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by gizajob 1mo ago
Well the issue there then is that Farage’s Reform party seem likely to win that election. The current ostensibly-left-wing Labour government also have absolutely no appetite for rejoining either. Even the coalition of anti-growth eco-warrio
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by gizajob 1mo ago
Some of the benefits of being in the EU are very nice but the way it is now structured politically and financially and even ideologically mean that it is not an entity which any sensible country with anything to lose could willingly join. A
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by gizajob 1mo ago
Correct. Which is why there’s no need for that leadership to come out and say “We believe in democracy” when they don’t have it or need it, which was the point I was making.
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by gizajob 1mo ago
How about Northern Ireland?
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by gizajob 1mo ago
I’m saying it partly in jest but if you’re in tech then you know yourself that there are ways to conduct an election or at least a direct poll of everyone in Europe who cares if so motivated. But you’re correct in that it doesn’t need vibe
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by gizajob 1mo ago
The main confusion here is your use of unsuitable metaphor - people choosing that a political bloc is not behaving in a way that they believe represents their interests is in no way analogous to an abusive partner beating his/her signi
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Everyone in the EU has a smartphone in their pocket and nowadays an afternoon of vibe coding could push out a platform for electing the top EU officials to every single smartphone, for people to pick who they want to govern them. The soluti
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by gizajob 1mo ago
You could argue even more effectively that it was British by founding and a British colony, with a big influence from the French. And we know what happened with Britain and the EU.
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You realise how many wars and how much bloodshed over how many centuries it took for that to happen in the UK?
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by gizajob 1mo ago
The way you paint it sounds like the EU is a hardline communist state where dissent and even insult must be punished. Why does Canada get a free pass to pleasantries just because the Canadians haven’t had a chance to insult the EU and its f
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by gizajob 1mo ago
Nevertheless that exact plan is in the minds of every higher-up running the EU. Individual counties are an anachronism that will eventually be got rid of if the EU is to continue.
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by gizajob 1mo ago
Would it not make sense to perhaps invite the UK to be an associate member first? We’re right on the doorstep.
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by gizajob 1mo ago
Totally agree that it’s fringe. But joining the EU even as an associate member was on the lips of literally nobody in Canada until today.
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by gizajob 1mo ago
Nevertheless, Von der Leyen is both unelected and non-decorative. Nobody else is speaking for the whole of Europe today.
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by gizajob 1mo ago
And a fairly serious geographical one.
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by gizajob 1mo ago
This “at the stroke of the pen” idea is fantastical. Actual Canadians would have next to no interest in this. Whole provinces of Canada don’t even want to be part of Canada so their appetite for having the EU parliament and Commission any
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by gizajob 1mo ago
It certainly does not make sense seeing as Canada is not in Europe.
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by gizajob 1mo ago
Well funnily enough, virtually all the constituent countries of the EU do put the election of their president to a democratic vote.
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by gizajob 1mo ago
That would be the next step but they seem to be getting on fine with an unelected president.
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by gizajob 1mo ago
Her doublethink and doublespeak needs repeated illumination. She has never been part of any democratic process to put her in that role. In a parliamentary democracy the prime minister is an elected minister who leads his or her party. Von d
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by gizajob 1mo ago
Looks amazing for the 2 seconds before it implodes on iPhone though.
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by gizajob 1mo ago
I actually find Claude to have become a real Debbie downer. Even when it is making things happen, it seems to have a default tone of negativity as the author is pointing out. So I’m trapped between running things by Claude which is gonna gi
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by gizajob 1mo ago
“It’s only a matter of time before we make a profit”. This is the kind of thing that trust fund kids say too: Oh hey yeah we made $100 in profit this week it’s working! (Business is currently $350,000 in the red and emailing the FBI to try
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by gizajob 1mo ago
Peter Thiel
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by gizajob 1mo ago
It seemed like Nike went down a fairly narrow path of only really selling very expensive basketball shoes, to the exclusion of all other footwear.
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by gizajob 1mo ago
Children take after their parents.
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Because fuel is so expensive
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by gizajob 1mo ago
Absolutely this. Flip the idea on the head to reveal where he’s at coming out with such statements.
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by gizajob 1mo ago
That’s correct but it’s multimodal. It might not have been the reason for getting involved in the first place but it does now seem like a reason for something happening every time the oil price starts to drop again.
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by gizajob 1mo ago
No, because now they think they’re going to get $5000 of free money the day after the election.

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