Still not enough I suppose.

Funding education, funding social services, funding mental healthcare. Enforcing existing laws against harassment on big tech.

One of the biggest social media platforms is spamming child porn, they’ve all been proven to be addictive on purpose, and we’re blaming teenage users.

It’s the EU making the purchase though. Voting with its wallet so to speak. Nobody forces anyone to do anything.

Me not buying McDonald’s is not a distortion of the free market either, just a healthy dietary and monetary decision.

Nah, these aren’t assassinations, just plain domestic murders.

Nixon fucked the world through the dollar.

In short, the world is paying the US to fuck around, since Bretton Woods replaced gold with the the USD, meaning that the US gets unlimited money while they get to spread their inflationary pressure around the world.

Charles de Gaulle, president of France at the time wasn’t as stupid as most world leaders, and ended up preserving at least some semblance of fiscal independence by smuggling the French gold back from the US.

EU is closer than NATO.

NATO says that if someone gets attacked, everyone else responds in a way they think is appropriate.

EU says that if someone gets attacked, everyone goes all out without consideration.

Thanks, it is, in fact.

I haven’t really read into this because the whole thing is so insane that if it happens all bets are off.

The thing that is a huge wildcard is how Denmark and the rest of the EU react.

In the sense that the EU is an obligatory military alliance closer than even NATO, so in essence if Denmark considers itself at war, so is France and her nuclear submarine fleet.

There are options. Dumping US bonds would collapse the US, and the only thing that makes it hard is the US economy collapsing would be a bad thing for the EU right now.

Also, protracted resistance. Greenland is harsh territory, and Nordic weekend soldiers regularly beat US marines in exercises in cold weather warfare.

The USSR lost half a million in Afghanistan, 50k to fighting, 450k to the environment. And they didn’t need to resupply via the Atlantic.

Also, the Nordics probs have the world’s best submarine interdiction fleet, and most of the Cold War era US anti-sub stuff is actually reliant on Greenland, Iceland and the UK cooperating.

Nordic subs regularly score hits on US carriers in exercises.

Not really. If the USD loses value, your neighbour will sell their goods to me for EUR because it will be worth more.

It will be like everyone in the US got a pay cut. It’s a demand side effect, not like a tariff, and it’s uniform, not like a tariff.

It’s inflation after all.

This would make all goods more expensive, as it would directly devalue the USD. It wouldn’t make people buy local, it would just make them buy less.

It’s not what a tariff does, because that only applies to foreign imports.

Not cancelling, selling.

A dollar bill is debt that the govt owes to you. A bond is similar, just a bit different.

The US will still owe, just to different entities, but its figurative credit score will plummet at the same time it’s in a debt spiral.

But let’s make it simpler. Most of the world’s USD is not in the US, but in cash reserves abroad. They hold it like gold.

What happens if the big players sell? It’s already happening a bit, look at EURUSD and gold prices.

An IBCM is hard to hide. And they don’t need to.

And also hurt rich people with bunkers as well.

IIRC the USA does not have intercontinental missile launch sites in anywhere but the US. The US nukes in Europe are all plane borne bombs.

Those can’t really be launched unless both the US and the host country agree, and France and the UK have a bunch of those as well.

Well, he doesn’t care because nobody else does apparently.

Europe has nuclear weapons closer to the US than Greenland.

Technically, if everything works as if on paper, an attack on Greenland is an attack on Denmark. An attack on Denmark is an attack on France, according to EU articles, which are more tightly binding than NATO ones. And the French have nukes on subs floating under the Atlantic in undisclosed places, and their nuclear doctrine is basically “we use nukes as warning shots”.

In practice, just selling all US securities and cash reserves held by Europe would basically cause the US economy to implode overnight, and the US government to have to declare bankruptcy, and stop being able to pay or even feed its soldiers.

The problem is that it would also cause a deep recession in the EU and basically all over the world, so that’s why we’re playing chicken.

The stupid thing is that it’s not even a law. IDK if there was even bribery involved.

It’s just if you give the average state IT employee a switch that says “flip this to be more secure”, 9 times out of 10 they will flip it.

This is just enshittification on the enterprise level.

The problem is that it’s becoming less and less of a possibility, and more and more of a hassle, since everyone else, including our dear elected governments build shit with the expectation you engage in the big tech ecosystem.

I’ve been using e/OS, which is an Android fork maintained by a Danish university, so Google stops messing with my phone. I’ve made the switch after realising that when I wanted to restart the phone (was urgent at the time) the power button has been remapped to AI.

Yet, after moving to Denmark, I realized that the government ID service specifically disallows that fork and enforces using Google Android. The Danish government trusts Google over leading Danish universities.

Living without that ID thing on my phone would be possible but would require me to do tons of personal appointments with different companies, including banking, phone contracts, internet, public transit and so on.

There are great OPFOR scenarios made for ARMA 3 as well. I really liked the Chinese ones where you got to fight Americans as Chinese specops on Tanoa/Fiji.

Yeah, but who enforces the constitution right now in the US? The executive can’t start wars either.

What would practically happen if Trump and the White House just declared they did it, and the oligarchs just went and had the tech made to enforce it?