One of the EU's backstop "Fuck Trump" options is to stop enforcing America's IP rights.

Maybe this USB stick full of MCU movies isn't the highest possible quality and two of the Thor movies are missing for some reason, however it cost less than €20, so who cares ? Oh it's illegal? Well my government said they don't give a shit about that until you get rid of the orange lunatic

In a world where American media companies are also trying to fuck over consumers that sort of action could probably get a rotting corpse re-elected in a landslide, that's one of the reasons it's on the backstop threat list - dry policy responses don't connect with voters, but "make as many copies of their stuff as you like" is incredibly popular.

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account42 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And then the government will give everyone free beer and a unicorn and everyone will live happily ever after.

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gunsle a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Imagine having TDS this bad in the year of our lord 2026, as a European no less. Lol.

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mittensc 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What's there to like about Trump?

And how do those compare against all the negative things he's done/caused so far?

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account42 8 hours ago | parent [-]

There is disliking Trump and then there is thinking that Trump is so bad that the EU would break international copyright agreements just to spite him.

	▲	mittensc 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You're saying that like it's not a possibility. What could push EU to do that? Arbitrary tarrifs? Invasion/threats of invasion? It wouldn't be out of spite, nothing ever is, it would be a response and it is a valid concern seeing as Trump has done the above Do you think otherwise?

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zarathustreal 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Agreed, actually. It’s so sad to see because you can guarantee this person doesn’t actually know Trump personally and likely has no real stake in anything he does.

Completely nerfing your own ability to reason for what? Some presumedly virtuous signal?

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tavavex 21 hours ago | parent [-]

This is hilarious. Should we stop criticizing all politicians because we don't know them personally? These are not just some guys, you know. These are the most powerful people in the world. You will be affected - everyone has a 'real stake' in what they do. Frankly, the amount of scrutiny and consequences of said scrutiny that powerful people receive are at all-time lows - there should be more.

For Trump specifically, almost everyone is affected. Even if you're not an American, all the war-starting, economy-wrecking, relationship-souring, international-meddling 'work' of the US is affecting you. Unless maybe if you're from North Korea.

There's nothing that better exemplifies the way how Trump supporters specifically and Americans in general have checked out from everyone else's reality than this comment. In the eyes of most of the Western world, the time for debate was 10 years ago. We're no longer in a land of hypotheticals and 'virtue signaling' that far-rightists smugly talked about back then. They are already ruling us - the world has already tasted the far-right's medicine, and many people are enraged as things keep becoming more bleak. Suggesting that countries stop enforcing US IP would be a ludicrous suggestion in 2016 that would be laughed out of the room as terminally online daydreaming. In 2026, this starts seeming like a real source of possible leverage, exerting power over a nation that thinks it can dictate the rules of the world in perpetuity. I suggest you update your worldview a bit before this or something equally extreme lands on some actual politician's desk. A few more years of this and there will no longer be any good will left from the rest of the world.

	▲	cindyllm 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
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