despite_velasquez

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Depends on the country, of course there were politicians that disagreed on principle, but the voting on the issue wasn’t done by MEPs , if it’s MEPs you messaged

Broke nation sells out national security… more at 11

The rejection of the bill wasn’t on principle, but technicalities, if you look at most countries that opposed, the bill will be back with edits, Denmark is already aiming for December

[–] despite_velasquez@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

The rejection of the bill wasn’t on principle, but technicalities, the bill will be back with edits, Denmark is already aiming for December

[–] despite_velasquez@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Germany used to send their car manufacturers to China to do knowledge transfer, they'd surely benefit from some reverse knowledge transfer from the Chinese these days.

[–] despite_velasquez@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

What's the point of being able to criticise someone publicly, if nothing's going to change to your material conditions? Sounds like yelling at clouds: feels good, but doesn't achieve much

[–] despite_velasquez@lemmy.world 46 points 11 hours ago

The demands from this admin are meant to specifically crush the spirit of the EU.

deregulate your car legislation and tear up your pedestrian friendly capitals

deregulate your food safety laws, and allow cheap US slop to destroy the traditional EU food scene (no more gruyère, you're gonna have Cheez Whiz)

deregulate your green sector, time to pump those pollution numbers up

[–] despite_velasquez@lemmy.world 26 points 11 hours ago

Milei did it, he managed to turn lazy socialists into savvy entrepreneurs /s

[–] despite_velasquez@lemmy.world 43 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

What Trump is doing makes a lot of sense. It's just standard iconoclasm.

Authoritarian regimes routinely destroy historical monuments to erase a past they oppose, promote their own ideology, and control national identity.

[–] despite_velasquez@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

I can see that, tbf, thanks for the explanation

[–] despite_velasquez@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Fair enough, I didn’t know this

[–] despite_velasquez@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Rotten society

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