Comments by "kokofan50" (@kokofan50) on "TLDR News EU" channel.

  1. Actually, it’s great being the only safe harbor in a storm. We get the pick of the most skilled people and all the money. Also, we’re well into building an alliance to counter China. A new competitor requires a new team
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  2. Y’all have literally has thousands of years to do it, and it’s only been the last 75 years with American protection that it’s even come close
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  3. Yeah, he has.
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  4.  @shamrock141  like disentangling us from foreign conflicts. Removing regulations that only serve to make doing business harder. Cutting taxes.
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  5. The EU has deliberately tried to undermine the US with the Euro, while the EU wouldn’t exist without American security guarantees. The US doesn’t need an ally like that.
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  6.  @jesseberg3271  nearly 150 million people voted. That’s almost half the country, and when you take into account people not old enough to vote or otherwise disqualified from voting, that’s well over 1/4 of the eligible voters.
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  7.  @naleek12  historically speaking, yes, but the US would do just fine without Europe. Hell, we’re going just fine right now with very little trade with Europe.
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  8.  @lordmiraak8991  yes, they Euro was, and no, the US gets less of its economy from trade with other countries than any other country in the world. The US protected trade for our allies in exchange for helping fight the Soviets. Europe has been freeloading off that deal for the last 30 years since the Soviets collapsed.
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  9.  @lordmiraak8991  I’m not advocating for anything besides the US not being the world’s police.
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  10. The US has provided Europe with security and asymmetric access to our markets for the last 3/4 of a century. You want the bill? Perhaps, maybe just a trade deal with favorable terms for the US?
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  11. If it wasn’t for the US, the only democracy in Europe would be the UK, and you would be in endless wars, like all of European history before US guaranteed security.
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  12.  @_d--  it’s a de facto democracy. The crown has given over most of its powers and responsibilities to the parliament.
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  13.  @_d--  the House of Lords is part of the parliament. Although, it’s lost a lot of its power too.
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  14. Negotiations require both sides have something the other wants.
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  15. You’re clearly delusional. Biden is the personification of a corrupt insider. If he becomes president, it’s a giant step backwards.
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  16. The US has the largest economy on Earth and doesn’t need trade. Those things combined mean the US needs pretty favorable conditions to bother considering it.
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  17.  @lordmiraak8991  the Euro was deliberately created to replace the USD as the global reserve currency, trying to undermine the US’s place in the global economic system.
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  18.  @lordmiraak8991  Europea wouldn’t have trade without the US providing security for Europe and international trade.
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  19.  @lordmiraak8991  the Soviet Union was formed in 1922, and the US didn’t start securing global trade until after WW2 as part of the post war order. Before WW2 the British had the most powerful navy, so the US couldn’t have secured global trade even if the US had wanted to. However, the US didn’t care because US economic growth had been driven by domestic consumption, which it true to today. We don’t need trade. Domestic consumption is more than enough to support our economy. One of the functions of a reserve currency is being used in international trade. That’s exactly what you’re saying the Euro was created to do. You’re proving my point for me.
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  20.  @lordmiraak8991  we’re talking about the last 75 years, not the late 1800 and early 1900s. By the 1920s domestic consumption was and has stayed that way ever since. There’s simply no other markets large enough for US production, particularly after everyone else was flattened in WW2. While trade is not necessary for our economic wellbeing, it’s nice being able to trade with who we want, but more importantly, the US is fundamentally colonialism for ideological reasons.
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  21.  @lordmiraak8991  the US isn’t capitalist. We are the archetype of capitalism. However, that has nothing to do with American self sufficiency. The US has the resources to produce what we need and most of what we want, and we have the market to consume what we make. As you said, the EU market is half the size of the US market. It makes no senses for US companies to focus on a smaller market until they’ve nearly maxed out their market share in the US, particularly when you consider the domestic consumption in those other countries who are already entrenched and understand understand the peculiarities of that market.
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  22.  @lordmiraak8991  what are you talking about? A free, capitalist society which naturally produces everything it needs is exactly what the Founding Fathers wanted. It the foreign entanglement that you’re advocating for that’s what they warned against
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  23.  @lordmiraak8991  the US has some of the lowest barriers to entry in the world. It’s only been the last couple years we’ve raised tariffs to match the ones on American goods. However, that has nothing to do with our not trading in a significant way with other countries.
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  24.  @lordmiraak8991  the US can’t just tell other countries to lower their trade barriers. Also, I’m talking about as a percentage of our economy. In absolute terms the US does a huge amount of trade, but that’s because the US economy is so ridiculously large even 5% of that is $100s of billions.
