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it's such a politically savvy play — now that you feel poorer, the prices of everything will blow up!
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not only does it have the lowest tariff rates, but the penguins aren't unionized.
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you gotta understand. if they hadn’ta cut a deal, they’d have had no shot at a piece of this. from @ddayen.bsky.social prospect.org/economy/2025...
Text: But countries are not alone in the boxes; corporations and industry sectors are as well. The phalanxes of lawyers and lobbyists who try to ease sanctions through their contacts at the highest levels of power now have a new target. Companies have been lawyering up for months in anticipation, while enlisting friendly politicians for the task. The White House has fielded hundreds of letters from businesses pleading their case. And it's already working.
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it is quite radical. and it does not in fact follow.
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they go around it to access information they are forbidden, not because the services are substantially worse the US providers. 1/
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i would hope the EU would not choose China or Russia's heavy-handed censorship. EU citizens could still access what they want. But by moving official and financial activity to EU firms, they could put their thumb on the scale of European network effects. 2/
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they should. /fin
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neither China nor Russia have had a hard time replacing these services with alternatives their publics are broadly happy with, except for the censorship of some content they'd wish to access. i don't see why the EU couldn't do the same, without the oppressive censorship regime.
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so, are they gonna make liberation day a national holiday?
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So, is the EU finally going to get serious about replacing US search/social/AI with their own, regulable, firms?
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only three removals and we've a relatively sane caretaker. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...
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(oh god.)
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if you want emergency powers, create an emergency (by using the "emergency" powers you already had!)
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impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat.
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it’s @talsmith.bsky.social’s article, i’m only linking it!
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my son: “i feel like apostrophes can sometimes be really possessive.”
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if one stipulates Hanlon’s Razor does not apply, then my guess would be trying to proletarianize the professional managerial class.
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it’s okay. he used signal.
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Text: More broadly, it is frankly maddening that it took a military crisis to get Germany (and others) to shake off austerity brain. An entire generation of Europeans saw their career prospects diminished or ruined entirely; Greece and Spain endured a catastrophe on par with the Great Depression. But it should be emphasized that austerity also left Europe militarily weak. Without the austerity poison, its infrastructure would be in better shape, its economy would be maybe 20 percent larger, and it would be able to afford rearmament much more easily.
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what if the fates are actually A/B testers?
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yeah. we do have lots of musical better angels. (and i don’t want to condemn Kurt Cobain for this. it’s on those of us still here.)