Foni

1. Those sausages look Spanish, not French; they’re Castilian chorizo and Serrano ham.

2. In some restaurants in Spain, for €60 you’d get something slightly larger, but not much more. You can find cheaper places, but the products are expensive, and if they’re good quality, they don’t give them away.

That’s not true, and the polls make it clear that no matter how unpopular Netanyahu is, the war is and has been popular. War protests have focused on the risk to hostages, not the wanton killing of innocents.

It didn’t even take a live camera to know that lettuce won again

Not only do I vote whenever I can, I actively campaign in my circle on the importance of the European elections, there are those who believe that the president is an unelected bureaucrat and I never tire of trying to get people out of their error

First, we would have to fight the battle, and it doesn’t seem like our leaders are very interested in that.

I do not arise enough to value the Eurofightter in particular, but that there are things to improve does not mean that we should give up improving them, breaking with everything and continuing each one by their side

They may be able to, but they shouldn’t. We need a European army and that requires a military industry that stops thinking about old borders.

Of course, because no current multinational is dedicated to lending money to people with dubious financial knowledge and/or serious economic problems, and then turning out to be “aggressive” by claiming interest. Surely the casino owners have interests in those same corporations and you know it

The difference is how much each person wants to squeeze the lemon, and long-term thinking. The mafia also works better at that than large corporations.

It was the mafia, the mafia did it cheaply, the multinationals are much more thieves than good old Don Vito.

If this were happening anywhere else in the world, we’d have been talking about sending UN peacekeepers for a long time. If the main support were not the USA, there would be talk of sending a multilateral peace mission.

Here we are not even talking about a complete break, two years later we are talking about a partial suspension. The shame is absolute and will haunt us for a long time.

The problem is not that our open enemies are conspiring against us; that is predictable and even understandable. The problem is the number of idiots who sell their own well-being for slightly more comfortable (not better) technology and the false promise of a neighbor with your same skin will make your neighborhood safer

I think you can block the entire instance, not community by community or user by user.

You can block it for yourself if that works for you. You don’t have to limit other people’s options.

I’m not against professional politicians—there are things they handle and defend better than “amateurs.” What I’m against is dishonest politicians, and he’s shown himself to be one, by far.

You can agree with his policies, measures, and ideas—whatever they may be—but if a politician is dishonest, they’ll always end up betraying you for their own interests.

Until now, it was mandatory to spend 2%, and almost no country met that goal. Now it’s going up to 5%, and it’ll be followed just as strictly as before. On top of that, the deadline is set for 2029—by then, Trump will either be out of office in the U.S., or he’ll have damaged their democracy so badly that it’ll be impossible not to call him a dictator. In any case, by then the game will have changed enough that a renegotiation will be inevitable.

As a Spaniard, I can tell you that our president’s tantrum has more to do with trying to project strength at home—at a time of serious corruption scandals—than with any confrontation that might actually achieve something.

The rest of the world: oh my god

I think any European politician who said anything remotely close to this would see their careers instantly over. How is it possible that saying something like this doesn’t cost them votes in the US?

Land of the free

Again, I’m European so I can’t be sure about this, but I think some of those issues are worse because of the scale, not the thing itself. The entire healthcare system is private—if all prisons were too, I think that would be much worse than the healthcare situation.

As for politicians, up until this election cycle, they at least had the decency to pretend. From now on, we’ll see what happens.

In the Southeast of America a judge was fairly recently convicted of sending underage boys to a private prison in exchange for kickbacks from that prison. He had been doing it for over a decade. And that’s just one that made the news.

It is obvious that something like this would happen. You cannot create a system with perverse incentives and expect the good faith of those who participate to keep it clean. It is exactly the opposite of the spirit of the American revolution (and the rest of democratic revolutions)