It doesn’t matter what they offer the EU, it shouldn’t change the move away from MS products. Corporate giants and their influence is what turned America into the fascist hellscape it is right now. We should resist any efforts from those same companies to make nice and maintain their hold over our economy and lifestyles.

Not exactly what I was looking for, but a much better alternative! And the linked article even mentions Ireland specifically as having legislation for this kind of balcony solar. Thank you!

Last time Trump was elected, the world (particularly America’s allies) said a lot about how awful he was but didn’t do anything to hurt him seriously.

When he won again, knowing he had the Project 2025 folks as part of his new regime, I feared the same would happen. That as he ground down the American people, the rest of the world would talk big but do nothing. Nations the world over have a bad habit of only intervening when you hurt people outside your own borders. So long as he hurt only people inside the US, nobody would want to turn off the US money printer.

But this time he stepped outside US borders, too quickly and too rashly with his tariffs. Nationstates may be slow to act, but the people of those Nations are acting faster. Boycotts, rally around the flag effects, backlash against right leaning groups previously aligned with Trump.

It’s not much, it won’t break the American empire by itself. But it’s more than I expected to happen, so I’m hoping it is just the start.

I think it’s a self-selecting issue. Entrepreneurs who are content to start a business that pays for a comfortable life dont reach out to endless investors. They’ll take loans, not stake in their company. They won’t constantly reach for attention to justify higher valuations, and therefore higher investments. They’re more likely to stay private and not go public for the same reason, which lessens awareness of them outside of direct customers.

Nobody would be talking about Tesla as much if it wasn’t an investment device (and its CEO would likely be a less loudly evil person too). It’d just be a car manufacturer, and the only relevant thing about it would be the quality of its cars and the happiness of its customers. No investors to wonder about “growth potential”.

For a ‘powerful, beautiful nation’ they sure are awfully whiny.

I don’t wanna risk getting hopeful before the empire and tyrant are properly toppled…but I am feeling more hopeful now than when he was first elected.