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Let him fly through Ukraine

Isn’t that why JD Vance is there?

I’m talking about Trump because there is a strong parallelism between all of these cases, where fascists break the law and then cry political persecution when the courts apply the law to them.

Trump was the example of what not to do, Le Pen seems to be the example of what works.

I get where you are coming from, and I very much agree that wringing our hands is not the good solution. I very much hope that the German government has a better plan to handle this than the plans they had to handle literally anything else in the past 30 years.

I share your frustration, I’m just saying that this is harder and less straightforward than Trump was. It has to be done, and has to be done soon though. But it has to be decisive and final.

Low wages and cheap electricity probably.

The process is very dangerous, for real. It’s not like Trump where the crime is in the open, numbering in the thousands, and growing.

And it is very much a political crime, but it is still a crime, being against democracy is a crime. But it is much harder to prosecute than all the shit Trump did. And if they get it wrong, AfD will most likely get a boost from it big enough to get into government.

That’s unfair, sometimes it’s not a far right individual but a far right organization.

I think Gaza is not a money issue. The money that’s already there, the aid that’s already there waiting on the border would be able to do infinite good already.

This is actually good for two things:

• calls attention to the issue in a way that pierces more bubbles than another Al Jazeera article
• will call special attention to it again when Israel will inevitably blow it up

And in defense of my annoyance at the CxU, under Merkel they supported the Orbán regime heavily to undercut their domestic labour with artificially inflated Hungarian labourers.

It kinda sucks that we have to hope the neolibs win in Germany against the neofash.

Don’t need to even go that far, US police regularly execute random people on the street as well.

IIRC EU fines are not delayed on appeal, they get it back if they win.

Yeah, but the US subsidiary does not deal with that US citizen, the EU bank does. The US subsidiary might even know that that person is the customer of the EU bank, but might not know the details of their bank account, like one bank doesn’t necessarily know the details of other bank accounts. If you were a sanctioned individual and the EU bank deals with you, the US subsidiary would have to cut the EU bank off, but that does not mean that the EU bank has to transfer all data about all accounts to the US subsidiary beyond whether they deal with you, and even that is only if you are on “the list”.

I mean it works like this at EU banks, they have a responsibility to give data to the tax office of the country you are tax resident of, but not all tax offices even in the EU. If I’m an Italian citizen residing long-term in Spain, and thus being a tax resident of Spain, the (likely Spanish) bank will have to provide all banking details to the Spanish tax office. The Italian tax office however has no such right, even though I’m an Italian citizen.

That only prohibits dealing with sanctioned parties, and I doubt the US will start sanctioning EU banks over this.

It’s been poised for two months now.

Well the subsidiary might be liable to share all data, but what if the subsidiary has no data, on purpose?

It would definitely cost more than that to restore it after that dip.

If I was the US, I’d even send some depth charges after it to make sure the Chinese don’t go fishing.

An actual A2A kill with a Shahed on an F18 would be way bigger news. As would a hit on the carrier. What else could be the way it happened?

Thanks for reminding us of Israel’s “free to commit genocide” tickets, we wouldn’t have remembered otherwise.

I think Canada adopting the EUR would come sooner