Tax your rich, investigate corruption, close the loopholes.

scalloped growth

Sounds tasty and cancerous at the same time.

And here, a perfect example. “there are only two sides, hurr durr”. Thanks for proving my point.

And, of course, just in case you’re the type of centrist hack

I grow weary of limited USAian “there are only two truths” viewpoint. It’s high time we cut the cord from US media and all the bullshit opinions that come with it. They have managed to make being rational and level-headed a curse word. “centrist” 🙄 People who unironically use that word in a derogatory fashion sound like those who still believe in things like the disney portrayal of the world. “real love”, “true love”, “forever and ever”

why?

Every country taxes their wealthy. Some more, some less, but Finland doesn’t have a wealth tax.

And low income inequality doesn’t mean much if capital gains and inheritance aren’t considered income (and taxed as such). For example, I could earn 50k€/year in income but have 1M in bonuses, and 1M in capital gains, and inherit 5 homes which allow me to buy another home and pay it through rent that isn’t considered income. In income, I’d be exactly equal as somebody else who earns 50k€/year but has no other wealth.
The Gini index is bad at expressing that.

Sure, Germany’s AfD party has 20% but it didn’t get into a coalition.

Finland has a worse birth rate than Germany. I wouldn’t qualify that as good (not saying you did).

Income tax != wealth tax.

The Orpo government has a racist and populist party in their midst (which got 20% of the vote).

Isn’t Finland extremely xenophobic, have a low birth rate, and doesn’t tax its wealthiest?

Bruh, I can’t wait for them to shoot somebody and start an international incident. I trust that they’ll be that incompetent.

They are transport at that point!

The only chance we have of defending all of Europe with a European army is with a European federation. If only Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, and Norway decide to fund a European defence, it will never rival or replace the US. It needs the entire continent, minus the Pooteen ball lickers in Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia.

lol “I understood just fine”

Actually understood nothing and doubles down.

What’s the point of a civil war? To try and “weed out” the non-believers?

Is the Telegraph a tabloid? What the fuck is that?

“We should give up because there is no hope”

Europe need this.

What do you mean? The fediverse is an alternative decentralized internet for sharing text and media. How is that different from The Gemini Protocol? The fediverse is already working and doing the job well. Is there really a need to promote yet another one and dilute the fediverse?

I think it’s really only the latter: if rich yanks benefit = good, if non-yanks benefit = bad. They don’t give two shits about USAians non in the C-suite being laid off. They haven’t since the beginning and won’t start now.

So out of the loop. Is the US starting a civil war in Minis City?

What’s wrong with the fediverse? Why do we need yet another thing?