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• Big EU business is definitely less problematic right now than big US business. Granted, they’re often trying to be as bad.

• Business with the US leads to tax payments to the US government.

• Doing business with the US is very risky right now if you’re in any way locked-in, they might start tariffs, take your data, be generally fascist or just get put out of business by government policy at any moment. And part of the way we’re locked in is that in many fields, there are no or nearly no european competitors who can supply the goods at a similar price.

• From a purely egoistic perspective, it’s generally better to support local small business instead of overseas small business.

I agree support local businesses perspective. However, EU companies also vulnerable to policy changes like recent Italy DNS poisoning law or France encryption backdoor law just last month. Supporting a small business is also fostering a community comes with it. Especially if it’s FOSS, subculture or minority owned.

@dangling_cat @rumschlumpel With all due respect, but thinking like that will just drive you mad. French law proposal for encryption backdoor didn't pass, BTW

The only constant in life IS change. We need to keep making the right choices, the choices that represent our values best (right now) and if we do that long enough, we might have a shot at leaving this mudball better than we found it.

It’s not going to drive me mad to pick local small business over small business from a fascist state.