What a fucking bizarre, pointless demand from a country.
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
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It's not even the worst ideologically driven madness Pushed on foreign nations. The George W. Bush administration used aid programs to coerce African nations to focus on faith based birth control initiatives (such as abstinence) during the HIV epidemic leading to absolutely massive numbers of infected across the continent.
I can only imagine that EU is just quietly finding ways to not be dependent on the US right now.
What Trump is doing/does is unacceptable. But US citizens have been groomed to accept everything from their perceived leader.
EU has not been groomed to accept these things. They know to just ignore while they can and get ready for a trade war, cold war, or any sort of war.
Going to make these companies beat up gay people too?
I wonder what he'll say when he realises what the French motto means. What a muppet.
Every time I read news about Trump I always wonder what his end goal is. Because he sounds so much like those end users who says unreasonable things like "you need to add/fix/change this" if it is done then they always comes back for more because they didn't get the end come they wanted and then it all turns out they wanted something that was reasonable (or not) but they demand changes that won't do that.
Is his end goal really getting more jobs?
And I wonder what kind of jobs he wish to create because a lot of Americans seem to have many weird jobs already like just standing in a corner pointing in a direction or taking care of your filled form by walking 3 meters to another person with it.
Every time I read news about Trump I always wonder what his end goal is.
Be adulated. Get a nobel peace price because Obama has one (for not inexplicable but inexcusable reasons)
His end goal is to increase his wealth, status, and power as well as punishing those who dare to disagree or make him feel smaller.
His end goal is to become a dictator like Putin and turn us into serfs for the oligarchs while destroying the economy so his friends can buy everything up. Alternatively, he’s just doing whatever his pals tell him to do while he pisses away tax payer money in Florida.
Every time I read news about Trump I always wonder what his end goal is.
I interpret it as some combination of staying out of prison, getting richer, serving the demands of those who have blackmail on him and self aggrandization.
Every move he makes, every word he speaks falls under one of those items. Spot on!
So a desperat attempt to survive the shit he is in, while still being the hot topic by create emotional engagement? Sounds more like an influencer or a cult leader...
Cult leader is accurate.
Every time I read news about Trump I always wonder what his end goal is.
Maybe he is secretly suicidal
He doesn't have a goal, he acts purely on emotion. He's an overgrown child throwing a decades-long temper tantrum.
Nah. What he wants is bossing others around and taking revenge on people and things that bothered him, or going after things he thinks give him an advantage. That's usually by bullying people until they give up and do what he wants. His voters like DEI? Bully and force things until it's stamped out. Justice convicted him, so break justice. Consequences for jobs and the economy, or even the law, don't matter to him.
As a US citizen, I really wish the official reaction was just:
Fuck off.
Same. Or somehow an effective /ignore
Yeah, I disinterested, "Who? Ronald Dump? Is this someone who matters?" Wouldn't be bad either.
I wish EU's response was, that all US conpanies dealing with any government business in EU must comply to EU DEI rules
what about supply chain regulations? i've heard child labor is legal in the us now.
Is it?
They just did a thing that made child labor legal in FL, as a direct reaction to all the immigrant workers they usually take advantage of either getting deported, or fucking off somewhere else because they don’t want to be subjected to the tender mercies of ICE
They sure are trying to.
https://www.flhouse.gov/Sections/Bills/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=81923
Some highlights:
- Working before 6:30 a.m. or after 11 p.m. when school is scheduled the following day
- Working for more than eight hours in a day when school is scheduled the following day (except on holidays or Sundays)
- Working more than 30 hours in any one week while school is in session (though this can be waived by a parent or school superintendent)
- On any school day, 16- and 17-year-olds who aren’t in a career education program may not be employed during school hours
- Working more than eight hours in a day without a 30-minute break
or even "we regret your cultural requirements will prevent many business opportunities and hope you can find suitable replacement goods and services. We thank you for decades of mutually-beneficial trade and look forward to opportunities in the future." ?
Strong reaction from the Netherlands as well: "Meanwhile, a Dutch minister said she was not aware of any Trump orders to firms in the Netherlands, but warned that similar orders targeting Europe create "more uncertainty" for them." /sarcasm