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Don't be mean. I promise to do my best to judge that fairly.
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I mean if you don't understand things you should ask, not assume others are in the wrong. Yeah it would be pretty stupid to be forced to have US accounts to rent cars in Europe, luckily we're not THAT stupid.
VISA and MasterCard are practically a monopoly on credit card circuits, your parents' cards may be issued by a local bank but there's a 95% chance they've got one of these two companies' logo printed on them, and out of every payment they make, these AMERICAN companies get 2% (blah blah cashback, blah blah terms and conditions), because they are made on their circuits!
You may also have debit cards that DON'T have those logos, but debit cards can't be used for car rentals.
If you don't believe this is an issue, here, read about how Francesca Albanese, despite being an Italian citizen living in Europe, can't own credit cards or open bank accounts, a punishment imposed on her by the US for reporting the Gaza genocide for the UN.
Woah, now we have a right wing trucker and a left wing activist as examples of why cashless == fascist, it will make things easier to explain that position to people of different world views
I did ask. Specifically I asked what you were talking about. All you really had to say was Visa and MasterCard are USA companies that handle card transactions. If you had clarified that initially you wouldn't be getting downvoted to hell.
You also shouldn't assume that, maybe if you think others don't understand something, it's actually because you're wrong