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Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK

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Literally cannot. The asymmetry of technology which we have allowed to grow and flourish makes it infeasible. Flock and other manifestations of this beast sends shivers down spines and prevents any serious resistance.

You can protest or go on strike, for example. Refuse to buy from any company that supports the current administration (like Microsoft). End contracts where they exist.

You can also put a bumper sticker on your car decrying world events and this would have about as much effect as your suggestions.

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Trump wants to normalize Putinism. It's beyond disgusting. He should end up in prison for it.

Too much credit. Thigs like this were done way before Putin came to power.

The prior art was that Austrian guy who just wanted to become a painter but was rejected from joining a school.

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Still pissed over the fact the EU made Greece pay their debts when they thought they never had to repay their debts and could just get free money?

I'm sure you consider yourself a clever person, ever consider that the situation was more complex than your one line comment? That maybe it's possible the German banks were so happy to see a country that suddenly had the backup system of the European Central Bank, i.e. a country full of customers they could lend to, that they flooded it with offers of loans? That Greeks, like the sub-prime borrowers of the USA, thought "Well, if everyone is saying the future looks bright, why not borrow money and pay it back with the promised future income?".

That, if I knew my friend was going to be irresponsible with money but their parent was going to bail them out, why shouldn't I lend them money with interest? Is that irresponsible of me? Do I deserve to get all my money back, instead of suffering some of the losses as well? (In this highly simplicized example, I = German banks, my friend = the Greek society, their parents = the ECB. Not saying all of Greek society was irresponsible, but in aggregate, it was a risky "investment")

A lot of the Greek bailout could be summarized as the German government bailing out German banks with EU taxpayers' money...

Here's a long article about what happened when Germany got flooded with money in the 1870s: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/02/michael-pettis-syriz... . It's longer than your one line, maybe you'd rather hold on to your more succint (and maybe more intelligent) summary...

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Don't the Americans have the second amendment to save themselves from their government?

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The average Waco wacko can’t possible to fight even a small contingent from the local national guard, let alone a military with trillions of dollars of meteriel

All the assault weapons you can store in your shed are useless when an f35 takes them out from 300 miles away.

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Let's hope you Americans will vote for the right party in the upcoming midterms. And let's hope you will even get the chance to do so.

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Sorry, but what? Are you saying Harris would also be threatening our allies with military conquest?

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He clearly has psychiatric involvement in his personality: NPD at least, psychopathic at worst. Both type of personalities are great manipulators who can deceive even the closest friends, more so the masses.

Suggesting Trump is psychopathic is just hilarious. Keep diluting the meaning of those words will ya?

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We can’t. It’s over. Laws don’t mean anything anymore. Even if we had a full democratic congress, they would just be ignored. The Trump administration has already been grooming people to accept congress is useless, beginning with the month long shutdown. And the Supreme Courts will just go along with whatever the president wants now. Start preparing for the post-American world.

This is self-destructive defeatism. It is also flat wrong on its substantive points.

The only thing congress can do is impeach and convict trump and his administration, thereby stripping him of his authority. Laws have been passed, judges have ruled, but all those are ignored. however, if he has no authority, then we get to find out who's on the side of the constitution and who is with trump and his allies.

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We are trying. Please realize that the second largest conflict (based on spending) in the world right now, behind the Russian invasion of Ukraine, is DJT’s ICE attacks on the US. That is how much he is spending to attack his own country. More than Israel spends to occupy Palestinians. Sadly, if you look at polling, none of this is remotely unpopular with US Republican voters. Our country’s union is hanging on by tatt…

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It's easy to look at the politics of individual states as a means of breaking things up if you ignore the economics. Things get very complicated, very quickly when you set a political threshold for breaking up the country.

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Don't worry, you're either arguing with useful idiots or pathetic SOBs working in a propaganda unit in russia.

The problem is that if no one responds to such idiots, even more idiots might be swayed into their direction.

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As a side note. Beware when exporting to the USA using UPS. Especially when having the receiver pay for imports and taxes. UPS does not enforce payment. They will hand out the package before receiving the taxes and tolls. Then, they force you, the exporter, to pay, since you’ve agreed to it by accepting their terms and conditions. I’ve learnt this the hard way.

Also been hit with this using DHL. Doing trade with the USA is such a gamble now with so much uncertainty.
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