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As someone who writes computer code for a living, I might match those up differently than you’d expect.

Your leave policies are a mess for people just moving here from other parts of the EU. You can end up with practically no leave for a year.

Or the curvature of the Earth

Ah don’t worry, Texas will get Saharan weather in exchange.

This is the one issue where it really is both sides though. Other issues they do differ on, but not this.

I’d rather have the Turkish on our side against Russia rather than Cyprus if it comes down to it NGL

Most people on here don’t mind being exposed to different viewpoints. If you ask me, even some - or even most, IDK - tankies are fine to talk to, even argue with, as they are usually civil.

The problem is that there are a lot of users on the *.ml instances who are not interested in debate, they just keep repeating the same 2-3 slogans over and over again in smug superiority as a reply to everything, and mods ban people randomly the same way.

When you meet some users who reply “you are misled by Western media” to anything you say as a final and incontrovertible argument, that’s not a good faith debate I’m willing to participate in.

The problem is not the differing opinions, but the differing norms for polite conversation and good faith arguments.

Well, Google sure is trying to take us in the direction of “you have to log in to Chrome to use the internet”.

Well you can have a situation where someone only has money or time to consume food that is poor in nutrients but rich in calories, so they either die of not consuming enough nutrients or they gain weight by consuming too many calories.

And then there are mental illnesses that fester since mental healthcare is a mess.

Judging by how the US works, I wouldn’t be surprised if the current admin treated pissing off the wealthy as a step beyond nukes.

Twitter was bluesky before musk bought it, federation ensures that can’t easily happen to mastodon.

That’s it.

My favourite was “inherently escalatory organization”.

Why are all basic civil rights not enshrined in laws, but instead resting on brittle law precedents in the US?

What the actual heck are you talking about?

NATO has no bearing on the European economic situation while admitting in the next breath it has huge implications for energy prices due to trade with Russia.

Energy prices went up since Russia is conducting a military invasion on the country transiting said energy, and as a result of EU/US sanctions that are the result of war crimes, crimes of aggression and genocide. The only thing NATO does currently is ensure that can’t spill over to more countries being attacked. NATO didn’t do jack shit yet. Individual countries, and the EU, did.

and your countrymen have been calling me blind drunk screaming about how they have no money

Our countrymen should look for their money at Hatvanpuszta or Mészáros & Mészáros. Russian puppet Orbán stole all the money and the future of the country, Russian puppet Orbán made it impossible to have children, get sick, or die, with dignity, he is responsible for producing the highest real estate inflation, the highest food inflation in the EU, and it’s all because he’d rather take Russian cock to his throat than have less corruption kickbacks.

A ruszkik meg igazán hazamehetnének végre és foglalkozhatnának a saját országukkal ahelyett hogy mongol módjára fosztogatnak és erőszakolnak nyugatra.

Isn’t that not just an imperialistic trait, not necessarily a fascistic one? Franco’s Spain didn’t collapse, while it was still very much fascistic.

All the while, this trait is very much applicable to the Roman, Ottoman, Soviet or US empires.

IDK what your point is. NATO being revitalized is not a “good thing” that makes us live nicer. NATO and rearmament is a fever, Russian imperialism is the sickness.

NATO is not an economic alliance, it’s a military one. The sole goal of NATO is keeping Russian soldiers outside NATO members’ territories. And as someone whose home country has suffered immensely under Russian occupation, seeing Russia draw troops down from the Finnish border right after they joined the alliance makes me happy that we are NATO members.

Europe wouldn’t be doing better outside NATO, it has no bearing on economics. Trade disruption with Russia certainly has to do with it, but ironically that’s because during the 00s and the 10s Europe extended a friendly hand to Russia, and got into deep trading entanglements with it, which Russia tried to exploit to force geopolitical concessions.

I’ve perceived that things have never been better for American international order than under Trump/Biden.

The last few cycles have been a weird time for NATO, as the escalating Russian aggression revitalised the alliance, but the unreliability of Trump vastly diminished the status of the US. Europe is now actively trying to get out of the military subordinate role.

Obvious bullshit is a good way to put it. It even implies the existence of less obvious bullshit.

So that means that since bacteria and the like outnumber us by orders of magnitude, statistically speaking, multicellular life would be wiped out completely.

That’s what they want you to think. Otherwise, all the tourists would be taking their shits on Tiktok in this “hidden gem”.