Trump will buckle under pressure from Europe, says German economy minister

[fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev]

tax the hell out of them, then block.
same with meta, amazon, google, apple, etc

[federalreverse@feddit.org]

Careful now, your Lemmy instance may run on AWS. (Haven't checked at all — but what I am trying to say is that a lot of people blinded themselves with half-baked ideas about TCO and stumbled right into American cloud services.)

[snekerpimp@lemmy.world]

No one can put more pressure on him than his handler, Putan. He has a hold over the orange turd, be it black mail or just fucking cash, and will push until the plan is carried out, crippling the US so he can expand his power and influence.

[Guest]

Surely the EU can find enough evidence to arrest and detain numerous oligarchs?

[bigshammy80@feddit.org]

You will never get Amazon or Apple blocked in Germany. X or Meta sure... but Germans are way too lazy to not use Amazon and Apple fanboys would go crazy if they couldn't buy the stuff in Germany.

[1984@lemmy.today]

No, narcissists doesnt buckle under pressure. Europe is acting more and more lost.

We need adult leaders in the room.

[melchior@feddit.org]

The current ranking is:

Rank	Shop	Turn over
1	amazon.de	14.660,1
2	otto.de	4.200,0
3	zalando.de	2.510,4
4	mediamarkt.de	1.753,1
5	ikea.com	1.392,0
6	apple.com	1.174,3
7	hm.com	833,1
8	lidl.de	796,4
9	aboutyou.de	777,8
10	shop-apotheke.com	767,1

So there are clearly a lot of fairly succesful alternatives.

[saltsong@startrek.website]

Trump won't buckle, this is true.

But there are plenty of other people around him that will. Sooner or later, either a real war will break out, or Trump will be removed, or nutered, or otherwise brought to heel by the Senate, or the military, or the oligarchs.

[1984@lemmy.today]

Yeah I agree. I think the last couple of years of social media has also made everyone turn against eachother. Politics, gender, whatever else.

This is why war comes closer. Specially when assholes like trump and musk are showing just how awful a human can be, and still be a billionarie or a us president. It makes it ok, even encouraged, to be like that for some people.

[abbadon420@lemm.ee]

That's a neat list. I want show off the Netherlands. Top 5 is pure Dutch(ish)

Positie Naam Herkomst Branche Omzet in euro

1. Bol.com Duitsland E-Commerce 3,3 miljard euro
2. Coolblue Nederland E-Commerce 1,4 miljard euro
3. Albert Heijn Nederland Supermarkt 1,2 miljard euro
4. Zalando Duitsland Mode 835 miljoen euro
5. Wehkamp Nederland E-Commerce 766 miljoen euro
6. Amazon Verenigde Staten E-Commerce 530 miljoen euro
7. Jumbo Nederland Supermarkt 503 miljoen euro
8. Picnic Nederland Supermarkt 420 miljoen euro
9. De Bijenkorf Nederland Warenhuizen 380 miljoen euro
10. HelloFresh Duitsland Levensmiddelen 350 miljoen euro

[maggiwuerze@feddit.org]

From that list I see amazon as the least problematic though. Still problematic of course, but compared to the likes of Meta, Google or X they at least don't have influence on the information you get. They "just" dominate shoppng and hosting

[bigshammy80@feddit.org]

Yes, but the owners of these companies, all billionaires, influence society and the markets for their own benefit, and the lives of the American people are getting worse every year...

[goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I wish Habeck would have become chanclor ;-;