I wasn’t so much thinking of them joining the EU, but of them being in close collaboration and with more or less aligned values as the EU, rather than our worst enemy. I agree it might not be a good idea to have such a huge country in the EU.
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Within politics these words are still context dependent and used to describe all sorts of stances and are open to various interpretations. It’s an umbrella term. To claim otherwise is simply besides the facts. I know lots of leftwingers who call themselves conservative. About liberalism and anarchism, yes you might use those terms in those ways, and that is actually being done all the time.
People tend to underestimate the enormous success of the EU. It can be seen in the economical developments of Poland and the Baltic states. Ukraine saw it and wanted in on it. Russia knowing that if Ukraine too would ‘fall’ to democracy, Russia itself would inevitably follow. So Navalny needed to be killed, Ukraine invaded, the EU sabotaged. Hungary was their pawn. Not only could Hungary halt EU decision making through veto’s, they could also be used in propaganda. How can Putin be all bad if even this EU country sympathizes with him? The EU will now be very inclined to make Hungary as succesfull as they can. It’s too early to celebrate, the Hungarian government will still be filled with lots of Fidesz bureaucrats. And the new government may still be inclined to use its ties with Russia. But the past decades have proven that the cheap Russian oil can’t compensate for the corruption that comes along. Magyars anti-corruption stance is pretty much saying: we want to model our country towards the EU examples, not Russia. Lets hope Magyar succeeds and other countries follow. Lets hope that eventually Belarus and Russia will rejoin the European family. The world has much to win here. The US not understanding why they need to support Ukraine tells us they don’t care much for democracy anymore. It’s understandable that if your government fails to supply you with decent living conditions, you won’t be inclined to support helping out other countries on the path towards decent government. But both can be done at the same time: focus on sorting out your own government, while simultaneously supporting other countries on the same path. The EU has been the driving force behind multilateralism. If we want a rules-based order, if we want to save the planet, if we want a better future, we want a strong EU leading the way. We want to support nations in their striving for democracy.
Conservatism of any kind is right to far-right.
What a bizarre statement. If I want to conserve social democracy, workers rights, unions, public infrastructure, etc. where as my political opponents want to ‘liberalise’ or downgrade them, that makes me a left-wing conservatist.
MetaBrainz is a non-profit dedicated to open-source and open-data. So if people don’t like the algorithms LB has integrated, they can just build their own.
About not delegating your brain to machines, that’s a fair point, and I would encourage people to consciously choose where to use machines and where to use their brain. If you enjoy searching for music, it would be foolish to delegate it to a machine. For me personally though it’s usefull, using an algorith here allows me to spend energy on other things that are equally stimulating for my brain. I particularly like LBs ‘fresh releases’ feature, which gives you heads up about new releases by artists that you’ve listened to.
Fair enough, personally I don’t mind using algorithms as long as they are fully transparent
Her ex-husband said “she was a loving mother and poet who had just dropped her young son off at school”
Her mother called her “one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.”
Vice President JD Vance said she was part of “a broader left-wing network to attack and to doxx and to assault and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their jobs.”
It’s not out of character for kind loving mothers to be antifascist.
Mass surveillance is happening right now, by companies and goverments. The data this generates can be analyzed using AI tools to find anything out of the ordinary, anyone trying to resist the empire. LLMs can be used to generate content to manipulate people, en masse or by microtargeting based on the surveillance data. This is not distant future, this is the near future, if not present.
I wonder if AI and it’s possibilities for mass surveillance and mass manipulation will make a difference and allow empires to sustain themselves and control it’s people.
Obviously industries would, and given how under-regulated the US markets are, they can do as they please. The remarkable thing is not how industry is behaving though, it’s how the US goverment is behaving, hence America has become a digital narco-state.
i don’t think our political views differ much. But I wouldn’t let them have this word, for it has a meaning that is bigger than them. You say conservatism has never been wanting to keep society as is, I’d say it is exactly that, and I would fight these so called conservatives by pointing out that, as you said, they’re only conservative when it comes to their positions of power. If you allow them to own, so to speak, the term conservatism, then people might fall for these movements, because they feel the world is moving to fast, things of importance are being lost and should be conserved. It doesn’t work to say: but anyone who knows about politics knows that the conservatives don’t actually conserve anything of importance, because many voters know very little about politics. They need to be called out, we shouldn’t except the frame that they’re the ones conserving, while they’re destroying the planet, the wellfare state, society.
I’m actually a member of the dutch green and workers-parties, which are fusing into one new party this year and will then change their name to Progressief Nederland, and despite being happy with the party, I am strongly uncomfortable with this name. For I don’t feel I am progressive in many if not most senses of the word.