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Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Microsoft, against Nadella(cnbc.com)
343 points by saubeidl 11mo ago|168 comments
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
Drain the swamp , they said.
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Pro-tax Austrian heiress gives away $27M of her inheritance(nbcnews.com)
6 points by saubeidl 11mo ago|1 comments
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
No, I believe those things happening to people is also protagonist stuff. Sometimes, being a martyr for your beliefs is the best you can do. Either way, don't be passive.
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
Decades of violent infighting don't come out of nowhere, they were somebody's conscious decision. Again, you can be a bystander or a protagonist.
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
Sure, that's one example of it going one way. Then there's Ghandi, the Arab Spring, Milošević, the Iranian Shah as examples of things going the other way - and those are just the ones that immediately came to mind. Again, don&#x27
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
There's many ways, from benign organizing of protests or involving the media all the way down to armed insurrection or terrorist threats. Again, you're a protagonist - choose your own story!
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
Not unless there is political pressure for it. We are not bystanders in some scheme played out by others. We're the protagonists. Our (in-) action determines how things play out.
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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Belgian Police exposed using botnets to manipulate EU data law impact assessment(old.reddit.com)
189 points by saubeidl 11mo ago|32 comments
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
China and the US are the two superpowers right now. Together, they are of about the same scale as a united Europe. If we want to play in the same league as them and not be subjugated by them, uniting is our only way forward. United we stand
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
This article is about the Council, which is comprised of the heads of the various nation states, i.e. the positions more centralization of power would get rid of.
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
It might not be ideal and wildly swing the pendulum every couple of years, but looking at American centralization from our end, it still seems more functional somehow. At least you guys can get something done . Imagine if every state gover
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
> "Europe" is, unlike the US, not a single entity It really needs to be, though, that's kind of the crux of it. Federate or die off, it's time to get rid of old tribal thinking. We're all Europeans.
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
As long as there's any American ownership in the chain, this is not to be trusted. I'm assuming AWS wouldn't fully divest from this European business unit and split it off as a completely separate entity?
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , in case anyone else was wondering.
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
This brings up a structural issue with the EU as it is designed right now - trying to give maximum power to nation states. A unitary state would solve that problem by allowing us to have simple, Union-wide elections instead.
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
You provide your own counterexample. The UK left the EU and all it got for it was a quicker passing of it's "online safety" nonsense with none of the checks and balances (EU parliament, ECHR) that would stop it in the EU.
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
As you do in most things in life. Do you grow your own food? Do you refine your own oil? Do you write your own contracts? I would assume you pick somebody to do those things for you because one human can't do literally everything.
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
The Council is a meeting of the heads of state, all of which are elected in their respective countries. Your problem is with the leadership of countries, not with the EU as an institution. I agree that it is a problem btw, but I think you g
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
That's where Unions and NGOs come in. Their job is to be lobbyists for the people, against corporate power.
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
Sure, but also for y'know, basic civilization and stuff like, idk, food safety, hospitals, roads, disaster preparedness, medicine approvals, building guidelines and all sorts of things that probably end up saving a lot more lives than
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Denmark sets up 'night watch' to monitor Trump after Greenland row(theguardian.com)
4 points by saubeidl 11mo ago|0 comments
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
https://archive.ph/ECOEn
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
Speaking of a nation's constitution, how do you feel about Article 23 of the German Grundgesetz ? > (1) With a view to establishing a united Europe, the Federal Republic of Germany shall participate in the development of the Europ
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
The Commission is literally our elected government's representatives. It's not some outside power. It's people our governments send there. And it's exactly the same amount of democratic as a ministership is. > Yes, so
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
> That's a very generous definition of "voted". As I said people can't vote for the EU commission nor can the parliament vote for the members of the commission. Remember that the EU commission is the ONLY one that can
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
"The EU" is our elected governments, not some third-party institution. An extra vote on top of the election was always foolish.
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
I think the mistake of Yugoslavia was letting reactionaries and nationalists creep back in after Tito's death. To me, it proves the necessity of some domestic repression to keep our worst impulses in check. Regarding worker cooperative
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
I am pretty much diametrically opposed to Yarvin ideologically. I think his plans are for a dystopia. I do think that bourgeois democracy is just a thin veil for capitalist interest and that unless the economy is democratized, nothing is. T

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