Spain planning on going ahead with ‘Google tax’ despite US tariff threats

Re:Spain planning on going ahead with ‘Google tax’ despite U... by kazagistar on Thursday December 05, 2019 @09:36AM (#21712541)

I'm not sure I see this. They certainly are awful authoritarians and imperialists, but I haven't actually seen the ethnostate facism, or not in excess of what is in the Americas for example.

I would say most westerners would be better off not fixing their alliances to any imperialist machine, Russian, Chineese, or American. Even the EU is suspect, but its moderating influence against the worst possible facism still seems to be worth the costs and is worth reforming.

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Re:Spain planning on going ahead with ‘Google tax’ despite U... by ixtis7 on Thursday December 05, 2019 @09:54AM (#21712709)

Having spent a decent amount of time in China, I think there are definitely a lot of falsehoods that are spread about it, but ethnostate-ish seems a pretty fair conclusion.

If you look at the way they're trying to integrate the outer provinces, and even just the way they view day-to-day and business interactions between Chinese and Westerners.

A Chinese billionaire in the US is no big deal, a US billionaire in China is unimaginable--they'd consider it out of order and I'd be surprised if it could even happen without them being cut down mid-journey. A contrived example maybe but success is reserved for the Han, not for outsiders.

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Re:Spain planning on going ahead with ‘Google tax’ despite U... by literallycancer on Thursday December 05, 2019 @09:53AM (#21712695)

Ever heard of a place called Xinjiang? Where there is a million people in actual concentration camps, right now?

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