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If there was a suitable banquet hall, why are state receptions held on the South Lawn by every admin?

Not passing judgement, making an observation

That’s a reasonable way to think about it, but what “should” happen and what “does” happen are different.

It seems like historically, state visits happen at the White House, which to me makes a lot of sense given the logistics of hosting foreign entourage.

The US is a world power, part of being a world power is being able to project that power, including through aesthetics, compare the aesthetics of a state visit in the Kremlin and Great Hall of the People vs. hosting in a temporary tent on a lawn.

Why is defence of it insane? The article makes a good point re: state guests and needing to erect tents to accommodate them.

Genuinely curious

Don’t care, use Linux.

It’s the ethical choice.

Don’t put yourself in the learned helplessness box

Yes, but the EU is currently a US vassal and surprisingly weak as a driver of any geopolitical decision.

I wish the EU would have closer relations with the PRC as a balance to being screwed over by the US

Unfortunately such a system doesn’t exist. Britain used to be hegemon before world war 2, then the US, and soon the PRC.

I’m not part of the imperial core (US), so I’d rather deal with Beijing than Washington in foreign affairs.

Unfortunately, my country already has all those discriminations, so the only thing that would change for me is dealing with a more cooperative rather than extractive “pole”

China is orders of magnitude more of a force for good than the US is.

China becoming hegemon would unironically be amazing for humanity

That’s basically every westerner passing judgement about China, so I’ll take it that his artistic message punched through

Depends on the country, of course there were politicians that disagreed on principle, but the voting on the issue wasn’t done by MEPs , if it’s MEPs you messaged

Broke nation sells out national security… more at 11

The rejection of the bill wasn’t on principle, but technicalities, if you look at most countries that opposed, the bill will be back with edits, Denmark is already aiming for December

The rejection of the bill wasn’t on principle, but technicalities, the bill will be back with edits, Denmark is already aiming for December

The demands from this admin are meant to specifically crush the spirit of the EU.

deregulate your car legislation and tear up your pedestrian friendly capitals

deregulate your food safety laws, and allow cheap US slop to destroy the traditional EU food scene (no more gruyère, you’re gonna have Cheez Whiz)

deregulate your green sector, time to pump those pollution numbers up

What Trump is doing makes a lot of sense. It’s just standard iconoclasm.

Authoritarian regimes routinely destroy historical monuments to erase a past they oppose, promote their own ideology, and control national identity.

I can see that, tbf, thanks for the explanation

Europe… the guys that want backdoors into all encrypted communication… the guys that want to give Google a big fat contract for app attestatio for their age verification apps…

Europe…? You guys thought of Europe? I feel like the entire EU policy right now is anathema to an Open Source Phone

We can be as ideologically similar, policy-wise, we’re an obedient dog with a masochism kink.

“Yes daddy Trump, we’ll take all your child killer gas guzzlers and destroy our urban planning for more car friendly cities. What’s that? Yes sure we’ll also take a 15% tariff, and we’ll do it with a smile”

Meta returning to their roots it seems

It has a lot to do with the article, because of our superiority complex and literally EU politicians saying “we don’t need China, China needs us more than we need them”.

Dealing with China would’ve been a good counterbalance against being screwed over by the US tariff wise.

However, now we have to open up our markets to American cars and ractopamine pork from the US (yes, the deal also includes deregulating EU food safety standards).

Our gloating is literally destroying our standards of life

I live in Europe, I also prefer Euro grass. I just want us to stop thinking we’re the shit, when we’re actually shit and no one cares about the EU because nothing worthwhile comes from this continent atm