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  • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
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    5 days ago

    It’s pretty far from a win. It’s backing down to a bully because you know a fight would hurt you both badly, and that you still need the help of this bully against another.

    Right, the fight can hurt both sides, but capitulating today will only end with another capitulation tomorrow.

    Shit sucks, but that’s where we are now.

    Well, we as EU could have simply let Trump know that we are a market they cannot leave.
    Put a 15% additional taxes on every penny the US tech companies make in EU… and it is not really hard to do it even without them collaborating.