Like with the EU, revising post-WWII era trade deals that were meant to benefit Europe and get them back on their feet.

Putting us on equal footing is what he regarded as fair trade.

The only fair trade is free trade

He's a bad diplomat though. He wants to handle everything.

Oh my fucking G-d

it depends on the economy

France has benefited for decades from protectionism

everything is black and white to you

no nuance

typical Catholic mush-brains

France also benefited from dirigisme, but that's not a mainstream belief either.

I know a guy who fooled an entire server into believing he had master's degree in econ but in actuality all he had done was read pop econ textbooks. The degree is toilet paper.

They basically hand them out.

You get one with the free pen.

So did he or did he not have the degree?

There has never been a time where a nation hasn't practiced some form of protectionism

He did not.

Protectionism is not economical, but it has it's benefits politically, giving it's people a sense of national pride by focusing on national production. While nearly impossible in practice, a country should move to be more and more self sufficient

And mine is from a pretentious institution

not from some State school

Like institution, like graduate. <:hmmm:459545659972911114>

I attended London School of Economics, an establishment that would never let you step across their threshold if you had seven lifetimes to try

Yes, you repeat yourself.

Do you have a bank of lines that you pull from and sometimes you glitch and you pick the same one twice?

Not the first time you've done this.

I have my best lines memorised

Lmao

This server isn't special

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I shitpost in many

I feel bad for your fiancee.

Zexy what fiancee

The one that's alleged to exist.

He Dosen't have one

Don't acknowledge it

As far as I believe.

she's right next to me as we speak

Ok.

Pic with timestamp or gtfo

kek im not going to make her take a pic with me to prove something to autists

she will think im nuts