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@ve96359 @RafaMorgan64 US is not paying shit for nato, nor subsidizing anything. That so many americans continue to parrot this factually wrong, easily demonstrable bullshit just sinks the already decades old, global low perception of the typical USian. What a nation of braindead imbeciles

@RafaMorgan64 Don’t make the mistake of thinking that it is only Trump. Taxpayers are unhappy with paying for NATO. Families are tired of being separated from their sons and daughters. The cost of family separation is only paid by USA. Posts on X have opened the eyes of many Americans.

The biggest loser right now is the US, thanks to Trump. From being the guarantor of world peace, it's now the most hated country on the planet after Russia. Eighty years building a reputation that Trump has destroyed in a single year. There are many rules that make it difficult for the US to leave NATO, but if we've learned anything in just one year, it's how little respect Trump has for the rules. Obviously, if Trump moves his Rota naval base to Morocco, Spain will have a considerable buffer zone. However you look at it, Trump will once again push the button of folly.

@DrDiGiorgio Gotta love muricans pretending all the stuff the entire planet figured out is some mstical unkown. Like the system they use, the bottom of the barrel of humanity, is actually the way to go

Also, price signals are the best way to mitigate scarcity. If only the rich can afford to see a doctor, then more doctors move to town to make money and you’ve solved the problem. It’s how we went from only the rich can have cell phones to everyone owning a supercomputer.

If there are 50 people who want to see the neurosurgeon but he only has 10 appointments available, how does one guarantee that right to healthcare?

@Pflip Its not that they forget, they don't understand the concept of borders and countries. Their isolated position with only CA and Mexico doesnt let them know. They think countries in Eu are like their states. They read the words; country. But they dont really understand what it is

@fleur_inverse One thing Americans always forget is that the EU is actually 27 different individual countries, each with different political views, laws, interests and leaders. EU is not a country, is a league of Nations

I can understand Americans criticizing Europeans for some reasons, but these days it is sheer hostility over not understanding that Europe also has its own interests, and that I wouldn't have expected.

@BoxemDenni30777 @SaltyGoat17 They're not skewing the narative. Thats just how unfatomably stupid they are. They can barely breathe unassisted, of course they're gonna misinterpret the easiest data points and make further fools of themselves

@SaltyGoat17 Again skewing the narrative. You're mixing up National Defense budget with Nato budget. The figures you're showing here are national defense. And that will only keep going up when you leave NATO as you're making friends at an alarming rate.

Total NATO defense spending (2025): United States: $980,000,000,000 Europe + Canada: $512,337,000,000 We pay almost twice as much as ALL the other countries COMBINED!! And who protects who? Anyone else tired of being the world's ATM?

@BigBodie12 @Fugel1010 @bigbrotherchet @RandPaul Of course, because you guys are uniquelly ignorant and dumb. But its from a cousin to cousin type of feeling. Russians and chinese look at all of us the way nazis looked at everyone. We're lesser than them and inferior. We're outsiders. Thats how any relation with them would be

@3211q @Fugel1010 @bigbrotherchet @RandPaul LMFAO just Russia and China do that? Certainly can’t detect any European ignorance or condescension towards the US in this reply either Ideologically, Europe used to be such a strong, independent, and influential continent What happened? We don’t even recognize you anymore

Trump is right to reconsider NATO. Under Article II, the president has full constitutional authority to withdraw from any treaty without Senate approval. The 2023 Kaine-Rubio provision can't override the Constitution. It's his call to make. thehill.com/homenews/admin…

@BigBodie12 @Fugel1010 @bigbrotherchet @RandPaul Because, you dumbfuck american mongrel retard, russians are eternal geopolitical and ideological rivals to the western world. They look at you with contempt and superiority. Same as china. They think we're all beneath them. Inferior.

@Fugel1010 @bigbrotherchet @RandPaul Europe should have never been our problem to begin with This is such a myopic perspective Why does Russia need to be our problem? If you’re so worried about nukes, then why can’t we improve relations w/ the other country that combined holds 90% of the world’s nuclear arsenal?

@brave_romania Thats all good and everything, but Romania is not and never was part of the balkan peninsula. Its right above it

100 years ago, the Balkans had a mother-in-law. This queen.

@SebastianBogusz @Frid45 No, you wrote about non existent things. West and east europe is always used in the context of the cold war. You are, were and always will be an eastern european. Its double funny that the thread you're replying in further proves it.

