u/Tryenjer

In my country you can't disinherit your children.

If most of them are as smart and lucid as Musk, they won't learn anything.

US billionaires think they can control Trump, and that's very likely true. The worst is yet to come for these rich guys when someone who can truly reverse the power dynamics and thus rule them with an iron fist, as well as the common people, takes the throne.

In a slightly better reality, it should be mandatory for them to use the word "entertainment" instead of "news" for their channel.

Yeah, unfortunately the US is becoming more and more like China in this regard.

The only law in the world is that he who has the most raw power makes the law. Might makes right and shit. Unfortunately, the rest are idealistic illusions to give a false sense of civilization, security, justice and order to the masses.

Easy, each person pays for their own health care just like in America. Our politicians have been letting our health care systems to rot for decades for this very moment.

I don't care anymore, the EU, the European project is cooked by the hysteria about immigration. If these beliefs continue to grow among the people, we will be a set of fossils, each of us becoming more and more authoritarian while desperately trying to increase birth rates as the only way to re-establish national sustainability and glory.

I only feel sorry for the women of a not too distant future, perhaps pessimistic (but not impossible), who will have to become authentic birth factories to save their nations whether they want to or not when there was another option.

I don't think things will ever go back to the way they were before, largely because the USSR has dissolved. The European elites, and in particular the Nordic ones, allowed social democracy to flourish out of fear that people, influenced by the Soviets, would join a communist revolution in their respective countries. That threat has disappeared.

It's called Entropy and ironically it is also responsible for life.

A wall tends to fall apart (and not the other way around) because these individual pieces have greater degrees of freedom (of movement) than the wall itself. Living beings, through their exchanges with the environment, breathing, consuming and excreting, end up increasing the degrees of freedom of the matter in their vicinity.

In more concise words:

"Life, as a highly organized system, exists in a state of relatively low entropy, while the universe as a whole is constantly moving towards higher entropy (more disorder) according to the second law of thermodynamics. It may seem paradoxical, a violation of a fundamental law of physics, but life actually increases the overall entropy of the universe as it utilizes energy and resources to maintain its own order, eventually releasing waste and heat back into the environment."

In short, life ultimately increases movement, transformation, decay, disorder and thus death.

It's the worms talking for him. He's like that guy from Nightmare before Christmas.

Trump just wants to bring the same to America. The problem for him is not slave labor, it's that America is not doing enough of it to be able to compete with China.

Isn't the point of the Haka to make the opponent uncomfortable? It's a war ritual after all. And in this case it's well applied, if someone wanted to take away my rights I would consider them my enemies too.

They really are a cancer all over the Western societies.

Another Portuguese, the world is small.

Each cancer is almost a disease in itself, due to its own individual nature, for an effective treatment the ideal would be to use personalized medicine, which will always give a lot of money to big pharmaceutical companies, there is no need for them to delay or harm research into cancer treatment.

Most of the current Cardinals who are eligible to vote were chosen by Pope Francis, so I think it is likely that the next Pope will be one willing to continue the path taken by Francis. But I don't want to be too optimistic.

With ideias like that you sure ain't that different from those white colonialist.

China is already an autocracy, which always brings greater stability (the regime cannot drastically change with the result of the next elections), but it also increases the chances of abuse of power. For some it makes little difference, for others it doesn't. For the undecided, the one who offers more in return will win.

Europe needs to create new industries and develop existing ones, while distancing itself from the world's major powers. But we won't be able to manufacture here at affordable prices, so we could look for alternatives like the countries of North Africa, for example. I think China simply won't be as interested in developing a relationship in this way, since they already produce a lot of goods by themselves. In short, we need to be as generous as possible with our new allies.

Unfortunately, there are no guarantees in this world. We do not even have the guarantee here in the EU that we will preserve our democratic systems, that we will not succumb to the far-right, to the neo-Nazis. In Germany alone, in recent polls, the AfD has grown and is now ahead in voting intentions, and the new Coalition government has not even taken office yet. Even seeing all the nonsense and chaos that the Trump administration has sown in America in just a few months, this has not discouraged German voters from a party of the same political line supported and financed by the same group of people. We cannot guarantee that we will not install far-right governments in our potential new allies, we cannot guarantee that they will not be destabilised, exploited or even worse. We cannot even guarantee that we will not do the same to ourselves.

Preventing this is an eternal battle that requires a certain leap of faith from everyone. This idea, for our own good, must become a fundamental part of our culture! We must unite the Democratic Forces of our countries and theirs in an eternal struggle against tyranny. We just cannot fall into the error of thinking that there are guarantees, this is a false sense of security that allows these far-right movements to grow. You may have even won great battles, but the war always continues. We can at least try to support their development and foster prosperity in good faith, not let them fall behind. Struggle, struggle, struggle ad aeternum!

The world is much bigger than just China or the United States. Perhaps Brazil and South America in general are the best candidates for better partners. Africa too, if it develops.

The countries of the European Union need to integrate more and form new alliances outside the two giants.

Just imagine: in a Europe with a single fiscal policy and a shared debt, where the euro is the dominant global currency, you could invest in Portugal or Finland in the same simple way. We would design in Europe, produce in North Africa (these countries would stabilize, develop and there would be no illegal immigrants sailing dangerously through here; later, when they develop sufficiently economically and culturally, we could even open the doors to free movement; Mare Nostrum!) and sell in South America and elsewhere. We should be the ones dictating to China and the United States the conditions for better economic cooperation, not the other way around. We should be the Global Power!