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To be fair to Europe, the Romans and Ottomans did it to Europe.

But yeah, ita a culture of violence all the way down.

It does. Just generally unfamiliar with their history outside of them having an open ocean sailing tradition that completely dominates all others.

It is incorrect and presumptive to label all European exploration as exploitation.

E.G. during the 7 years war, the various tribes of the Ohio river valley almost had a treaty with Philidelphia and the English crown, but were cockblocked by the Iroquois, who wanted to be the exclusive native power brokers with the European powers.

Or, still sticking to that era, that one of the Intolerable Acts from the english crown to the rich colonists was that the existing native land was to not be infringed upon.

Or famously, that Captain Vancouver was very considerate, to the point that Hawaii voluntarily surrendered its soverignty because of him.

Then you have things like the Cherokee war, the founding of Illonois and the Hudson's Bay Company(in general) that are great examples of european exploitation.

Ignoring that trash book.

One thing I read is that a major factor that drove western Europeans to be so dominant worldwide is that their North Atlantic ocean fishing vessel tradition resulted in them being faster and more capable than most other vessels in the world, initially proving superior to the typically Roman-esque rowing-focused designs of the Mediterranean.

Los Angeles was the test case.

If it failed, it was at the other end of the country from him, and functionally no one voted for him there so its no loss to him or his cult

As it succeeded, he now gets to juanta up the US knowing the place most likely to resist him in a major capacity was conquered first without an issue.

Block Inc, with the outlier of last year, is a company that takes a not insigificant cut of transactions.

Until the end of 2024, they were not profitable to the tune of -605 million dollars. Thats my point.

And they lost 541 million in 2023.

Yes* *Sadly, the US Supreme Court started last summer that anything the president does in an official capacity while president is legal.

You can negatively "shatter expectations"

According to wikipedia, where it listed the many rounds of VC and bank finding they have, they haven't yet made a profit

All of those devices are child companies of either Banks or Credit Card companies. Or, like Square, owe their continued existence to banking and wall st firms dumping cash on them.

The one outlier I know about is Canada's Interac system, which was started by Canadian banks, but now is its own thing

The reality is that the 35% tariff doesn't actually amount to much since USCMA/NAFTA basically shields 80-90% of Canadian goods.

The nasty ones are the processed lumber, steel and aluminium tariffs.