Obinice

It’s sometimes difficult for us to be patient and kind with others, I know the feeling.

Reflecting on what we said to a person, and how it might have been received, can help us gain a better understanding of how to interact with them to get the outcomes we want, whilst remaining positive, empathetic, and keeping toxic behaviour at bay.

Sounds like he clearly cares more about his ego than international peace, no?

A world leader being so obviously childishly petty with serious international matters that shamefully embarrasses their country on the world stage and damages their relationships with other nations will blow up in their face big time.

Maybe his party will vote him out and replace him this month, to save face and avoid prolonging a scandal? That’s how it’d go in the UK, at least.

…Can he outlast a lettuce?

He’s terrorizing Minnesota because the population votes

Don’t worry, not for long! 🤪

Will they oppose it though? Or just sit on their arses and do nothing?

Be a dictator on day one,

Use that day to remove all the barriers to remaining a dictator and also change the definition of dictator,

Profit!

We’re a bit ahead of schedule if we’re trying to repeat the past 100 years on, no?

The Berlin Olympics weren’t until 1936, we’ve got another 10 years still!

“I don’t live like you do. I eat foods you won’t touch and spend all my life on a computer. Where are you going to deport me to?”

I’m sending you back to the I.R.C! 🤓

We are taking him seriously, that’s why we’re improving our defences and strengthening our resolve to defend ourselves from military aggression.

Would Europe and her allies “win” a war with the USA? Difficult to say, depends what the win conditions are. Maybe not.

But she’s got enough strength to make it a many years long affair, ending in nukes if up against the wall. Europe may not win, but it’ll be a pyrrhic victory for the invaders.

Hopefully that knowledge will persuade the USA not to wage war against us. The best outcome is peace and international cooperation through mutual trust and a strong moral center.

We can only hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

In what way does that make his statements here invalid? And, if it’s not your intention to throw doubt upon this view of the growing conflict between ourselves and the USA, why bring it up?

People are not one dimensional, it’s possible for them to both want things we disagree with, and still be right and aligned with us on other things.

The USA may be weak in their dedication to alliances and giving their now untrustworthy word to provide mutual defence, but we in Europe are not.

When a NATO nation is attacked and calls for aid, we will answer, as we have in the past when such threats and tyranny arose.

That is the promise of civilisation. That’s what separates us from the barbarians that would seek to destroy or enslave us all to build more power for themselves.

An attack on one of us is an attack on us all.

Regardless of the outcome for us Europeans, good or bad, the USA invading a NATO nation will mean war. Hopefully a phoney war that’s resolved quickly, but regardless, war. Period.

The question is, are they willing to burn every single alliance and friendship they have, and start a literal third world war, just to annex Greenland?

And for what reason? If they wanted more military presence there (they already have some, don’t forget) they could just ask, Denmark is their friend and ally (not that the USA remembers this or cares about alliances any more), and would be open to discussing the details and sorting things out.

It seems like the actions of a deranged madman, not the calculated moves of an intelligent, purposeful world power.

Damn, who knew the Russian Federation’s budget for education and healthcare was so high!

I suppose they can make at least one of those smaller now :-/

America has been trying to get us to legalise their shitty chicken for years, fuck right off. We produce our own locally to a much higher standard.

I’ll buy your Good & Plenty though, my gawd that tastes goooood

Ahh yes I see what you mean, you put it well. Starmer’s government isn’t hated (at least not significantly), but very few people like them - even the Tories generally had a lot of supporters during their various tenures.

I wonder if the author will realise they could do with revising that somewhat misleading/hyberbolic statement, but at least I now have a better handle on what they mean. Cheers!

Now, if only I could get a physical subscription to the Morning Star here in South Manchester, none of the newsagents stock it, and delivery from their website is too pricey :-(

I agree with most of these points, but this one stood out as nonsense:

Keir Starmer’s government is now probably the most hated in living memory.

Besides the fact that the likes of Thatcher’s government is still very much within living memory, even if we just look at just the recent past 20 years… The current Labour government are more hated than our recent Tory government, that we had for years and became so reviled that there was talk it may collapse for good? …Really?

I don’t buy that at all. Sure, there are plenty of things to be mad at Starmer and the current lot about, I agree, but I see far less hatred for them than I did the likes of Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson, and their ilk. Faaaaar less.

Anyway, great read besides that bizarrely inaccurate statement, thanks for sharing :-)

Where else are Nazis supposed to hang out?

Hey if you’re struggling to get your Antifa membership card renewed let me know, I work at head office.

Usually I’m organising boycotts of innocent local businesses who are just exercising their right to be American, but I know the guy that handles the membership assignments.

Don’t worry, it’s not the Conservatives, it’s the Labour Government implementing this!

Good thing Labour will never be anything like the Tories amirite fellow chokers?

If the fascists do attack Europe, it will be with overwhelming force across the ocean to destroy us, rather than invasion. I don’t really see a way we win that.

Sure, we could fight back with our own nukes, but they number in the hundreds, and the USA is too large for that few to truly end the threat of renewed attacks :-(

Aye, in terms of actual numbers there was a small hard right in Germany in the 1930s…

Sometimes you can seize power as a minority if you’re sneaky and underhanded enough, or if your opponent is complacent and weak.

People are easily fooled into acting against their own interests and helping their enemies defeat them (Brexit being an obvious recent example).