Caveman

Pope Francis was a great pope.

He removed the necessity to get authorization from the Vatican in sexual abuse cases.

Allowed some women to vote in the Synod of Bishops.

Took a stance against death penalties.

Apologised for Catholic Church actions against indigenous Canadians.

Generally whenever he took a stance it was the morally right one.

The Catholic Church is still corrupt but Pope Francis was a great man.

That will be tricky since the king of the popes is the Holy See which is the throne instead of the person that “delegates” authority to the pope.

The image is overblown comparison but she wasn’t that far left. She cut a lot of government spending and focused hard on fiscal responsibility with the debt brake. She’s pretty much the reason why trains are not on time in Germany.

She also had to moderate the CDU/CSU position to form a coalition with SPD so there’s no way to know if she would have done things differently with a CDU/CSU majority government.

But yeah, the picture implying nazi stuff is pretty far from her policies of pro immigration, inclusive economic growth and generally holding up democratic values.

I mean, having a kill switch would be pretty weird since it’ll open the jet to cyber warfare. It would probably be it’s weakest defence then.

It’s because of the network effect. If you only know your local language and want to unlock speaking to the rest of the world when learning English gets you pretty far.

A lot of people start learning English because a lot of people speak English. Since now Europe, North America, half of Africa, Middle East, South Asia, Latin America, Oceania speak English to some extent that I know of.

It’s absolutely bonkers how far English has gotten in one generation so learning anything else as a second language is pretty weird.

6% is from the public sector. Russia is very much forcing the private sector to also produce and forcing them to take loans.

UvdL is not the same as Orban. She is at the very least pro EU when Orban is very much against everything. Orban might end up making the EU multi-tiered system where some countries will federalise more than others.

The decision to kick a country out of the EU needs to be unanimous with the current treaty. In the past it’s not been an option since there’s at least two rogue states that will block such moves since that will make each of them safe.

Currently the EU is withholding EU funding to get concessions out of Orban which kinda works. Only a treaty change will fix this when they turn the unanimous voting into a qualified majority voting.

It’s essentially like trying to change the constitution of a county except currently it’s unanimous voting of the council of countries. Switching to a 75% of countries + 2/3 of parliament would is what the EU is gravitating towards but that will involve more concessions with Hungary.

4 times budget sounds more than it is. You have to underbid to actually get contracts for construction and then it also depends on what was actually missing in the specification.

Big projects are never on budget because the budget is just an arbitrary number of lowballing the best case estimate