Comments by "Trazyn" (@Trazynn) on "TLDR News EU" channel.

  1. More smaller parties is better than a handful of large parties. These small parties don't hold much electoral weight but in return they're niche and bold enough to address issues that larger parties would gladly gloss over.
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  2. Same with Iran. I play games with both Russian and Iranian friends. There's no hostility or resentment at all. All this conflict is all top-down geopolitics that normal people have no stake in.
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  3. You're almost there. Ukraine is a split language nation, like Belgium. Except unlike Belgium, the Ukrainian government throttles and bullies Russian speaking people Ukrainians. This means Putin looks weak to all other Russian-speaking people. He doesn't need that, it doesn't serve him at all to have his authority undermined like that. If Belgium started bullying French speaking Belgians, then Macron would have to assert himself politically (although military would obviously be out of the question at first).
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  4. Been hearing this for over a year now.
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  5. Whenever Southern European countries are being told to fix their budget deficits the common response is that it's not anyone else's business. Until now. Apparently their bad credit score is now a burden that needs to be shared by countries that went through great lengths to minimize their own budget deficit.
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  6. That's not true, they were seen floating somewhere new New Zealand a week ago.
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  7. Wenn es jemals eine Zeit für Deutschland gäbe, die Kontrolle über Europa zu übernehmen. Jetzt ist die Zeit!
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  8. North and South Italy are basically two separate countries.
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  9. The EU is highly contagious. Switzerland should ask the UK for a vaccine.
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  10. Bit harsh.
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  11. Money you mean, they need our money, for free.
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  12. ​ @Pako11M ​The credit score determines the cost of the loan. Southern Europe wrecked their credit score and now they want to ruin the credit score of Northern Europe as well.
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  13. Just stating it sarcastically does not invalidate the low representation and opaqueness of the European Comission.
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  14. Exactly, Italians have a far lighter tax burden than the Danish and now the Danish have to pay for the Italians as well?
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  15.  @tobiwan001  the UK purchased most of its vaccines from private companies that produced it specifically for the UK while being situated in the EU while the EU struggled to adequately provide vaccines for its member states yes.
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  16. A community of values except yours.
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  17. ​ @mr.metallic5310  Yes, history as recent as the last two years. Everyone was 'just following orders'.
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  18. Ironically the Netherlands is the largest weapons importer by GDP in all of Europe. Makes perfect sense!
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  19. No but we will when the EU forces us to foot the bill for French pensions. That could end the EU.
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  20.  @gekzify  Truncation is rarely done in good faith.
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  21.  @Pako11M  If your credit score sucks and you then want to share credit score with someone with a good credit score, you're getting money for free. It's that simple.
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  22. Maybe having the whole economy supported through a trickle-down from homeowners wasn't the best idea to begin with?
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  23. Gee, I wonder if it might have something to do with TLDR covering Brexit exclusively on a near daily basis since 2017.
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  24. Bakhmut is entirely fallen before sunday (may 21th). Feel free to come laugh at me if I'm wrong.
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  25.  @LagartoPT  You're talking about the second largest agricultural exporter in the world.
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  26. Yes EU, that's it, kill the Schengen agreement on which your entire union is predicated.
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  27.  Joakim von Anka  they don't want the conditions Northern Europe is adding to their stimulus so why would they accept any conditions from the Chinese?
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  28.  @davidcooks2379  FINALLY someone who talks sense here. Give Spain and Italy their own currency they can devalue at their own discretion and they no longer need any stimulus from anyone.
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  29.  @deantjewie  What he's saying is that due to the surplus seat, the Netherlands has a technical electoral threshold of 0,67% as that's the minimum amount of votes anyone needs to get a single seat and have a chance at that last remaining one being added to their party as well.
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  30.  @giacomostocco3532  ​ Italy was on the side that started WW2 so spare me the crocodile tears. If Southern Europe doesn't benefit from the EU then why are they still in it? Why not just leave?
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  31. If you pay a lower interest than you're due, then someone else is paying the difference for you, it's free money.
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  32. As a Dutch person I prefer the English language. Not because of its grammar rules, but because the English language has a more complete and usable vocabulary. English has lots of synonyms with slightly different meanings allowing a proficient English speaker to add a lot of subtlety to what they're saying. When translating English to Dutch, a lot of nuance gets lost.
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  33.  @Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs.  Half the country was fine with the damage. What did Boris in was violating the rules that this particular half took as sacred.
