Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun

• lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  At least the private company would act in their own interest to preserve profits. Trump will gladly blow the whole thing up regardless of consequences just to feed his ego. Like with the tariffs.

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  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not an american but personally i would most definitely prefer an absolute fuckwad with little self control in charge than an evil mastermind entity hellbent on squeezing me for every cent.

    The former is too stupid not to ruin his lever of power, which would cause the system to decentralize and/or contribute to said fuckwad’s downfall. The latter employs a huge amount of people specifically trained to maintain and increase the amount of profits extracted while maintaining their stranglehold.

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    • SabinStargem@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That is why I am hoping that if America has a 2nd Civil War or does a WW3, it would start off with Trump in charge of the bad guys. It would hurt, but at least victory over the Orange One would be almost guaranteed. Thiel or Bezos? More iffy, they have some grasp of logistics, patience, and other fundamentals.

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  • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    At least the private company would act in their own interest to preserve profits

    Such as sharing ALL of its customer data with the government in exchange for subsidies? Which effectively means having a government entity in control of the data but with zero oversight or control from the public?

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    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s not ideal but at least people aren’t getting their credit cancelled because they said something mean about Trump online.

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      • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah? You mean it’d be independent of Trump’s interference? Like US TikTok?

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