This is my understanding as well.

When all of the elites come from wealthy families then are the institutions they staff really independent? There are judges and prosecutors who have been very partisan here. We know that wealth affects your chances at getting highier education, connections etc. We also know wealth inequality is rising. Maybe the system is rigged subtly enough so that we don’t revolt? Just consider the possibility and basic flaws in human nature.

[edit] Every downvote is a lib saying „nu-uh, propaganda!”, proving my point that they actively reject reality. This is why everyone is surprised when post truth politicians win. Reality was staring them in the face this whole time. How long can they keep this up? Is fascism the end goal? Wouldn’t surprise me. MLK remains timelessly right.

Why the heck would I lie to you. The case Im referring to is commonly seen as an insult to intelligence and it went to the Supreme Court.

https://brd24.pl/spoleczenstwo/najsztub-prawomocnie-uniewinniony-w-sprawie-potracenia-kobiety-na-pasach/

As established by the portal brd24.pl, Piaseczno district office officials marked in the CEPiK system that Najsztub did not have a license. This is how it turned out that the stop was interrupted because their system listed him as a person remaining while driving (in this case, we stored answers to questions about how many times he had been stopped since his license was taken away).

Guy had no drivers license even!

Things like that happen everywhere and you must be living in a bubble not to see law being applied selectively by whomever took control of the judiciary. The biggest defense of rule of law that liberals love so much is just aesthetics to a regular person. Both sides use it as a pacifying stick these days. Fuck both of those sides but I need to remind everyone that there are more political stances than post truth populism and liberalism.

You don’t know anything about the case I’m referring to but you just „closed the case”. I’m closing the case on proving that liberals will brush off anything that doesn’t fit their world view.

In my country liberal appointed judge let an American TV station celeb walk after he hit and run a granny. My trust isn’t there, it’s not BS. Liberals turn blind eye to cases like that because it benefits them. Elites are treated better everywhere.

People read headlines only, that’s a fact, just look around (like Lemmy in general). Simultaneously headlines fight for your attention because that’s the only chance to show you more ads. This is an incredibly toxic combination even if it looks okay on paper. People are kind of dumb but that’s more of a character flaw that we all share. We need to be a bit more aware of that because there’s no cure without a proper diagnosis.

Important detail you might miss. Conscription is not mobilisation. This conscription is biggest in some time but not that much. Euronews and other media know this is clickbait.

Putin did this to sow fear in Europe - he knows media will do everything for the clicks. Politicians who base all of their decisions on polling („centrists”) will act accordingly. This is how we are played.

It’s the N^eoliberalism word being at fault for all of this again.

I don’t need to be convinced that Le Pen tried to cheat in many different illegal ways. I honestly don’t see her being different to many mainstream politicians but I know the type and they are usually guilty of something. One thing to worry is that this ruling was law being applied selectively,

The other worry is that Le Pen family has been in the game since the 70s but their political movement got parliamentary representation only somewhat recently. In the meantime both Le Pens made it even to the presidential runoffs. That simmering anger is very authentic for them which is a very powerful political force.

I don’t think you can diffuse this situation by taking the opponent off the board, especially given that their voters will be even more pissed. To me doing this is like kicking can down the road. Those kicking the cans are personally prepared for what comes next by enriching themselves but as a regular guy I’m kind of worried.

Now the trickier question is, is Le Pen or National Front really far right? They just voted for enshrining right to abortion in French constitution, something many liberal Eastern European governments would be opposed to. If not then what is it that’s she’s being persecuted for? French are not that concerned with Putin and would probably stomach their own Berlusconi type. Those traditional divisions make less and less sense these days but we keep reverting to those old labels.

After what I wrote I would consider myself to be concern trolling so let me end this with wishing plagues upon Marine Le Pen for aligning herself with Putin.

It will not restore the confidence in those who voted in her so you’ve convinced people who are already convinced. Le Pen is a symptom and a new one will raise in her place until actual issues are resolved. See Romania and unknown candidate catapulted into spotlight in just a few months. They’re playing whack-a-mole now and that can’t go on indefinitely. And no, Russia is not the cause, they just exploit circumstances of our own making.

This is Foreign Affairs published so this piece was directed to European elites and having a peek at that discussion is worthy of posting. It’s also ridiculous to downvote unless you want to know less about your own reality.

Authors suggest that elites should prioritise nuclear nonproliferation as a strategy that benefits them the most (or trades the least amount of risk). Ukraines interests don’t necessarily align with this and it wasn’t supposed to be advice for Eastern Europeans.

Not sure where this idea that I endorse what I post comes from, you’d think I endorse earthquakes and technofeudalism.

That doesn’t really drive its current price though. It’s a fetish for some people who have a problem with current monetary systems in general.

I imagine fines repeat and increase if non-compliance continues. €150M is a baseline ;)

The most radical cuts proposed affect the CSDDD, notably trimming the definition of supply chains to include only direct suppliers. This change could fundamentally undermine the concept of corporate responsibility throughout supply chains. Additionally, the liability provisions are significantly weakened, and the Commission has proposed entirely removing a review clause designed to reassess the controversial exemption of the financial sector two years after the directive’s implementation. In essence, this omnibus aims at permanently shielding financial institutions from accountability for the environmental and human rights impacts of their investments.

Oh, something I deal with currently.

If a client deals with sanctioned entities or does anything matching suspicious activity scenario then that transaction will still be screened anyway regardless of what they self reported as their suppliers. If the client transacts with a restricted entity outside of the bank and we rely on self-reporting then that’s a redundant illusion of control.

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I’m a Chukcha from Kamchatka, currently transmitting from the space station Mir.

Yeah, I don’t trust such surveys at all. Phone surveys tend to improve things a bit but internet polls are very hit or miss even under strict protocol. We’ll know true impact in a couple of months when statistics bureaus publish something more concrete and in the meantime we can approximate based on things like quarterly fiscal reports and some broader macroeconomic data.

People upvote this post because it makes them feel good even though nothing concrete was presented, which pretty much proves how unreliable humans are ;)

I was wondering how did they measure economic impact this fast, hence I was interested in the source of this claim. People lie in surveys and say things that make them look better, even anonymously. A lot of modern speech is aspirational in general - we say things we want to be true but aren’t necessarily true, wishing them into existence.

I believe it but reporting was done based on a single internet survey with self reported answers.

Ifop study for NYC.eu*** ***conducted by online self-administered questionnaire from 14 to 17 March 2025 among a representative national sample of 1,000 people, representative of the French population aged 18 and over.

ASML would be tricky to nationalise or take private since it’s a joint venture with significant investment from the Americans. A lot of money was poured from different places to pioneer EUV lithography which was considered a moonshot at the time. There is a lot of cross licensing to consider too:

In 1997, ASML began studying a shift to using extreme ultraviolet and in 1999 joined a consortium, including Intel and two other U.S. chipmakers, in order to exploit fundamental research conducted by the US Department of Energy. Because the CRADA it operates under is funded by the US taxpayer, licensing must be approved by Congress. It collaborated with the Belgian IMEC and Sematech and turned to Carl Zeiss in Germany for its need of mirrors.[25]

In 2000, ASML acquired the Silicon Valley Group (SVG),[26] a US lithography equipment manufacturer also licensed for EUV research results, in a bid to supply 193 nm scanners to Intel Corp.[27][28]

ASML can only work if everyone plays nice. Bold assumption these days heh.

I don’t even care that we oppose it for the wrong reasons. Euro in current state can’t work unless your only goal is to remove friction in the market which is rather reductive. Once EU has a common fiscal policy and budget then let’s go but until then we should remember that domestic currency is essential tool for economic policy makers.