Half-Life 2: Episode Two G-man Scene [Heart-to-Heart] (1080p)

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Except THIS is not how any of this works!....

#Trump literally lashing out against friends and neighbours will only backfire hard, and I expect @EUCommission and @europarl_en to enact #PrizeFreezes for #US #products & #services whilst forcing #Retaliatory #Tariffs on all US #products and espechally #services, demanding 100%+ in all #fees, and #revenue of #GAFAMs' services and products to the point that they'll effectively cancel half their revenue that flows back.

  • Plus forcing all products and services to be processed and sold via a #EU-based #corporation and adding a 30% "#AlienTax" as the #USA already does for i.e. #App #developers that ain't from the US even if they never sold a single license to a US customer.

Not to mention cancelling any #DataProtection agreements that only stalled the foreseeable court decision that #CloudAct is incompatible with #GDPR, thus banning #Office365 / #Microsoft365, #iCloud et. al. from the EU!

Given #Trump can't be assed to even fake any #loyality or #allied status even for the cameras, this is a #ForeseeableConsequence.

Unless we want to end up #downgraded into the state of a US-occupied overseas possession without statehood, like #Guam, #PuertoRico or #AVI...

#USpol

Why Trump's tariff chaos actually makes sense (big picture)

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The core problem with #Musk and #Trump sowing #chaos & #FUD - even if they ultimately were to be have all that shit canceled retroactively - is that their actions "#FloodTheZoneWithShit" aka. "#FirehoseOfLies" will have at tleast one #ForeseeableConsequence, and that is the #LossOfTrust into the #USA as a "very stable #democracy" and a place with "#RuleOfLaw".

Whereas it seems everyone who isn'f under the protection of "#warlord" Musk has to,fear for if not their lives, at least for their #investment|s!

  • These #Investors will now turn to places like the #EU and espechally #Germany, where even the most unlikely "Left" Party is aware that it would be socioeconomical "suicide" to irresponsibly do some random populist bs!

At this poibt I expect Trump to crash the #USD so hard that it gets the worst #ExchangeRate to #EUR ever, with 2,5:1 5:1 or even $ 10:1 €, making the #USdollar "worthless toilet paper" by comparison to the #Euro!

@Wolven EXACTLY!
EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL!

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Even #apoliticalness is #political by virtue of only meaning 4 things in that particular distribution (most often / least often):

1. "I live in a opressive & facist system where the state will murder and hatecrime me for telling the truth!"

2. "I'm an asshole who has such bad opinions and shit takes that everyone who hasn't yeeted me is a fanboy of the same hateful ideology, but I'm too cowardly to be honest and open about it in public because that'll incure the non-zero chance of facing #accountability & #conseqiences as #ForeseeableConsequence!"

3. "I'm a filthy rich and thus privilegued person who doesn't care cuz I buy all the candidates!"

4. "I'm overwhelmed and I've to look away for my own mental health!"

#OrdinaryThings really needs to get a #Mastodon account...

Also good #TLDR on the failed #coup attempt of #Jan8 including the backstory needed to get the full picture.

And yes, #Bolsonaro is just another #facist - he just was too cowardly to get the Hitler moustache and facing the #ForeseeableConsequence.

Let's just hope he'll be yeet'ed back to #Brazil with a smile on #Biden's face...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOJVqVHK1IA

Behind Brazil's Failed Coup

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