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Europe is an innovation-free shithole with state-enforced jannies and no freedom of speech
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To think Elon spoke with the guy and they seemed to agree and get along. Bet not so much now...
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Do Europoors really?
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don't worry, knowing the competence levels of the average european "public servant", exactly nothing will come out of this. the EU is great at virtue signalling, chest thumping and shuffling responsibility to others, but actually doing shit?
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Snapshots:
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archive.ph (click to archive)
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I have to use a European-made piece of technology for one of my research projects. It is the most goddarn worthless piece of shit I've ever encountered in my field of study. That device single handedly convinced me that Europe is a black hole of innovation and the only way for a European to become a good engineer is to go to Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam, or the USA.
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Will the people complaining about catering to complain about this too?
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Im sure this wont be abused literally in day 1
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Does EU constitution not have free speech as a fundamental right? Actually can EU judiciary overrule the Parliament? If they don't even have that basic level of checks and balances how do they demand all those constitutional practices from aspirant members? Are national courts subordinate to EU Parliament too? I think some E Euro court found some EU directive in violation of national constitution, didn't it?
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Free speech as a concept only exists in the USA. Every other country has a limit or clause to frick you ovee arbitrarily, especially if you bad mouth a political figure in a public setting
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There isn't a 'EU constitution'. Remember, EU is a """trade""" union at heart. Individual countries may have have constitutions with freedom of expression written into it, mine does for example. But here you have small problem: EU laws trump country laws. It's by design because otherwise no constituent state would be under any obligation to follow the EU laws which defeats the point. So if the law of my country says you can do x, and people did x for years without any problems, but then bureaucrats in Brussels decide that x is actually a bad thing and pass it as an EU law/regulation in parliament, then it automaticaly becomes unlawful in all constituent states regardless of what the local law says.
Then there of course are nuances like the fact that at least where I'm from the national law is enforced much stronger than EU laws, but this is getting into small details and ultimately is irrelevant
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And what happens if that country tells Brussels to pound sand? The EU doesn't have a military they could leverage to make them obey.
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Then the obstinate state (probably poland) gets there euroneetbux taken away
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Don't quote me on this, I'm not a lawcel, but I think the extent of what a country can do legally is to have their representatives vote against, and if it really violates some fundamental law like constitution, then they could object in some european court.
Well Poland and Hungary have been doing that for a while, so evidently nothing. You get a stern talking to and your access to EU gibs gets limited, but I think that's it mostly
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OPERATION EUROPEAN FREEDOM: NO, YOU CAN'T HIDE.... FROM LIBERTY!
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Brexit looking pretty tasty rn
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We never should have let them have independence after WW2. It was terrible for them in the long run.
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George Orwell had the right idea, he just thought it was the wrong idea
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Reminder that some of Hitler's higher-ups had a vision of post-war Europe as a federation of countries led by Germany.
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Convincing us we defeated them while they rule us to this day, genius
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We could invade them right now and they'd be completely powerless to stop us. All of them have cut back their military spending because they rely on to fight all their wars for them
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I think that's was the long game
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Poland will be the only one who can block America for longer than a weekend.
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Just tell Poland to invade Germany for their gibs and let the British nuke Paris.
And then just tell the Slavs that Yurop will become a Christian Kingdom.
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Not to mention the military bases we have all over their continent lol
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If the US Military locked the yuros out of their F-35s and steamrolled the entire fricking continent in a surprise attack my opinion of the armed forces immediately do a total 180.
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But for real though, what gender is that?
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Thierry is a man's name
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Euro
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Least tyrannical euro bureaucrat.
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Angela Merkel quote
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most literate dramatard
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