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I don’t think that will ever happen, China is not imperialist enough for that.

Have you seen Merz? Germany would instantly fall to the US side if that happens.

That would be kinda funny.

Of course, my comment was sarcasm. Sadly there are enough people who fall for these things.

The creepy politicians who want to spy on people get their app and we get to circumvent it. It’s a win/win situation …

I’m pretty sure that this can only work if we dial back the capitalism, but I think at this point that’s impossible.

I’m baffled. I thought they would limit the corruption to skim off a few bucks here or there, but seems like they are fully cashing in now.

Exactly, he is just saying out loud what the people want of hear and the does what he is paid / put in place for by his handlers.

If they invoke the 25th, they do not have to take that as a political loss. Something like “Trump got demented, we got rid of him, but his politics were still good” …

Of course.

Personally I have given up on that. I try to either use false information when they don’t need the real data or throwaway" emails and SEPA and one time credit card numbers for banking stuff.

I don’t trust any company with my data ever, so I’m constantly paranoid in a way.

The Chinese can do less harm with my data than the US and it’s allies.

Reminds me of that Brecht quote.

Some party hack decreed that the people
had lost the government’s confidence
and could only regain it with redoubled effort.
If that is the case, would it not be be simpler,
If the government simply dissolved the people
And elected another?

Bertolt Brecht

Maybe there was a lot of beef in her polycule or something. He wanted to paint the backstory but never did get to it?

Conspiracy smugness - I love it. I wonder what the technical term for that is.

Tisza already announced a pro-Europe course and who has to gain most of that - Ukraine, but since Orban can’t cut ties with Russia without falling out a window it was indeed a planned a opposition conspiracy by Orban that got taken over by Ukrainian intelligence which in turn is lead by the French DGSE, to get eastern Europe out of the Russian sphere.

So basically you fell for one of the oldest tricks the French intelligence services deploy since Napoleon. If you take over the man behind the man (in this case Selensky) you can’t lose and no one can trace it back to you.

NB: Ex falso, quod libet.

Let me just point out two things.

Sex workers who work legally need to be eligible to work in the country they reside in and they are protected by workers laws.

Now think again what happens to sex workers who work in countries where it’s illegal and what leverage others have over them.

Also when sex work is illegal it’s mostly done by organised crime and and the right amount of money and leverage employed at the right spots can get the police / the state to look the other way.

Sex workers are hurt by criminalising sex work, simple as that.

I’ll pass, I’m not straight and religious enough to enjoy it there.

If that is another Simpsons reverence, well done. Maybe I’m missing subtext here and “steamed ham” means something else in Albanian.

What an odd choice of country.

Exactly, he is keeping the US distracted while the Rest of NATO builds a parallel structure to put in place when the US attacks them or just splits off.

The best thing is that I don’t think he knows that…

Do you think if the Italian government was involved in that they would come out and say it?

These are need to know things and the public doesn’t need to know …