Norwegian fuel company Haltbakk Bunkers has announced it will cease supplying fuel to U.S. military forces in Norway and American ships docking in Norwegian ports, citing dissatisfaction with recent U.S. policy towards Ukraine.
“From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world.” - Donald Trump, Inauguration Day Jan 20 2025.
So much respect.
Trump is a dictator, dictators think “respect” and “fear” are interchangeable.
Every cop and politician ever.
“Respect my power and I’ll respect your lack thereof.”
Did he really say that?
Well, it didn’t work on me.
They’re going to use this as an excuse to buy Russian oil just watch
In that case, the rest of the sane 1st World should sanction the shit out of the USA until Orange Krasnov and his crew of Russian assets are out of office.
Plenty of Europe, if not all, it’s still buying Russian gas, even Spain which has Algerian gas still buys from Russia (a few billions of €), enough for Russia to say Spain is one of the most reliable partners they have.
It’s all a sham, a charade, a fucking joke.
Murican here. More of this please. We’ve swan-dived into some record setting ‘fuck around’, and desperately need a ‘find out’ that hurts enough to teach a lasting lesson.
You all need to swan dive the fuck out of it if you want this to stop.
The world cannot save you from yourselves. We will isolate you, abandon you, treat you as the untrustworthy former friend that you are. But none of that will matter if you don’t fix your shit.
Right. But for the sake of everyone else, our government needs to be treated like the hostile nation it is.
I really agree with this , as a fellow American.
This will continue (the whole of America suffering) until someone wrangles in Trump…
… or he gets us into a major war we can’t win.
Think there’s any chance the draft dodger doesn’t try to reinstate the draft?
I’m hoping the Canadians invade into an area I live so I can join their side.
I heard that Warren Buffet bought stocks related to a serious war, like satellite-bassd radio… I am scared.
Rich people have to start losing significant amounts of money before anything is done about Trump.
This will continue (the whole of America suffering) until someone wrangles in Trump…
When Republican Senators profits or jobs become at risk, because of what Trump’s doing, then you’ll see some wrangling done.
What if Elon has already bought them all? It doesn’t take much for a jizzilionaire like him
His wealth is mostly imaginary. If he actually moved to solidify any significant portion of it, it would all collapse as its tied up in very few companies.
When he was at a listed value of 200 billion he had to get 20-30 other groups and governments together for the whole twitter takeover. Which should have been easy for him at the time based on his net worth alone.
- It’s always better to spend the money of others.
- It doesn’t appear that bribing congresspeople is all that expensive. IIRC, it only took $60k to bribe that one congressperson who got caught.
- Just the threat of financing primary challengers appears to be enough to control Republican congresspeople. He’s probably privately doing the same with some Dems too (offering not to finance challengers; he’s already said he will finance challengers to all Democrats).
Genuine question: why is this comment licensed under creative commons?
He’s the equivalent of one of those Facebook people that thinks “if you put this at the end of your posts they can’t steal your comments”. It’s nonsense and doesn’t change anything. Just ignore it and keep scrolling.
I miss the old web, where if someone wanted to RP as a alien or a cat or something in all their forum posts, we just kind of rolled with it. The internet was strange and diverse.
So many people are dog piling this guy because, in essence, he isn’t conforming. He’s including a little forum signature on his lemmy posts in 2025.
Just ignore it and keep scrolling.
I agree, but not in a “this guy is an idiot” kind of way, but in a “do whatever you want and keep the internet diverse and strange” kind of way. Let the guy have his small protest. Folks need to stop dog piling him. It shows up in many of the threads he’s in, and judgments about his little signature dominate over anything he actually had to say.
In complete accord with this comment. We’ve stared into the abyss so long, we’ve become the abyss.
It shows up in many of the threads he’s in, and judgments about his little signature dominate over anything he actually had to say.
Yep, yep. Like right here for example. And this was going on 9-10 months ago too, its a bi-daily thing.
A single line of text that is a link to a Creative Commons license really shouldn’t be pissing off so many people.
I mean, do people also get pissed off when they scroll down the bottom of each and every Wikipedia page, and see the CC license there? Or read an news article that has a license footer at the end of the article?
To be tinfoil hatty about it for a moment, I really do believe at this point that I’m being attacked repeatidly (every 48ish hours) by a bot brigade used by someone(s) who really doesn’t want others to start doing what I’m doing, licensing their content, by harassing me off of Lemmy.
