Overview:
The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
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Useful Websites
General BuyEuropean product database: https://buy-european.net/ (relevant post with background info)
Switching your tech to European TLDR: https://better-tech.eu/tldr/ (relevant post)
Buy European meta website with useful links: https://gohug.eu/ (relevant post)
Benefits of Buying Local:
local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.
European Instances
Lemmy:
Basque Country: https://lemmy.eus/
๐ง๐ช Belgium: https://0d.gs/
๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria: https://feddit.bg/
Catalonia: https://lemmy.cat/
๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark, including Greenland (for now): https://feddit.dk/
๐ช๐บ Europe: https://europe.pub/
๐ซ๐ท๐ง๐ช๐จ๐ญ France, Belgium, Switzerland: https://jlai.lu/
๐ฉ๐ช๐ฆ๐น๐จ๐ญ๐ฑ๐ฎ Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein: https://feddit.org/
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: https://sopuli.xyz/ & https://suppo.fi/
๐ฎ๐ธ Iceland: https://feddit.is/
๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://feddit.it/
๐ฑ๐น Lithuania: https://group.lt/
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: https://feddit.nl/
๐ต๐ฑ Poland: https://fedit.pl/ & https://szmer.info/
๐ต๐น Portugal: https://lemmy.pt/
๐ธ๐ฎ Slovenia: https://gregtech.eu/
๐ธ๐ช Sweden: https://feddit.nu/
๐น๐ท Turkey: https://lemmy.com.tr/
๐ฌ๐ง UK: https://feddit.uk/
Friendica:
๐ฆ๐น Austria: https://friendica.io/
๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://poliverso.org/
๐ฉ๐ช Germany: https://piratenpartei.social/ & https://anonsys.net/
๐ซ๐ท Significant French speaking userbase: https://social.trom.tf/
๐ต๐ฑ Poland: soc.citizen4.eu
Matrix:
๐ฌ๐ง UK: matrix.org & glasgow.social
๐ซ๐ท France: tendomium & imagisphe.re & hadoly.fr
๐ฉ๐ช Germany: tchncs.de, catgirl.cloud, pub.solar, yatrix.org, digitalprivacy.diy, oblak.be, nope.chat, envs.net, hot-chilli.im, synod.im & rollenspiel.chat
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: bark.lgbt
๐ฆ๐น Austria: gemeinsam.jetzt & private.coffee
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: pikaviestin.fi & chat.blahaj.zone
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The US is being ripped off by globalists. The oligarchs with multinational businesses. Trump and Musk. They are the globalists.
So you deliberately shoot yourself in the foot and then start complaining it hurts when you walk?
So he finally confessed that his trigger happy globalist ass was responsible for market dip.
Globalists is a dogwhistle term for Jews fyi
The main delusion/criticism is that a VAT elsewhere is "ripping US off". Reciprocal tariffs are expected to include VAT % as a tariff to match. The US is allowed to have their own VAT if it is such a competitive advantage. They could also choose nationalized healthcare to save on employer insurance costs.
The EUropean relationship did get Germany to smile and buy extortionist priced LNG after the US blew up a pipeline fairly recently, and driving away that level of sycophancy has much higher cost than underpaying for a few Mercedeses.
I'm curious. The US is bankrupt: the national debt is far higher than they can ever repay. Who is lending them this money, and isn't this the same course of action that the US took during the second world war? The UK only paid off their lease-lend loans from 1940-50 very recently.
The national debt is complicated, but a slightly inaccurate way to simplify it is that this is money owed by the United States to the United States. Yeah China owns a chunk of it and so do other countries, but the majority of it doesn't matter when it comes to economics. The US is far from bankrupt financially. Morally though...
My bad. Misunderstood figure.
It's more than that. This level of debt simply isn't actually that big of a problem (to a nation run by responsible adults).
America is proportionately at roughly the current level of debt as it was at the end of WW2, which sounds pretty fucking bad but is hardly a death knell and honestly kind of expected when you've been fighting a forever war on credit.
The problem is actually that the oligarchy has offloaded the burden of paying for it to the peasants and there's literally no hope of that changing without a revolution.
Tl;Dr it'd be relatively easy to pay off the debt, if Boomer Americans grew the fuck up and paid for it the way their parents did instead of making it everyone else's problem.
Itโs also worth expanding on this by noting that 35% of the debt is debt from one government agency to another. Another 34% is held by various financial institutions who use it as a protection against financial risk as even if the market crashes theyโll still have a basically guaranteed (and now very valuable) asset to cash out to keep their customers safe, while only 24% is held by people, institutions, and governments outside the United States.
Together weโve just gone over 93% of the national debt.
Also, they way we paid off this debt last time was that 50% effective corporate tax rate and a 91% top income tax rate during the 40s, 50s, and 60s, which as we all know was a really terrible time for the American economy./s