Andreas Jahn

Unternehmer, Software, Suzuki Bandit 1250

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

For the past year, MAGA has been screaming “Europoor” like a cheap car alarm going off at three in the morning. Nobody asked for it, nobody knows how to turn it off.

But then along comes this chart.
America sits at number four in average wealth. Except “average” is the statistic billionaires hide behind. Put Elon Musk in a room with 500 broke MAGA guys, and on average, everyone in that room is a multibillionaire. That’s the trick!

Now look at the median. The actual middle American, the real one with the pickup truck, the missing teeth and the medical debt. Fourteenth place. Behind Belgium. Behind Italy. Behind Spain. And the ordinary European? The man MAGA calls a Europoor pays $9 for his insulin, glances over at the American paying $900 for the exact same vial, shrugs, and goes back to being more than twice as wealthy. He’d feel sorry for you, but honestly, he’s too busy being on vacation.

And that gap between fourth and fourteenth? That’s not a statistical quirk. That’s the entire scam laid bare. America’s wealth exists. It’s just not yours. It belongs to about eleven people in Palo Alto, and you’ve been guarding it for them for free, like an unpaid nightclub bouncer, shouting at Europeans on the internet while the owners drink champagne inside.

American exceptionalism. No other nation on Earth has ever been this successfully convinced to cheer for its own fleecing.

So by all means, keep shouting Europoor. We’ll be over here with our healthcare, our six weeks of vacation, and our double-your-median wealth, trying very hard to hear you over the sound of how sorry we feel.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Happy 4th of July

[Royally Sage @sage1411]

My brother posts this every year in the family chat on the 4th. Still hilarious.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Ukraine has greatly benefited from the US getting out of Ukraine:
1. Ukraine can now pursue its own wiser military strategy.
2. Now Ukraine successfully bombs Russian oil refineries & terminals, causing a shortage of gasoline.
3. Europe has generously added the financing that Trump has withdrawn.
4. Europe does not pose stupid demands about what it does not understand unlike the US.
5. Ukraine has successfully developed its own arms, leaving the US behind, while Europe cooperates.
6. US pressure on Ukraine to give up territory to Russia has ended & the pro-Putin fools Kushner & Witkoff have lost all significance.
7. Amazingly, the US seems to have no policy on Russia or Ukraine apart from Trump's wild imagination. Without policy, Trump is unable to appoint US ambassadors.
8. Ukraine's future victory is likely to mark not only the end of Russian imperialism, but also the demise of US power in Europe because of Trump's folly or treason.

[Winter @LeftyWinter]

Capitalism sucks.

[Anna @AnnaDeMilanese]

DER US SUPREME COURT HAT GERADE DEN EU-US-DATENTRANSFER IN DIE LUFT GESPRENGT. 🇺🇸🇪🇺

Der Supreme Court erklärte die Unabhängigkeit der FTC für verfassungswidrig — und entzieht damit dem EU-US Data Privacy Framework die rechtliche Grundlage.
Max Schrems, Gründer von Noyb, fordert die EU-Kommission sofort zum Handeln auf: Da es in den USA keine unabhängigen Behörden mehr gebe, sei das Framework ein „rechtliches Luftschloss", das nun in sich zusammenfalle. Noyb hat die Kommission formell aufgefordert, die Angemessenheitsentscheidung für die USA aufzuheben und einen koordinierten Ausstieg der europäischen Wirtschaft aus der US-Cloud-Infrastruktur einzuleiten.
Schrems hat bereits zweimal vor dem EuGH EU-US-Datenschutzabkommen zu Fall gebracht — Safe Harbor 2015, Privacy Shield 2020.
Europäische Unternehmen, die Daten in US-Clouds speichern — also praktisch alle — stehen jetzt vor dem dritten Kollaps in zehn Jahren.
Wann baut Europa seine eigene digitale Infrastruktur?
👇
Quelle: https://t.co/gebeSurX9Y (30.06.26)
@t1mes1nk

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

The times they are a-changin'

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

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[Roderich Kiesewetter🇪🇺🇩🇪🇮🇱🇺🇦 @RKiesewetter]

Jahrzehntelang folgte die deutsche Politik drei Lebenslügen: Sicherheit durch die USA, scheinbar billige Energie aus Russland und grenzenloses Wachstum durch den chinesischen Markt. Dieses Modell ist nicht nur gescheitert, sondern in der neuen geoökonomischen Realität brandgefährlich geworden. Wir dürfen Wirtschaft und Sicherheitspolitik nicht länger als getrennte Säulen betrachten.

Europa und Deutschland dürfen nicht zum Spielball fremder Mächte werden – weder durch Russlands imperialen Vernichtungskrieg, noch durch Chinas systematische Schaffung von Abhängigkeiten oder die kompromisslose Machtpolitik Washingtons in einer zweiten Trump-Amtszeit. Europa muss seinen geoökonomischen Raum selbstbewusst gestalten und verteidigen.

Das bedeutet konkret, dass wir die Ukraine als unabdingbaren Pfeiler unserer künftigen Sicherheit und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit zwingend in unsere Sicherheitsarchitektur und den Binnenmarkt integrieren müssen. Zudem gilt es, digitale Souveränität aufzubauen und uns aus der fatalen doppelten Abhängigkeit von chinesischer Hardware und amerikanischen Cloud-Infrastrukturen zu befreien. Nicht zuletzt müssen wir Rüstungskooperationen konsequent als strategisches, geopolitisches Werkzeug begreifen, um Partner an Demokratien zu binden und Autokratien nicht kampflos das Feld zu überlassen.

