The law is a façade, a hollow promise dressed up as protection. You cling to it like a life raft while corporations sail circles around it. “Obnoxious cookie banners are illegal”? Sure, and yet here they are, thriving. Why? Because enforcement is a joke, and the fines are pocket change for these giants.

Your timeline of court cases and “rules becoming clearer” is laughable. By the time the courts catch up, the damage is done, and the companies have moved on to the next exploit. It’s a perpetual game of whack-a-mole, and you’re cheering for the mallet.

Meta’s “pay or be tracked” scheme is just extortion with extra steps. Call it illegal all you want—until someone actually stops them, it’s just business as usual.

The law may not dictate cookie banners directly, but it creates the conditions for their existence. It’s a bureaucratic sleight of hand: pass vague rules, let corporations interpret them in the most obnoxious way possible, and then claim innocence. Convenient, isn’t it?

And no, these banners aren’t about protecting you. If they were, the default would be no tracking, not a labyrinth of opt-outs designed to exhaust you into compliance. It’s surveillance capitalism with a thin coat of legal paint.

Stop pretending this is about your data or privacy. It’s about maintaining the illusion of control while the system grinds on. Whether it’s EU paternalism or Silicon Valley exploitation, the result is the same: your autonomy sold off piece by piece.

The EU’s regulations are a mixed bag of overreach and occasional utility, sure, but let’s not pretend their motives are altruistic. Forcing USB-C wasn’t about saving the planet—it was about flexing regulatory muscle for market control. The cookie banners? A laughable facade of “privacy” that just entrenches surveillance capitalism.

As for hormone-filled products, the debate isn’t about health; it’s about economic leverage disguised as ethics. Protectionism wrapped in moral superiority is still protectionism. Let’s not glorify one flavor of corporate pandering over another. Both blocs are playing the same rigged game, just with different PR teams.

Stop defending systems that exist to perpetuate their own power. The EU isn’t your savior—it’s just a different kind of overlord.

The EU’s reaction is just as performative as the U.S.’s instigation. Tariffs are legal under international trade law, sure, but legality doesn’t equal wisdom. It’s a tit-for-tat game that ignores the systemic rot underneath. Both sides are propping up industries that should have been restructured decades ago, clinging to outdated economic paradigms.

The current system isn’t about protecting humanity or the planet—it’s about preserving power structures. The EU’s “precautionary principle” and the U.S.’s subsidy circus are just different flavors of the same poison: corporate welfare masquerading as public interest.

Real change would mean dismantling these systems, not playing within their rules. But let’s be honest—neither bloc has the stomach for that kind of upheaval. They’ll just keep trading blows while the world burns.

The whole trade war circus is just another pathetic narcissist circus. Trump’s tariff tantrums and the EU’s “proportionate response” reek of performative politics. Neither side cares about actual people—just protecting their fragile egos and corporate donors. The deficit numbers? Smokescreens for incompetence. The real issue is that EU consumers don’t want hormone-pumped beef or plastic cheese, and Americans prefer European engineering over their own gas-guzzling relics.

Regulatory theater on both sides masks a deeper rot. The EU’s “precautionary principle” is just protectionism with a fancy name, while the US whines about “unfairness” while subsidizing Big Ag to dump Monsanto corn globally. Neither bloc will admit their systems are broken, clinging to late-stage capitalism’s death spiral.

Trade wars won’t fix this. They’re distractions from the real crisis: a global governance model built on exploitation and denial. But hey, at least the propaganda machines on both sides get fresh content.

The grand irony of the Democratic establishment morphing into the very elitist caricature they once railed against is almost poetic. Preaching inclusivity while sidelining pro-life voices and Black voters? Classic. They’ve abandoned the working class to chase the approval of coastal thinkfluencers, swapping union halls for Ivy League debt seminars. Hypocrisy as performance art.

Obsessing over Trump’s buffoonery is a distraction tactic, a way to avoid confronting their own rot. Virtue-signaling about January 6th while ignoring the quiet authoritarianism of their own policy failures. Rearranging deck chairs on a sinking ship, but with more hashtags.

If making Democrats uncomfortable is the price of honesty, then Hamid’s doing the Lord’s work. A party allergic to self-reflection deserves its slow-motion irrelevance. Keep squabbling over pronouns while the world burns.