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Man the whole world needs to stand up to Trump and US.
This. Especially reporters. They should all call out lies and abuse without hesitation. Access to the Whitehouse press office isn’t worth it. Don’t even cover that shit. Make Trump have to step outside if he wants an audience.
Reporters are disporoportionaly from wealthy families. Poor people are less able to work unpaid internships for 3-4 years to get their foot in the door. They aren’t the wealthy members of their families but they usually from well off backgrounds.
There are exceptions but most of them have some class bias.
It’s who is on the board of the non-profits and who owns the for-profits that are making these decisions. I blame them and the headline writers (which is probably them too).
The problem is is persons the reporters work for. Media moguls
American here: please do, we need the help. Feels like anyone or anything with the clout and ability to do such things has already been purchased by the oligarchy. People are protesting, but there is only so much they can do when they also can’t afford to live day to day.
People can do more around here. We’ve been lied to for generations and I dont see a single Heritage Foundation building on fire.
It’s because protesting is useless.
Nothing changes until the billionaires and oligarchy fear for their life. It sucks, but it’s true.
Be nice if Americans had their shit together enough that the rest of the world didn’t have to deal with this in the first place. But no, the electorate of the most powerful country on earth are a bunch of squealing idiot children, and now that’s everyone else’s problem to fix.
It’s more complicated than that. They live in an informational dystopia where they’re taught from childhood that they are some kind of supreme nation to stand above all others. That they are the epitome of freedom and goodness. That their version of freedom is the pinnacle of what it means to be free. You know rather like what North Korea does. They even have their own version of history, where they believe that they stepped in and solved WWII, despite coming in on the butt-end of things. A version of history where they don’t commit all the atrocities they’ve been committing since before their country’s inception. Again like North Korea.
They only have two parties, both are absolute dogshit, and there’s no logical sense behind how their voting works because you can just draw up arbitrary districts to favour one party or another, meaning that whoever votes for the underdog in said district might as well stay home because their vote won’t count anyway.
The U.S. has always been a budding fascist dictatorship, with their exceptionalist self-view and idea that they should be the world police. It’s only in recent years that they’ve really let their civilised façade crumble enough that people can help but see that the emperor is in fact stark naked, and raping children.
TLDR: It doesn’t matter how many people vote correctly because they’re a fascist far-right dictatorship and all votes will lead to hell anyway.
Not to disagree with anything you said, but be careful applying American exceptionalism to the problem of fascism. This shit is international. We attract the worst people from around the globe to push hard here, but everywhere in the English-speaking world is backsliding under the same influence campaigns, and they see and support their fellow fascists in non-English countries. Many of our worst influences are foreign born (Musk, Thiel, Murdock) and hold no devotion to the US. It’s just the most profitable market to capture. But they won’t stop here.
Oh, absolutely. I’m not saying that American exceptionalism is the root of all fascism, but it is certainly an excellent lubricant for it in the U.S.; you can get away with a lot if the populace believes that their actions are just, and much of the west has viewed the U.S. as the arbiter of justice.
The problem with American exceptionalism is more that the U.S. has held immense soft power for a very long time now. For example, it’s not just Americans that believe that they won WWII, people here in Europe believe that as well. Reality is obviously more complicated than that, yet people get utterly shocked when you bring up just how important the Russians were in WWII, and what a massive sacrifice of life they put down. Never mind that of India.
Like North Korea but white
It’s crazy how many people try to be smug about this.
All you’re doing is telling everyone it took shit this blatant and obvious for you to notice if you think this is a new problem.
I understand being ignorant of another country’s system of government, but how do you not know all the fucked up shit that’s been happening before this to think it’s new?
The “big 3” have been doing this shit for centuries, and before that it was just different countries.
Shuffling the countries around like you want to won’t solve shit. It just perpetuates the system itself…
Have you put any thought into this?
They didn’t say it was new. They said that now it’s so bad it’s everyone’s problem to deal with.
Feels a bit like we’re getting the opposite.
This is some bullshit. Should just stop buying anything from US companies.
I was thinking we could throw all the CEOS into Lake Michigan with the Turd Reich and Shitler
So they capitulated to the very worst offenders.
Starting to look like the whole world wants to be complicit.
The way I’ve heard these minimum tax agreements described usually is where all the signatories agree to collect the same minimum corporate tax rate. The article says 15%. The US already has a 21% corp tax rate, setting aside tax incentives.
So what does it mean in this case to say that US corps are exempt? Does this mean that a US corp homed in the Caymans will pay a different rate than a French company in the Caymans? Or that the US is refusing to collect a minimum 15% after tax incentives?
I’m sure it’s spelled out in the text of the treaty, but maybe someone here has already done the digging.
It’s more about how US based companies like Google report their taxes in Ireland to avoid that local 21%. This was supposed to end the Caymans type loopholes. But now it’s worthless
Ideally if enough countries agree, then there won’t be tax havens giant corps can use.
Yeah we need more info on such specs.
This is why labour organizing in the US is so important. “Tax” US multinationals by getting much higher wages.
Scott Bessent looks like he’s trying to do a Will Farrel impression of himself.
The fuck they are. Everybody has to pay takes. I hope their offices around the world get closed down or investigated very soon.
I envision an increase in the numbers of US-based multinational companies.
The amended version excludes large U.S.-based multinational corporations from the 15% global minimum tax after negotiations between President Donald Trump’s administration and other members of the Group of Seven wealthy nations… The Trump administration in June re-negotiated the deal when congressional Republicans rolled back a so-called revenge tax provision from Trump’s big tax and spending bill that would have allowed the federal government to impose taxes on companies with foreign owners, as well as on investors from countries judged as charging “unfair foreign taxes” on U.S. companies… “This deal risks nearly a decade of global progress on corporate taxation only to allow the largest, most profitable American companies to keep parking profits in tax havens,” said Zorka Milin, policy director at the FACT Coalition, a tax transparency nonprofit. Tax watchdogs argue the minimum tax is supposed to halt an international race to the bottom for corporate taxation that has led multinational businesses to book their profits in countries with low tax rates.
This is so disappointing. This seemed like such a solid step in the right direction
Taxes for thee and not for me!
