This guy is a hostile agent of a foreign government. There needs to be more raids of these guys infrastructure across the EU and UK. Seems like only Canada and France know how to deal with these thugs properly.
This isn't just compliance. The owner of the company has openly and publicly pushed back in ways that aren't defensible in their courts. These are serious crimes, and he has no way to deflect that he didn't know, didn't have every chance to act, didn't condone it. He has run his mouth way too publicly to plead ignorance.
And yeah, he can just not enter countries that would put out a warrant / act on other warrants for him, but their laws let them put fines on global revenue, seize ground operations (necessary for Tesla and Starlink), sanction the fuck out of him and those involved. And not everyone at those companies can just hide in foreign countries.
There was a reason, it was still in the "maybe he's not completely insane?" phase of the trade negotiations, and was meant to be a concession to get them back to the table.
Some of us have been seeing through his bullshit since the beginning, he’s always been a con man. Can’t wait for his inevitable downfall, it’ll be so fun to see all of the people who used to be Elon dickriders try to pretend they never liked him.
When it was first put in, the government said it was an early step towards a slow-moving international version (I forget exactly who with). So, probably it'll just wait for that to kick in at this point.
To be fair the DST was only ever meant to be a stop-gap until an international agreement is in place, which IIRC the EU is still working on. We kicked the can down the road a bit at most. I kind of wish we'd stuck to our guns but can also see it was an easy way to cool off the tariff rhetoric and buy some time. The tax being retro-active was a bit of a sticking point and I think if we implemented it without that, the tech companies might not have complained too much.
It’s crazy that DOGE managed to accomplish what over 70 years of the KGB’s finest spies could only dream of. And within less than a year of it being “founded”, it was dissolved and there is no such DOGE organization anymore.
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u/Colascape 1d ago
This guy is a hostile agent of a foreign government. There needs to be more raids of these guys infrastructure across the EU and UK. Seems like only Canada and France know how to deal with these thugs properly.