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  34. Obviously. France has the largest military industry in EU. So any increased European spending on weapons will flow straight into the French economy.
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  35.  @ToothbrushMan  but the US is fiscal union therefore one economy.
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  36.  @0xCAFEF00D  then draw a line for net-profit, don't make net-profit the x axis.
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  37. Then why does Northern Europe need to have anything to do with these bonds? Oh wait, that's because they're funding it. For free.
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  38. When the next crisis hits the Nothern Europeans will have to pay more for their loans because they shared their credit score with Southern Europe. This deal is exposing Northern European countries to more hardship further down the line.
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  39. Backroom deals galore.
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  40. So Spain and Italy are generously staying in the EU in order to save it while at the same time begging for financial support? Please...
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  41.  @giacomostocco3532  That's exactly why countries with a trade deficit need their own currencies again. The difference between the surplus countries and the deficit countries will always have to be bridged with financial aid and that's untennable.
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  42.  Imper 5  that's just a trade union you need for that, like ever other form of cooperation in this world.
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  43.  @AldTar  Spain and Italy don't want the hard way that Greece took. They want the free credit without reform.
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  44. ​ @AldTar The UK and Sweden still have their own currency and the EU functioned normally when they are (were) members. A single currency isn't necessary at all.
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  45. And this neoliberal hack channel is cheering it on. Unbelievable.
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  46. As asinine as can be expected from someone telling others to commit suicide. Eurobonds is freshly printed money as well in the exact same fashion that the US is doing their stimulus. However, the US states all have the same fiscal union while in the EU it means that the fiscally sound countries end up paying the bill for the countries that can't manage their budget.
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  47. Even the The NATO twitter account posted a picture of a female soldier wearing a Black Sun badge for International Women's Day.
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  48.  @darthbigred22  The Guardian has an article on them as well. But it's clearly more than the Azov Battalion. And of course none of this justifies an invasion. But when a NATO account starts posing Nazi symbols on Twitter it might be a time to take stock and reconsider what we're doing.
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  49. ​ @FullTimeGaming360  I accept your definition and Putin indeed meets those criteria for being a Fascist. Yet he's not the one whom the EU is providing stinger missiles right now. It's nazis proudly wearing their regalia in public who are receiving these weapons. Weapons which by the way are extremely effective against civilian planes as well. It's insanity.
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  50. Looking forward to your next John Bercow video!
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  51. Who on earth are we supposed to be fighting with that army? Can we answer that first?
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  52.  ger du  The EU is a federal technocracy, not a liberal democracy.
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  53.  @HeadsFullOfEyeballs  In a liberal democracy people vote for those that write their laws. That's not happening in the EU.
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  54.  @redknight4805  it will be the northern countries paying the most (of their credit) into these eurobonds.
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  55. How many videos on Jon Bercow have you done only to never mention him again after the bullying allegations came to light?
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  56. How classy, telling someone to commit suicide over the internet because they disagree with you.
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  57.  @redknight4805  doesn't make sense to pull a cart with a rope behind the Ferrari either.
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  58.  Joakim von Anka  I agree, the countries that pay most get to decide on this. Not the countries that pay least.
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  59.  Joakim von Anka  Well if Italy and Spain prefer China's terms over the EU's terms then go ahead and do it because that means there never was any unison to begin with.
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  60. Each country has credit ratings with the various places they borrow money from. Italy has been borrowing a lot and has ruined their credit score. A low credit score makes it more expensive to borrow more money. So why do Spain and Italy suddenly want to borrow money on the credit rating of Northern European countries?
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  61. When did Denmark ever ask for solidarity?
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  62.  Joakim von Anka  it's not like Italy supported Denmark after the war let alone during it so stick that false equivalence back where you found it.
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  63. ​ Joakim von Anka  You didn't pay one cent to bail anyone out of the second world war you larper. We're talking about countries being wasteful and not preparing for a crisis begging to get bailed out by countries who were sensible with their money.
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  64.  Joakim von Anka  holy shit, actual nazi revisionism. It was Germany that was the agressor you fascist.
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  65. If these loans are so beneficial then why aren't Spain and Italy taking the loans they need at their own credit?
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  66. It's a moot policy as everything will be wirelessly charged soon.
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  67. SPOILER ALERT: The elections barely changed anything.
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  68. In interest-free loans.