@3211q @Frid45 ok, I write about facts, you write about opinions, sometimes these are parallel worlds, best regards

The European Union has saved Eastern Europe. A historic reversal of economic power.🇪🇺

@SebastianBogusz @Frid45 Right after i said it was never called EE in relation to the map position, you're showing me a map. It doesnt matter how hard you try to be something else, everyone from anywhere in the world will always think of Poland first when he says "eastern europe"

@3211q @Frid45 so please update Wikipedia

@SebastianBogusz @Frid45 Poles always try their hardest not to be called eastern europe 😆 it was never about the exact position on the map. "Eastern Europe" is the warsaw pact\iron curtain. You have to own it already. Nobody is ever saying central europe and thinking of Poland. Ever. No shame being EE

@Frid45 The European Union has saved Central Europe.

@Kisho_Sensei @stats_feed Why would Romania unite with that backwater shithole of a country ? Zero reasons. Bozgaria can stay as it is and quietly estinguish

@stats_feed Romania and Moldova unite Hungary and Transsylvania unite Simple as that

🇲🇩 Over 55% of Moldovans would vote for the unification of the Republic of Moldova with Romania. The first poll that includes the opinion of the diaspora. Cumulative data indicate that approximately 47% of respondents would vote for union, while about 36,5% would vote against. At the same time, around 9,5% would not vote, and approximately 6% are undecided or did not provide an answer. If undecided respondents and those who would not vote are excluded, the results show that approximately 56% would vote for union and about 44% would vote against.

@samcrack13 @NoContextHumans Thats still one country and there's nothing to see in bumfuck indiana and its neighbour, fuckistan north dakota. Whereas the european continent is made up of 44 separate COUNTRIES. Each with its own language, culture, distinct evolution, history, architecture, customs, geography

@NoContextHumans Europeans when they travel America = New York, LA

@Bekim_Mitrovica @visegrad24 Romania and romanians are not romani\gypsies. You should google or youtube a few things so you're informed

@visegrad24 How the hell did Romani get all that territory.

BREAKING: Romania has approved a U.S. request for temporary access to Europe’s largest NATO military base, Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base, to support operations in the Middle East, including refueling aircraft, deploying fighter jets, and sending up to 500 personnel. 🇷🇴🇺🇸

@KenDBerryMD I too enjoy using units such as gallon, that virtually nobody else on the planet outside usia uses when posting on the global world wide web

Forcing yourself to drink a gallon of water daily is dumb.

@soorhass @levikov Romania is not balcan and "eastern europe" is not about the geographical location. It was always in the context of cold war alignment. You bozgors are as eastern shits as it gets, for example

@levikov "Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Poland, Ukraine, Croatia." romania is balkan, just like bulgaria, and croatia... poland is central europe and ukraine is Russia.

Eastern Europe is the most exploitable talent arbitrage on the planet right now and almost nobody in the Western business world is paying attention because they're too busy overpaying for mid work from the Philippines and India… Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Poland, Ukraine, Croatia. Average salaries $500-1,000/month. But the talent coming out of these countries isn't $500/month talent. It's $5,000-8,000/month talent priced at a tenth of what you'd pay in the US because the local economy hasn't caught up to the skill level yet That gap is the exploit Every other "hire cheap overseas" conversation defaults to Southeast Asia or South Asia. And sure, the prices are low. But anyone who's actually tried to scale operations in those regions knows the pattern. Language barriers. Cultural disconnect. Equipment issues. Endless training loops. You spend more time managing output than you save in cost. The $4/hour rate sounds nice until you're on revision 14 and the work still isn't usable Eastern Europe skips all of that These countries have legitimate university systems. Strong STEM education. English fluency across the entire 18-30 demographic, sometimes better than native speakers in the US (not even joking). They grew up on the same internet, same memes, same cultural references. Zero cultural gap when working with Western businesses. You don't need to explain context. You don't need to translate intent. They just get it And they have real infrastructure. Laptops. Fast wifi. Proper software. Modern tools. You're not onboarding someone who needs you to walk them through basic setup. You're hiring someone who's already operating at a professional level but happens to live in a country where $1,000/month is a great salary The applications go way beyond content. Developers in Bucharest building full-stack apps for $1,500/month that would cost you $8-12k from a US agency. Designers in Belgrade producing brand assets at agency quality for $800/month. Sales closers in Sofia running calls in perfect English for $1,000/month plus commission. Media buyers in Warsaw managing $50k+/month ad accounts for $1,200/month. Copywriters, project managers, data analysts, customer support, operations managers. Every single role in your business can be filled from Eastern Europe at 80-90% cost reduction with zero quality drop The training speed is the real cheat code though. Hand someone in Bucharest a brief on Monday and you get back usable output by Wednesday. Not "needs 6 rounds of feedback" output. Actually usable, deploy-immediately output. The baseline competency is just different when the talent pool is educated, tech-native, and hungry It's common now for operators running lean businesses to have their entire team in Eastern Europe except themselves. 4-8 people. Total payroll $5-8k/month. Output equivalent to a $40-60k/month US team. The business runs 24/7 because the time zone overlap with the US is actually perfect for async work (btw it doesn't hurt that Eastern Europe has the baddest bitches on the planet. If you need on-camera talent for any kind of brand content targeting Western audiences, a girl in Sofia or Bucharest is visually indistinguishable from a girl in LA but costs a fraction. The talent pool for that specific use case is bottomless and nobody's tapped it properly yet) The freelance platforms are the worst place to find these people. The best ones are in local Facebook groups, Telegram channels, and Eastern European Twitter. You DM 50 people, 40 respond within hours because an $800/month retainer is life-changing money and they actually take pride in the work. The talent density is absurd once you know where to look

