KevinOnEarth

@Quittenbrot
Yes, they are irrespective of labels or systems or ideologies. There is a small % of humanity that are self-righteous, self-interested, double-dealing control freaks. The worst amongst them will always end up competing for power. The rest of us are essentially credulous, malleable serfs.

@Quittenbrot @bearboiblake
This is because of the nature of “Leadership”: It is impossible to become a “Leader” of a major nation (/corp/institution) with any tangible power without having done strings of deals (i.e. compromises, i.e. selling out popular interests for private/personal ones, i.e. corruption).
The most successful “Leaders” are simply the most convincing liars.

@Quittenbrot @bearboiblake
How would you define equilibrium in this context anyway?

@CyberEgg @HaraldvonBlauzahn
I lost a friend to head injury in a bike accident a month ago. (Hit by a car.)
I don’t know what state I would be in now if I hadn’t been wearing a helmet the numerous times I’ve come off.
Exposed rider of ANY vehicle using a road or a bike lane should wear a helmet. Like car seatbelts, this should be law.

@Quittenbrot
And where would you draw their borders?

@Quittenbrot @Aqarius
“more part of the problem than of the solution”
What is the solution in your view?

@luciferofastora
Sure. 👍 Keep the accounts for that reason but make them secondary & obvious mirrors to their official accounts.
That said, I think it’s too complete an idea (not just the Fedi server but the entire comprehensive & inter-compatible EU IT ecosystem) & EU logic is typically particulate (too many cooks imo), so I don’t see anything like this happening for a long time.

@luciferofastora @NorskSud
Is it such a radical idea that the EU, Parliament + Commission, should have its own Fedi server to base ALL its public discussions & comms on, with easily locatable layers & sub-layers for departments & offices + for nations, regions & municipalities, & even for citizens & the European public?
X, Fb, Insta etc. should all at best be clones/bots, so they wouldn’t lose audience but the audience would know where they come from + exactly how/where to contact s/o.

@HocSunt @Pip
Sounds a bit like “#Insurance” today. :ablobcool:

@NorskSud @GardenGeek
Countries don’t.
Countries’ LEADERS do.
And that makes the *countries* that much easier to extort and compromise.

@Gorilladrums @kossa
“IF their claim to asylum was genuine AND they aren’t causing real harm to the host society.”
So, logically, if the “IF” condition is True and the “AND” condition is False, they maintain their rights to asylum. 🤷
“Moral arguments” are subjective. (Especially in this thread. 😏) “Send them to certain death” & “All humans have rights” can both claim subjective moral rectitude. 🤷

@JensSpahnpasta @geissi
I’m actually using cash more & more (& will not put my bank account on my phone!!). Rather that than some far-foreign digital “financial service” with all its tracking tech.

@CanadaPlus @plyth
So in other words ALL Americans are now bombing schools & arming genocide.

@Gorilladrums
I guess the fact you’re “pretty sure” is encouraging. Along with “no evidence that these individuals are going to be tortured”.
What we really need is ACTUAL evidence that they are NOT mistreated on their return. THAT is what is absent.
Personally, I don’t see how Germany could care less once it’s no longer their problem.

@Gorilladrums @phoenixz
If there had been, who would be doing the reporting?

@CAVOK @resipsaloquitur
Yeah, no reason why 25 or 26 countries can’t coordinate to do exactly what they were planning via the EU. And more still.

@towerful @abbadon420
My logic on the possibility/probability of “are they interfering” / “Would they interfere” etc. etc. is… Well, get in their heads & ask yourself, why would they NOT? 🤷
Of COURSE they are!

@vga @mattyroses
Figures. :blobamused:
#Palestine is the country that contains the genocidal terrorist enclave that its immigrant settlers call “#Israel”.

@gravitas_deficiency @skepller
Exactly.
And continuing to imagine the US is on Europe’s side is essentially Stockholm Syndrome at this point.

@wuzzlewoggle @Reznik
👍 I fear the best we’ll be able to do is everyone switch off all #WorldCup games played in the US.
I will, anyway.