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Patrick says

One wonders how Trump was able to get such cooperation. Maybe he whispered in her ear that he has the Epstein videos of many of her pals.

Nope, with all the taxes, fees and super over regulation on the part of the EU, she decided that a 15% tariff was far reasonable. The other details...well we will have to see if/when they come about.

Every country is taxing itself. As to the screengrab, FINISH THE FUCKING SENTENCE YOU AI FUCKING TROLL.

Lol, yes, European salaries are generally lower than US salaries.

Program manager for a nonprofit sounds like a totally useless job where even 40K is too much.

Patrick says

Lol, yes, European salaries are generally lower than US salaries.

In many countries they tax the shit out of their payrolls. So why earn more?

Just their social insurance payroll tax per paycheck - our equivalent to FICA - can be like 25% - 39% (Belgium). Usually half of that or more is paid by the employer, too.

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!MONARCHY! will always have excellent advisors, rather than mere Politicians! And be more Spiritually based!

Did they really need to pixillate a statue? Sheesh. That one doesn't even need to go in the tits thread.

Patrick says

Did they really need to pixillate a statue? Sheesh. That one doesn't even need to go in the tits thread.

Whoever sculpted that, nice titties!

MolotovCocktail says

Whoever sculpted that, nice titties!

Yep, very firm and she will keep her figure even as she ages.

If you are European and still haven’t grasped that the EU - both as a collective actor and through its individual members - has no real weight as a geopolitical actor on the global stage, then now is the moment to face this brutal truth. The EU has been completely sidelined in the negotiations over Ukraine’s future - and, by extension, the future of the entire European security order.

In the emerging triumvirate of great powers in this Cold War 2.0 between the United States and the DragonBear axis, Europe has been reduced to the backyard of global affairs and the main stage for the first proxy war between Washington and Beijing. Make no mistake: Russia would never have launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine - aiming to fully erase its statehood - without the long-term strategic backing of China.

Europe not only failed to prevent this war; it would have been incapable of sustaining Ukraine without the immediate and comprehensive support of the United States. Without Washington’s decisive intervention in 2022, Ukraine would likely have collapsed in the first phase of the war.

More than three years of complacency, inadequate measures, and a chronic lack of political will and courage in Europe have brought about the continent’s gravest war and destruction since 1945. This is Europe’s make-or-break moment. The fate of Ukraine - and the fate of Europe itself - is now being decided elsewhere, by the three great powers.

Welcome to the new world order. As a European, you can continue living within the carefully curated illusions of a politically incapacitated leadership - or you can confront reality. The reality is harsh, but facing it means you have not yet surrendered your future.

https://x.com/vtchakarova/status/1954221751002411480

The euro being less likely than even BRICS imaginary money to challenge the dollar has got to be humiliating.

They think it's bad now. Just wait until US stable coins are used to buy oil internationally.



https://www.politico.eu/article/lagardes-euro-moment-busted-by-stablecoins/

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-fall-of-rome-20



https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.development.desa.pd/files/unpd-egm_200010_un_2001_replacementmigration.pdf

Rape stats: 2000 v 2023

Picture of the year:

Great Thread about the European Primitive Superstitions about Air Conditioning
Even window or portable ones used just for a few days.

"Every French person has the same story of how they got deathly ill from Air Conditioning in the USA"
"They believe that a few days of Air Conditioning is especially damaging for Global Warming, while using Electric or Gas Heat 6 months of the year"
"Air Conditioning changes your body's polarity"

MolotovCocktail says

DemoralizerOfPanicans says

Great Thread about the European Primitive Superstitions about Air Conditioning
Even window or portable ones used just for a few days.

"Every French person has the same story of how they got deathly ill from Air Conditioning in the USA"
"They believe that a few days of Air Conditioning is especially damaging for Global Warming, while using Electric or Gas Heat 6 months of the year"
"Air Conditioning changes your body's polarity"

One thing I noticed from European A/C Fear stories, from Older 55+ Europeans, is they seem to have confused Legionaire's Disease with Air Conditioning in General.

Another big one is connecting Air Conditioning to "Liver Disease" (?!?!?!)

This is extraordinary. For the many of you who wonder how the EU could agree to such a humiliating "deal" with Trump, wonder no more.

We have an unusually straightforward answer directly from the horse's mouth: Sabine Weyand, who's the Directorate-General for Trade at the EU commission.