@Noodles_Crusher @gabedenys @levikov Poland is as eastern europe as it gets. The concept was never about the literal placement on the world map. It was always in reference to the eastern bloc after ww2, culturally, economically, evolutionary. Poland is probably the first country that most people think regarding E-U

@gabedenys @levikov >Also Poland is not in Eastern Europe.... It's most commonly considered Eastern Europe.

@KingEric363 @whyKingdavid @vedikabaisa In most of the world's countries sms is free. Its included in most providers offers. Unlimited sms. The african continent seems to be the major outlier where this isn't the case

@whyKingdavid @vedikabaisa Wait when did SMS become free? maybe in the US

please explain

@ErtanS23 @em1n3m16 @statsglobe Best would be to impale some of you. For old times sake

🌍 Countries with the most Gypsies: 1. 🇹🇷 Turkey: 2,750,000 2. 🇷🇴 Romania: 1,850,000 3. 🇪🇸 Spain: 1,500,000 4. 🇫🇷 France: 1,200,000 5. 🇺🇸 United States: 1,000,000 6. 🇭🇺 Hungary: 870,000 7. 🇷🇺 Russia: 825,000 8. 🇧🇷 Brazil: 800,000 9. 🇸🇰 Slovakia: 490,000 10. 🇧🇬 Bulgaria: 325,343 11. 🇦🇷 Argentina: 300,000 12. 🇬🇷 Greece: 300,000 13. 🇺🇦 Ukraine: 260,000 14. 🇨🇿 Czechia: 250,000 15. 🇲🇩 Moldova: 250,000 16. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 225,000 17. 🇮🇹 Italy: 180,000 18. 🇷🇸 Serbia: 147,604 19. 🇮🇷 Iran: 110,000 20. 🇩🇪 Germany: 105,000 Source: World Population Review

@Cryptohoarder3 @TheShawnHendrix @VFinnishProbs Its not hollywood at fault, the regular american really is that dumb. Everyone has all the tools to learn anything they want by themselves, yet they think dday, 10 months before the entire war was over is the reason it ended. Thats how indoctrinated they are over there

@TheShawnHendrix @VFinnishProbs Russians won the war in Europe, we need to stop this Hollywood fairy tale that USA won World War 2 for Europe

Who the fuck are these MAGA clowns to lecture us Europeans about anything? They live in a European ex-colony, under European-written laws, governed by a European-designed political system, speaking a European language, using a European alphabet, practising European concepts of rights, quoting European philosophers, celebrating European holidays, living inside European-mapped borders, with European surnames, and flying a flag based on European heraldic design. Their entire nation is the plastic, theme-park replica of Europe. Instead of spouting bollocks about Europe, they should read a history book...ideally one with words as well as pictures.

@ohnopleaseohgod @Dexerto Most gamers outside mobile are in fact on PC and just like Deck, this is for the same audience who already plays on pc and uses steam. But now they can carry the library or use it on tv. Deck is 90% the same pc users who already gamed on pc

@Dexerto Some people are completely missing the point of why it should be $500. Most gamers aren’t on pc. The steam machine could capture the market of console gamers who’re interested in pc gaming but are too intimidated.

Linus Tech Tips says he's "disappointed" the upcoming Steam Machine may not be priced like a console "[Valve] asked what I meant by console price, and I said $500. Nobody said anything, but the energy in the room wasn’t great"