The nature of these posts is that by default the 4 posts are filled by reps from the 4 largest parties in the EP.

So there’s a conservative, a. Social democrat, a liberal etc.

If you think that you are under 20 or have been living under a rock.

Do not worry Vestager lives for shit like this. She’ll make them bend over, take it deep, and pay her for her pleasure.

Social media. That is how.

EU is waking up to the danger to democracy that is unregulated social networks ruled by trolls and dysonformation. They would be glad for them to leave.

In general. Construction can be made very cheap in dictatorships.

The other thing making things cheap is scale.

China did a lot of things well, but especially on point 1 - we need to hold the line.

Lots of projects are expensive in the west because we care about nature, quality, worker safety and the communities impacted by the work (but also because this all opens the doors to malicious bad faith legal battles that make projects stupid expensive)

This is more the oligarch / dictator wannabe. He is saying fascist things because that gets votes but like Orban if becoming a socialist, a devout Christian, a hard core libertarian gets his base riled up - he’ll do it.

All he wants is to make sure to be able to steal more money and not get prosecuted by the next government.

He is Orban (originally a left wing crusader), Lukashenko (originally a man anti corruption fire brand), Putin (originally a pragmatic technocrat) / they are now all hard right wing , “religious” (ignore all their lovers and affairs) men of the people (ignore the palaces and yachts). All of them flap in the wind of populism. It just so happens that all the slots are primed and ready to vote for fascism.

Do enlighten us. What atrocities did Ukraine commit in 2014?

As does Windows and Mac. The both have states that are “asleep” but connected to the internet. Whether they will keep downloading - it’s not a thing I have tested.

Is the cost of living crisis that crazy?

I left the US in 2017 tired of a decade of stagnant wages.

Of course in 2018 the wages started spiking. But is all of it eaten by cost of living increases?

“Suicidal military missions” are quite different from terrorism. What a silly attempt at an analogy.

That said. Terrorism is far from uniquely a Muslim tactic - it’s quite effective and had been used extensively in the past over and over again.

I repeat this every time someone posts being worried about Putin using nukes.

Putin has a 30 years old lover and handful of small kids with her. All his oligarch supporters have families.

Any use of any nukes results in all of us dying and the few that survive living like rats.

The one and only line that will not be crossed is these oligarchs and their kids living out their lives in bunkers like rats.

It does not even matter that Putins new family is hiding in Switzerland. They would still have to live the rest of their lives like rats.

They campaigned hard on it. Especially in reopening two reactors closed by international treat as they built it literally next to Copenhagen. Then I heard nothing about it at all.

It seems it was a cynical populist campaign and there in no real goal to do anything at all.

Precisely. Nothing in Texas is supposed to work as advertised. This is to further hunt poor people. Ideally brown ones. Glad I left that rotten state.

See that is the opposite of the goal here. This will be a whip on poor people. Making the fine tied to your income would punish the people writing this bill they cannot have that !

Lol. I accepted 2/3 of your links but I reject the idiocy of CATO so I am biased!? Lol

Have a nice day.

And yeah. You keep posting links that contradict the statement “they laughed them out of the room” you originally posted. NATO opened up to Russia. Russia decided it was not worth their effort.

CATO is a bunch of crazies posturing as a think tank. Their opinions are ideological and not fact based. They make the Heritage Foundation (I think they rebranded to Heartland Institute) sound like a reasoned logical bunch.

CATO is not a trustworthy factual source. It’s a trustworthy source if you want to justify oligarchy and fascism, though.

The factual link you posted (not the commentary on CATO, lol) says the opposite. NATO cut ties after Putin began turning aggressive as Ukraine began gaining independence.

From what I understand (I may be understanding little), Saudis responded opposite the western requests and seemingly in coordination with Russia cut output, and have been cutting output. Driving up energy prices and overall inflation. There seems to be some power play happening between the Saudis and Biden if I am reading the news correctly.