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Go European: Discover European products and services
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#92- "We are a group of individuals from across Europe who connected via the subreddit r/BuyfromEU." Then, why do you promote a list of European Reddit "alternatives" such as "Lemmy", you say people are supposed to use instead? This is the laziest form of internet activism there is: lecture people what you believe they're supposed to be doing in ways you don't yourself do, and can't be inconvenienced to try. (Bonus poin…
They can be on both? Lots of users on reddit to reach.
Re: Go European: Discover European products and services
#93- "We are a group of individuals from across Europe who connected via the subreddit r/BuyfromEU." Then, why do you promote a list of European Reddit "alternatives" such as "Lemmy", you say people are supposed to use instead? This is the laziest form of internet activism there is: lecture people what you believe they're supposed to be doing in ways you don't yourself do, and can't be inconvenienced to try. (Bonus poin…
Nobody seriously claims that Europe should be self-sufficient in everything and isolated from the rest of the world. It’s ok to simultaneously 1) try to make things better, and 2) still talk to Americans or use American products (same for China). Discussing alternatives does not imply burning bridges.
I am just going to leave this here: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...
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#94This is such a shame, we should be looking to source and produce things globally and find better ways to improve the logistics and efficiency world-wide. Why would the EU take such a protective stance which only enforces isolation and increases cost? Edit: Thanks for the responses, I am still looking for a signal that tells my post is sarcasm multiplied by cynicism.
It's to discourage the US from escalating the tariff war, which in the end always hurt consumers. People in the US are already paying that insane choice, but I don't hold my breath waiting for GOP voters to reconsider their choice: propaganda is a powerful weapon, and we're struggling against it also over here.
Did the EU not have tariffs before Trump? How about Canada? Or China? Or Mexico? Are tariffs ok as long as it isn’t Trump?
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#95(Rant sorry)
While i'm from EU and I support the movement, after I looked over some numbers it is hard to ditch something like Amazon. 1st thing for me are the prices and monthly I can save at least 100 Euros just from shopping on deals. Second Amazon employs 150k people across EU and this is not a low number (how about them?).
Yes we need alternatives but the rich EU guys also have to invest some. Sometimes I feel that average Joe needs to support the "movement" while rich just mid their own business.
Same goes also with local producers: "support local farmers!". ME: "but the price difference is almost double form Kaufland/Lidl/Carrefour/etc for the same thing!" Sorry, I'm not in a position to just spend more just because...
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#96Economic nationalism is bad when Trump does it and bad when Europe does it too.
We should have unilateral free trade. Ricardo showed this was better over 200 years ago.
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#97Thank you for including the UK, we are still part of Europe! Added my company ( https://mailpace.com ) - I’m looking forward to a resurgence of innovation in European tech companies, the talent and education here is amazing, we just need to improve our investment and start treating tech with as much respect as we give to law, finance and other “prestigious” career paths here
Thank you for including the UK, we are still part of Europe!
We're all living in Only fools and horses anyways.
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#98This is such a shame, we should be looking to source and produce things globally and find better ways to improve the logistics and efficiency world-wide. Why would the EU take such a protective stance which only enforces isolation and increases cost? Edit: Thanks for the responses, I am still looking for a signal that tells my post is sarcasm multiplied by cynicism.
Right now directories like this are getting popular mostly because they offer alternative to US products. Pretty sure Europeans would be happy to use a Canadian alternative to a US service.
But not alternatives to Chinese products? China’s human rights, environment, currency manipulation, tariffs, IP theft — some people seemingly unify as anti-Trump, but ignore China?
This tells me the resistance isn’t principled at all, but simply grandstanding.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because US proved itself to be an unreliable partner.
Because the US is asking Europe to defend itself eighty years after ww2
Because the US helped an enemy in the middle of a battle and prevented us from using aircraft and equipment we bought....in the middle of battle.
You can argue the rights and wrongs if you want but all that matters is the US cannot be trusted.
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#100Today I learned that DeepL was German. It's hands down the best Japanese to English translator (according to my Japanese coworkers) and I was surprised how many used it in office. (never used it myself as a trilingual)
Deepl is amazing as it is way faster in translating than LLMs