[lovich]

Is Europe actually going to do anything? They currently appear to be puckering their assholes and cowering in the face of Trump, and his admin are already yelling about how the EU is "illegally" regulating American companies.

They might just let this slide to not rock the boat, either out of fear and they will do nothing, or to buy time if they are actually divesting from the alliance with and economic dependence on the US

[torlok]

There's so many of these nonsense views of the EU here. Not being vocal about a mental case president doesn't mean politicians are "puckering their assholes". The EU is not affraid to moderate and fine tech companies. These things take time.

[lovich]

Under previous US admins and the relationship the EU had, yeah.

The asshole puckering is from how Trump has completely flipped the table, everything is hyper transactional now, and as we’ve seen military action against leaders personally is also on the table.

I’m saying I could see the EU let this slide now because it’s not worth it politically to regulate US companies for shit like this anymore. Whether that would be out of fear or out of trying to buy time to reorganize would probably end up in future getting the same kind of historical analysis that Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement to Germany gets nowadays