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Sent.
Profile Joined June 2012
Poland9229 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-07-31 18:26:28
July 31 2016 18:26 GMT
#10021
On August 01 2016 03:11 xM(Z wrote:
has there ever been, in US history, a time in which americans gathered up in a show of support for a ruler of a different country?.


Quick "us pro hitler demonstration" google search says yes
You're now breathing manually
LegalLord
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
United Kingdom13775 Posts
July 31 2016 18:59 GMT
#10022
I'm sure there were quite enough monarchists in the early years of the US if that counts.
History will sooner or later sweep the European Union away without mercy.
Dangermousecatdog
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom7084 Posts
July 31 2016 19:13 GMT
#10023
Not sure if it counts, but Americans seem show up in huge numbers for the pope everytime he comes to visit the US.
forsooth
Profile Joined February 2011
United States3648 Posts
July 31 2016 19:32 GMT
#10024
On August 01 2016 02:33 Scorch wrote:
Turks who demostrate for a dictator have no chance of successful integration and thus have no business being in Europe. They should go back to Turkey if Erdogan is so great.

Expecting people of foreign background to understand that there just might be a connection between Western culture and high levels of affluence and freedom, and to take it a step further and embrace it over the decaying, repressive dump they or their parents were so eager to leave seems a bit much to ask in these multicultural times we now live in.

Anyone who has had the opportunity to live years in a place like Germany yet still supports an authoritarian Islamist like Erdogan is a lost cause.
RvB
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Netherlands6237 Posts
July 31 2016 19:52 GMT
#10025
The problem is that they only go back to Turkey on holidays which colours their view of the country. They see Erdogan making the country 'great' but don't have to live under the repression because they live in a free country as already mentioned on the previous page.

I know of Turkish women who went back to Turkey because they married someone there and then they realise that it's not as nice as they thought. Suddenly they're house wifes, 2nd class citizens and live in a 2nd world country.
Makro
Profile Joined March 2011
France16890 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-07-31 21:43:20
July 31 2016 21:29 GMT
#10026
On July 31 2016 20:11 WhiteDog wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
A young black guy named Adama Traore died in the north of Paris after being apprehended by the police. Now, since people love to victimize themselves, there's a ton of people that argue that he was the victim of some american-like event and that the police basically killed him because he was black.
They organized a few march and chanted the "black lives matter" in english.

According to the two autopsies that were made he was not beaten nor was he shot and was killed by "asphyxia", one of those atopsy claiming that he had a grave pulmonary infection while the second autopsy arguing that we need the result of blood tests and such that will come in august.
The guy was arrested for rebellion because he refused the police to arrest his brother, researched for "extortion".

Now the New York times relay this as "Black lives matter in France too" : http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/29/opinion/black-lives-matter-in-france-too.html

Shit is ridiculous, makes me laugh. This is not the US
.

yea i had the same reaction as you, apparently victimisation knows no boundaries

they saw the US's riots so they want to do the same here to be trendy
Matthew 5:10 "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of shitposting, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven".
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Madkipz
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Norway1643 Posts
July 31 2016 21:46 GMT
#10027
On August 01 2016 06:29 Makro wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 31 2016 20:11 WhiteDog wrote:
A young black guy named Adama Traore died in the north of Paris after being apprehended by the police. Now, since people love to victimize themselves, there's a ton of people that argue that he was the victim of some american-like event and that the police basically killed him because he was black.
They organized a few march and chanted the "black lives matter" in english.

According to the two autopsies that were made he was not beaten nor was he shot and was killed by "asphyxia", one of those atopsy claiming that he had a grave pulmonary infection while the second autopsy arguing that we need the result of blood tests and such that will come in august.
The guy was arrested for rebellion because he refused the police to arrest his brother, researched for "extortion".

Now the New York times relay this as "Black lives matter in France too" : http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/29/opinion/black-lives-matter-in-france-too.html

Shit is ridiculous, makes me laugh. This is not the US.

yea i had the same reaction as you, apparently victimisation knows no boundaries

they saw the US's riots so they want to do the same here to be trendy


It's like watching the london BLM crowd shouting "hands up don't shoot" at the police.
"Mudkip"
WhiteDog
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France8650 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-01 00:52:44
August 01 2016 00:46 GMT
#10028
On August 01 2016 06:46 Madkipz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 01 2016 06:29 Makro wrote:
On July 31 2016 20:11 WhiteDog wrote:
A young black guy named Adama Traore died in the north of Paris after being apprehended by the police. Now, since people love to victimize themselves, there's a ton of people that argue that he was the victim of some american-like event and that the police basically killed him because he was black.
They organized a few march and chanted the "black lives matter" in english.

