Well said. I’ll steal that from you if you don’t mind.

I hope you have nice and fun celebrations :)

Yeah I really wished there was some EU wide train system thing that would make things faster and less complicated. In fact, I’m baffled how that wasn’t done decades ago. One of the best ways to deal with climate change and bringing down emissions would be to subsidize, simplify and make things easier with rail travel. But we are lead by donkeys, so whatddyagonnado you know

Few weeks ago it was a specific airline company CEO said that their specific company had 6 weeks of fuel left. Now its the head of International Energy Agency saying that the whole of Europe has 6 weeks of jet fuel left.

Two completely different things.

I must have upset some Berliners with my silly joke :D Funny how I got upvotes when making the same joke about France :–D

Anyway, I’m glad you liked it. But in these trying times, I’d suggest people to travel more locally. But as a misanthrope, the faster we burn ourselves off the planet, the better it is for the fishes and whatnot =D

Thats a rather US centric way of looking at it. China has bigger reasons to not like Taiwan than their US support.

Berlin?! What sort of a awful place you live that you want to go to Berlin? Its just gray and concrete, horrible place.

And how did voting against fascists work out in 2020?

Worked quite well, since the fascist was kept out. That was objectively and factually better option that letting the fascist in. Just because it wasn’t perfect doesn’t mean it wasn’t better.

You know what happens when people dont vote against a fascist? Israel starts razing Gaza to the ground and attacking Lebanon, girl schools in Iran get bombed and a major global supply chain gets shut down for no particularly good reason or without plans, a guy who fucks kids gets into the white house, global economies suffer, decades long alliances crumble, countries start to run away from America, leading to a economic downturn for the USA. Thats what happens when you stay home and don’t vote.

You can live in your magical la-la land where there is a perfect candidate you can vote for without any doubts or conflicting feelings, but here in reality you’ve got to vote based on what the choices are.

Either you vote against the fascist or you help the fascist get in power.

You vote for the least worst option.

Have you thought about telling your politicians what their job is? One effective way to let them know is to vote the ones, who have forgotten, out and vote the ones, who know what their job is, in.

Why the hell would you want to go to France?!

Jokes aside, boats, ships, trains, buses, bicycle, hitchhiking, kayaking, walking, crawling, doing cartwheels. Theres a whole bunch of options.

Or you could just stay home or travel locally until the situation improves.

Yeah I see the problem. The people need to take the first step and support them for more than a couple of election cycles. And I don’t mean just voting. Vote, contact them, go to their events, call them, send mail, emails. Make sure your voice is heard.

I find it ridiculous that people sit at home and yell at their tv “they aren’t doing what I want!” and think they are politically active. Goddamn morons.

Less pollution. Maybe people will finally learn to use trains again.

You are missing my point. They can’t do the things that people want because the same people don’t vote for them enough and give them big enough majority and enough political capital. Its always 49,9% vs. 50,1% or something stupid like that. In that sort of system they have to walk the middle road as much as possible to pull the morons away from the right. If they start doing stuff like universal healthcare etc, the morons are just going to yell “communism!!111!!1!” and vote them out in the next cycle. So of course they can’t do that, because they are afraid of being voted out.

Its 100% the voters fault for being such stupid morons that the adults in the room have to cater to the idiot babies who have the votes.

Perhaps, if more people voted for Dems more regularly they’d have more balls to do stuff like throw trump in jail etc. But as it is now, they have to deal with having a very tight margins on the political capital they have to spend. Not voting just makes things worse.

Its also very prominent among ignorant morons.

It’s a typo, sorry.

It may have been but I did a interweb search on it and turns out, its a old timey way of saying “nevertheless” and I enjoyed learning that. So thanks.

nethertheless

I enjoyed this word.

I think reddit is great if theres already a thread about whatever you are looking for or wanting to find out. But creating a new one and trying to get replies is pretty hopeless these days, its just gets buried, like you said.

Here you actually get replies, maybe not hundreds, but enough to get things going.