Not excusing it, but very few countries didn’t have slavery in their history at one point or another.

It’s just some never stopped, like the US.

Add retirement homes, healthcare, and once in a lifetime inflation events every decade.

A third wouldn’t care, a third would jack off to it and you know sanity is in a minority.

Hungary should have the mangalica, it’s a furry pig, and it fits sooo well.

Oh fuck did the US come full circle and go full Stakhanovite? Back under communism in Eastern Europe, you’d do 105% of the target so you’d hit the bonus but not the target readjustment.

Your version looks worse.

Oh, it’s not just gaming

Why are all basic civil rights not enshrined in laws, but instead resting on brittle law precedents in the US?

Undersea infrastructure was damaged in the past, so it’s not really a moot point. This is like the bobbies escorting a woman home who was being stalked after there was an uptick of rapes in the area.

No telling what might have happened if the Russians felt they weren’t being watched.

What the actual heck are you talking about?

NATO has no bearing on the European economic situation while admitting in the next breath it has huge implications for energy prices due to trade with Russia.

Energy prices went up since Russia is conducting a military invasion on the country transiting said energy, and as a result of EU/US sanctions that are the result of war crimes, crimes of aggression and genocide. The only thing NATO does currently is ensure that can’t spill over to more countries being attacked. NATO didn’t do jack shit yet. Individual countries, and the EU, did.

and your countrymen have been calling me blind drunk screaming about how they have no money

Our countrymen should look for their money at Hatvanpuszta or Mészáros & Mészáros. Russian puppet Orbán stole all the money and the future of the country, Russian puppet Orbán made it impossible to have children, get sick, or die, with dignity, he is responsible for producing the highest real estate inflation, the highest food inflation in the EU, and it’s all because he’d rather take Russian cock to his throat than have less corruption kickbacks.

A ruszkik meg igazán hazamehetnének végre és foglalkozhatnának a saját országukkal ahelyett hogy mongol módjára fosztogatnak és erőszakolnak nyugatra.

Or maybe, just maybe, fine companies that commit criminal acts.

There really is a fine line between turning into an authoritarian regime and doing basic police work, right?

Twitter is not the sole, or even the biggest social media company in Europe. It’s not even in the top 3.

The advertisement sector will be fine.

The DMA has no bearing on disinfo, it’s about access, like mandating a public API to federate with or banning self-preferencing with other products.

The disinfo thing is regulated by the DSA - Digital Services Act, and it very much applies to Twitter.

It’s in the Irish EEZ, which means it’s navigable waters for everyone, but the Irish can drill for oil or put down undersea cables. The “escorted away” thing legally looks like as when someone wants to break into a store and is walking around the storefront with a crowbar, and police come out and just observe and deter the likely perp until they go away.

They can’t tell the vessel to go away, but they can put a few proverbial spotlights on it so it doesn’t do things it shouldn’t be doing.

Oh, BTW, this is exactly the sort of situation that goes down again and again in China, except there the Chinese actively ram ships and endanger aircraft in their EEZ.

I’d say it’s more like “we will only fight if we can keep it off our lawn and avoid tracking in the mud”. America didn’t dare fight 1939 Germany, only 1944 Germany when the war was already decided, and the real pivotal battles have already been won. It didn’t dare fight the Soviets when they took over half of Europe, and it didn’t dare fight the Soviets directly for the next century, and it “won” the Cold War by default, only to be coopted by Russian intelligence just recently.

I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, but it’s so weird having grown up in a country that has really known war, and to talk with Americans who think fighting a war is anything glorious.

And “every blade of grass” is reformer bullshit by the way, just to keep with the community theme. Unrestricted war crimes, nukes and chemical warfare, drones and stand-off munitions eviscerating clueless people. That’s what war is about.

IDK what your point is. NATO being revitalized is not a “good thing” that makes us live nicer. NATO and rearmament is a fever, Russian imperialism is the sickness.

NATO is not an economic alliance, it’s a military one. The sole goal of NATO is keeping Russian soldiers outside NATO members’ territories. And as someone whose home country has suffered immensely under Russian occupation, seeing Russia draw troops down from the Finnish border right after they joined the alliance makes me happy that we are NATO members.

Europe wouldn’t be doing better outside NATO, it has no bearing on economics. Trade disruption with Russia certainly has to do with it, but ironically that’s because during the 00s and the 10s Europe extended a friendly hand to Russia, and got into deep trading entanglements with it, which Russia tried to exploit to force geopolitical concessions.

No, it’s simple, you only have to provide ID, and if enough people sign, the govt has to address it.

I’m assuming it’s autocorrect, but there were no Dutch rabbits involved. It’s Vernichtung durch Arbeit, extermination through work.

Everyone knows that the “sex appeal” slider in character creation is for dick size in men and boob size in women.

The attitude toward wars displayed by countries that have never in living memory fought one on their own soil is frankly terrifying in its stupidity, though.

The common security and defence policy shall be an integral part of the common foreign and security policy. It shall provide the Union with an operational capacity drawing on civilian and military assets.

This is how the clause starts.

It is explicitly a military alliance. That said, Ukraine is a sovereign state, and they are the sole authorities on what military alliance they want to join, Russia has no seat in the Ukrainian parliament. Of course, Putin has no excuses.

I’m just being a dick about this because it’s actually an Eurosceptic Russia-friendly narrative that the EU is nothing but a trade deal, and has no bearing on common foreign policy, common defence policy, or the creation of a common geopolitical proxy. It is. The end goal explicitly is that - while inside the EU, member states may have their own politics - from the outside of the EU, it is one country, one partner.

So when Trump or Xi or Putin come over to talk, their counterpart is representing 420 million people and an economic capacity rivalling that of the US, and member states can’t be played against each other. I know realistically we are not quite there, but Trump really hated to talk to the EU instead of individual member states. There was a reason for that.