This legislation will make sure everything gets locked behind an identifying login, lest a bad word might appear, and they get fined.

Good for the platforms and government ofcourse. It’s only us people that lose.

Move along now. The joint corporate government newspeak will save you from evil! For the children!

Funny thing is that, apart from recognising the name, most people forgot what the streisand situation was about.

Show people that the left and center are able to provide

I wonder if they can, with the reversed population pyramid most EU countries experience.

In the early 90s something similar happened in Belgium (1).

What lessened the extremism in the following couple of elections was investment (in infrastructure, healthcare, economic opportunities, etc) outside of the cities as well.

It turned out that for every tax frank gathered, 80 cents were spend on prettifying the larger cities and the major port. People were mostly (rightly?) pissed off that government represented a terrible ROI for the same group of people for decades. They would’ve been better of without a federal government. They saw their lives get worse, whilst at the same time that government applauded themselves for the great things they achieved.

I’m not sure how feasible the same solution is today, as there’s very little investment budget anyways. Most of tax revenue goes to pensions and healthcare of a reversed population pyramid.

those thoughts are prevalent enough to cause this problem.

Can take people out of the soviet, but can’t take soviet out of the people (1).

Sadly it’s a system of thought that isn’t concerned with observable reality. It’s a sentiment I recognise in most (political) extremists: the idea that your problems must be someone else’s fault (the brown, women, billionairs, … pick your poison).

And, as you noticed, banning it will indeed only validate that sentiment.

(I grew up in DDR, luckily left in early 90s. A solution is therapy, as those people are stuck in generational trauma, which is known to lessen or completely void you of empathy. But that doesn’t scale to halve a country).

I think I did. Let me rephrase mine, maybe my point of view is better illustrated this way:

(A) there’s not much love for dogs because we have a lot of stray dogs that are legit scary and dangerous.

(B) we have a lot of stray dogs that are legit scary and dangerous, because there’s not much love for dogs

How does one discern the causal relationship in these cases?

there’s not much love for dogs because we have a lot of stray dogs that are legit scary and dangerous.

Perhaps you’ve got cause and effect mixed up

I have but they weren’t orthodox

They turned religion into bookkeeping lol

What a bunch of weirdos

Why the downvotes? People dislike Paris that much?

No! Your football team bad, mine good!

In essence this policy primarily imposes taxes on businesses, severily reduced the wealth of the billionaires, properties this forum often applauds. Funny how suddenly it’s not liked.

US politics really is like picking a favourite sports team :D

and we all know now who is to blame.

Central banks?

The only real reason I can think of

It’s mercantillism, a well studied subject.

1.084USD per EUR yesterday moved to 1.097USD per EUR today.

Violent times

I can recommend the book “How the World Really Works” by Vaclav Smil for an approacheable way to learn about this without over simplification.

Why does everyone want to buy?

Without haber bosch 70% of food production would be gone. People buy food, as food is essential for survival.

Plastics are made from fossil fuels. Plastics are used, for example, in waterproofing houses, vapor barriers, etc. People use houses for shelter from the cold, rain, heat, …

Yet in attempting to do the first, they do the latter.