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  25.  @Gardstyle35  completely wrong. The US only really has interest in trade with two Asian countries, Japan and South Korea, and we have a lot more leverage one on one with them. Letting everyone get together and negotiate against us was terrible negotiating by Obama.
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  26.  @lordmiraak8991  see this is exactly the kind of foreign entanglements George Washington and the other Founding Fathers warned. The US is going to take care of ourselves, and y’all figure yourselves out. It’s not our job to push some neo-imperialist fantasy you Europeans have.
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  27.  @Gardstyle35  the US produces every kind of product you can think of, and has the wealthy population to consume it. Sure, large companies like Boeing, Microsoft, Coke, etc. all are involved international, but the US as a whole doesn’t have much of an interest or need to trade with other countries, accept maybe Mexico.
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  28.  @harrypadarri6349  China has made huge progress, but they’re decades behind the US in terms of using and developing technology. Foreign markets may be important to particular companies or even markets, they aren’t important to the US as a whole. I personally wouldn’t mind Google taking a hit. It might force them to stop trying to control the world. The US has all the same stuff Europe has, and stuff like petrochemical production
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  29.  @lordmiraak8991  China is on par or even ahead in a very small number of technologies. Their over all technical abilities are far behind.
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  30.  @lordmiraak8991  I’ll take it simple for you: most companies in the US aren’t big enough to worry about markets outside the US and those that are, tend to face heavy competition limiting their market penetration. As such, foreign markets seldom if ever make up the core market for US companies. Maybe I wasn’t being blunt enough with you: Americans don’t give a damn about most other countries. The few countries we actually care about are already in our stripped down network. The rest of y’all can deal with your own problems.
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  31.  @lordmiraak8991  besides the ridiculous claim that American isolationism lead to people like Hitler and Stalin, I’m not talking about isolationism. I’m talking about the US doing what every other country does: dealing with the countries that mean something to us and leave everyone else to their own business. The US isn’t in a competition with other countries. All but a couple other countries with economies worth talking about the size of have sustainable population. They’re just not having enough kids. You can’t run a race without legs. Also, the US has plenty of internal competition. Coke doesn’t care about Fanta’s share of the US market. Their goal is to keep Pepsi number 2. United Launch Alliance doesn’t care about Russia, Chinese, or European launches. SpaceX is eating their lunch. The US has the 3rd largest population and the largest consumer market in the world with a competitive streak several miles wide. Spawning our own competition isn’t hard.
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  32.  @lordmiraak8991  you’re arguing semantics. You asserted a link without even a logical connection, let alone supporting facts. The difference between the US and other countries like Germany, China, South Korea, etc. is that my parents’ generation actually had enough kids to replace them. SpaceX doesn’t use Russia rocket technology, unless you mean they use a cycle invented by the Soviets, which is getting replaced in their next rocket. It’s ULA use actually buy rocket engines from Russia. Pepsi and Coke were the largest sodas in the US before they got large internationally What countries are you talking about? China? China is far behind the US, and their official numbers are complete lies.
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  33.  @lordmiraak8991  good for whomever can make money. Americans are satisfied with our country, and anyone who wants to try and take even a piece of our pie will have to learn what Japan did. SpaceX’s entire model is vertical integration. They never looked a Russian engines. Elon Musk started SpaceX because of a bad experience with the Russians. You’re obviously an idiot mistaking SpaceX for ULA.
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  34.  @lordmiraak8991  keeping to our selves and reacting to aggression from another country makes us look like the aggressor in what fucking world? It’s literally the kind of actions you’re talking about that lead Japan to attack the US. The US embargoed oil sells to Japan because of what they were doing in China. The US being the world’s largest oil producer and Japan’s main supplier, they had to make a choice, surrender to US demands or attack the US as part of a bid to take the resources Japan needed.
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  35.  @OBrasilo  a lot of European food standards make no sense and only act as barrier to outside trade. A great example is the one you gave: not allowing something until it proven harmless. First off, it’s impossible to prove negative like. Second, everything is harmful. The only question is how much until it’s dangerous.
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  36.  @OBrasilo  the system is still illogical. You’re still trying to prove a negative. It’s y’all’s right to have whatever barriers you want, and it’s our’s to use what means are available to change your minds. This whole conversation was started by Dynamical complaining about the US playing the game, while the EU is just as playing the game.
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  37.  @Emily-zr7of  you’re going to have to US some proper nouns in there so I know what you’re talking about.
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  38. This is a joke, right? France is a lowkey socialist country
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  39.  @loona_mew  No, because of how they regulate and subsidize industries.
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  40. The better way of saying it is the EU is over regulated.
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