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[Daniel Kosak @Kosak_Daniel]

„BIST DU DEPPAT“ ist das neue „I wer narrisch“ #ALGAUT

[Dana Scully Fella 🇺🇦 @danascully1984]

Ukraine vs Ruzzia

[Jarl Finland @jalle51]

Having closely analyzed the latest flight footage of Ukraine’s new FP-5 "Flamingo" missile, we can finally draw an obvious—and for the Kremlin, utterly humiliating—conclusion. Disregard any panic about some "hypersonic sci-fi wonder-weapon." The Flamingo is functionally a standard, subsonic, low-flying cruise missile running on technology rooted in the middle of the last century. 🚀🚜💥

Let’s be real: on a radar screen, this thing likely lights up like a massive farm tractor. Powered by a jet engine that leaves a thermal heat signature the size of an aircraft carrier, it can be seen and heard from miles away by radar, binoculars, monocles, or even a basic pair of reading glasses. But here is the absolute peak of the thriller: Despite this flying tractor slowly cruising through sovereign Russian airspace for two entire hours, Russia's entire air defense matrix completely fails to intercept it!

When smaller Ukrainian drones strike deep, pro-Kremlin mouthpieces love to cope by claiming they are made of carbon fiber and invisible to Pantsir batteries. But a massive, ten-meter steel tube packed with a screaming jet engine? Even if we assume every operational Pantsir has been deployed to the frontlines or buried around Putin's private bunker in Valdai, where on earth is the Russian Air Force? Where are the interceptor jets explicitly designed for this exact mission? ✈️🤷‍♂️

The strategic reality in mid-2026 is wild: Russia has been systematically degraded to a state where it cannot defend against mid-20th-century aviation tech. For the first time in military history, Russia's vast geographic size has mutated from an imperial advantage into a catastrophic air-defense liability. Their domestic sky is a total sieve.

This is a massive ace up Kyiv’s sleeve and a critical window of opportunity. Of course, this window will eventually close—just like it did for Bayraktars and HIMARS once tactics evolved. There is no need to over-celebrate; if Ukrainians learned to survive without electricity and fuel, the Russian machine will eventually adapt as well. But right now, on Day 2 of Ukraine’s aggressive 40-day campaign, the strategic gap is wide open. Kyiv needs to exploit this vulnerability to the absolute maximum before the Kremlin figures out a countermeasure. Grab a drink, the structural collapse is running in pure 4K! 😂🥃🍿

Source: Technical analysis of viral FP-5 "Flamingo" flight data and aerospace tracking via independent OSINT defense monitors (June 2026).

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

“Grandpa, what did America do when Ukraine beat Russia?”

He takes a while to answer.

“The boys at school say America didn’t do anything. That isn’t true, is it, Grandpa?”

And he doesn’t know how to say it. That there was a day, in a gold-trimmed room, when president Trump sat across from a leader who had not slept properly in three years, a man whose cities were being bombed while he spoke, and instead of standing beside him, he lectured him. About gratitude. On camera. With his deputy joining in, the two of them talking down to a wartime president as if he had come to beg for a favour rather than to keep his country alive.

“It’s complicated,” is all he manages.

But the boys at school are closer to the truth than he wants to admit.

Ukraine won the way a man wins a fight after his cornerman walks out halfway through. It won despite that room, not because of it. It won because Europe helped, Canada helped, Australia helped, Japan helped, South Korea helped, and most of all because of the fighting spirit in Ukraine, and because the Ukrainians refused to die quietly, and because history has a long memory for the people who showed up and an even longer one for the people who didn’t.

One day the textbooks will have a photo of that meeting. And the caption will not be kind.

“No,” he says finally. “They didn’t do nothing. They did something worse.”

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Allah is fickle and has a sense of humor, it seems.

[TW 🇪🇺 @motihari1903go]

In Wien haben auch Migrantenkinder alle Möglichkeiten für eine gute Bildungsbiografie.
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[Just saying @kangaroos991]

Correct! #NobodyIsAboveTheLaw! ⤵️

[European Democrats @democrats_eu]

Austria is the latest step in Europe’s payments awakening. With Erste Bank Oesterreich and Raiffeisen joining EPI, Wero moves closer to becoming a real continental alternative to Visa, Mastercard and PayPal. It is already active in Belgium, France and Germany, with expansion under way in Luxembourg, the Netherlands and now Austria. This is how Europe cuts dependency on American giants: not with speeches, but with infrastructure.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Thank you Germany 🇩🇪 and UK 🇬🇧 for heroically sacrificing your economy to save the planet 💪
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[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Vladimir Putin's obsession with restoring historical spheres of influence is a classic case of ”be careful what you wish for.”

While Europe actively opposes this regressive geopolitical framework, a forced return to it would mean Russia being inevitably absorbed into European and Chinese orbits.

The Kremlin frequently hallucinates about a world where major powers dictate the fates of smaller nations. Europe has spent decades moving past this toxic mentality, building a system based on voluntary alliances and economic partnership. If forced to play the old imperial game, Europe's sheer gravity will always overpower Moscow. The same goes for China.

Outside of its bloated nuclear stockpile and its imperialism, Russia has absolutely nothing to offer that competes with European society. Europe holds a massive lead in technological development, industrial capacity, financial power, and human development indices.

Trying to force a competition of spheres against neighbors that dominate you economically and socially is pure strategic blindness. Putin's nostalgic dream will ultimately result in Russia being reduced to a minor player in European- and Chinese-dominated landscapes

[NXT EU @NXT4EU]

Meloni: the EU being a market is no longer enough, we need Europe to become a genuine power.