Thanks!

Can you elaborate on these topics for someone not in the know?

Most people who speak about wanting to emigrate are not I assume, but most people who want to just “move countries” seem to be.

I’ve moved around across Europe, which should be “seamless and easy”, as soon as I move in I can vote, no immigration process no nothing.

Let me tell you how the Benelux works nowadays. You have to get a job before you move. Which seems reasonable as long as you don’t see that companies won’t even hire locals of a different culture nowadays, much less people who’d have to move from another EU country. Outside the EU? At best no answer, some recruiters will call you names.

Then the rental market. There are going to be like 20 apartments for rent, mostly okay, for around 40% of what you get paid after taxes. You have to schedule a viewing, you have to attend personally. There are going to be around 40 people to one apartment, and you will almost never get chosen. Would you pay more than the locals? Tough luck, that’s illegal, prices are capped. So you keep spending money to go to viewings you will most certainly not get a place at.

Even if you had some idea of what immigrating to the EU meant five years ago, it’s outdated, it got way worse, and will get worse.

Inflation was not high because of government spending, but because of a price spiral caused by monopolistic markets. The spending that the article criticises would actually help as long as the money ended up with workers, boosting wages.

This author is at least as wrong as the Harris campaign was.

Trump didn’t see any consequences in the old America either.

Yet.

Immigration is hard for most people.

Yeah, lol no it isn’t, the whole submarine plot has been forced into it because Clancy can’t not write about submarines.

Hungary. Yes, that Hungary. It isn’t like it used to be, this was during the late 90s early 2000s.

Insert only 90s kids know meme.

Musk?

If an organization has to issue a correction that should be all they’re allowed to say for at least a 24 hour period (basically, put them in timeout).

When I was a kid and I lived in a flawed but mostly functional democracy, I remember that sometimes even the biggest TV channels would air a black screen with a single sentence for hours of primetime:

“We have falsely claimed that […]. The truth is that […]. As per law […], normal programming is on hiatus for 2 hours. Programming will resume at […].”

This is how it should work.

Russian marines and paratroopers

Apparently these are elite troops as well.

Yeah, I was just thinking “is KLM not working, or what”?

Rescue planes are usually for places where commercial air traffic has broken down and there is no safe way out of the country.

Your house, our choice

I thought this will be another housing crisis article.

Well, in most authoritarian countries they are also very well known to be bad around high windows, or liable to get lost for at least a few years after trying to go up against the ones with real power. When norms go out the window, shit gets real for everyone, not just us poors.

Just because your politics has managed to alienate young men the most, so they are the most likely to be voting for anything but establishment, does not mean military age men in general are “maldeveloped, entitled sex pests”. In fact, I would bet more military age men just didn’t vote than vote Trump, because they felt Harris doesn’t represent them, and not because she’s a woman. This is a wholly US culture war driven phenomenon. Fun fact, Orbán’s voters are majority female, most men vote for the opposition, especially among military age men.

Military age men historically have been the driving force behind the greatest examples of rapid societal progress. Military age men coming back from the hell of WWI have been the ones to destroy the divine right of kings and the feudal world order. Military age men fought in the revolutions against the authoritarian communist world.

Of course, a lot of governments did things to get rid of military aged men, but it was almost always because they were the primary threat to outmoded world views, not the ones to preserve it.

I mean, he explicitly wanted to turn it into an establishment vs. outsider election, and she went ahead and helped him! She wanted to win as “we are the establishment that made everything as it is” in a country with most people only agreeing on one single thing, the establishment being bad.

How stupid is that?

It’s explicitly a war crime, whether or not it was “targeted”.

https://lieber.westpoint.edu/exploding-pagers-law/

Yes it is, and not because of whether the attacks were targeted.

“It is prohibited to use booby-traps or other devices in the form of apparently harmless portable objects which are specifically designed and constructed to contain explosive material.”

This is a US West Point essay BTW.

Of course he did. The problem is that Harris failed to even promise stuff.