My licensing is not just to tell for-profit entities that they can’t use my content for free, its to tell non-profit open-source projects that they can use my content for free.
I agree, but not in a “this guy is an idiot” kind of way,
Yeouch. I thank you for the support, but damn that hurts too.
For the record, I truly believe that the Safe Harbor laws, and that Laws trump ToS, means that I truly own the content that is being posted here (and so do you and everybody else who posts/comments, for that matter). Even if its not being inforced today, the laws are on the books, and this will come to a head a some point.
I mean, look at whats going on right now with Mozilla/Firefox and their ToS changes. Corporations sure are not shy to use licensing of their content to the best of their abilities.
Why should only corporations avail themselves and be protected by the law? Why is everybody else so quick to surrender the little protections under the law that they have, and to ridicule others who try to use the law to their benefit?
Take a moment, and really think that one though. Its like there’s a Corporate version of Order 66 going on or something. 😜
By the way [email protected], while I started to reply to you directly, the above is really a response to everyone who would be intellectually honest in judging my actions and take a moment to think it though before replying to me.
When you wear a tinfoil hat out in public, the people snickering aren’t trying to tap into your brainwaves. Well, I mean shit, maybe they are. Depends on the drip.
At least this weirdo isn’t a transphobic bigot like that dragon asshole.
That’s quite the axe you’ve got there, mr. ayyy. You been grinding it on any dragons lately? Just, bringing it up on random comments about internet behavior?
Wow, never heard this one before too. I wish whomever is directing the bot brigade could maybe update their negative comments algo to freshen them up a bit with new insults.
“everyone who calls out my behavior is a bot” 🤣
It’s that boomer Facebook “I don’t consent to use using data” meme in it’s newest form.
In this way the ai bros won’t use that comment for training LLMs. Because they care about copyright and they would never, for example, download a torrent with 81 terabytes of pirated ebooks
Be hilarious if it catches on and all the LLM bots start eroneously claiming to be CC licensed.
You’ll have to search my posting history for an answer to that question.
Fuck it. Start somewhere.
As an American, I hope this continues.
Exactly as Putin wanted.
A united Europe and an isolated America? Perhaps the latter part sure, but people who think what went down at the oval office is what Putin wanted I think are imagining too much. That was off-script, that messes up everyones plans, especially if Trump and/or Vance are indeed Russian assets. Russia very much intended on a terrible deal with Ukraine to be signed with Europe cheerily in step, now there is no deal so the fighting continues and Europe is united with Ukraine as though the war just started. And while I think China will do the smart thing and remain neutral, they could steal the spot of the number one global superpower if they united with Europe against Russia and USA (fat chance but just saying.)
Non EU countries would probably aim to make BRICS stronger
I’m not certain Putin saw that coming. He may make use of it though.
This specific event? No, of course not. An ostracized America? Yes.
America needs ostracizing. I say this as an American.
Refuelling in st Petersburg, Russia 🪆…
Good.
Fuck us
Apparently we need the leopards to eat a lot more MAGA faces, fine by me. Better they should have full tummies before they hurt any more trans people.
Imagine believing in leopards eating faces. That’s one thing.
Now imagine believing that leopards can distinguish people by their preferred branding of the state.
This mind game has been liberal “resistance”.
Imagine thinking metaphors are real
montana didn’t hear you. https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-crime-is-being-trans-montana
Other countries, if you’re out there - follow suit. This flappy gum flexing shit we’re doing has got to stop. It’s gonna hurt, I’m sure. But until we’re neck deep into the “find out” phase, nothing is going to happen.
Fuck the US
OH no huge genocidal empire destroying the planet loses a gas station… What a loss for humanity… \s
I’m sure he’s planning on getting it back from Mother Russia.
Master Negotiator. He’ll get on the phone with these guys and tell them tariffs are coming.
True! Then the company that no longer sells fuel to USA will make less profit when selling fuel to USA! What a punishment!
Europeans know how to deal with collaborators
Wonderful, it’s time people got the memo, America are not the good guys.
I’m saying this as an American. I would love to see a world where America’s Government was viewed with suspicion when acting in international affairs instead of Europe looking up to them like the adult in the room. Europe, YOU, are the adult in the room.
