u/gabbath — lemonaz

Your framing is off. Leftists don't platform any religion. They simply don't discriminate on the basis of religion. Again, on the basis of *any* religion.

Two months is a long time, I need another hit!

I think your comment could be more productive if you drop the "solar shill" crap. Speaking as someone who's never taken sides in this (except against fossil fuels): we're all looking for solutions. And yes, nuclear is good and should grow, as should solar and others. We need to rely as little as possible on energy that harms the environment. Keep it positive because it's a shame for good points to go to waste because they're surrounded by cheap accusations.

Could be. It was definitely a passive-aggressive move against Israel intended to put them in an uncomfortable position and make people think harder about their demonic acts, as well as get media to report on them.

Then there must be pushback from the people who know better. Raising the alarm is not brainwashing — the brainwashing is when MAGA types tell people there's no threat.

Also, Europe needs to get its shit together and stop pulling punches with regard to helping Ukraine.

He's said some things...

I guess it's a start, though I hope he calls them out more directly. He was pretty close to Francis after all, and Francis even donated his popemobile to be turned into a mobile clinic for Gaza (no doubt to draw media attention to what Israel is doing).

even though intensive media brainwashing no one even seriously believe Russia will attack us (well, maybe except the usual tinfoil brains)

I'm getting flashbacks to Jan-Feb 2022. That's what people thought about Ukraine despite intelligence reports warning that Putin is making moves.

Of course, Poland is in EU and NATO, so it's definitely in a better position, but keep in mind that all deterrents have limits — as we speak there's a full-on war being fought between *two nuclear powers*.

The promises of an alliance treaty are, at the end of the day, just that: promises. Posturing to scare off potential attackers. Just because we've never seen someone actually call that bluff, doesn't mean it will never happen.

A guy like Putin could gamble that NATO countries won't send troops to Poland because they'll make similar calculations as towards Ukraine: that it's not worth risking nuclear war. He already sees how NATO countries right now are behaving, pussyfooting around giving aid to Ukraine, so he could believe they will approach Article 5 with the same limp attitude. Especially now that USA is talking about leaving NATO and antagonizing Europe like never before.

Plus, all the "why should we help Ukraine" type rhetoric coming out of the European MAGA-aligned sphere is easily adaptable to Poland: "Why should we help Poland? Just because they're in NATO? I'm not a globalist, I look after the interest of my own country first because I'm a patriot. I don't want to send my people to fight NATO's wars. I refuse to die for the globalists!"

I think our democracies have trouble adapting to new times. They're like an old OS where all the exploits have been figured out and are freely shared among attackers, yet we refuse to slap on an antivirus.

Case in point: anti-democracy candidates should be banned from the democratic process. They're using democracy against itself. Călin Georgescu was banned for this reason as well as the 0 funds thing, because really his biggest issue was that he had direct ties to the modern day legionary movement (the Legion were the Romanian nazis back in the day, even collaborated with Hitler and did a bunch of pogroms under the military dictatorship of Ion Antonescu). So now this new guy George Simion, leader of our far right party (of which CG was a member a few years ago but then kicked out for being too on the nose about his sympathies for the Legion and Ion Antonescu), he's literally running as his proxy and said he'll install him as PM. So, I ask you: why is this possible? Why ban CG from running but not ban his BFF who literally everyone agrees is only running as a proxy for CG? It's just bad law enforcement. Democracy OS needs an antivirus update.

EDIT: Forgot to tie the idea to what you said.

So, in this context, the exploits are basically the same. Information is also global, so all you need is some guys in a central place (like, say, USA) being heavily financed, and foreign influence can spread easily to local influencers looking to make a quick buck by just copying the talking points. A foreign government which wants the EU dismantled, such as Russia or USA (yes, USA: the authors of Project 2025 are gearing up for this next, and all the Trump-like leaders that popped up in Europe in the last decades were part of Steve Bannon's efforts to create a fascist internationale), can additionally just directly fund local influencers throughout Europe as they did during CG's campaign in Romania, or as they did with USA influencers at TENET Media who they gave $10m (which in the context of a foreign government's budget is peanuts — it's obvious there's a lot more money being spent on such operations, and they admit it).

To get an idea for the kind of money conservative influencers are paid, we can look at an example of USA money funding USA influencers: Steven Crowder was offered a contract by The Daily Wire which he performatively turned down in public, calling it a "slave contract", because really he wanted to make his own media conglomerate to complete with them. TDW in response revealed that they did this because Crowder (who pretends he's independent, like all conservative pundits do) had a previous contract with The Blaze that was just expiring, and then showed the unredacted contract they offered him: it was for $50m.

Put together all the dark money with the opportunists who think that by emulating these influencers/politicians they can get rich or powerful quickly, not to mention the real extremists who seize this opportunity to revive their sick ideologies, and you have a thriving ecosystem all pulled in the same direction by greed and lack of morals. It's really just scams all the way down.

This is ridiculous. Wtf Sweden!

bullets and bombs

I think it's enough to just do: arrests of leaders (and banning them from public speaking but for life) + breaking up the party + outlawing the party + banning people who decide to take up the mantle of/act as a declared proxy for the party and attempt to visibly pick up where they left off.

That last one I learned from my own country''s current situation: in Romania, a crazy far right candidate came out of nowhere (on the wings of illegal undisclosed campaign donations) to win the first round, and as soon as that happened our mainstream far right party's candidate started supporting him. Then they canceled the election because of the undisclosed donations (he literally declared 0 campaign spending!) so now, in the redo of the election, this other guy is basically running as his proxy and will likely try to appoint him PM if he wins.

Always has been.

Not sure, I have to look into it more. When I switched last year, it was just because I liked the green initiative. It wasn't really that serious for me beyond that.

Ecosia for me. I still find myself asking Google for stock prices and such, but other than that it's ok. Berlin based apparently, plus I like that they plant trees for every search you do. I don't like that they have sponsored links at the top but I suppose that's how it goes.

I want this if only just to see Vance complaining about EU expansion at their border.

No need for them to adopt the Euro though. Many EU countries are still on their original currency even now.

You think Israel would help the West fight Russia? I kinda doubt it. They don't seem the type to fight real wars, only massacre innocents they fanatically hate.