Tax their services. Impose a tax per user account to the big tech of 20€ per month. If they don't comply, the tax is 20€ per each person in europe. Make their apps in the app store have to pay taxes (even if they are free) per each new download.
this post was submitted on 24 May 2025
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It's not just that kind of service. There are media properties to tariff - movies, shows, music. There is software and consulting for enterprises to tariff. There are financial services to tariff.
The USA is the biggest exporter of services in the world, by a huge margin. Trump can pretend all he wants that it's only goods that matter, but the moment US services are going to be hit with tariffs, the wailing will begin. All his ultra-rich friends made their money on services.
Yep, force businesses to pay taxes based on the countries where they make the revenue Don't want to do that? Can't access the market.
What do you think who is going to pay these taxes?
Exactly us. Which is the best way to force people to ditch their services and look for European alternatives.
You seem to underestimate how many companies and government organizations rely on American hyperscalers. It will take many years to replace these with something European. The same for Android and iOS, Windows and macOS and all the apps that were built for these. Cisco and Juniper - sure, just replace all of their hardware with something European.
Tariffs are insane when Trump applies them, they are equally insane when Europe will apply them.
You seem to underestimate how many companies and government organizations rely on American hyperscalers
No. That's the point. Those are exactly the institutions you want to target. We want them to switch away from American companies.
The point is stop relying on American stuff so yeah, tax the hell out of them so we stop using their shit.
Tariffs are insane when Trump applies them, they are equally insane when Europe will apply them.
You seem to believe that you can talk with the orange turd. You can't. The only reasoning fascism understands is strength. You never win against fascist by "playing fair", you need to hit them as strong as you can and make sure they won't stand up; so tax, tax them so hard that not a single soul in europe wants to ever use an american service again and let the orange cunt be devoured by the oligarchs that control their country and dream of ruling the whole world.
It's about time we tell the US to fuck off for good.
God I wish we could recall this jackass
Sadly, we could. We, as usaians are choosing not to impeach him for flagrant emoluments violations. Greedy narcissists are gonna greedily narcissist, this is on us and his supporters (even if it's mostly on the supporters)
Maybe they got a plane to give him?
Ironically, planes are one of the biggest export from the EU to the US. Maybe you've heard of AirBus. They make bigger planes than 747s too.