When the initial step is not demonstrably likely to result in the claimed effects, this is called the slippery slope fallacy.
The EU was created as an economic union with the intention to create a political union. It’s a slippery slope by design.
Obama made the least number of executive orders
Interesting. I only remember democrats arguing that Obama had to use the orders because republicans were blocking congress.
That’s how the US started. Still, legally, the president cannot change laws. It was normalized under Obama to get around this with executive orders.
It’s a development. If we step on that slippery slope, we should know in advance that we stop before it is too late. And above all, we should not assume that it can’t happen in the EU.
A mod has removed the comment so I won’t quote everything.
your comments and the linked article are disgusting and false to say the least.
As I explained, that doesn’t make sense and as an emotional outburst it doesn’t match the tone of the other comments. I trust your judgement that they are humans but this doesn’t fit.
removing privileges and voting rights, while Hungary is investigated for compliance of EU regulations
It’s not that easy. This can be abused. Countries joined because the EU had limited power.
The US has broken the power of its states by threatening to withhold federal funding. The EU is starting to copy that. How does the EU make sure that we don’t copy Trump, too?
Are they people? The last answer doesn’t make sense. He complains about a referenced article but I have copied his link and referenced wikipedia to the disadvantage of Russia.
Which requires me to point out a problem with the moderation. I would prefer if Hotznplotzn could answer so that I can know how genuine the account is.
Another issue is that removing the comments makes it impossible to share the conversation in a discussion about accounts, or to compare the comments.
But I have no idea how to balance that with the desire to have a clean comment section.
Technically he isn’t arguing that men don’t have emotions but that they don’t have 1000s of emotions per minute.
Those are justified emotions!
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Dunkle Schokolade
I am quoting from your link https://data.europa.eu/apps/eusanctionstracker/subjects/175657 and your comment. My comments don’t rely on the original post.
If working with your material makes you doubt my comments, I have to ask, have you read what you post?
There must also be a minimum of monthly allowed funds for food and shelter. Those sanctions will come for regular citizens and at worst they will be imposed by an AI for comments on the internet, for anything the EU doesn’t like.
It can’t be Russian propaganda to quote EU legal texts and to question extrajudical punishment. Those are facts. If that sounds like propaganda to you then your bias is far too strong. Russia mustn’t be used to turn the EU into a totalitarian regime. We criticise the same things at Trump and worry there. It should worry us in the EU, too.
Red presents itself as a revolutionary platform for independent journalists. However, it has close links with the Russian state media outlet RT.
The only relevant question is if they are a revolutionary platform for independent journalists. If they are, especially independent, it doesn’t matter where their funding comes from.
Of course Russia profits from revealed scandals but citizens profit much more. Who else but the enemy finances independent journalism? We finance it to examine Russia and Russia finances it to examine us.
Russia looked funny when their newspapers had to move. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moscow_Times Now we look funny, too, while claiming the moral high ground.
Bei karierten Heften muss das regelmässig sofort aufgefallen sein. Es hat nur niemand etwas gesagt.
Addressing an estimated 250,000 people in Munich, Reza Pahlavi - who has called for the overthrow of Iran’s Islamic regime - denounced a crackdown on recent protests there
https://feddit.org/post/25854413
Some people want the Shah back.
so this ‘official’ stance will be changed with the next election
FTFY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iranian_protests
Must be that they hope that it turns out well for them,
Initially sparked by frustration over record-high inflation, food prices, and currency depreciation
or sanctions work.
Did you do your verification swipe?
The EU commission can do the same. Some people agree since there are strong Russian connections. But canceling the ability to pay without a judical verdict is wrong. https://feddit.org/post/26079160
My fear is that this will come to anybody who is inconvenient to those in power.
Have you followed your link https://data.europa.eu/apps/eusanctionstracker/subjects/175657 to the text of the sanction
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ%3AL_202500965 ?
As the other comment already quotes:
RED has used its media platforms – often publishing under “redstreamnet” or “thered.stream” – to systematically spread false information on politically controversial subjects with the intent of creating ethnic, political and religious discord amongst its predominantly German target audience, including by disseminating the narratives of radical Islamic terrorist groups such as Hamas.
During a violent occupation of a German university by anti-Israel rioters, RED personnel coordinated with the occupiers to disseminate images of their vandalism – which included the use of Hamas symbols – through their online channels, thus providing them with an exclusive media platform, facilitating the violent nature of the protest.
That looks majorly like it is about Gaza and not “pro-Russian, anti-Ukrainian” propaganda. The Russian link comes from
rotation of, individual personnel with Russian state media organisations.
The EU should be able to intervene. But this is an executive order of the commission and not a judical verdict.
The EU is moving into the same dictatorial territory as Trump’s executive orders with which he has just set new tariffs or with which he moves ICE or can bomb Iran.
Russia mustn’t be an excuse to introduce the abuse of power. Once Russia will have lost, that abuse won’t stop.
Der ist gut.