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  69. That's exactly what it means, free money for Wyoming.
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  70.  @namiaris2525  Greece accepted very stringent conditions for these loans. Italy and Spain want no conditions.
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  71. In 2022, Germany had to spend over 500 billion euros in additional energy imports.
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  72. Fake news is actually good when we do it.
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  73.  @jakobraahauge7299  why do Italy and Spain deserve to be reimbursed for Bulgaria? What kind of logic is that?
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  74.  Paul Nolan  and raking in lucrative board positions.
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  75. Which is no issue as long as you don't pretend to be representing the people like the European Commission is doing. The public has no idea who the chairwoman is let along the rest of the commission yet these are the only people that get to propose the European Law.
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  76. They are only delegated by the part of each country that happened to have voted for the largest party. This isn't representative at all.
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  77.  @petersebok9284  backdoor deals decide who ends up in the comission while MEP's sheepishly vote for their bills like with article 13. It's one big farce.
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  78.  @petersebok9284  shows that these sheep had no idea what she proposed to parliament. It's a prime example of what happens when you relegate the directly chosen body of a government to such a passive role.
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  79.  @omegaRST  elected officials openly admitting they had no idea what article 13 entailed are completely deserving of the moniker 'sheep'.
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  80.  @Ackreti  they VOTE on that which they haven't read. The EC breeds apathy.
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  81.  @Ackreti  the European Parliament is the only "parliament" where bills are exclusively written by a very small group of unelected people. Every other parliament, at least the Western ones have laws written by people who have actually been voted on. This is an important distinction that makes the EU a faux democracy by design. It's this lack of legitimacy that will make it tear itself apart as one by one each net contributor leaves the union until only Germany and its vassal states are left.
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  82. A directly chosen congress approved by a directly chosen senate, with a lateral laws and executive orders written by a directly chosen president. And yes a US president has an inappropriate amount of power as well but at least they represent a decent share of the population.
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  83.  @Ackreti  that's just pedantic.
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  84.  @TheBlobik  Then leave the Euro. Get a new currency and devalue it to correct the trade deficit.
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  85.  @AldTar  the reason countries are frugal is so they get to be resilient during a crisis.
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  86. How emberassing.
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  87. Italy received a stupendous amount of wealth through the pandemic recovery fund.
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  88. There isn't anything complicated about this election as barely anything changed. There are various coalitions possible and unlike previous elections this formation will be quick.
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  89.  @AldTar  the deal that Greece made was anything but simple. They're under huge leverage right now and that's something Spain and Italy want to avoid at all cost. I'm saying the best way to avoid this is to get them back their own currency. That way they no longer have to run a trade deficit which makes it easier to balance the budget.
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  90. They're not even a tax haven to European companies. It's mainly Korean companies using it as a shelter.
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  91.  @ishaannag4545  It's called the NETHERlands for the a reason.
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  92. If people can blow up Baltic pipelines with impunity, why even bother?
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  93. TLDR started with in explaining complicated bureaucratic processes. Which was perfect, the information was plenty but at least it was reliable. But now the channel tries to deal with something that's not just objectively hectic but also caught in a battle for optics. That turns TLDR's job into that of a fact-checking rather than making it more digestible.
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  94. And those who are even less involved just vote the way a political quiz tells them they should vote.
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  95. There are Dutch parties that want to make the government less proportional. By increasing the hurdles for new parties and by removing party links, which allow parties to shift excess votes that didn't amount to a seat to a party they befriended to see if they perhaps could get another seat with it, which makes it more attractive to vote for small parties as it means your vote doesn't get lost.
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  96. Such transparent shilling.
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  97. The majority of children in high school will end up working jobs that don't even exist right now.
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  98.  @andrewbarton8525  You're prevaricating.
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  99. What on earth is an emergency charter supposed to accomplish?
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  100.  @SerhiiMartyneko  Don't worry, Ukraine won't ruin the union. The union will be ruined before Ukraine gets a chance to join.
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  101. Ammonia is not a greenhouse gas and none of the nitrogen thresholds are set by international agreements or treaties. Kind of derails your whole video. But it's got great graphics nonetheless.
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  102. It was a corrupt shithole with a failed economy before the invasion. How is them being invaded supposed to make them a more viable candidate?
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  103. You say you like to talk numbers but all I hear is rhetorical gibberish. If Italy and Span want to secede from the EU they can trigger article 50.
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