As she puts its:
- "If you didn't hear me say the word 'negotiation' – that's because there wasn't one." => the U.S. dictated the terms
- "From the Commission's perspective, this was a strategic compromise, not an ideal economic solution" => they're aware this completely f*cks the EU economically
- "The European side was under massive pressure to find a quick solution to stabilize transatlantic relations – especially with regard to security guarantees" => the EU agreed to the "deal" under a protection racket
- "We have a land war on the European continent. And we are completely dependent on the United States. The member states were not prepared to take the risk of further escalation – that would have been the consequence of European countermeasures." => Europe acted out of fear, choosing economic submission because of its total dependence on the U.S. (which ironically will only worsen the dependence)

There you have it, she said the quiet part out loud: the EU is in such a terrible strategic situation and EU leaders have so little courage that they're unable and unwilling to say 'no' to even the most humiliating demands.

https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1960603151154790469

https://x.com/SaysSimulation/status/1964661901599953222

DemoralizerOfPanicans says

Great Thread about the European Primitive Superstitions about Air Conditioning

Legionnaire's disease was a DARPA experiment to use the public as guinea pigs to test using ventilation systems to spread disease entities/poisons (like you see in the movies). A guy in Santa Cruz lost his wife and children after going to a movie downtown, but he survived. Bay Area was targeted.

The notion of air conditioning spreading disease isn't such a stretch, because the drippings and moisture pulled out of the air can grow molds and even amoebas (brain eaters) that can be spread by the blowers in poorly maintained older systems. However, it is grossly exaggerated. Systems that adequately divert the moistures won't be a problem.

When I was in the south, there were old window units that definitely were mold blasters. You could smell it when you turned them on. However, sweltering in the humidity was the only other option.

https://youtu.be/ySgdcE9NyA0?si=gJO5Q922AVAYQESt

Look at this one closely:

MolotovCocktail says

Look at this one closely:

Since the mean is always greater than the median for any right skewed distibution (such as income), what is the median Dutch income? I bet, comparing apples to apples, it's lower than that of the US.

AI statistics FAIL.

stereotomy says

MolotovCocktail says

Look at this one closely:

Since the mean is always greater than the median for any right skewed distibution (such as income), what is the median Dutch income? I bet, comparing apples to apples, it's lower than that of the US.

AI statistics FAIL.

You found it.

Grok says it's false:

To provide the median and average annual gross salaries for the Netherlands and the United States in U.S. dollars (USD), I’ll convert the Netherlands’ figures from euros (€) to USD using the exchange rate of 1 EUR = 1.18 USD (as you specified for September 17, 2025). The figures are for full-time workers, pre-tax, sourced from Centraal Planbureau (CPB) for the Netherlands and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for the U.S.

Netherlands
Median: €46,500 × 1.18 = $54,870
Average: €46,500 × 1.18 = $54,870 (mean aligns with median per CPB data)

United States
Median: $62,088
Average: $66,622

Using 1 EUR = 1.18 USD, reflecting today’s rate (September 17, 2025).
Context: The higher exchange rate increases the Netherlands’ salaries in USD compared to the prior 1.11 rate, though U.S. salaries remain higher due to market differences.
Sources: CPB for Netherlands (2025 estimates); BLS for U.S. (2024 data, adjusted for 2025).

Not only are salaries lower over there, taxes are way higher.

Patrick says

Grok says it's false:

It's false because you can't compare median to average, which they are purposely doing disingenuously.

It's not so much the taxes you pay...it's what you get for the taxes.

Misc says

It's not so much the taxes you pay...it's what you get for the taxes.

Agreed, in some European countries you get net more because as a taxpayer you get to enjoy all of the services, no matter how rich you are.

People crow about how high taxes are over there but given roughly the same salary you would come out far ahead for example in Germany with a family of four. Close to free childcare, schools, Universities, groceries at least 40% cheaper etc. Also Germany has flat 25% cap gains, not that shit that taxes you at the income tax rate for short term gains, and Switzerland has no capital gains tax.

Of course in many industries (e.g. tech) the salaries are lower, but this bullshit about how the US has such low taxes simply doesn't hold true as soon as you factor in benefits and cost of living. Especially since the leftoids ratcheted up the progressive tax rates, federally and in the states, but cut everyone making over $150k off from almost any benefit is just crap and Trump hasn't done enough yet to revert it, although he is moving in the right direction.

I'd argue that on many levels the US tax system of progessively taxing you the richer you are while cutting off almost all benefits at a relatively low income threshold is more socialist/communist than in some European countries.