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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • Where there’s a will there’s a way, as they say.
    And the will was very strong in EU, the only reason EU didn’t force it through sooner, was because we want to have good relations with the new government of Hungary, if the Hungarian people should decide to throw out Orban, which they luckily did.

    I was 100% confident that EU would find a way around Orban if necessary. It is of enormous importance and high priority to Europe that we help Ukraine win this war.

    But to be fair, I’m from Denmark, and we are the strongest supporters of Ukraine in the world. So I’m biased too, but I know it, and I try to be careful not to base my expectations too much on it.

    We are also the country in EU with the least confidence in USA now, in part because of Greenland, but AFAIK we were already before that.

    Politicians saying things which contradict their-actions don’t convince me, anymore.

    USA is near irrelevant politically to us now.
    When EU politicians sweet talk Trump, the agenda is quite different. But I guess you figured that out too, when looking at the actions of EU.




  • I’m not sure what you mean? It has been the trajectory led mostly by the Republicans for decades.
    Gerrymandering, illegal surveillance by agencies and even the police, secret laws upheld in secret courts overseen by a tight group of political leaders that are used to silence the press. Sounds like a conspiracy, except Obama admitted it, and even called it a good balance! The Republican rigging of the supreme court.

    But maybe you mean it has dropped more?
    Because I think it has because of Trump, and I also think the score of 8.22 that places it as a full democracy is moronic, considering it’s a 2 party system with fpp voting. And USA has the highest number of prisoners, and they are not allowed to vote.
    Nixon actively made cannabis illegal to silence the peace movement. And it has been used since to also oppress minorities.

    The score has been consistently way to high.






  • But it’s OK because Israel is a democracy. /s

    It’s funny how rare this argument has become, a few years ago politicians used it all the time, as if it was some kind of free pass to genocide, war crimes and discrimination.

    Just remember that “But it’s a democracy”, is not an argument for anything. USA is also a democracy, but that does not in any way justify their attacks on Iran either, or their blockade of Cuba, or all the dozens of other things they are doing that are against international law.