As an European, I do not want this division. The world is safer having USA, Canada, and Europe as allies.
The world safer? THE WORLD??? Jesus Christ dude, millions of people being killed so you drive your v18 Mustang with 1mpg for cheaper. Honestly coming from Europe, American collapse is much needed and a solid humbling of Europe. Europe was never the adult and America the sole bully. The only real adults in the room left are China, Brazil and India.
The only real adults in the room left are China, Brazil and India.
What a joke. Yeah, go live in China where posting the same message about the government would get you jailed or worse.
I would love to live in china, a place you never visited, or a place you know nothing but whatever the propaganda drip feeds you that day.
China where posting the same message about the government would get you jailed or worse.
Ahh, yes, unlike United states of America, where if you say anything about it’s overlord Israel, you can get deported or jailed… Or the nation with the most prisoners by a landslide?
Unlike you, I’ve been to china, drove through Pakistan into xinxyang and later into Beijing. It was completely fine, felt like a first world nation. Unlike America which felt like a third world nation disguised as the richest nation on earth
I would love to live in china, a place you never visited, or a place you know nothing but whatever the propaganda drip feeds you that day.
Go ? Make your dream a reality ? The propaganda… You’re the one praising an authoritarian regime, you are the propaganda.
Ahh, yes, unlike United states of America
Did not say USA are good. Reminder of your comment :
The only real adults in the room left are China, Brazil and India.
Which is ridiculous. No country is perfect but only a fool can call China, Brazil and India the real adults.
The propaganda… You’re the one praising an authoritarian regime, you are the propaganda.
Ah yes, thank you fat neck bearded white man. Thank you clearing up objective propaganda since you know and only know the objective truth. You said, move to china, I said, I wanna and have been there unlike you, who watched YouTube videos for some loser coping cus someone is threatening the absolute global dominance of America even slightly.
since you know and only know the objective truth.
Sure. You visited China and got the objective truth which is that it’s better to live in a country ruled by one man until he dies, where opposition is oppressed (killed), where 996 work culture is the norm, having your internet locked behind a great firewall, having a social score, etc.
You’re so pathetic that you are not even able to argue without using ad-hominem attacks.
China, Brazil, and India aren’t adults, they’re the loud idiots in the back of the class who make America seem competent solely by comparison. Seriously Tankies remind me so much of Maga in the way that they worship China like a God, and then when I actually look into what China’s doing it’s blatant human rights violations and top level stupidity.
Then don’t do what we did, vote for progressives not Conservatives. Conservatives are a plague on society.
Coming from an American who moved to Germany, Merz will pave the road to Germany’s Trump.
Incorrect. former Chancellor Merkel came from the same CDU Party as future Chancellor Merz. Merkel made 3 big mistakes, not controlling immigration, which gave the neo-Nazis more political power, entering the Afghanistan War and placing to much trust in Vlad Putin. However, she was skeptical of Orange Krasnov. Merz knows he cannot rely on the AmeriKans and they are in bed with Moscow giving each other golden showers. I usually vote for the SPD and sometimes CDU.
Idk what you’re saying is incorrect here. Conservatives are by and large Anti-Labor which means they are anti-80-90% of the population. Merkel began decommissioning nuclear plants and put more money towards oil, now we have an energy “crisis” that could have been entirely avoided. But conservatives are pro-oil when everyone in the world would benefit from being pro-green energy including nuclear power.
Conservatives are by and large pro privatizing public functions. The German train network has the issues it has today partially because it’s not publicly owned and operated. Conservatives are anti-infrastructural spending and they tend to be budget conscious only when it benefits the Uber wealthy.
Merz wants to complain about the fiscal budget but then wants to cut taxes for corporations. The CDU wants to fund that, last I checked, by cutting spending on welfare and social security nets. Conservatives want to take money from the sick, poor, and elderly and give it to big businesses and the only argument they have for why that could be a good thing is it could make the “economy better” and some of that money will trickle down.
We are in the mess we are today because of conservative policies. Voting for the CDU is voting for the declination of society based on all the data I’ve seen. I’d love to see what an SPD government looks like when it’s not being sabotaged by the FDP but I worry, like in America, they’re still too centralist to be massively effective at reversing decline.
Immigrants aren’t the problem. Germany needs more immigrants to stay functional in the coming decades, just like most developed countries.
