In the meantime EU once again shows its great commitment to thwarting Putin’s allies by giving them free reign in Europe.
Please note that the expression “free trade” is now a standard mark of being on the left.
Liberalism is always about exactly what it says. Freedom from limitations, boundaries, traditions, and anything that could place any constraints on it. Of course, it’s only the kind of freedom that pleases capital that it encourages.
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I know it’s cold comfort, but at least in the USA one can still have some semblance of choice when voting for the President.
Here in Europe, we do not have that luxury: no matter who we vote for in EU elections, the President and Commissioners of the EU Commission are unelected since they are chosen by the political elites of EU member states in a complex game of favours to be exchanged and returned.
And they call it democracy in action! The cheek!
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Isn’t it absolutely fascinating that Russia and the EU have identical policy:
https://x.com/i/status/2016089047127437778
Completely out there. But many people are congenitally incapable of noticing because they only care about words. Their whole reality is a web of words.
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And just to add to the mix, there’s news from Spain:
https://x.com/i/status/2016150750620004632
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And from occupied Ukraine:
https://x.com/i/status/2016069424650899478
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Notice the Wokespeak “undocumented migrants” for illegal immigrants, used by one of the Wokest media mouthpieces from one of the Wokest countries in the whole world (Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Republic of Ireland).
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Nothing that currently exists will defeat the word “unhoused”. But I’m sure something better will be created soon enough.
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I am tempted to refer to my family, at home, as “inhoused” and while out and about, as “outhoused”. For as long as we are renting, we shall henceforth be “transhoused” (because we are assuming a house to which we have no real ownership: a consumer facsimile of homeownership, without the reality).
-ethyl
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The irony of saying this while being an American is apparently lost on you. Hey, they only learned from the best. America is the world champion gold medalist in showing the world how to hollow out a nation with unlimited legal and illegal immigration, depressing both ends of the labor market.
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The EU claims to be opposed to Russia. The US no longer does.
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That has nothing to do with what I said. Importing foreign labor to fuck over its citizens is an policy that america has perfected. So, americans have zero moral ground when it comes to this issue and should probably stop sneering at euros. But I guess it makes for easy amusement, so don’t let me stop you.
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“Russia and the EU have identical policy”
Especially since the motivations are similar… both are looking to India to replace migrants
russia wants Indians because so many Central Asians have left because they don’t want to die in a ditch in Ukraine…. ethnic russian men have been dropping like flies at home for a long time but literally no one in russia cares about that. But Central Asians were indispensable in putin’s russia… like Mexicans during the Carter and Reagan administrations.
Europe wants Indians because they had previously bet on African and Middle Eastern migrants who were a massive bust (as anyone who knew the first thing about the real world could have told them had they wanted to know, which they didn’t). First in line for welfare handouts but useless in actually getting and keeping legal and productive work.
Meanwhile, Indians try and fail to shovel snow in Moscow…. not sure if they’re that dumb or just lazy….
https://x.com/osint_69/status/2011434070224536027
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….or maybe both.
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Oh, I don’t think they’re lazy or dumb… They’re just being Indian!
[Thanks Cliff for a great moment of comic relief].
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Maybe they never saw snow before.
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Trump has had some succes in combating offshoring. Many remote workers in SA are complaining about the low value of the dollar and would prefer pounds or euros.
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