whereas American stores show it without taxes. The VAT rates are generally higher in Europe than the sales tax in states, but this is not the explanation for the car prices.
Cars are more expensive in Europe due to other kinds of taxes. Germany is actually one of the cheaper countries for vehicles, because they don’t have vehicle registration taxes, but they do have an import toll of 10% on cars. The same price increases happens the other way too. A European car will be more expensive in USA than in Europe for the same reasons.
It’s almost funny how the right wing in every country is both claiming to make very popular politics while also being the minority against the “elite”, which is supposedly a secret coalition of everyone else.
At the same time they are themselves swindling EU funds to go to secret meetings where they coordinate by the same playbook. They’re using the same words and strategy in all of Europe. It’s always projection.
They’re very loud, but it’s time for the citizens in all of Europe to show them that facism is in fact not popular. I have had it with politely ignoring them - we all need to speak up and call out the bullshit as it happens.
It would be illegal for companies in France to do what Trump is demanding.
What would they get for doing it anyway? More threats?
I wish more companies would take that kind of responsibility.
It’s a slippery slope.
Sure, nobody likes the Russians right now, but it also applies to other immigrants and refugees from elsewhere.
In Denmark a right wing party suggested something similar. They know fully well that immigrants don’t vote for them, and they’d love nothing more than to remove their political representation and eventually remove them from our welfare too.
I’d definitely be wary of who and why they want to remove voting rights for certain tax payers.