The unfortunate thing is that the EU may have to suck it up and build more bridges with the PRC if the US shuns us.

Europe may be bigger than the US, but even Europe is only about 20% of the world’s GDP. We can’t take on Russia, the US, and China at the same time.

Russia is our enemy and Musk is committing espionage/treason by discussing American foreign policy with Russian officials, especially as someone with clearance.

Trump started plenty of wars https://youtu.be/QQYFVEka3fA

Biden has full control over arms shipments, why don’t people pressure him to cut Israel off?

biden is still president

very much literally burning things on the lawn of black families. He came all the way from Denmark to go into poorer neighborhoods in Sweden and say hateful things about the black and brown people there.

Sweden up until recently had freedom of organization protected in the constitution. This was changed in a recent constitutional amendment at the request of Turkey, as a prerequisite to join NATO. Turkey demanded that Sweden arrest “PKK members” (aka journalists that Erdogan doesn’t like), and to show support, both the Andersson and Kristersson administrations revived a constitutional amendment from 2021 and pushed it through, making it illegal to be a member of a terrorist organization.

https://www.regeringen.se/rattsliga-dokument/statens-offentliga-utredningar/2021/03/sou-202115/

https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2022/6/pdf/220628-trilat-memo.pdf

https://lagen.nu/2022:666

It’s really an unfortunate development, since the terms “terrorist organization” and “support to terrorism” is so poorly defined, and it’s clearly intended to punish political opposition in dictatorships, like Turkish and Kurdish opposition in Turkey. Very much a chilling effect on political discussion when foreign political oppositions are banned from speaking in Sweden, even when racist hate groups are still allowed to speak.

It does seem that the current law is still quite limited, at least. The Terrorist crime law of 2022 (Terroristbrottslagen) outlaws support, propagandizing, and recruiting for terrorist organizations, but this seems to be limited to only material support, organized propaganda and organization leadership. Simply going around waving a PKK flag still is legal, for now.

https://www.ui.se/utrikesmagasinet/analyser/2023/juli/terrorlagar-domstolar-far-bedoma-flaggviftning/

So luckily, I don’t think it’s possible to be deported simply for expressing expressing pro-Kurdish or pro-Palestinian independence ideas, or even expressing support for the violent people in PKK or Hamas.

Johan Forssell has also expressed a wish for a new law making it illegal to be in a criminal gang, but this has not passed yet. His view on the ongoing wars with Israel seems to be that Israel “has a right to defend itself”, but that civilians must be protected and receive aid.

Isn’t this espionage/treason? He has security clearance, he should not have contact with foreign government officials or sabotage our allies.

“The US, known for its flawed democracy, has a flawed democracy; therefore all democracy is useless and we should just let genocidal dictators decide”

Have you ever been to Europe?

Should work well for that!

If you use cloudflare for dns only and turn cloudflare proxying off, none of your data or traffic goes to cloudflare’s servers. They just act as your dns server, telling your devices what IP to go to.

it might be better to skip the cloud server and use cloudflare for dynamic dns. The standardized way to restrict access to websites is with client certificates or a basic authentication (user/pass) proxy. That would help avoid issues with internet traffic passing through the VPN accidentally.

not to mention the money “going to ukraine” is just being used to replace us stockpiled weapons, which the US would have spent anyways.

If you’re arguing that we should reduce military spending in the face of a increasingly imperialist Russia, then you might as well save yourself the time and move to Russia, if you’re not there already.

Putin can whine all he wants, making empty threats to use nukes on a non-nuclear nation just makes him more of a pariah than he already is.

Don’t forget that Israeli affiliated militias assassinated their UN negotiator in 1948.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folke_Bernadotte

The leader of the assassination plot was the future founder of the modern Likud party and future prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir. He lead the Likud party until 1993 when Netanyahu took over. His Wikipedia page is absolutely fucked.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Shamir

This and their attacks on the UNRWA are far from the first times Israel has been at war with the UN.

Xi Jinping and his cronies aren’t exactly champions of human rights so I imagine they wouldn’t care either way. They would probably only step in if they were taking passports from party members or there were massive protests like during covid.

Ah, makes sense.

Isn’t this more of a local government thing than a national government thing, as the national government already requires exit visas to leave the country?

If the local government takes your passport, they’re ensuring that you can’t go to the national government and get an exit visa, presumably to protect their labor supply or something.

Yeah, that’s definitely true. I guess the goal with Ukraine nato membership is to prevent Russia from taking any more territory.

There has never been a clause about territorial integrity as a prerequisite for membership in the NATO treaties, that was just something made up by the Obama administration to appease Putin and get him to stop being paranoid about Georgia and Ukraine joining NATO.

What emissions are there from drilling natural gas, aside from aquifer and river pollution?

The main concern with natural gas are that the leaks cause 81x the greenhouse effect than if the gas was just burned. And liquifying methane and tanking it onto ships causes a lot of leaks, more than the leaks caused normally by pipelines. Natural gas is just as bad as coal if not worse.

https://youtu.be/K2oL4SFwkkw?feature=shared&t=71