countries*

that said, this isn’t handy, identification, health, and really, all critical infrastructure, should be completely sovereign in the hands of Europe, away from the hands of anyone who seeks power or has it.

Rubio deserves nothing but deportation to Antarctica.

I’d prefer the latter. Europe must grow more sovereign, and the US becoming more dependent on us would help.

I dunno, this is very willing to hurt itself.

That is an objectively bad ““agreement””. It makes us more dependent. Why shouldn’t we do the reverse?

Bullshit, we shouldn’t let ourselves be policed by Amerislops.

Europe must be sovereign. A European coordination of military is necessary.

> have alliance with Armenia
> Armenia requests help against Azerbaijan
> Russia doesn’t do shit
> Armenia seeks other allies
> Enraged, the Putler threatens

Why are dictators like this?

Doesn’t the UK have a higher tax burden on the proletariat (the wage labouring class)?

Oh, absolutely, I don’t believe everything is a conspiracy; though I do believe that sometimes, far-right governments have an interest in this. Think of how Netanyahu propped up Hamas, for example. Or how the US and UK supported the mujahedeen under the guise of Operation Cyclone (they even spoke with each other in the White House!).

Watch as this is yet another thing orchestrated by far-right governments abroad to increase their support.

IMHO the EU has enormously contributed to global peace, but does have its issues. Those biggest deficiencies within the EU I think, are twofold:

• the veto right being too abusable (instead it could work more like how qualified majority works, but with a lower threshold).
• it’s too pro-capitalistic, and not agnostic in terms of economic models

For example, the European Commission tried to push privatisation of state-owned railway companies in the NL. The problem is that with privatisation, lines that are unprofitable, would be cut — even if they emancipated the populace’s mobility. Ticket prices also would increase, and they’re already fairly expensive. So the Netherlands instead decided, to pay the (unnecessary) penalty, rather than privatise. Worth it, imho.

A for-profit model is simply not suitable alone - it always needs regulation. Crucially, models should never focus on profit when they affect public utilities, natural resources, and sectors with regard to domestic and international trade, because otherwise they will lead to increasing poverty for whoever is not straight up an oligarch.

Norway, Switzerland, and Iceland effectively are already non-voting members of the EU, mainly due to the application of EU law through the EFTA relabelling them as such (except for agriculture and fishery, which largely remains theirs).

In my perspective, it’s worth giving Norway and Iceland a temporary opt-out on the fishery and agricultural regards, or at least better conditions for transition.

I also think that for these countries to join, the EU must be made to be agnostic in terms of economic models. Foster cooperation, but do not discriminate against oligarch-resistent models.

No gods, no masters

Neither were the federal prosecutors’ identities. And yet we hear their side of the story.

Imho Reuters shouldn’t have publicised this article at all.

So? I think news agencies also should be held to like standards as that of newspapers of record.

So far we only hear statements from one side, the prosecutors. Where is the defendants’ side? This is terrible journalism.

Tell that to those fascists that somehow still think they’re in the Cold War, like in the US, where socialists and communists are routinely despised and opposed, be it through union-busting, arrests of protesters, firebombing Black Panthers, et cetera. Nowadays you still see it but it’s less overt.

It’s not just xenophobia - otherwise, a lot of leftists would’ve voted for left-wing parties that opposed immigration. And those do exist.

No, there is much more.

So how is it different?

Then: Large socioeconomic inequity, institutional distrust, anti-intellectualism, Jews as scapegoat

Now: Large socioeconomic inequity, institutional distrust, anti-intellectualism, immigrants and queers as scapegoat

Same shit, different century.

If it is, then how is AfD, an explicitly fascist and anti-democratic party, so big?

In the face of fascism, the answer to tackling it, isn’t “It’s totally different”, but “Let’s get people to regain trust in democracy”. And that starts by tackling homelessness, housing costs, wage theft, corporatocracy, deplatforming all antidemocratic groups, and so on.

Biden took a lot of measures that helped the American public, but the narrative was skewed against him due to large corporations and reactionaries opposing his policies.

Not to handwave away.

Yeah, but if they keep out AfD and divide them, that’s all the better.

Greens + Die Linke with all seats would be chef’s kiss.

And, I hate to say it, but if having BSW in parliament keeps out the brown fascists, then that too.