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[โ€“] 52 points 10 months ago (1 child)

The greatest weapon against the US is not bombs or military. It's selling us shit! We can't survive in isolation, consumer economy has fucked us for decades. Cut all trade and stop selling us products. Then we fall fast.

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  • [โ€“] 45 points 10 months ago (25 children)

    Cut all trade. Damn, usa boycot came to the pathetic level i'm not even accepting american-english when installing an o/s. It's a common default, but i scroll to uk or canadian english. Pathetic, i know, yet here we are.

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  • [โ€“] 15 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    This is why I support Mark Carney in using British spellings and words. Letโ€™s gut out all the American influence from our English.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    No no no, if you still want to use English, then it's a chance to move to Shavian.

    https://www.shavian.info/

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 10 months ago (14 children)

    I even work on spreading Esperanto, as a neutral language for Europe and humankind ๐Ÿซก

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    English, as an national language, is great for national communication.

    But using national language for international communication is like using black-white television to watch a color movie - it kind of works, but it definitely loses a lot.

    There are at least 2 important factors:

    1. neutrality: English used for international communication favors people from English speaking countries. Inside of Europe that is not to big problem, because Ireland and Malta, while being great counties, have relatively small population - so English can work as a reasonably neutral language for European communication. But when it comes to Europe in world - English is used but a country that left us and by country that wages trade war against us. That highlights that English definitely is not a worldwide neutral language.

    2. ease of use: Esperanto was designed to be easy to learn and use, while functioning very well as a mean of communication. It does not carry a burden of centuries of non-systemic evolution, so it does not have things like irregular verbs. It's grammar is very regular with simple rules. It enables creating words with a set of prefixes and sufixes so one does not need to learn a bunch of new (different) words about related things (like: to eat, to snack, to feast, food, meal, cantina, utensils, etc. - they are manฤi, manฤeti, manฤegi, manฤo, manฤaฤตo, manฤejo, manฤiloj etc). Experience shows that learning Esperanto is 5-10x faster that learning national languages. It's just much not efficient.

    Than comes other factors, like pushing some way of thinking, usual for one specific nation, to all humankind, atc, but those 2 are the basic ones.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Esperanto + Shavian is the constructed future i dream of.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    By chance, is it you who is posting this on Mastodon?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    If you are website enjoyer, https://lernu.net/ is a solid, free of charge web course in many languages, with big community.ย 

    I have also heard good reviews on the Zagreb Method - https://esperanto12.net/

    If you prefer apps, https://www.duolingo.com/ works great in English, if a lot of examples is your way to go.

    Of you are a book person, I have read that "Complete Esperanto" by Tim Owen is highly acclaimed. Also "Esperanto per rekta metodo" ("Esperanto by direct method", so directly on Esperanto with elimination of translations) works great for many people.

    Some very basic stuff, mostly list of common phases for traveling, it's available at Wikivoyage, in several languages ๐Ÿ‘‡ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q143#sitelinks-wikivoyage

    Using Anki flashcards helps to memorize words, but I am not using it so I am not sure where to find the data to use...

    If you prefer in-person course, you may ask people from the Esperanto organization in your country (see https://uea.org/landoj), or visit some meeting to get in-depth answers and make new friends (see https://eventaservo.org/).

    Ultimately, it depends on your learning style to select (or create) a learning process, but these are solid. Enjoy, and please comment here after some time about your progress. I would love to know!

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  • [โ€“] 37 points 10 months ago* (7 children)

    Good step, but we need to go further. Kick out all US companies. Block all big tech services, kick out McDonalds, oil companies, accountancy firms, block import of all General Motors cars. No more Apple stores, sorry. Block sales of microchip lithography machines. Close their factories and nationalize them.

    Then, for good measure, dump all US bonds the ECB holds.

    Thรฉn have a talk.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 10 months ago

    But then where will all of the backhanders come from? For example, privacy is not a God given right, it's something that we should have to fight tooth and nail for - according to these same people that are currently fighting to monetise our privacy and 'eyeing' the freezing of a trade deal that they have probably already been paid half for, for agreeing to it in principal. Many of them, themselves fighting to clear their names of taking payments for agreements or contracts be they Pfizer, Apple, Google, Microsoft or any other mainly US company. They, nor their children or grandchildren will be held accountable or even have to deal with whatever comes as a result of this. So realistically don't care. Denmark citizens might get lucky with some deal that exempts them from all sorts of bullshit coming down the line that we won't know about until it's far too late.

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  • [โ€“] -1 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Block sales of microchip lithography machines.

    Good one. Revoke restrictions on sales to countries US blocks too. China will pay more than US. Dissolving NATO is the big one. New alliance with those willing in Europe with Russia and China is needed.

    Trump has admitted that he doesn't care about any resources in Greenland (very expensive to develop and far from markets. Rare earths are for people who want to build EVs and wind turbines). This means that the only purpose of replacing NATO bases with US bases there is to be closer to striking/threatening Europe. If US has cozy/colonial role over Europe and it wanted to target Russia, then it would use EU/NATO bases to do it, and EU, as loyal puppy, is totally accommodating and supportive of that suicidal mission. US control of Greenland, within a colonial NATO, offers 0 additional threat platforms against Russia.

    When the US says it is a national security priority for it to control Greenland, it is automatically a much bigger national security priority for Europe to control it, and then needing to use Russia and China's help to control it.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    China will pay more than US. Dissolving NATO is the big one. New alliance with those willing in Europe with Russia and China is needed.

