must be russian trolls!!

For the car lobby it is; the worse the train performs, the more cars are sold.

It’s so frustrating that free highways are never questioned, but railroads are somehow expected to be profitable.

I’m rereading the thread with Joscha Bach, but it’s astounding that Matt Christmans strokes of genius is more coherent than whatever Jeff is capable of putting on paper.

Is he just that stupid or does it, at a certain level of power, not matter anymore what you say.

And why do all these “intellectuals” love having discussions with him, I can hardly imagine that’s it’s because of his insights.

(there is an obvious answer to this ofc)

Older polish people in the west of Poland often speak better German than English, but they will often refuse to unless you make clear your not German.

As someone living in the area, I would prefer if the French and German elites kissed and got married before the American security shield collapsed, just in case they start thinking reviving old traditions.

That is to say, out of purely materialistic reasons it is preferable that Europe is able to form its own unified pole in a multi-polar world rather than be the play piece of others in a massive divide-and-conquer game. (Even if that would be poetic justice)

Point 5 is directed at the anti-emigration right I think. If you want to stay the premier super power you need to be able to exploit the labor of emigrants, ergo you can’t have your ethnostate and eat it too. Although these ideas are perfectly compatible in an apartheid state, so maybe a good idea for his next book.

The arrow would look a lot different though if they didn’t exclude a certain section of the effective population.

Getting Immortan Joe to witness me.

Yeah but in China the government invests in science so it’s cheating and also authoritarian. They should only include papers that are the product of public private partnerships.

He basically took the Weimar constitution because it succeeded at its main goal of stopping the communists from ever taking power.

In the French podcasts I listen to they always use Wokisme, but maybe l’academie is more strict about it.

L’Academie Francaise is a big fan of calling stuff Weauque, especially if it concerns the G word.

Does anyone know how trustworthy/genuine they are. It would be nice to have true independent reporting on what is happening in Ukraine, but sometimes I have the feeling they are just partisans from the other side. Especially there support for trump kinda turns me off. I get it, Biden sucks, but Trump is not gonna make anything better. Plus I have the feeling one of them is online gambling without muting the sound effects, especially during the recent recordings. Still better than the NYT though.

They are not stuck, they’re just having so much fun they decided to stay a little longer.

Not a fan of US foreign policy ofc, but I do wonder if America pulls back, how long it would take before France and Germany (trapped in a security-dilemma spiral) turn Belgium/Brussels into a whole different type of political battle ground again.

Kamala is very sick right now, it’s frankly disrespectful to go on about it.

Welp Kamala has Parkinsons, now we have to vote for Biden.

I think you underestimate how lazy the average journalist is, most articles don’t need to be written.

In spite of all the challenges, 99 per cent of those interviewed in the survey said that they did not plan to return to Hong Kong.

One important detail is that in most countries the far right is the only option if you are against escalating with Russia. Most people in Western Europe are in favor of a peace treaty, and peace was the biggest issue for German voters.

I think part of this shift can be explained by the fact that people are not jumping at the prospect of being send into the meat grinder after the Ukrainians are depleted.