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I'm pretty sure Ireland is where all the major companies are "headquartered" and technically keep all their money there for tax reasons. Ireland could just freeze the bank accounts of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Intel, ... Or do something similar if they so choose as retaliation. Would be devastating financially afterwards, but would get the US's full attention

The EU needs to divest its self of US technology. It’s clear we have gone down the drain and will no longer be considered a competent ally.

Block billionaire's services and nourish European alternatives.

Make all the IP of those billionaires unprotected in the EU. Maybe also get China on-board.

No Tariffs. tariffs can be passed on to the poor, who have no part in this invasion. Start sanctioning the Billionaires & seize their assets instead.

and why the fuck not all billionairs?

Tarrifs the fuck outta Tesla and spacex

you can do that by siezing thier properties and thier bank accounts(including thier investments).

It's a super long read, but filled with nuggets that explain exactly how to hit the rich by taking away their money. The TL;DR is to repeal the country's anti-circumvention law then route the subscription money locally.

The Post-American Internet (permalink)

there's a third possible response to tariffs, one that's just sitting there, begging to be tried: what about repealing anticircumvention law?

It's hard to convey how much money is on the table here. Take just one example: Apple's App Store. Apple forces all app vendors into using its payment processor, and charges them a 30 percent commission on every euro spent inside of an app.. .. Apple makes $100 billion per year on it. If the EU repeals Article 6 of the Copyright Directive, some smart geeks in Finland could reverse-engineer Apple's bootloaders and make a hardware dongle that jailbreaks phones so that they can use alternative app stores, and sell the dongle – along with the infrastructure to operate an app store – to anyone in the world who wants to go into business competing with Apple for users and app vendors.

Those competitors could offer a 90% discount to every crafter on Etsy, every performer on Patreon, every online news outlet, every game dev, every media store. Offer them a 90% discount on payments, and still make $10b/year.

Gary Stevenson is also good

I know some rich assholes here in the states... Put a 1000% tarrif on everyone visiting from the US. Nobody working class can afford it right now anyway.

Yep.

If Europe announced a 100% tariff on Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and OpenAI, Trump would be gone in a week.

Tax Amazon, 50%

Tax Google, 50%

Tax Microsoft, 50%

Tax Apple, 50%

Tax Meta, 50%

Ban X, 100%

This would be the largest W of the century, but I'm going to go ahead and manage my expectations

You could enact or enforce laws that forbid a felon, or associates of a felon, entry to your country.

Who would want criminals, or associates of criminals entering your country?

You might name such an organisation Immigration Criminal Exclusion, or ICE for short

And I only have one upvote 😒

In addition, kick out McDonalds, Burger King and Subway. Better for general health too.

Treat the American oligarchy like the robber barons they are

This would make Trump panic in the best way, it would directly undermine his aesthetic of Rich Asshole Who Other Rich Assholes Like.

We already know how to do this, its literally the first thing we did when we sanctioned Russia for Ukraine. Target the business interests of the people actually making the decisions.

This was always the answer they were just too afraid of their own rich people until a land invasion seemed imminent.

Forget taxing them, the ones who committed crimes against humanity (Zuckerberg with enabling the Rohingya genocide, Musk for the disastrous disorderly shut down of USAID).

And get rid of all American oligarch gang activity; Apple, Google, Meta, all of them.

Finally some fucking sense. Doing nothing and being mad has gotten no one anywhere. Hit them where it fucking hurts, bottom line be damned. Governments are not businesses.

Europe: sorry, best we can do is specific carveouts for US billionaire owned companies in our tax code....