• Wanpieserino@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    I mean, there’s a lot of stuff we could talk about, but you’re blabbering nonsense the whole time lol

    You’re like an 80 iq troll, either a teenager or just really bad.

    Like, c’mon buddy. Entertain me a bit more. All you’ve written is old shit from decades ago when the internet was still new

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      6 days ago

      You’re the one with too much estrogen and progesterone friend. I am simply defending the honor of my country. You have nothing to offer in defense of yours.

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        Median net wealth of my country is 250k euros, the solidarity here is quite good.

        The life expectancy here is about 5 years higher than in your country, which means we workout more, have access to better healthcare, have better environment, better food.

        I’ve been working out the past 11 years with weekly deadlifts, bench press, pull ups, squats… Which literally raised my testosterone quite a bit.

        I can cycle to work, you can’t. You need to sit in a boring box pressing a pedal and try not to fall asleep. When you’re late cuz of traffic you just have to work overtime or you get fired.

        Medical bankruptcy isnt a thing here, congrats on your president putting tariffs on medicine, sick people love it. Edit: disgusting shithole. Every family has people with cancer.

        Having walkable cities is the most normal thing to me.

        I haven’t actually ever heard any reason for me to want to even visit the USA.

        I probably should, sometime. But I prefer going to Asia.

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          You won’t even identify your nationality. You prefer the anonymity of being “European.” I can’t even begin to accurately criticize or defend an entire continent. Are you ashamed of your own country? Unless you aren’t ashamed of your homeland or afraid to reveal it I insist on knowing which country is yours. If you refuse, then just leave this discussion.

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            6 days ago

            Belgium, or just look at my profile. It’s the first word there.

            You Americans all say USA anyways, it’s same size as china or Europe in land size. What state are you from

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              Thank you for that. I know nothing bad at all about your country. I didn’t bother to look at your bio. I’m a resident of probably the most radical left wing state in the country…California. You can likely come up with hundreds of different demeaning things to say about the state and I will agree. I remain here only because I am fairly insulated from the crazy political agenda that controls the government.

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                I could, but I’d have to do research about it and it would be the most basic shit you’d already have heard 50 times.

                You’d be weaker if decentralised into 50 countries, but you’d not randomly have 125% tariff on china.

                Both centralisation and decentralisation have their benefits.

                Well, good luck. It’s going to be turbulent for 4 years.

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                  I just did some cursory reading on Belgium and you guys have a lot going on. You are per capita one of the richest countries. You have one of the lowest crime rates in Europe. While your Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and expression there are a number of constraints that we don’t have. I’m not saying that is a bad thing. I wouldn’t know what it is like to live under a Constitutional Monarchy. I will say one thing, the tariff imposed on China was far from random. It was very strategic and given the PRC current economic situation and their reliance on the American consumers it won’t be long before they will be forced to make a deal.
                  Good luck to you also. It’s satisfying to exchange ideas with a level headed person from the opposite side of the world.

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                    6 days ago

                    The monarchy is basically a cheerleader group, they are symbolic. The leader of the country is the prime minister, currently Bart De Wever.

                    For the EU it doesn’t matter that trump puts 20% tariffs, as long as china has higher tariffs. China sells to us, we manufacture it further, we sell it to the USA.

                    It doesn’t even matter that much, you folks barely have any VAT on your products. These tariffs will be a discriminatory VAT.

                    It’s going to hurt a lot in the short term. This is a policy that requires a steady leadership like china has. I don’t believe the USA has the structure for that. In the next elections it will be a landslide victory for the democrats. Too much chaos and uncertainty, looks like child’s play to win such an election.