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[โ€“] [email protected] 86 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cowards, who cares about Trumpโ€™s feelings.

[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nobody cares about Trump's feelings; but the EU should care about the very real consequences of a trade war on its citizens, as well as the citizens of the US. This stuff has consequences beyond one guy's feelings.

Agreed that they're cowards, though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

Trump is gonna do what he wants either way.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What about the consequences of letting American companies destroy Europe?

[โ€“] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well thatโ€™s just embarrassing. I will remember this.

[โ€“] Mihies 20 points 1 week ago

Add another stupid EU decision "bowing before Orange" to the huge pile.

[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

As an American: fuck the US. Tax and fine the shit out of us. I'll go hungry for a bit if it means real consequences for these pieces of shit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

We need to start shaming businesses and people who have "social media" on those platforms, like with X-Twitter.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How can they just "limit the fines"? Aren't they set by a court?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No i think it's more of a commission/ institute that fines them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ok, I would have thought they are somehow legally binding nonetheless

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Would be a lot better if these were public cases with public hearings, I agree. I believe they do their research like a detective would, and then decide for themselves wether EU citizens were hurt and if so what percentage of the company would scare them enough to change their behaviour. There are laws on the maximum penalty and such, but weirdly enough these antitrust cases never seem very transparent to me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago