Iām not against professional politiciansāthere are things they handle and defend better than "amateurs." What Iām against is dishonest politicians, and heās shown himself to be one, by far.
You can agree with his policies, measures, and ideasāwhatever they may beābut if a politician is dishonest, theyāll 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 itās going up to 5%, and itāll be followed just as strictly as before. On top of that, the deadline is set for 2029āby then, Trump will either be out of office in the U.S., or heāll have damaged their democracy so badly that itāll 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 presidentās tantrum has more to do with trying to project strength at homeāat a time of serious corruption scandalsāthan with any confrontation that might actually achieve something.
I don't know about other countries, but in Spain the far right is growing because social democrats and conservatives are becoming more and more stupid, more and more incompetent, and more and more corrupt. If only they were half useful, the far right would be ruined. Maybe that's the solution in Finland.
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?
Foundation. I am a big fan of Asimov's books and the series is rare, slow and in my opinion does not understand the material of origin or the themes it deals with
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 privateāif 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 thatās 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)
As a European, I wonder what kind of dystopia the concept of a "private prison" fits into. I don't understand how anyone could have imagined that this would end well.
Not always. I'm from Spain, and you can read about how our dictator Francisco Franco ended his life (spoiler alert: his regime lasted from 1939 to 1977).
Unfortunately, the real world is not like a movie where wars are always won by those who defend the most just cause.
I think you can block the entire instance, not community by community or user by user.