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IMF prepares for global run on US dollar ( www.euractiv.com )

bossito , 2 days ago

You can buy gold bars and keep them at home.

Telly has only delivered 35,000 of its free televisions with always-on ads ( www.engadget.com )

bossito , 6 days ago

There's a Black Mirror episode with TVs just like these

bossito , 6 days ago

Yeah I think that's the one

German media likens US border patrol official’s coat to ‘Nazi look’ ( www.theguardian.com )

A greatcoat worn by the senior US border patrol official Gregory Bovino, who has spearheaded aggressive immigration operations across the country, has raised eyebrows in German media with some commentators saying it resembled a fascist aesthetic....

bossito , 7 days ago

It's simple actually. "Money donations" are not "freedom of expression" like in the US, there are very limited amounts that individuals may donate to political parties, anything above is corruption. This is the general rule across Europe. You don't want your democracy for sale, you don't allow it to be bought.

Far-left and far-right join forces in the European Parliament to vote against free-trade Mercosur agreement ( themalteseherald.com )

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42022939

Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W ( cybernews.com )

bossito OP , 8 days ago

Hold my hand and let's say yes together.

bossito OP , 8 days ago

Considering the amount of bots and trolls everywhere I can see a certain appeal on an app that requires an id verification to be honest.

bossito OP , 8 days ago

True. I'd be up for that, but honestly more for a real social network for friends and family, like Facebook once was, than for a debate forum like Twitter. That demand could maybe endure that it would remain a friends only network..

bossito OP , 8 days ago

Oh sorry, I forgot Sweden is in Africa. Or that referring to an app as European implies that Europe is a country. Luckily there are still people like you to educate us all /s

'Europe is at a total loss': Russia gloats over Greenland tensions ( www.bbc.com )

bossito OP , 8 days ago

Did it though?

bossito OP , 8 days ago

100%

Europeans challenge US big tech with alternative app menu ( cybernews.com )

Trump paints himself as great white hope in racism-drenched Davos speech ( www.theguardian.com )

bossito , 8 days ago

False, but also he holds all the guns. American justice and political systems are the ones who should be stopping him but failing miserably at it. In a normal democracy (see Brazil or South Korea for reference) he would be in jail.

Europe condemns Trump’s ‘new colonialism’ as Greenland crisis grows ( www.theguardian.com )

European leaders have lined up to condemn Donald Trump’s “new colonialism” and warn that the continent was facing a crossroads as the US president said there was no going back on his goal of controlling Greenland....

bossito , 8 days ago

I mean, storming the capitol doesn't seem that risky considering the precedents..

bossito , 8 days ago

Remember the time when Europe ended colonization? It was last century, probably before you were born.

bossito , 8 days ago

You never thought? Europe ended colonization last century already pal, wake up.

bossito , 8 days ago

You're 100% right, a big part of the left is stuck in 1917. They think Russia is a revolutionary force, Europe is a colonial world power, and the Jews are evil.. it's tiring as hell to be a lefty when this is the level of most online lefties.

bossito , 8 days ago

That depends on the success of the operation.

bossito , 8 days ago

Oh you're one of those. Are you talking about the same Global South of which China is a supposed part of it? Get real pal.. you need more history and above all more critical thinking, and ideally up to date to the times you're living on.

PS: but I guess asking for critical thinking to someone with "commie" on the name is asking too much..

bossito , 8 days ago

True. So there's that or submit to fascism instead.

bossito , 8 days ago

If you think colonization is a European exclusive you're wasting your time with me. Europe is a shadow of its past. China is the new colonizing force.

I'm honestly fed up of that anti-European and simultaneously insanely eurocentric perspective. The struggle for power is nothing new nor racially exclusive. Democracy and rule of law are the relatively rare concepts, of which Europe has been among the best examples for the past decades.

This narrative of guilty peoples, special races is honestly sickening and much closer to the far right views than to the universal values we should seek.

Dead tired of that BS.

bossito , 8 days ago

European colonization of Africa failed and it's over. Arab colonization succeed. History is written by winners, so people forget the Arabs were colonizers before the Europeans.. funny ah?

