I remember the Ukraine Association agreement. My EU country held a referendum over it and voted against that. The agreement included sending military aid to Ukraine, which should have nothing to do with the EU, since EU defense is non-existent and only done individually or through NATO. But I believed this was pushed by the UK, who kept seeing the EU as a tool for NATO expansion.

“Do the unthinkable” => Think for themselves

Desperate measures => sovereignity

unclear real winners => China, Russia, communists

Things could change => Reality is setting in for the Anglo-imperialists that they’re no longer in the front seat and with Euro vassals that they’re not even in the car anymore, China is.

Now let’s look at the desperate measure options…

1. The no option

Announcing that you’re willing to quit NATO… Oh heavens almighty!! Such strong words!!! Clearly the biggest measure in world history. It does not compare to “fighting for Ukraine to the bitter end”, meaning to the last Ukrainian, or “Russia’s SMO is soft term for full-scale invasion” in terms of strongness.

But at least the author is willing to admit that the EU is licking boot and doesn’t seem to mind giving everyone the impression that it is, it’s just the rejection it got was a kick in the face to him. The EU is not being kicked in the face though. That happened when the Nordstream pipeline blew up.

The new sheriff in town just isn’t interested in pouring money into a losing war when its two pillars of exploitative power created in the 1970s is under threat. And fascists don’t align with imperialists. Fascists want full direct control or no control at all.

2. The safe option no one wants

Except for two issues. One minor and two major.

The minor one is the fact that it requires to throw out every European politician but a handful of socialists and nationalists out of office, starting with Ursula von der Leyen.

The first major one however is the fact that the EU recently burned all bridges with Russia, with all the natural gas now being sold to China.

The second major one is that China is the country that’s rising to the top and gaining cultural influence. Russia has no cultural influence. People are even still hating on the EU and wanting their powerless nation to lick US boot only because the EU has no cultural influence, despite having zero diplomatic trade power otherwise.

3. The soon to be very popular option.

Africa will develop its economy, so any immigration problem will be of people leaving the EU. Wealth from solar power will arrive there like a Ne Zha sequel on the world stage of cinema. Sudden.

Praising China will become very popular soon as China’s cultural power is skyrocketing, but the EU has already slavishly followed a distant nation around.

We’re also likely to see war between the US and China. Do we want to go to arms with those who prefer option 4?

4. The missing option that’s still extremely popular

Wait it out and let US fascism take over. It’ll get worse, but I don’t see EU culture and politics going anywhere than licking more US boot.

That the EU was morally better than the US. The posts got longer and longer. I gave up after realizing my latest post would be over 4000 words long.

This is more like Texas seceding on good terms, then after a couple of years a communist coup happens and the new Texas president joins the Latin American Nuclear Defense Organisation aimed against the US and supressess the non-Hispanic population of Texas prompting a small civil war within Texas by people not wanting to be part of a pro-Latin American government, and then the US helping and ultimately invading the parts of Texas that was never Hispanic in the first place and then Mexico calling that a full-scale invasion of Texas that must be defended at all cost.

I had to read my own post ten times to figure out if I was replying to the right person.

I meant to say that “If it’s by design, then that design won’t work”.
I was nitpicking here.

The capitalists in power do not like the working class and capitalism arose from getting rid of fuedalism.
But I will agree on a semantic level that capitalism is not a group of people.

Not really. The people get only two choices of candidates who are selected by campaign popularity. Those candidates have to raise the money for it by themselves, which means making truthful private campaign promises to their donors while making false promises to the public.

The core complaint is for femwashed stories, where the male lead has been replaced by a woman.

It’s very similar to Hollywood movies taking movies from Japan or China and then turning the Asian lead to a Euro-American.

The level of hatred for this type of content is very strong as it feels like a farce or fraudelent, like someone is trying to sell you a fake designer brand item. Everything that made the item great is absent in the fake one.

On top of that, there’s a clear fascist takeover in the US from the rainbow liberal, evangelical and social capitalists. Fascists have weird superiority and inferiority complexes including towards women. But don’t worry, Chinese movies will become popular soon, so both sides of the US political aisle will have to adjust.

Kids have gotten more respectful to their elders in my opinion.

Considering the Bowling for Soup’s song 1985 from 2003,
I’d say around 2013, which makes Bowling for Soup also classic rock.

1. It matters as some distros have one maintainer or will offer you something ideological at great sacrifice, but you seem to already know that.

2. No, the biggest difference is package manager, community forum in case you meed troubleshooting, default DE (eases troubleshooting), and release type.

There are three big families of distros: Debian / Fedora / Arch. Any distro that is a derative of either of these three use their package manager.

3. Drop tuxedo and take a look at endeavourOS. It’s arch-based and arch has the best package manager of all. Also KDE is their main DE. I use Manjaro because I prefer Xfce.

In case you do use EndeavourOS, one warning, DO NOT USE THE ARCH FORUM FOR TROUBLESHOOTING!!

(If you’ve heard of ‘Sheldon Cooper’ from the tv-series ‘Big Bang theory’ or ‘Young Sheldon’. This forum is run by a real life version of him and you will get banned there immediately or very quickly, unlike other forums. Rule #1 of many is that any user troubleshooting admits that the issue is occuring on any OS other than Arch, including the closest deratives, will get banned.)

4. No. Don’t know what HDR is.

5. Tinkering with the DE is definitely fun and you should play with it. Be careful though, because the freedom you’re allowed also allows you to break things. But tinkering with the DE isn’t the worst thing you could break.

I disagree. It’s full of emotions.
Distrust, contempt, anger, fear…

Very likely.
But the Netherlands has been exceptionally trusting of the US over all other nations.

“We’ve got nothing to hide and this will send a clear signal of unity with our allies towards authoritarian states like China, Russia and Saudi Arabia”

- the Dutch (me excluded)

Well deserved.
I’m from the Netherlands.

This is my country’s government and it isn’t about money, but about culture.

They could, but they didn’t want to.

To list of things anything you could want:

• Goods
• Services
• Relationship time, that is your partner doing things for you,
  which can be subdivided into 10 more types of wishes.

That doesn’t work. It ends up with a populace smuggling goods, black markets and foreign influence.

Furthermore, underlings who do have money will start rebellions demanding secession.

Unless the designer is a foreign influencer from a more powerful country, which can only be China. But national leaders who put puppet presidents into offices have a tendency to want their puppets to be very loyal and friendly towards them.

1. A war of liberation is not a war of aggression. He didn’t start the war. He’s ending it. It’s a two-partial-nations-in-one-country civil war that he’s now splitting off from the part that demanded secession with Ukraine and acession with Russia, since they’re Russian Ukrainians and don’t want to join an anti-Russia alliance.
2. This was a private military contracter who just failed a coup attempt for a military junta made from his own private army, and a product of the libertarian period of Russia that’s being reigned in. He should have been arrested legally for doing so, but in this case that probably was considered too risky in terms of consequences. In any case, it’s a much better idea than putting such a figure next to the president’s chair as a kind of mayor of the palace.