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Barbarian
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Jesus, season 36... The Simpsons is a zombified show at this point. It really should be put out of its misery.
Thanks Austria, very cool. The domestic politics bump they got for being "tough on migration" sure was worth delaying our full Schengen status. /s
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Finnish border officials say fences equipped with top-notch surveillance equipment — to be located mostly around crossing points — are needed to better monitor and control any migrants attempting to cross over from Russia and give officials time to react.
A fence won't stop anyone, but it can detect people, which sounds like the point.
This period of war in Eastern Europe is pretty shit and I would like Western Europe to take it more seriously, thx
Nonviolent successes are always paired with violent alternatives. Nonviolent protests by themselves can be ignored, but if you have a nonviolent movement and a parallel but seperate violent movement biting your ankles... now negotiating with the nonviolent movement seems like a really good idea.
Wikipedia has a decent chronology tab of the kind of insanity going on when the UK just went 'Yay Ghandi! Nonviolence wins! Definitely nothing to do with all the terrorist attacks!"
Before India became completely ungovernable, their response to peaceful protest was to imprison anyone threatening their rule (make sure to read the "local violence" part).
On a more optimistic note, a true heir to Bernie will know how to negotiate with the center left to accomplish some of their goals in exchange for the support of progressives to win elections.
Technically yes, but I don't mean technology as phones/laptops/tablets/etc. Imho, the biggest factor in social isolation is atomization due to bad urban planning. When everything and anything is only accessible by car, you lose any connection with your local neighbourhood and local stores/cafes/etc.
In environments where people walk around the neighbourhood, doing small daily shops, going to local businesses and taking mass transit to work/school/restaurants/bars, then you're much more likely to interact with people rather than driving around in your social isolation-mobile.
Urban planning can be considered a form of technology, which is why I said technically yes.
EDIT: Oh, another big factor here is the loss of the third place. It still exists in some places (local pubs in British towns, local coffee shop in Portugal, etc), but in places without a socially normal "hangout spot" that is separated from both home and work/school, it's much harder to meet acquaintances which may in time become friends.
The Budapest Memorandum is so ironic in this context. Ukraine giving away its nukes in exchange for security guarantees from the US, UK and... Russia.
After this, why would any country ever give away nukes? The guarantees have proven to be toilet paper.
Those look like 3 random people to me. I'm not seeing the caricature. For them to not be caricatures, what would you expect them to look like?
FYI, I'm not Ukrainian. I'm Romanian. We have more skin in the game than Germany or France though. If Ukraine falls, Moldova falls 24 hours later, and allowing our brother country to go back under Russian domination is pretty unthinkable.
Even without that existential issue, allowing democratically minded Europeans trying to walk the same path we walked 25 years ago get invaded by Russia without as much help as we can give them seems horrific to me.