That’s a word salad.

Many of us believe similar sanctions should be placed on the genocidal apartheid Israeli regime. So save us the sop story about uniting via music.

Money hoarding worker abuser said what?

You for bringing back Russia then?

Nope, didn’t know I had to, I’ve had multiple prints succeed previously, but also clogs often enough to be annoying, so maybe that’s it. Thank you very much for the pointer, let’s hope it’s what was missing.

Elegoo Centauri Carbon, and I’m using Orca on Linux.

Gekoloniseerd

Sure. Doesn’t mean that there aren’t millions upon millions of Europeans who spend more than 1-2 hours per day in their cars.

There are more European countries than the Netherlands.

They joys of a bunch of right wingers jerking each other off. Meanwhile, Sanchez is the only one doing the honourable thing and calling a spade a spade.

I keep seeing this point raised but it doesn’t make sense to me. If no invitation was extended, then the point of not officially denying it is… what exactly?

I mean let’s be as charitable as possible to Magyar. You are the pm-elect. The Israelis make a claim that’s untrue. That claim actually hurts your reputation as a break from orbanism. If you let it be, it puts you in a box, it constrains your movement. Why stay silent? And if you don’t want to rock the boat too much, why not even make a half assed walk back, as in “we talked and agreed in principle on a state visit, potentially after the next Israeli election in October” (that would keep your options open and give you plausible deniability for any play you choose). Instead, just …silence? What’s the play here?

A much simpler explanation to all of this absurd-adjacent hypotheticals, an explanation that requires the fewest hypotheses (Occam’s razor) is that …an invitation was made.

Yes, and the EU has at various points made collective commitments to it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_and_the_International_Criminal_Court

Technically, undermining the ICC is also blocking an EU thing.

Because the Polanski Greens are offering a real left alternative.

There is only one solution to right wing authoritarian populism and that’s left wing libertarian populism.

Europe really needs to get over cold war red scare propaganda.

You know how the way the homeopathic charlatans work is by diluting a tiny amount of active ingredient into a huge amount of water and then tell you that creates more potent medicine?

Don’t you see the same logic here? They are not diverting the funding that used to go to pseudoscience towards evidence based care. No no no, sir. They are diluting a tiny bit of good decision making (defunding the quacks) in a huge amount of bad decision making (healthcare cuts).

Just like you can’t dilute a tiny bit of, I dunno, acetaminophen in a 100 liters of water and claim it is still medicinal, you also can’t dilute a tiny bit of reasonable policy in billions of euros of cuts and call the whole package sensible.

Just conservatives enshittifying things.

And how do they plan to pay for the climate-change damage that causes? For the property damage, emergency services and insurance costs caused by additional flash floods, wildfires, heat domes, and droughts?

For a bunch of conservatives, this is fiscally irresponsible.

(Let’s start using their language against them.)

In all sincerity, I wish you and Hungary all the best.

The Israelis kind of have a point here, that the “burning of Judas” Easter tradition in many European and Latin American countries is indeed a case of folk antisemitism.

Just Google “burning of Judas” and “antisemism” and you’ll find plenty of gross examples.

That said, the Israelis should also freshen up on the ancient fable about the boy who cried wolf…

PS. Send Netanyahu and his cronies to the Hague, end the genocide, dismantle apartheid and the occupation, free Palestine and pay them reparations.