+1 for you. However, how do you control the immigration so the AfD does not smell the blood? Same with the fucked up MAGA in AmeriKa. The German rail network should be Deutsche Bundesbahn, the federal government ran it better than the privatized DB AG BS.
I don’t know if controlling immigration is the problem or solution, right? It’s a scapegoat.
I think the problem is perception. What should happen is when any media org talks about violent immigrants or violent crime they should be forced to display a graph of violent crime for the past 5 decades or something. Germany is in one of the top 3 or 5 safest years it has had in the last like 50 years.
I’ve had German citizens warn me about the ghettos of Mannheim. These are stores without bars over their windows, plenty of people walking around at most hours of night, music and walk-in restaurants. This is no ghetto like in America. But natives see it as scary because humans are creatures of relativity.
If anything Germany needs to provide a simple, clear path forward to permanent residence (at least) and ideally full citizenship. This tells people who are open to joining Germany that they have a path to starting a life here. Germany also need to provide a security net for those people if they run into problems on their journey to permanent residence (at least) so they know that this massive risk of moving abroad has a minimum amount of safety (cause a work force that feels trapped at their job is not a well compensated work force and everyone wants good paying jobs for themselves and their neighbors). I think Germany does a great job at both of these things already, the scary part is AFD wanting to differentiate between blood-line citizens and naturalized citizens. The scary part is CDU conservatives wanting to reduce the social safety net. The CDU winning hurts the influx of highly skilled or specialized immigrants because now they know the move just got more risky if conservatives get their way.
As far as protecting their border or slowing the rate of immigrants in total or from certain areas… Idk honestly. I don’t know if that’s a real problem, I don’t think it is, and I don’t know how Germany could fix that. I have no doubt very smart people have several great solutions that are human-centric policies that improve the lives of everyone on both side of the fictional line - but I’m positive it’s not the policy conservatives will be pursuing. Because again, I don’t think it’s a real problem.
Real problems are housing for everyone, higher wages for everyone, infrastructural improvement, improving education, better medicine and access to healthcare, etc etc. Germany and most developed countries are wealthy enough to handle their current level of immigration without issue - if the money is spent well instead of funneled into the parasitic 1%'ers pockets. Cultures and integration happen naturally over time, that isn’t a fear for me either.
MAGA won because the economic decline outpaces the societal progress for too many decades, and the perceived solution was not based in reality. Germany has far more run way in the economic and societal race, but the influence on perception is both at a high in terms of strength and a low in terms of being attached to reality.
Safer for whom?
Europe is the adult in the sense that it’s the genocidal empire that birthed USA.
Europe looking up to them like the adult in the room.
We never did that though.
The dynamic was more like the US is the big rich kid with all the toys who sometimes bullies the other kids so it’s better to have him on side.
Now you’ve elected a couple of literal spoiled rich bullies it makes it all a lot more obvious.
America has always been tolerated for political reasons. But noone in Europe has ever really looked up to the USA. You were useful to keep good relations with, (good in a fight). But you’ve always been regarded as loud, uncultured, and disturbingly patriotic. And honestly, if you look back at Europe’s history, we’re not exactly afraid of a fight.
Stay the fuck out of Greenland and Canada, and come talk to us when you elect a grownup.
I tried, but honestly until we get rid of Gerrymandering, Republicans will have a foothold no matter how blatantly unpopular and universally reviled they are
The problem is they aren’t universally reviled. Trump still got 77M votes (almost half the popular vote). And that was in the full knowledge of how badly he fucked up the first time. But even if people didn’t pay attention to the pandemic, and the Muslim ban, and the separation of children from their families, and the protests, and the insurrection, the man still behaves like a toddler with frontotemporal dementia (including sundowning on stage). Yeah gerrymandering is a definite problem, but the commercialisation of politics and the relentless rightwing propaganda is a much bigger one.
Yeah, but the thing is, Trump didn’t gain any voters, Kamala merely failed to re-obtain votes Biden had one.
And since Voter Intimidation was in full swing and Elon is, according to Trump “Good with computers, so you don’t REALLY need to vote”, there’s too much shenanigans
My point is that 77M people want trump to be president and that is 77M too many when you consider the shit show that was his first term. Even if a few million of those votes are fabricated, it’s still a massive problem.
Good. As an American, I encourage all countries to do things like this.