According to the two autopsies that were made he was not beaten nor was he shot and was killed by "asphyxia", one of those atopsy claiming that he had a grave pulmonary infection while the second autopsy arguing that we need the result of blood tests and such that will come in august.
The guy was arrested for rebellion because he refused the police to arrest his brother, researched for "extortion".

Now the New York times relay this as "Black lives matter in France too" : http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/29/opinion/black-lives-matter-in-france-too.html

Shit is ridiculous, makes me laugh. This is not the US.

yea i had the same reaction as you, apparently victimisation knows no boundaries

they saw the US's riots so they want to do the same here to be trendy


It's like watching the london BLM crowd shouting "hands up don't shoot" at the police.

lol, do you have a picture or a video of that ? Seems interesting.

I just learned talking to a friend that there is a group called "ferguson in Paris" that help financing and organizing the march in France. Seems like lobbying.
"every time WhiteDog overuses the word "seriously" in a comment I can make an observation on his fragile emotional state." MoltkeWarding
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
August 01 2016 02:17 GMT
#10029
*Golfclap* congrats Germany how much did you pay this country?

BERLIN
Turkey's foreign minister is demanding that the European Union say when its citizens will be granted visa-free entry and adds that, if the rules aren't loosened, Ankara will back off a deal to stem the flow of migrants into Europe.

The visa offer was linked to the Turkey-EU migrant deal in March. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan already has said the deal could collapse if the EU reneges on the visa promise.

Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted Sunday as telling the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "if there is no visa liberalization, we will be forced to distance ourselves from the (migrant) readmission agreement."

Cavusoglu says "it can be the beginning or the middle of October, but we expect a firm date" for visa-free entry.


Source
"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
forsooth
Profile Joined February 2011
United States3648 Posts
August 01 2016 04:08 GMT
#10030
The question is, does the EU have enough of a spine to close its external borders and tell Erdogan to fuck himself?
LegalLord
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
United Kingdom13775 Posts
August 01 2016 04:14 GMT
#10031
If the EU had the spine for that sort of thing then there would have been no refugee crisis in the first place. So the answer is a resounding "no."
History will sooner or later sweep the European Union away without mercy.
RvB
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Netherlands6237 Posts
August 01 2016 07:00 GMT
#10032
The EU said no visa this year. It depends on the national leaders what happens I guess.
Maenander
Profile Joined November 2002
Germany4926 Posts
August 01 2016 07:07 GMT
#10033
On August 01 2016 13:14 LegalLord wrote:
If the EU had the spine for that sort of thing then there would have been no refugee crisis in the first place. So the answer is a resounding "no."

The EU doesn't have that kind of power, the power lies with the national governments.

It's funny that the EU is blamed for all kinds of problems that arise exactly because the power lies with the national governments, which are unable to set aside their differences and work together.
LegalLord
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
United Kingdom13775 Posts
August 01 2016 07:23 GMT
#10034
Indeed. One country decides it wants immigrants and decides to force it on all other countries when the cost becomes too high. A lot of those countries refuse to take immigrants. Soon the open border policies become a problem.

This is something the EU should have been very good at dealing with. Instead it's one of its most visible and large scale failures.
History will sooner or later sweep the European Union away without mercy.
Maenander
Profile Joined November 2002
Germany4926 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-01 07:37:41
August 01 2016 07:35 GMT
#10035
On August 01 2016 16:23 LegalLord wrote:
Indeed. One country decides it wants immigrants and decides to force it on all other countries when the cost becomes too high. A lot of those countries refuse to take immigrants. Soon the open border policies become a problem.

This is something the EU should have been very good at dealing with. Instead it's one of its most visible and large scale failures.

It's a failure because it doesn't have the means to make the common projects successes. Open borders without central means (or even concerted efforts) to defend the outer borders or regulate immigration, a common currency and economic area without a common economic policy, a political union without a common (or even concerted) foreign policy. Grand ideas, but the execution is all patchwork. How should it work?

Even the perceived lack of democracy is a result of jealous national governments.
LegalLord
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
United Kingdom13775 Posts
August 01 2016 08:23 GMT
#10036
I suppose it would probably be fair to say that a system where decisions are made at the national level but have consequences on the union-wide level are doomed to lead to single nations being able to fuck everyone over, and that's the issue here. Which means either centralized control (good luck getting nations to give up their sovereignty on such a scale) or a scaling back of scope of the project to allow countries to insulate themselves by having enough control over their own monetary/immigration/etc policy to be able to react to events.

