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by piltdownman 499 days ago
> The EU, Japan, et al. being mere consumers sincerely cannot write the rules because they have no weight to throw around

Exactly what I'd expect someone from a country where the economy is favoured over the society to say - particularly in the context of consumer protection.

You want access to a trade union of consumers? You play by the rules of that Union.

American exceptionalism doesn't negate that. A large technical moat does. But DeepSeek has jumped in and revealed how shallow that moat really is for AI at this neonatal stage.
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ReptileMan 499 days ago
Except EU is hell bent on going the way of Peron's Argentina or Mugabe's Zimbabwe. The EU relative share of world economy has been going down with no signs of the trends reversal. And instead of innovating our ways of stagnation we have - permanently attached bottle caps and cookie confirmation windows.
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piltdownman 499 days ago
> EU is hell bent on going the way of Peron's Argentina or Mugabe's Zimbabwe

https://www.foxnews.com/

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ReptileMan 499 days ago
Nope mate. Looking at my purchasing power compared to the USA guys I knew now and in 2017. Not in my favor. EU economy is grossly mismanaged. Our standards of living have been flat for the last 18 years since the financial crisis.

In 2008 EU had more people, more money and bigger economy than US, with proper policies we could be in a place where we could bitch slap both Trump and Putin. And not left to wonder whose dick we have to suck deeper to get some gas.

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DrFalkyn 498 days ago
Peter Zeihan would say, that’s the problem Europe has, in addition to demographic collapse. They’re not energy indepedent and hitched their star to Russia (especially Germany), on the belief that economic interdependence would keep things somewhat peaceful. How wrong they were
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Dalewyn 499 days ago
>Exactly what I'd expect someone from a country

I'm Japanese-American, so I'm not exactly happy about Japan's state of irrelevance (yet again). Their one saving grace as a special(er) ally and friend is they can still enjoy some of the nectar with us if they get in lockstep like the UK does (family blood!) when push comes to shove.

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