cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/72557390

The agreement to release oil stocks comes amid growing concerns in Brussels about entering winter with low strategic reserves, and becoming more susceptible to what several EU officials described as US “blackmail”.

    • P1nkman@lemmy.world
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      If i ever meet a person who voted for trump, I’ll tell them to fuck off. If they say they regret it, I’ll still tell them to fuck off. Kind of like these criminals who regret what they did after they were caught (Maxwell), they know what they’re doing, and goes back in it if it hits them back.

      “Oh, I’m sorry, you honour, I didn’t mean to do it” might work in the USA, but not in Europe. We will never forget this backstabbing.

      • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
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        If I ever meet a Trump voter, I will buy a bar. I’ll invite them over on opening day and ask them what they want to drink. Once they order, I will tell them “we don’t serve your kind here”

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        I can sort of see the how someone got suckered in to voting for Trump in 2016, a new radical face promising change vs a generic and unlikeble deeply entrenched democrat with no real promise for real change.

        At some point you get tired enough to say “fuck it” and vote for the weird newcommer, in the hopes that something good would come our of it, or simply to send the one kind of protest that the dems would have a very hard time to ignore.

        I can see that happening, but the 2024 election? Anyone voting for Trump deserves an instant hard face punch.

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        Keep in mind that the U.S. Republican party has been actively undermining their education system for decades as one of the many ways to trick voters into believing their lies. For many of the people who voted red, they were conned and manipulated their whole life into doing so. It doesn’t excuse their past actions, but those who see their own wrongs and wish to work to correct them should be given the chance to do so.

        … Might work in the USA, but not in Europe.

        If that was the case, the entirety of the German population would have been executed following World War 2 for letting Hitler take power. I know that’s an exaggeration but the “Hitler Youth” were brainwashed into supporting him through their childhood, and the USA Republican party definitely took note of how to do this.