Trump says any European country that tries to tax Microsoft, Adobe, Meta, Amazon or Google will be punished immediately

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Why don’t we finally revoke Intellectual property protections we granted under DCMA and TTIP. If Trump does not feel bound by these agreements neither should we.

Doing away with intellectual property in its entirety would be such a good retaliation to this techno fascist bullshit

Doing awey with IP in general would be a good idea as long as we move past this kind of capitalistic society we live in. Let’s share our ideas with everyone and advance.




Will he declare war and then negotiate a 300 billion peace deal with Europe?

Make it for each member country and we have a deal



That’s a very good indicator that taxing them is a good idea.


What’s he going to do? America is running out of feet to be shot in.

He can shoot himself in the dick instead, that’d be a fair substitute for me.

Cut him some slack, he’s been trying but even the top army snipers would have trouble with that shot.





Punished… How? It worked very well on other instances right? 🤣

He’s going to make his subjects pay more for things they can’t buy in their own country. That’ll show us.


maybe by giving us $300B? That punishment worked wonders on Iran /s


Through persistent psychological torture of a kind not seen since the 20th century.

They’ll be given free access to CoPilot and Teams.



Yeah, cool. Now go fuck yourself.


President Trump threatened to scrap a just-finalized trade deal with the European Union

So, just Trump being Trump. 🤷‍♂️


What did he do to Spain when they refused to let the US use their bases for attacking Iran? Oh, nothing? Fucking TACO.

All profit needs to be taxed.

The larger the profit, the larger the tax. Thats the ONLY way we can all continue to coexist peacefully in a society.


“A corrupt shitgoblin says…"
Who gives a fuck what that fat diarrhea covered bag of syphilis says. FUCK OFF AND DIE, PAEDO


Time to turn off Amazon, then. It’s a scourge, anyway.

Nationalize it. No wait, the EU isn’t a nation… Unionize it! No wait that’s a different thing….



Aren’t all of those corporations already operating and being taxed in Europe?

As far as I know there is some tax loophole, that’s why the tech giants are all registered in Ireland for their EU headquarters.

Sell MacBook for €2000 in France, pay royalties to apple Ireland of €2000. Apple France has no profit, apple Ireland has little tax.

There’s no need for an Apple France in this scheme.

Apple isn’t selling physical goods in most European countries, Apple partners are. The Ireland entity is there for the digital services revenue mostly






He will change his mind 3 times before Friday.



I have a better idea: the EU should introduce a “Big Tech convenience fee”, so it’s not a country and not taxing.


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