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And that actually shines a light on another issue, the differences between parts of the EU. That is because you are describing the EU as an union of colonizers, it couldn’t be farther from the truth for countries like Finland, Latvia or Hungary, which have been colonies rather than colonizers for most of their existence. In fact, Hungary has mostly been behaving as a German colony for the past 20-30 years.

The way I see it, while the EU has member states with heavy colonial pasts, a lot - IDK even most? - of the others are in a tough spot because of this, as their societies are even less used to the multiculturalism that being a colonial power brings, and they are right IMO in saying “we did not fuck this up, it’s not on us to fix it”.

Finally, again the problem is that while reparations for colonial wrongdoings should happen, the priority should be stopping current neocolonialism. We can’t heal old wounds while inflicting new ones.

On the one hand, the current refugees are not coming to Europe from old European colonies, but from Russian ones. In fact, most of them come because of Russia bombing many of them as a last ditch attempt of a failing colonial power to maintain its exploitative hold on them. That is true of Syria or Ukraine.

I think it’s two separate issues, with migration being the shared aspect. Economic migration I think should be considered in the context of what you said, like people from ex-colonies should be helped by opening up the education system or the job market - in very regulated ways, mostly prescribing a very high minimum wage - for them, while people from eg. Syria should be helped by giving out asylum, but the two systems should be entirely separate. If anything, I think the costs associated by housing Ukrainian or Syrian asylees should be taken from frozen Russian assets, as part of the cost of rebuilding those countries.

Trying to “fix” ex-colonies, or completely opening up the country to economic migration creates neo-colonialistic dynamics IMO.

People on Linux are used to things just working I guess.

Terror attacks

I bet it’s preparation for putting people in camps domestically to “work off their debt”.

The US wants more slaves.

This is such a hard issue. If documented rights abuses and limited protections are a reason for extending asylum, we could have most of the world in here as refugees, including the whole populations of the US, China and India.

On the other hand, it is a fundamental contradiction of European values to push people back into places where they are abused.

Then again, Russia has weaponized masses of asylum seekers with great effect.

I hope it’s not going to be Germany, the policies of their current conservative leadership is why we’re dealing with a lot of these fires.

They are responsible for making the EU reliant enough on Russia that they thought we would stand by and let Ukraine fall. They are responsible for the absolute state of Hungary. The migrant crisis. Bankrupting Greece in the name of austerity. I’m sure the list goes on.

Or just decent regulation. You’re offering an AI product? You can’t attest that it’s been trained in a legitimate way?

Into the shadow realm with you.

Anon wasn’t trying to live off the land, just to have a hobby

In the NL there is only private health insurance, so it’s technically private sector. I pay my 120 EUR premium, and this was included so I never needed to pay at the time of care.

Yeah that’s for the wrong sorts of people. Don’t worry, it’s only selectively enforced, and the cops know you’re one of the good ones. /s

That’s what Meloni wants to be but Trump seemingly prefers to speak to Macron. It must be Trump doesn’t give a fuck about ideology and only understands power.

That said, I don’t care what US oligarch cumrag Washington Post says about Europe.

I wonder if those protect from the Israeli spyware Hungary has been buying.

These are French people, countries exist outside the US.

That’s the neat part, you don’t.

Welcome to the third world guys.

Well, I imagine if you’re Chinese, you can go start changing the CPC as well.

I’ll be honest with you, “there are two candidates and the two party central comittees approved them” sounds only marginally better.

He’s obviously on high heels.

the dual national from New Jersey was shot and killed there

Two other teenage boys, one whose family told CBS News he is also a U.S. citizen, were shot but survived.

The soldiers opened fire towards the terrorists who were endangering civilians, eliminating one terrorist and hitting two additional terrorists.

the three teenage boys were shot

it appeared his son had been shot with two different guns, and that two bullets had entered his heart, two had struck his head, two had hit his shoulders, and then five others had hit his body.

This really looks like a neat article that would be a great example for an ESL textbook on the passive voice. In case it is written to be an example of serious journalism, then it is an atrocity against the concept of humanity itself.

What actually happened, based on the IDF’s own characterisation of events is that three kids were apparently throwing stuff around in the vague direction of a road, so IDF soldiers murdered them by mowing them down with multiple automatic weapons.

Also neat to see that the IDF definition of terrorist is “kids throwing rocks” at best, “any Palestinian kids” more realistically.

Depends on your viewpoint.

Emigrate from Europe and immigrate to Europe is also a valid way to look at it.

The developers built something for themselves

I’d just interject here to say they actually took a lot of EU funding to develop it. There were no strings attached, as it should be, but still. I agree with the rest.