Politics The EU is killing Europe

[tea-drinker]

Nope.Absolutely. Couldn't agree more.
Here, I couldn't disagree more, to be frank with you. If you meant to say they keep racism alive as a tool to divide and conquer, I'd agree. But the left did not "create" racism. Racism is, unfortunately, the default state of the human mind. It's only (somewhat) overcome in functioning societies.
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Exactly. You pull the pendulum too far, it swings back as violently.
You don't happen to have some link on that for further reading? 7 billion seems a lot compared to expenditures of 115 billion.

I mean, not every penny to an NGO is wasted. Especially not in the social sector. For example, here in Germany the Churches are heavily involved in running hospitals and nurseries, and get a lot of government money for it which I wouldn't call wasted (despite their more leaning to the left in recent years).It's meant as an insult, but obviously not perceived as such. I mean, why are you objecting to its use here? Presumaly because it is, technically, wrong to call the Canadian Liberals Communists?

(The modern progressive left is roundly rejected by Marx-reading communists.)Can you ruin a career by calling someone a Communist? You can ruin someone's career by calling them a Nazi.
Or how about hate speech laws? Poland is one of the few countries where the use of Communist symbols is outlawed similarly to the use of the Svastika. Most jurisdictions don't care about it.

Hey Muck, few responses:
1. The Left creating racism is unclear language on my part - better say they manufactured the environment for it to occour.
Whether that was knowingly or unknowingly, it was certainly careless.

2. NGO situation in Ireland:
for last year Senator Sharon Keoghan got a figure of 6.9 billion I believe in a response from the Dept. of Finance.
I don't have a link.
However, here's an excerpt from the Journal, an insanely liberal paper in Ireland showing 6.2 billion for 2021:
"Benefacts, a former non-profit which was founded to provide transparency around Ireland’s nonprofit sector, reported in 2021 that there were more than 34,000 NGOs in Ireland at the time, employing over 160,000 people and which received €6.2 billion in State funding."

What are NGOs - and why are there so many of them?

NGOs, or non-governmental organisations, are groups that operate on a non-profit basis that are independent of the government. They often seek to address social and political issues, either on a community, national or international basis depending on their remit.According to The Wheel (Ireland’s...

www.factchecking.ie

Notice it says former? They pulled the funding for the NGO which tracked NGO funding
I also agree they can perform useful functions - filling in gaps in healthcare, womens shelters, men's sheds, emergency accommodation etc.
We should probably not exceed 1 billion in funding even for really needed things. If people want to pay to charities out of their own pocket, who are subject to oversight by the charities regulator... OK.
We still have enormous national debt dating back to 2008, this should be paid rather than wasting money on NGO's.

FinanceDublin.com - Irish Debt Clock

www.financedublin.com

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"The Don's" tariffs can easily transform our finances, but not in a good way, and everything I suggest will HAVE to happen then anyway.
Between now and then we could save some pensions, healthcare etc. Keep spending, borrowing and while IMF might entertain some messing for a year - eventually they cut you off like running into a brick wall.
but that's the left for you, some people are disposable.

 

[primer]

I wondered how it really sat with Trump the US companies HQ's in Ireland to avoid tax. Not they he himself doesn't have golf courses all over the world.
When you google apple ireland it doesn't result in a fruit. But he seemed really nice toward the Irish PM the other day. But it will also get Zelenskied within a sentence. Will pay to send him a portrait, really good one or some flattering AI memes..

 

[tea-drinker]

I wondered how it really sat with Trump the US companies HQ's in Ireland to avoid tax. Not they he himself doesn't have golf courses all over the world.
When you google apple ireland it doesn't result in a fruit. But he seemed really nice toward the Irish PM the other day. But it will also get Zelenskied within a sentence. Will pay to send him a portrait, really good one or some flattering AI memes..