Except for France and Russia, no European country has any relevant role in Africa these days. China has a huge one. China a "Global South" country, so a victim? Effectively colonizing islands left and right in the Asian seas..

I'm not denying history, but currently a bit more worried with the present. This obsession with XIX century colonization when there's old style colonization happening right now, from Ukraine to Armenia, South Sudan, Philippines.. and then new economical colonization all over Africa by China.. .

Time to drop the eurocentrism, we're not the center of the world anymore and since a long time.

bossito , 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

via colonial legacy institutions and the so called international ruled based order which was designed to maintain Western hegemony.

I don't think that was the main motivation for the current international rules order, but then you should be happy to know that Putin and Trump are breaking them all and trying to bring good old colonialism back.

Also interestingly the far left and the greens today at the European Parliament aligned themselves with the far right (German AfD etc) to sabotage the deal with Mercosur, a deal that would allow Global South countries to trade on an equal stand with Europe. So, sorry for not taking very seriously the people always talking about European colonization, it often just hides eurocentrism and unresolved superiority complexes... When it's time for action they don't hesitate to find lame excuses to join forces with racist nationalists that want a Europe Fortress.

Greenland PM Tells People to Prepare for Possible Invasion ( www.bloomberg.com )

bossito , 9 days ago

In fairness, CBP would stop them at the border. They wouldn't even get an ESTA approved if they answered truthfully.

US World Cup boycotts grow as Trump threatens Mexico ( www.newsweek.com )

Calls are growing on social media for international soccer fans to boycott the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which is being hosted across the United States, Canada and Mexico.

bossito , 20 days ago

Please let at least the English fans go, they're lovely.

Europe should prepare for Greenland’s annexation and end of NATO: Experts ( www.aljazeera.com )

US President Donald Trump’s abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 3 has emboldened him to proceed with the annexation of Greenland, a Danish-owned, self-governed territory, spelling the effective end of NATO and furthering Russia’s war aims in Ukraine, experts tell Al Jazeera....

bossito , 20 days ago

Europe just finally signed a deal with Mercosur (that's the B in BRICS). Europe is also negotiating one with India. And it's increasing sanctions against Russia. BRICS is just an annual show off conference with zero substance.

U.S. will ‘soon’ annex Greenland, wife of top Trump aide implies ( www.arctictoday.com )

Former Trump administration official and wife of top Trump aide Stephen Miller, Katie Miller, posted Saturday on X (formerly Twitter) an image of Greenland covered in the U.S. flag with the text “SOON”.

bossito , 26 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

That will be the end of NATO, from then on it's unscripted territory for Europe.

Edit: typos

bossito , 24 days ago

But can we fight Rússia and the US simultaneously?

Xi Jinping vows to reunify China and Taiwan in New Year’s Eve speech ( www.theguardian.com )

Thoughts?...

bossito , 29 days ago

So it's never left unless things work perfectly fine? It's always fake left? China's government control of the economy is very very lefty.

I'm left myself, but this easy escape by some left people really annoys me. Things can only improve if one acknowledges the mistakes and flaws.

bossito , 27 days ago

Nazis were national-socialists, the contradiction was in the name already. But they also had socialists as main enemies.

China is ruled by the communist party who still issues vast left literature. If China is not left, no country is left or ever will, as there are no perfect countries and that seems to be the condition number one to count as real left.

Kuwait to distribute 100,000 copies of Quran in Sweden after Muslim holy book desecrated at one-man protest ( www.cbsnews.com )

Kuwait announced this week that it will print thousands of copies of the Quran in Swedish to be distributed in the Nordic country, calling it an effort to educate the Swedish people on Islamic "values of coexistence." The plan was announced after the desecration of a Quran during a one-man anti-Islam protest that Swedish police...

bossito , 2 years ago

Swedes pilling up Qurans for the winter to save on wood in 1, 2..

‘Hell on earth’: Phoenix’s extreme heatwave tests the limits of survival ( www.theguardian.com )