    Allying with other fascist enemy nations is not a productive way to fight back against the usa.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Propaganda for corrupt "liberal supremacy" is what is threatening you, and will destroy you, if you allow your rulers, whose political capital is entirely given to them by the CIA, to continue delivery your soul to US colonial master. When CIA and oligarchy are given free speech, their supremacist speech, bribery, extortion power drowns out all other speech, and the liberalism values justification of the fascist supremacism is a lie.

    Allying with multi polar world was always consistent with genuine democratic values compared to "thou shalt diminish and kill those less liberal and CIA-ruled than us." It is absolute only path to defending Europe from USA. CIA inspired "values" are not there to help.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    I get that you're deep into some strange conspiracy theories. But no, aligning with fascist enemy nations is not a democratic value. It is also not the only path to defending the eu by any stretch of the imagination when nuclear weapons exist.

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  • [โ€“] 20 points 10 months ago

    That's a good first step. Then, tax the hell out of US majors and tech companies

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  • [โ€“] 37 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Unitedstatesian here: boycott us. Seriously, do it. Iโ€™m not kidding. This isnโ€™t a joke, or sarcastic. From where Iโ€™m standing, it looks like a popular grassroots response could be the strongest response the EU is going to be giving in the near to mid term future.

    Also, I hope your leaders are preparing contingency plans, but the time to do that was honestly way back in 2016-17 when it became apparent what his intentions and predilections were. I am concerned that it could be too little, too late, with regards to establishing independent European security that cannot be fundamentally undermined by our now-fascist government.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Bonus if you sell off 10 year us treasuries

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Iโ€™m sorry to say this but what the world needs is you to be inflicted an humiliating, clear military defeat somewhere. Maybe losing a carrier, maybe getting some of those B2 shot down in one of those โ€˜beautiful bombingsโ€™. You (and the world) need to see your military is not unbreakable and pretending to be the owners of the world is not going to end well.

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  • Unfortunately, the US military remains extremely competent - for now, at least. There are already beginnings of ironically Stalin-esque ideological purges in the military leadership, and the procurement choices this regime has made have beenโ€ฆ impressively idiotic, in pretty much all domains.

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  • [โ€“] 16 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    America is brandishing a shotgun and the EU is threatening to take it off the christmas card list!?

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 10 months ago

    Sell US treasuries, or maybe Kier could stop buying them like they are 2 for 1

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 10 months ago

    The only thing these ghouls care about is money and their lives. If removing their ilk is impossible, hit their profit margins. Seriously. I don't know why anyone with power and/or influence in this world are capitulating to this govt. and the cry-baby-bitches currently holding the reigns.

    If Fascism is Capitalism when it's threatened by progressive ideas, then stopping it requires might and/or money. If the world can't stop the might of a rouge nation, stop the money instead. Make this country suffer economically and you'll see them fold faster than the Democrats did when the shutdown threatened holiday travel and consumer spending!

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  • [โ€“] 16 points 10 months ago

    Please do and expel our ambassadors. Close us off and isolate us. I say this because the more it happens. The more the drooling masses here are made to feel the reality of the situation the better. You simply would not believe the level of cognitive dissonance. These people are deluded.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Left wingers to the rescue! Once again. Was a shitty deal to begin with...

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    [โ€“] 4 points 10 months ago

    shut it all down. cut them off.

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    [โ€“] 35 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Do it do it do it. FFS he's shown what he is clear as day.

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  • [โ€“] 26 points 10 months ago

    With people like Trump, it's always like this: Ypu give them an inch, they reach out and take a mile. Appeasement does not work with psychopaths. Time for Europe to learn this now. It's kinda funny to me that Nazis finally get what I personally have heard from them on multiple occaions: That Europe stands on its own instead of being the US's puppets. Of course the distancing will also not be enough to them, they always have been traitors that want a "strong" leadership. Not just like Putin, but exactly Putin in person.

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  • [โ€“] 16 points 10 months ago

    Just fucking do it. Let the bitch know threats won't be tolerated.

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 10 months ago

    Do it, please.

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    On you don't just need to freeze that. There rs something else we need to do:

    Tax the techbros. You want tarrffs, Donnie? We'll give you tariffs: since big tech is selling our data and making money out of it, a 100โ‚ฌ tax for every EU user your platform has will need to be paid for every access of each user.

    In cases where it's not possible to measure, the tax goes to 1000โ‚ฌ per day.

    The goal is simply make it too expensive for any big tech from that shithole to operate in Europe.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 10 months ago

    Even better. Undo the laws that allow US tech companies to sue them if they take a look inside US tech systems. Some country can make an alternative app store, eat Apple's lunch and make it 90% cheaper and still pocket like 30B. They could even sell their dongles to US customers so they can circumvent and download the foreign appstore and there is nothing the US companies could do about it. All they need to do is change their own laws to allow for this. The US has already ripped up the trade agreements and aid that were the impetus for those laws in the first place so there is absolutely no reason to keep them on their books.

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 10 months ago

    Do it you fucking pussies. Fuck this fascist orange clown admin!

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 10 months ago

    Stop the hem hawing and fucking do it you slowpokes!

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  • Do not do deals or ang business with the US. Cut all ties that we can now. Start building alternative plans for the ties we cannot cut right now.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 10 months ago*

    Start selling US Bonds and tank the US economy. Trump is a bully, but his gang is the rich. Theyโ€™ll choose a new bully if heโ€™s hurting them, and it helps heโ€™s already threatening them one at a time.

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