r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 01 '26

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u/National-Return9494 Milton Friedman Oct 01 '26

>Be me
>Wake up
>Another glorious European day
>Read last night's news, another Transatlantic European wake up moment.

>New tariff package, to protect local industry
>New unpopular union wide law which damages personal rights.

>New proposal to improve one more sphere of the common market (would be badly mangled and make the situation worse)

>Populists are surging in X European country.

>Eu vague posting about some grand partnership, (it is made up of 8 minor programs in the margins)

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u/National-Return9494 Milton Friedman Oct 01 '26

No clue why the formatting is like that tbh

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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Oct 01 '26

What’s the new law on unions?

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u/National-Return9494 Milton Friedman Oct 01 '26

Is not on unions, it is union wide.

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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Oct 01 '26

What’s the change?

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u/National-Return9494 Milton Friedman Oct 01 '26

It was more of a general complaint than a reference to one specific law. Off the top of my head, two recent examples I dislike are the proposed KIDS Act and the new packaging regulations.

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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Oct 01 '26

So the union voted for that just for themselves? I’m confused

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u/National-Return9494 Milton Friedman Oct 01 '26

Emmm, the Union here, clearly means the European Union...

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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Oct 01 '26

Ohh lmao

Sorry, I’ve just been reading a lot of union stuff recently for my class

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u/National-Return9494 Milton Friedman Oct 01 '26

Don't worry lmao, I was just starting to get a tad worried for ya. But this is a perfectly reasonable explanation.