Hogg, who has levied harsh criticism over elderly incumbent Democrats’ refusals to step down from their offices,

The concept that a Democrat in office who refuse to step down, is almost never challenged because nobody want to fund it, is undemocratic and counterproductive.

David Hogg is absolutely on the right side here. USA is a deeply flawed democracy, and it starts already within the parties, and it should be pretty self evident that it needs reform.

It’s crazy the DNC goes against him because of “tradition” when he is so clearly right. They had 2 major presidential losses to GOP because of similar stupidity.

If the “Democrats” aren’t even democratic, what hope is there for democracy in USA?

It shall be intersting to see if Israel underestimated Iran.
I wonder if the Israelly population find this interesting too?

It sure is the time of the lawless states. 😬

That is very impressive by the new government. Hopefully this is a sign the economy is getting better.

India is not depending on USA in any way, which is why they are not that concerned about USA either.
They probably just have confidence USA will stay arrogant while the ship goes down.

Yes I agree, and of course we hope the insanity will end. But as you write, just because Democrats manage to get elected next time, is not enough to restore trust.
When (if) things return to normal, we can trade and cooperate, but we can’t have any dependence on USA anymore.

It must be tough to be American right now, and I don’t mean inflation, house prices or recession. But the psychological environment must be insanely stressful.
I really feel for the Americans that understand what’s going on, and tried to prevent it.
Personally when Trump got elected, I decided to simply disregard USA as friend and partner. And consider USA as a country as mostly irrelevant now.
Maybe if there’s a revolution, and AOC becomes president, then I would have hope for a quick recovery. But there are not any realistic way I can see for that in the near future.

It’s almost sweet to see Canada has higher confidence than Germany, Spain and Sweden.

A few Canadians simply refuse to give up on USA, and just wish for things to return to normal.

But what is he really planning? If USA is at war, he can call for martial law and end democracy in USA. And he has the military there to protect him!

I’d be surprised if he didn’t actively encourage it.
Unless of course he wanted the privilege of starting it himself? Because a war could solve some of his problems, and pave the way for a MAGA dictatorship.

I don’t think so, because Ubuntu is also controlled by a private company, and Ubuntu has issues with open source, making everything they do dual license, meaning they can choose to switch away from open source to proprietary on everything developed within the Ubuntu framework.

So choosing Ubuntu would be incredibly short sighted. Debian is a much stronger candidate. Or an in house distro based on Debian, until a common EU distro is ready, which is already planned.

Which is exactly what many have warned about for 20 years. The Microsoft lock-in is insane.
It’s better to get out sooner rather than later.
But considering most of EU is planning similar transitions, I’d be surprised if they don’t cooperate on making better import of MS formats in Libre Office.

The Danish government is also planning to make guidelines to make a smooth transition easier. Which will be available for private companies too.

Something that may make it easier is that it’s been law for more than a decade, that ALL documents from public services must be made in open standards.

Word isn’t even that great at keeping it’s own formatting

To put it mildly.

It’s only open in name.

I don’t think this is anywhere close to describe the real effect of the trillions the big ugly bill gives in tax cuts to the rich.

Just a quick example: 2 trillion spread evenly on ALL Americans including pensioners and children, would give every American almost $7000 per year each!

The fact that the debt has gone up for many decades now is not in question.
But your resoning for it is completely disconnected from reality.

when social security began running a deficit,

That comment is outright insane.
You appear to choose delusions that supports your opinions over facts that don’t.
Denmark has some of the highest social security programs, and have some of the best financials and economies in the world.

This definitely did not happen over the course of 6mo,

It absolutely did, the economy was doing fine and clearly recovering after Covid under Biden.
Trump has managed to make the USD plummet, increase inflation again and drag USA into a recession, and make USA lose it’s last AAA credit rating with a bill giving trillions of dollars in tax relief for the most wealthy.

How you can fail to see the HUGE difference fromt the recovering economy under Biden, and how it’s now failing on ALL parameters is very weird.

That makes sense, and the “paperwork” needs to be ready if we want USA to be able to respond quickly.

I wonder if they reversed it only because she could post about it on Bluesky?

I have no opinion myself beyond having read in the internal debate both “US soldiers are above Swedish law” and “Of course Swedish law applies to them” …

Well both are kind of true. They must follow local laws, but if they don’t, it has to be enforced and prosecuted by the Americans themselves.

I agree, that’s why I think it’s weird?
Maybe they (we) can nullify it again as quickly as they decided on it?