Recent events have convinced me that the latter is probably the only way the EU will survive.
History will sooner or later sweep the European Union away without mercy.
xM(Z
Profile Joined November 2006
Romania5281 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-01 08:36:47
August 01 2016 08:26 GMT
#10037
i'd stop the bullshit with the differences, the jealousy or <the whatever else> of national governments; it's as if you don't know how politics work.
every god damn politician is backed by corporations within his own country(yes Germany + Merkel too) or/and some geopolitical masters(other than EU).
Russia wants gas pipes and is cozying up to Turkey, Greece and ex-Yugoslavian countries; China wants a new silk road through the same ex-Yugoslavian countries up to Austria+Germany; Turkey wants mosques all over Balkans to spearhead islam. add to that the cluster fuck of inter-country relations within the Balkans where pretty much everyone hates each other in various degrees, then the perception of some that EU will go to shit sooner rather than later then tell me how, how in the hell are they supposed to be getting along?.

i just don't get it. are they suppose to find a common goal, something that has to do with the well-being of human beings then take a common stance on it?. dude please ... wake up.
And my fury stands ready. I bring all your plans to nought. My bleak heart beats steady. 'Tis you whom I have sought.
Clonester
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany2808 Posts
August 01 2016 09:48 GMT
#10038
On August 01 2016 16:35 Maenander wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 01 2016 16:23 LegalLord wrote:
Indeed. One country decides it wants immigrants and decides to force it on all other countries when the cost becomes too high. A lot of those countries refuse to take immigrants. Soon the open border policies become a problem.

This is something the EU should have been very good at dealing with. Instead it's one of its most visible and large scale failures.

It's a failure because it doesn't have the means to make the common projects successes. Open borders without central means (or even concerted efforts) to defend the outer borders or regulate immigration, a common currency and economic area without a common economic policy, a political union without a common (or even concerted) foreign policy. Grand ideas, but the execution is all patchwork. How should it work?

Even the perceived lack of democracy is a result of jealous national governments.


Sometimes I think the national gouvernments only invented the EU to give it all the credit for the shit the national gouvernments want to force uppon their people.

To the visa issue with turkey: Funny how the turks spin their country as "terrorist" infested by the Hizmet-movement and still think such a "terrorit" infested country should have free visaless movement within the Schengen area.
Bomber, Attacker, DD, SOMEBODY, NiKo, Nex, Spidii
RoomOfMush
Profile Joined March 2015
1296 Posts
August 01 2016 09:58 GMT
#10039
On August 01 2016 18:48 Clonester wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 01 2016 16:35 Maenander wrote:
On August 01 2016 16:23 LegalLord wrote:
Indeed. One country decides it wants immigrants and decides to force it on all other countries when the cost becomes too high. A lot of those countries refuse to take immigrants. Soon the open border policies become a problem.

This is something the EU should have been very good at dealing with. Instead it's one of its most visible and large scale failures.

It's a failure because it doesn't have the means to make the common projects successes. Open borders without central means (or even concerted efforts) to defend the outer borders or regulate immigration, a common currency and economic area without a common economic policy, a political union without a common (or even concerted) foreign policy. Grand ideas, but the execution is all patchwork. How should it work?

Even the perceived lack of democracy is a result of jealous national governments.


Sometimes I think the national gouvernments only invented the EU to give it all the credit for the shit the national gouvernments want to force uppon their people.

To the visa issue with turkey: Funny how the turks spin their country as "terrorist" infested by the Hizmet-movement and still think such a "terrorit" infested country should have free visaless movement within the Schengen area.

Exactly. I would so love to hear a european politician tell this to turkey. "How are we suposed to give your people free visas if there are all these secret gulenists hiding in your population?"
RvB
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Netherlands6237 Posts
August 01 2016 12:45 GMT
#10040
(Reuters) - Germany and the European Union should not be blackmailed by Turkey in talks on visa liberalisation for Turkish nationals, German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said on Monday.

"It is up to Turkey if there is or there isn't visa liberalisation," Gabriel said during a trip to northern Germany. "Germany and Europe should under no circumstances be blackmailed."

Gabriel also welcomed a decision by Germany's highest court to prevent Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan from addressing via video-link a rally in Cologne on Sunday.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in remarks published at the weekend that Ankara would back out of its agreement with the EU to stem the flow of migrants into the bloc if the EU doesn't deliver visa-free travel for Turks.

Visa-free access to the EU - the main reward for Ankara's role in choking off an influx of migrants into Europe - has been subject to delays due to a dispute over Turkish anti-terrorism legislation and Ankara's crackdown after a failed coup.

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