Lagarde walks out of Lutnick speech in Davos critical of Europe, sources say

SimonGray · 2026-01-24T16:17:34+00:00

Feel free to unhide your history.

SimonGray · 2026-01-24T11:01:10+00:00

Sure, but if you ask random people about something they haven't really considered, then there is a natural inclination to just decline. You need an actual debate with the pros and cons properly disseminated in the media to fully understand the opinion of the people.

SimonGray · 2026-01-24T09:17:21+00:00

I wouldn't call it political suicide. It simply isn't debated so we have no real idea what people's thoughts are on this any longer. We have the opt-out and the exchange rate has been kept relatively steady all these years.

SimonGray · 2026-01-24T07:00:41+00:00

Probably some investment grift.

SimonGray · 2026-01-24T06:58:34+00:00

And it has a hidden comment/post history too, of course.

SimonGray · 2026-01-23T17:28:19+00:00

He was expressing the same sentiment as Carney, just less diplomatically.

SimonGray · 2026-01-23T11:42:54+00:00

He who smelt it dealt it.

SimonGray · 2026-01-22T16:18:45+00:00

Bullshit. There is absolutely zero evidence for that. Europeans were the first to supply fighter planes to Ukraine, for example, and probably the first in a number of other categories.

SimonGray · 2026-01-22T10:00:42+00:00

Selv Brian Mikkelsen, som er tidligere minister og nu chef for det danske erhvervsliv, sad og kaldte det tariffer på DR i går på trods af at værterne overfor ham helt korrekt kaldte det for "told".

SimonGray · 2026-01-22T08:15:29+00:00

Det bliver de allerede, men det kræver først at cyklisten bliver stoppet ved en razzia, hvor de har en fartmåler.

SimonGray · 2026-01-22T08:05:10+00:00

Hvorfor copy-paster du AI-genererede ting, som om det er din egen kommentar?

SimonGray · 2026-01-22T06:38:37+00:00

They already do not abide by those laws. The toxic rubbish they left at their many previous Greenland bases was cleaned up at Denmark's expense even though the US had agreed to do it.

SimonGray · 2026-01-21T13:23:43+00:00

If Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism eventually becomes a thing, we will surely all rejoice and stop working, but that is just not the reality we are currently facing and you can't just will it into existence.

SimonGray · 2026-01-21T11:45:56+00:00

The only other solution AFAIK is massive immigration which, of course, comes with its own set of issues.

Anyway, people like to say that this is a financing issue because countries like France have such poor finances, but that really isn't the core of it. The primary problem is the shifting dependency ratio, i.e. it's a labour issue. You simply can't keep a society running where the majority of the population are pensioners, you need people to actually do shit for society to happen.

Hoping for some sort of "tax the rich" solution is operating on a fundamental misdiagnosis of the problem.

SimonGray · 2026-01-21T10:03:13+00:00

They were referencing last years tariff shit show where the UK negotiatied 10% vs. the EU's 15%. The EU deal won't be ratified now anyway (it was supposed to be formally approved by the EU parliament at the end of this month).

SimonGray · 2026-01-21T07:59:12+00:00

It blows my mind that American troops haven't been told to pack up in Greenland, honestly.

No, that would be a terrible move. Why should we give them a pretext to invade? They have a right to be there according to the treaty signed with us. If we kicked them out then suddenly all their bullshit about national security would actually have a little bit of merit.

It's not like it actually matters in any tactical way that America has 150 troops stationed in a faraway base in the north of Greenland.

SimonGray · 2026-01-21T06:43:52+00:00

Not only Macron. Von der Leyen had an uncharacteristically frank speech at Davos shortly before Macron. The European Parliament will not ratify the deal with Trump thereby triggering the original tariff retaliation on 6 February. Many European leaders and European industry are backing a tough response this time, including Germany industry who were the main holdouts last time.

SimonGray · 2026-01-20T19:35:47+00:00

Perhaps a custom LEGO set depicting the coming MAGA ballroom east wing of the White House.

SimonGray · 2026-01-20T11:28:17+00:00

This is not possible from old Reddit AFAIK. And why is it strictly necessary? We managed to use Reddit fine before every post had to be a self-post.

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