Whatever actual or perceived grievances a person may have (even though merely being born in Europe already constitutes winning the global class lottery) - that only ever causes vulnurability. That person then turning to actively undermining democratic systems and the international community is something that only happens if some con artist uses that vulnurability to convince the person that it constitutes a solution to their problems.

I mean I 100% agree. I’m not justifying them in their perceived grievance, rather, I’m offering a mechanism in “how things come to pass”. My assessment is that if you can make the grievances minor/ absurd, you remove any leverage for the conman.

The investment in a social democracy/ social safety it ultimately what is safeguarding Europe, because it precludes the motivations/ grievances which create surface area for misinformation to operate on. Its not that it isn’t possible, it just has a much more difficult time taking hold.

The UK is a great example of this, where they seem religiously committed to austerity as the approach for addressing most issues; this gave rise to grievance politics because, well, austerity does hurt people; grievance politics gives misinformation something to operate on (its the continents fault); brexxit happens; life gets worse; misinformation gains an even further foothold because now its premise has been validated, and there is even more grievance to operate on.

Grievance is the scar tissue which misinformation operates upon. Misinformation is the bacteria which spread and cause death, but without the wound of grievance, there is nothing to do. Creates strong mechanisms for grievances to be addressed (engaged democratic processes; responsive governance).

Idk, but he seems to be doing pretty well at it. He outplayed Trump, masterfully, who looks dumber by the day with his whole “you don’t have the cards” trap he thought he laid with that press conference.

Awful lot of cards in this mans hand.

You might be able to shut it down with microwaves.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6XdcWToy2c

It might not be so mobile, but it could easily be carried to the top of a building and then just pointed in the right direction. This depends heavily on the amount of hardening/ effectiveness of the grounding of the system, cone configuration, inverse square law, how big of a magnetron you can get your hands on, how big your testicles and/or ovaries to touch the on switch after a 🤡 like me wires it up, etc. Its also somewhat temporary. They should be able to restart the system and it still work.

Its probably easier to harden yourself against the system with a pair of soft earplugs doubled up with hard plastic ear protection as in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXKTBQBugIA

A small team with some plywood/ plastic shields, in combination with ear protection should be able to almost walk up to it.

It seems like Euro’s are more concerned with sonic weapons than tear gas/ pepper spray? Its far more common at the actions I’ve been at for things to get spicy than for sound cannons to be deployed.

Perhaps the statue should be more of a trophy, moved from nation to nation depending on how focused that nation is on creating opportunity for the least among us, how accepting they are of the poor, tired, and broken peoples of the world, how committed they are to escalating the cause of human dignity.

I agree. We’ve failed to live up the the aspirations that statue represents.

This guy has balls the size of western Europe.

Its a good thing Democrats were consistent in expressing their full throated support for Israel this election cycle.

At March For Israel, Schumer Vows They ‘Won’t Rest’ Until Israel Gets ‘All the Assistance You Need’

Not only did they take the mask off with their support of genocide: they still fucking lost and got absolutely nothing for it

There is no reason to consider the issuance of this office legitimate.

OLED and original. Both are fine.

Fight? There is no fight. The switch two will be another underwhelming cash grab only interesting to children and tasteless fanboys.

spoiled exploited

ftfy

I dont like that they designed around the pebble, which doesn’t have onboard rechargable batteries.

The mxmini would have been a better design choice and is about the same size. Dead ass if they had something like this built with the USB C hub as part of the design, I’d be buying it right now. The biggest criticism I have of the steam deck is the case. It seems like they could have designed it to be a stand fairly easily.

You could adjust the alpha to population density.

Now you can smell like pennies

Jesus fucking Christ right?

Like what the fuck were they thinking with that c cable?

They got it right in the dick why did they fuck it up on the main cable.