He's been moaning about Ireland's tax, and it's not just tech, there's a massive Pharma base here, selling drugs back to US.
I think the countries which were oohing and ahhing over Kamala didn't do themselves any favours with Trump, and he harbours a grudge.
Paybacks a bitch ;-)

 

[muck]

He's been moaning about Ireland's tax, and it's not just tech, there's a massive Pharma base here, selling drugs back to US.
I think the countries which were oohing and ahhing over Kamala didn't do themselves any favours with Trump, and he harbours a grudge.
Paybacks a bitch ;-)

He does hold grudges, but it's not like he's particularly friendly to the remainder either …

 

[Ivan le Fou]

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This, there, is the kind of behavior I have been referring to.

 

[muck]

With all due respect, but Weber was giving his opinion. For that to count as dangerous interference, Romanian politicians would have to be lobotomised snowflakes.

 

[Ivan le Fou]

With all due respect, but Weber was giving his opinion. For that to count as dangerous interference, Romanian politicians would have to be lobotomised snowflakes.

His opinion from his official account.

If we have been taught anything, or if any standards have been set, is tweets/posts made from official accounts are not just mere private opinions but party approved stances. Unless condemned by either other members of said party of higher-ups.

And though it does not constitutes an interference, it shows a behavioral pattern of "you have the right to vote, but only for the approved thing; otherwise you voted wrong and if you win your victory is unacceptable".

 

[haze99]

Paris, France

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How much longer will this lawlessness tolerated?

 

[Ivan le Fou]

Meh... that's just the usual soccer-match aftermath.

I think PSG won, so... yeah.

Feels like these riots went down for a few years though, but they are not so uncommon.


Something more concerning however, regarding France:

 

[haze99]

Unbelievable. Congrats Brussels...

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[PEMM]

Unbelievable. Congrats Brussels...

No, congrats Mexico City.

Or did you post this to wrong thread by accident?

 

[muck]

Meh... that's just the usual soccer-match aftermath.

Oh yeah. Like in Hamburg the week before. Their own supporters were so stoked about their team advancing to the highest league they trashed the entire stadium and hospitalised like seventeen people.

Football ultras are weird.

 

[PEMM]

Oh yeah. Like in Hamburg the week before. Their own supporters were so stoked about their team advancing to the highest league they trashed the entire stadium and hospitalised like seventeen people.

Football ultras are weird.

People should switch to Ice Hockey. In that, there is enough violence in the rink to fill the male demand for it.

Football is just hours of anxiety with few moments of joy/despair. It's no wonder people become angry at the end of it.

 

[Ivan le Fou]

Oh yeah. Like in Hamburg the week before. Their own supporters were so stoked about their team advancing to the highest league they trashed the entire stadium and hospitalised like seventeen people.

Football ultras are weird.

And a lot of them aren't even fans of soccer.

To them it is nothing but a pretext for behaving like chimps.

 

[Musashi]

Meh... that's just the usual soccer-match aftermath.

I think PSG won, so... yeah.

Feels like these riots went down for a few years though, but they are not so uncommon.


Something more concerning however, regarding France:

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[Volk01]

His opinion from his official account.

If we have been taught anything, or if any standards have been set, is tweets/posts made from official accounts are not just mere private opinions but party approved stances. Unless condemned by either other members of said party of higher-ups.

And though it does not constitutes an interference, it shows a behavioral pattern of "you have the right to vote, but only for the approved thing; otherwise you voted wrong and if you win your victory is unacceptable".

Saying you are pro-european and failing to act upon it is worthy of at least a twitter post, is it not?
It doesn’t have anything to do with collusion, it is merely point out their duality and probably trying to score some points for the National Liberal Party which is part of EPP and rallied around Nicusor Dan.
He won btw with a comfortable margin.

 

[Ivan le Fou]

Saying you are pro-european and failing to act upon it is worthy of at least a twitter post, is it not?
It doesn’t have anything to do with collusion, it is merely point out their duality and probably trying to score some points for the National Liberal Party which is part of EPP and rallied around Nicusor Dan.
He won btw with a comfortable margin.

That's not the point.

And yes, Nicusor Dan won, congratulation to him.

 

[haze99]

Germany

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[haze99]

Spain

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[Musashi]

Spain

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That's the main reason why I haven't bought a holiday home in Spain yet.
That problem has very little to do with asylum seekers but more to do with the stupid "ocupados" laws in Spain.
Many properties are occupied by Spanish citizens or immigrants who came from the EU.