They should ban toilet paper, it’s too woke.

That’s their dream, divide Europe between Russia and the US. We will all be Belarusians to one of them.

Pirates of the Caribbean!

CNN Portugal tonight was already distorting the current situation, claiming that Costa’s recent statements about Europeans not being subject to US interference were due to Trump saying that Europe would collapse civilizationally in 20 years because of its immigration policies, which is false or at least not the whole truth. Costa said what he said because the USA now considers the dismantling of the EU and support for Eurosceptic parties a priority in its defense strategy.

Europe, betrayed, is under attack.

EuropeForever

I wouldn’t say that, I know very well how brutal they could be and were in Asia and South America, but it’s also true that they have proven to be reliable allies for Europe on several occasions. In my country, Portugal, we probably wouldn’t have had a democracy without their support. Not everyone in the various governments was good, of course; Kissinger, for example, wanted to invade the Azores, cut aid to Portuguese socialist (PS) and social democratic (PSD) parties and leave behind a failed communist dictatorship in Portugal as an example to discourage the Western European left. But overall, I would say that, for a relatively long period, American influence and partnership were positive in Europe.

This will be known in history as the Great Betrayal. What a disgrace Trump is to the USA.

Their reward was getting a poorer country.

Unfortunately, the dreams of the Russian elites for the West are becoming increasingly real since Brexit,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

And now their vision aligns with that of the American elites in power.

🤣

Every now and again they also bring up the idea of introducing a bigger hurdle in Portugal.

The problem is that we also have many of these assholes in each of our countries, with the same opinions as Musk (but perhaps a little quieter about it) and with enough resources to also buy politicians and cause damage. It is the citizen’s duty to be vigilant. It should be the journalists’ duty to expose them, but investigative journalism has been dying, giving way almost exclusively to opinion-shaping commentators.

Not really, just that it doesn’t work in favour of this rich guy in particular.

People ain’t that different. Ironically, the great effectiveness of the same racist rhetoric in different cultures proves that.

LoL

Our corrupt EU overlords have sold themselves to all those American corporations. ChatControl is just another example of that. Fuck them.

I’m more surprised that people are surprised by this. Being nobility class is this: you’re free to make whatever rules you want for your subordinates, and you’re free to disregard any of them. You’re not bound by any sense of morality (whatever it might be); that’s for lower men.

What were they expecting? Obviously these people won’t comply with anything that’s imposed on the masses, especially in a society where the norms are so restrictive.

And I further suspect that the more totalitarian a country is, the more its elite will deliberately choose to go against their own rules, as this is the greatest proof of their powerful social status.

Orban’s Hungary is in favour, after all.

We are embracing authoritarianism everywhere. Democracies are dying.

Politicians are not ignorant of the risks; as the article mentions, they had several advisors, including scientists, who warned of the danger. If our leaders didn’t know it, they wouldn’t exclude themselves from the proposal.

It’s no coincidence that they are notorious for being a tax haven for unsavory individuals with shady dealings.

No, the US would invade the Netherlands if they tried to investigate.