• django@discuss.tchncs.de
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    But he also indicated that he wanted the EU to reduce its standards to allow more U.S. goods to enter its market, referring to safety measures as “non-monetary tariffs.”

    “It’s tariffs where they put things on where they make it impossible for you to sell a car … they make it so difficult, the standards and the tests,” Trump said. “They come up with rules and regulations that are just designed for one reason: that you can’t sell your product in those countries. And we’re not gonna let that happen. Those are called non-monetary barriers.”

    Keep your pedestrian hazards like the cybertruck in your country. We already have enough people driving unnecessarily huge cars. We need less and smaller cars.

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      This just shows that the tests and regulations work 😁 We don’t need shitty american cars…

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      All those “standards and the tests” and “rules and regulations” designed so “you can’t sell your product in those countries” don’t seem to work very well given that you can still buy cars and chicken in Europe.

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      Lol He whines about our high standards as an entry barrier. If that’s true, then why are there so many apple devices purchased here?

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      That bowling ball comment from Trump is prime example of talking about shit without understanding said shit. The car is suppose to fucking dent from it! It’s why Cyberdick car isn’t allowed in Europe, it doesn’t dent when you run over a person. I’d explain the physics behind it, but Trumps avocado brain is too fucking stupid to ever understand that.

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      Aren’t you worried you might starve if your vehicle isn’t tall enough to reach the drive-through window? Also, how are you going to transport landscaping supplies for your massive lawn? Furthermore, there’s so many big vehicles on the road. I’d be concerned they would bully me if I were in a smaller car.

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        I mean, i specifically chose a small car for city traffic. You don’t have parking lots as big as whole football fields here in germany 😅😅 I once saw a parking map for a sea world somewhere in USA… this shit is unreal!!

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              What’re we supposed to do? The busses only come on the hour if there’s coverage for a region at all. It’s really frustrating to see our taxes go to such poor service, so we very reasonably try to teach them a lesson by having our politicians reduce their funding, but they don’t learn at all. The service just gets worse until a charitable, for-profit corporation steps in to fill the vacuum, usually with car-oriented services. What would we do without massive tarmacs stretching for miles?