Suppose you’re getting 2p a word. It adds another 8p to the sentence.

Being kind can only be a quixotic quest to these people. If they admitted there was a viable alternative to being a bastard, they’d have too much explaining to do.

The white supremacists are always self-disproving, every single one of them.

Plurality of culture is the natural consequence of freedom, so if you are not pluralist, you are authoritarian. It is more moral, less sadistic and more efficient to limit the use of force to a minimum. I thought we had settled that in 1945.

I’ve been out and about the whole time and I don’t know about new-fangled food and drink either.

Rest in peace the Atlantic Alliance: created by America’s Greatest Generation but undone by one of its worst - Friends of Europe

Jamie Shea in a corker on the end of NATO. @friendsofeurope.bsky.social www.friendsofeurope.org/insights/cri...

People who never wanted Schengen (“we had the best deal”) want this. They would be most unhappy if the border didn’t look like a proper border. Without ample queuing there’s no time to feel the borderiness of it.

If the friction of the Schengen opt out was a sweet deal, why aren't people enjoying the Entry Exit System?

That’s because whether penny pincher or spendthrift is cultural. It only has anything to do with how much money you have when severe restrictions apply.

“The U.S. has changed, and we must respond.” No hedging. No “our American friends.” Just a clean acknowledgement that the country on the other side of the border is not the country we thought we knew."

Mark Carney-Canada

He does his own parody account if I remember rightly.

What if the company itself is an adversary of democracies?

It’s an internal US fascist movement. They talk about the “West” to make it sound grander, but over here we’re mainly doing stuff they’ve got no idea about.

A cursory search for comment on the German system with two lay judges tells me the reason for it is public confidence, not better decisions.

Also some cultures go beyond advanced to decadent. The USA is one such.

I’m pretty sure most of my cultural life here in Europe would be alien and incomprehensible to a right-wing American. The West was liberal democracy. Now it doesn’t exist.

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Yes, the “better deal” framing is effectively “the less Europe, the better”

I suspect this is only to distract from the worse things you want to do.

The aim is to work your way up out of fear until you can afford greed.

Essentially the far-right vote is people prioritising the ethnic hatred they already felt while taking a functioning state and a certain level of freedom, safety and prosperity for granted because they don’t know anything else.

Nuno Cassola: “A China quer acabar com a hegemonia do dólar, mas não quer ter a moeda dominante” Funcionário do BCE durante duas décadas, o economista Nuno Cassola revela ter tido acesso a documentos enviados ao BCE pela FED onde os EUA “dão ordens para acabar com a cooperação com os europeus”.

Funcionário do BCE durante duas décadas, o economista Nuno Cassola revela ter tido acesso a documentos enviados ao BCE pela FED onde os EUA “dão ordens para acabar com a cooperação com os europeus”.

It’s perfectly normal for people on the far right to be against international experience and “mixing”. That just helps us identify them as such.

Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization are also plaintiffs.

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.

I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

Reminds me of the time I worked out how much I earned per hour if I considered income net of everything and absolutely every minute spent doing something work related and a friend who is also self-employed told me “never ever do that”

He did alright in the conclave. It’s not easy to make it to the top of an absolute monarchy.

“We want to work closely with you on everything but preserve our ethnic hatred of you” is from a human point of view a bit shit.

My older relatives in the UK have been radicalised by the printed press. Of course, radicalisation is partly reversion for people of that age.

In tomorrow’s instalment, Austrians, Czechs and Hungarians will arguing who stole whose offshore wind power.

Looked at the other way round, a clear majority for Europe is inevitable in time. There is no point in considering sops to British chauvinist sentiment. They create unrealistic expectations and would make the UK the awkward spoiler again.