Increasing trade between the EU and Canada just makes perfect sense, with or without full membership. They bring the raw resources, we bring the equipment to extract those raw resources. It’s a pretty sweet deal for both parties.

I agree with the outcome, but not the reasoning.

The US has no planned victory condition, no strategic plan, they’re just kinda bombing things semi-randomly with no long-term goal.

Iran, meanwhile, has a specific actionable plan: cause enough damage to turn public opinion against the war hard enough so even Trump can’t ignore it.

In short, the US can’t win because they haven’t even defined what winning means.

Don’t get too excited. Yes, it’s a split from Orban and Magyar is more pro-EU, but Tisza (the new party) is a splinter group from Fidesz (Orban’s party) and share many of the same views domestically.

Basically, same far right people but willing to stfu to get access to EU funds again.

Personally I view it the same as giving medicine to a baby. They don’t understand, sometimes you have to make decisions in their best interests.

Key point: in their best interests, not for personal gain.

I 100% agree that progressive liberalism doesn’t work, but that doesn’t stop them trying. Center-left capitalists love them as well, because they get to look like the nice guys while keeping the focus away from any serious regulation or reform.

This picture perfectly encapsulates what I mean when I say progressive liberal:

There is a real difference between the two. Others have made the point that CNN doesn’t care, it’s all just scary “THE LEFT” wording to them, but the difference in political theory is the following:

Progressive liberals care about social issues, but not economic ones. They will actually care and move the needle on LGBTQ+ rights, the gender gap, minority rights, etc, but as a liberal they’ll also care about the free market and the wellbeing of corporations.

A social democrat wants to regulate and control the economy for the benefit of people. They aren’t going to go full communist and sieze the means of production, but they will actively oppose economic interests in order to improve the standard of living.

The constant flipflopping between calling him a “progressive liberal” and a “democratic socialist” is annoying. Pick a lane, CNN. He’s one or the other, and from what I’ve heard from him he’s very clearly a democratic socialist.

Can’t blame him for walking right up to the line of acceptability. If he’d have actually laid the blame where it’s fully deserved, he wouldn’t have a fine, he’d be defenestrated.

“You can’t have programs that do multiple things! Any program that is multi-use is ebil. Standardized syntax and functionality between different related systems? NO! PROGRAM DO ONE THING!”

Adam Something, is that you?

The GMan has broken containment and is now wandering through our timeline, inserting people into the right points to change the future. I guess this explains the whacky wild ride we’re currently on.

It’s not a specifically Indian issue, it’s generalized. It’s also not intentional, just a result of the way virality works.

Because the clips most likely to go viral are those that agree with stereotypes (fat American, lazy Mexican, drunk Russian, thieving Romanian, etc ad infinitum), those are the ones you see. Then people make more of them because it’s an easy way to get clicks. They’re popular because they reliably cause the same arguments (and thus engagement).

The machine does not care about anything but maximizing eyeballs on their platforms.

I edit PDFs all the time for work. It’s a pain in the ass, but perfectly doable. Trying to prevent people from editing files by making it annoying is not in any way a sane strategy.

In a hypothetical well-crafted treaty (which I agree Russia would never sign) there would be penalties attached to breaking the conditions. Sanction snap-backs, for example.

Not much better at all, tbh. The problems are systemic, not individual. Another Zucc or Thiel would step up.

Not in an image it doesn’t

I had some of that at an extremely early age. Addicted ever since. I still can’t go a day without it without feeling terrible.

In a world not run by the rich, for the rich this wouldn’t be an issue. Just tax large corporations over a certain size at a slightly higher rate and redistribute it back down to the poorest, turning it into a loop.

In most EU countries, if there really is a blowup over the budget (much rarer than the US), the old budget remains in place until a new one is negotiated.

Just like “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” (a literally impossible task), the original expression was “a few bad apples spoil the bunch”. In other words, rot spreads and all the good apples become bad apples by proximity.