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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
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solidbebe
Netherlands4921 Posts
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Acrofales
Spain18132 Posts
On August 23 2018 06:54 Plansix wrote: Austria seems to be making a push to become the Florida of Europe, but with fewer swamp people. I thought Benidorm was Europe's Florida. | ||
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iamthedave
England2814 Posts
On August 23 2018 06:54 Plansix wrote: Austria seems to be making a push to become the Florida of Europe, but with fewer swamp people. Is Florida well known for racism and nastiness? | ||
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Broetchenholer
Germany1947 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On August 23 2018 18:28 iamthedave wrote: Is Florida well known for racism and nastiness? Oh yes. And stupidity. I strongly recommend the twitter humor account “Florida Man” which to get a real picture of how amazing that state is. All the news articles that twitter account links are real and staggering in their stupidity I would wager there is no equal to it in all of the EU. | ||
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Big J
Austria16289 Posts
On August 23 2018 20:24 Broetchenholer wrote: It must infuriate you so much to have to be part of a society that voted FPÖ into power. I dread the moment i have to realize 25% of germans vote for AfD and they somehow are now part of the govermnet coalition. I think i would have to instantly migrate to a better country. Netherlands maybe? In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. - Anne Frank | ||
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Dangermousecatdog
United Kingdom7084 Posts
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farvacola
United States18839 Posts
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Dangermousecatdog
United Kingdom7084 Posts
We do not have a private record of her inner thoughts whilst she witnessed and suffered the horrors of such, as opposed to her recorded thoughts whilst she was being safely hidden, helped by the Dutch, | ||
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Jockmcplop
United Kingdom9733 Posts
I'm just wondering whether its as insane as the media are making out or what... | ||
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
If you ask me a big reason for this is thas Germany has barely any real federal police authority. We need to increase federal oversight to clean this stuff up. Something similar was proposed a while ago. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
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Big J
Austria16289 Posts
The picture that is being received by many leftwingers in the past days is that the police is heavily protecting far-right groups and always argue that "they couldn't handle the situation in time and wanted to prevent escalation", while leftist demonstrations are regularily handled with water canons. In particular Nazi salutes seem to be factually decriminalized these days. | ||
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pmh
1366 Posts
First time in my life that I have seen it this bad, both in the usa as well as in Europe. World is going in wrong direction. Are we not supposed to make progress and become better people all the time? It is difficult to remain optimistic for this century of human development. | ||
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Gorsameth
Netherlands21963 Posts
On August 30 2018 07:28 pmh wrote: Progress is a pendulum that swing both ways. In general it slowly pulls towards progress but from time to time there is a reaction to the opposite side.We are running full speed towards something horrible. Everyone so devided,so much hate and so little understanding for the other side. First time in my life that I have seen it this bad, both in the usa as well as in Europe. World is going in wrong direction. Are we not supposed to make progress and become better people all the time? It is difficult to remain optimistic for this century of human development. | ||
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Godwrath
Spain10132 Posts
On August 30 2018 07:28 pmh wrote: We are running full speed towards something horrible. Everyone so devided,so much hate and so little understanding for the other side. First time in my life that I have seen it this bad, both in the usa as well as in Europe. World is going in wrong direction. Are we not supposed to make progress and become better people all the time? It is difficult to remain optimistic for this century of human development. This was foretold as soon as 2010 because of the recession. Nobody listened back then and now people act surprised. We saw it first in Greece, we got some hope when Syriza turned the tables with the increasing pro-nazi groups getting more and more support, but the EU kicked their teeth out and made an example out of them. Speaking of fascism. Another stepping stone is on its way to be closed in Spain and its relationship with fascism. Spain moves closer to exhuming dictator Franco's remains Spain’s government took a step closer on Friday to removing the remains of dictator Francisco Franco from a grand mausoleum that it intends to turn into a memorial to victims of the country’s brutal civil war. “We don’t want to dig up ghosts we have happily forgotten,” PP leader Pablo Casado said on Thursday, adding his party would appeal against the decree but had not decided how to vote on it. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spain-politics-franco/spains-govt-passes-decree-to-exhume-remains-of-dictator-franco-idUSKCN1L9176 And obviously, Ciudadanos and PP will fight teeth and nails against whatever the PSOE pretends to do with it afterward. Luckily they won't be able to stop it. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On August 30 2018 08:58 Gorsameth wrote: Progress is a pendulum that swing both ways. In general it slowly pulls towards progress but from time to time there is a reaction to the opposite side. Although I agree with this, I dislike the framing of pendulum. It gives the impression that progress is a force of nature, rather than a product of hard work by people. Progress is a fight against the status quo, just like regression. Forward movement to a more just and enlighten society is not the nature course or guaranteed. One of the reasons these far right groups have gotten a foothold is because the previous generation become complacent. | ||
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Gorsameth
Netherlands21963 Posts
On August 30 2018 22:50 Plansix wrote: Fair enough.Although I agree with this, I dislike the framing of pendulum. It gives the impression that progress is a force of nature, rather than a product of hard work by people. Progress is a fight against the status quo, just like regression. Forward movement to a more just and enlighten society is not the nature course or guaranteed. One of the reasons these far right groups have gotten a foothold is because the previous generation become complacent. A Tug of war is probably a more apt description, if one side gets complacent and stops pulling the rope will move in the other direction. | ||
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Big J
Austria16289 Posts
On August 30 2018 22:50 Plansix wrote: Although I agree with this, I dislike the framing of pendulum. It gives the impression that progress is a force of nature, rather than a product of hard work by people. Progress is a fight against the status quo, just like regression. Forward movement to a more just and enlighten society is not the nature course or guaranteed. One of the reasons these far right groups have gotten a foothold is because the previous generation become complacent. Just to clarify what that means in your picture: progress is the opposite of conservativism. This is the original left-right divide. The conservative right, who defend the church, the king, the existing rights, or even reactionaries who want more of such principles vs the left, who enivision "a more just order" (with differentiations of what "just" means). As long as the liberals and the socialists are divided, or even worse, trying to be conservatives on issues that they believe are "historic achievments", that long the conservatives will run rampant. | ||
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