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don't european values include Monarchy?
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Ah ha. Is this the start of MAIA - "Make America Irrelevant Again"? Do they really need the help? Seems like their about to do a great job on that already... ;-)
I don't see this as an attack, but rather a push for independence from the US. I don't want America to be irrelevant, but i don't feel like I can trust them as much as I did before. Both private and in business.
It's the other (republican) half which is in power every 4 years which makes cooperation on these issues almost impossible, and you can't just ignore the US every 4 years. We need independence, and the US needs to think about where they want to be as a nation in 20 years.
I get why people might feel this impulse, but they should realize that it follows the same logic as tariffs. You do not gain by closing yourself off from the world. Having the choice among the best products in the world is prosperity. Whether you restrain yourself by choice or by force, it's the same zero-sum mindset. Free trade, with some exceptions for fledgling industries, is one of the rare cases that makes every…
I am working on this, and here are my personal observations thus far; # Low hanging fruit: - Food and clothes, like Coca Cola, Snickers, Nike, Levis, The North Face etc - Mondelez. This is hard because they own so much. But obvious things like Oreo and Corn Flakes are easy. - Social Media I rarely use. For me this was Snapchat, Instagram, WhatsApp, X, Bluesky and Messenger. # Harder to ditch - Facebook. Family :( - M…
I think an important distinction is whether you send money to those providers or not. Using free services with a strong adblocker is probably a net loss for them. And regarding streaming... the high seas are very welcoming ;-) PS: Did you mean Mondelez? The only thing I ever bought on their list of brands[0] is 'Lu', but I will make sure I don't anymore ;-) [0] https://www.mondelezinternational.com/our-brands/
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This is a great point where nationality does not reflect political values. Many Americans exist that do not carry the opinion of their government, as do many Russians. If a global set of "Don't be an asshole" values could be defined, put into words, shared and progressed, it would have much greater value to a consumer and the world than merely going back to nationalism and protectionism.
> If a global set of "Don't be an asshole" values could be defined, put into words, shared and progressed... Being a cynic, I expect the speeches to start with that then smoothly translate into "and therefore we have to spend more money on waging war in foreign countries". The US is exemplifying some of the best international values right now of trying to find a sharp end to all the meaningless dying we've been seein…
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>There is broad consensus in Europe.. How is this measured actually? By what the media and public institutions say? Is there poll targeted at the common working man that says the same? I highly doubts so.
I mean, Google exists: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/12/europeans-se...
No no, that is not what is being said here. To match with it, the poll should ask if they would like someone like Trump to be their leader, not if Trump in US would be bad for their country.
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There is broad consensus in Europe that we don't want to be like Trumpist America.
>There is broad consensus in Europe.. How is this measured actually? By what the media and public institutions say? Is there poll targeted at the common working man that says the same? I highly doubts so.
don't european values include Monarchy?
There are no 'conventional'/old-fashioned monarchies in Europe (except, arguably, for Liechtenstein). Some European countries have monarchs, who are powerless figureheads; executive power rests with the government (even in most European republics, executive power rests with the government, not the president).