Comments by "Jessica Dainese" (@JessicaDainese) on "Germany Imposes Border Controls: Can Schengen Survive?" video.

  1. ​​ @Dasistrite have you ever lived in a fascist or communist country? Why would you prefer fascism over "communism" (I think you mean socialism, as communism has never been achieved in any country)? Unless you are a rich capitalist or part of the "inner circle", you have nothing to gain from a fascist regime.
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  2. I agree.
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  3.  @hyperteleXii  Europol is very limited in what they can do.
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  4.  @excentrik5725  I understand the frustration 😞 happens to me all the time.
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  5. Italy is sending them to Albania. Albania got alot of money for this.
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  6. I agree. I am also scared Meloni wants to turn Italy into Hungary, which would be a disaster.
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  7.  @eddiecalderone  I am 49, so I have been voting since the 90s. It used to be about 80%, has been going down since but especially in the last few years. Since Meloni, it has been the lowest in history. Yes, I know, coalition 😂 3 parties with opposite ideas of the very concept of Italy: central power (Meloni) vs local power (Lega). How is that going to work? Spoiler: it will not. Also, most of Meloni's voters are very disappointed because she has done the opposite of what she said she would 😂
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  8. ​ @jacobjones630 I am glad there is another adult in the room here 😂 I agree with you. I am Italian, we are definitely NOT a violent country. We have one of the lowest violent crimes rates in the world. Some crimes are done by desperate people. The very rich and powerful are into different types of crime, thou.
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  9.  @eddiecalderone  I never said that the young are more educated. It is a fact though that most Italians moving to London are young and educated. Young to Italians is everybody under 40 btw. Yeah, I read your ancestors were from Caltanissetta. I am from Padova, so to me Sicily is like another country. Most of Sicilians would agree. You should know Italy is very divided, not only North vs South (and Sicily and Sardegna are different than the mainland), but every single region has a different culture. I have relatives in Puglia. Beautiful region, very different culture than Veneto. Veneto is alot closer to Germany, Piemonte is a lot closer to France, than both are to Sicily.
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  10. ​​​ @Bracus.Reghusk most Europeans do not like what Hungary has become under Orban. In Italy we are very worried Meloni would turn Italy into Hungary if she could. And remember that Meloni only had the vote of 15% of Italians in the latest elections, because half of the country didnt vote AT ALL. We never had such a low partecipation in past elections. Orban is only liked by Meloni and her party. We managed to get Ilaria Salis out of that backward country with a huge amount of votes. Italians saw the barbaric treatment of an Italian citzen in an Hungarian prison without even a trial. Orban wants to turn back progress in Europe and should be kicked out of the EU before he ruins it.
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  11.  @Bracus.Reghusk  I would kick them out because they are not really a democracy anymore and human rights are not respected. Also, they hate the EU and want to be in it only to undo it. It is not just immigration policies, it is everything. Btw, I am not at all against immigration, in Italy we have shortage of workers in many fields and an aging population. We NEED immigrants. But of course I think we need rules. I do not want the EU to become the "wild west" of Western movies either. But Italy has a huge coastline, how do you control such porous borders?? What do you do with boats full of people coming to your land? We can not let them die in the Mediterranean either. Maybe we should help their countries instead of bombing them (like our "ally" the USA does), stealing their resourses, interfere in their politics etc.
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  12.  @Bracus.Reghusk  my comment was deleted:-(
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  13.  @eddiecalderone  that is a problem which is too complicated to explain here 😂 we do have short lived governments, but the people in government are always the same. They just change the coalitions. This was especially true from post WWII till early 90s. It seemed from outside we were always changing government, but in reality it was always the same people.
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  14.  @Bracus.Reghusk  no, some comments were deleted. We know there are some things we can not say about some people/ countries...
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  15.  @Bracus.Reghusk  that is my OTHER comment. More than one was deleted.
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  16.  @Bracus.Reghusk  YT deletes everything that is not the mainstream position. They dont like opposing ideas, neither from the left nor right. I personally am against censorship, even of ideas I hate. I rather argue with someone than cancel them. We were not being offensive, I dont think...
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  17.  @joaoluis654  I would.
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  18.  @NoName-hg6cc  no, you have been brainwashed. There are and have been socialist countries, communism is the utopia they look at, but it has never been reached. Read some books.
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  19.  @NoName-hg6cc  I am an Italian Communist, from a Communist family, my father was a Communist politician and my grandfather a Communist partisan during WWII. My parents went to Yugoslavia for their honeymoon in 1973, and then to the Soviet Union in 1980. I think I know what Communism is. You do not.
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  20.  @NoName-hg6cc   @NoName-hg6cc  I am an Italian Communist, from a Communist family, my father was a Communist politician and my grandfather a Communist partisan during WWII. My parents went to Yugoslavia for their honeymoon in 1973, and then to the Soviet Union in 1980. I think I know what Communism is. You do not.
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  21.  @NoName-hg6cc  è da decenni che studio, non solo sui libri. Da giornalista, sono informata da fonti reali. Ho viaggiato e visto con i miei occhi. Non si può negare la realtà.
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  22.  @NoName-hg6cc  You are the one who has no idea what he is talking about. I worked for an Italian communist newspaper for 20 years, you can not possibly know more than me, sorry.
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  23.  @NoName-hg6cc  ho scritto su Il Manifesto per 20 anni. Se noi sappiamo noi giornalisti (nel mio caso ex giornalista) de Il Manifesto cosa è comunismo e cosa non è, non vedo chi possa saperlo 😂
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  24.  @NoName-hg6cc  compagna con la k... ma siamo all'asilo? Ho 49 anni, parliamo da adulti no?
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  25.  @NoName-hg6cc  immagino invece che tu ti ritenga onnisciente? Quali qualifiche ritieni di avere che ti rendono più abile di me nel vedere la realtà? Credi che dopo 30 anni di giornalismo freelance per numerose testate, dopo decenni di viaggi e reportage da tutta Europa e Stati Uniti, io possa essere una ingenua "tipica kompagna" che vede solo quello che vuole vedere?
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  26.  @NoName-hg6cc  you talk out of your ass.
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  27.  @NoName-hg6cc  where did you get your education about this subject?
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  28.  @NoName-hg6cc  non avete nessun argomento, solo disinformazione, violenza o il vuoto assoluto. Come dimostra la tua non risposta. Lo so, dalla vostra parte odiate giornalisti e intellettuali e coltivate ignoranza. Niente di nuovo, è una storia vecchia di 100 anni.
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  29.  @NoName-hg6cc  lo so che i giornalisti indipendenti sono tra le categorie che fanno più paura al potere. Vedi quanti miei colleghi sono stati uccisi in Palestina. Vedi Assange. Siamo scomodi, lo so.
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  30.  @NoName-hg6cc  where did you study it? Have you ever been to a socialist country?
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  31.  @NoName-hg6cc  paesi socialisti, non comunisti. Non esistono paesi comunisti e mai sono esistiti. Il comunismo era il traguardo da raggiungere attraverso il socialismo. Il superamento dello Stato e della "dittatura del proletariato". Dove si è arrivati al comunismo secondo te?
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  32.  @NoName-hg6cc  sono una giornalista, nessuno mi ha "fatto vedere" nulla. Le ricerche le ho fatte di persona.
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  33.  @NoName-hg6cc  I went to a PUBLIC school in Italy, it was one of the strictest schools in my country. I spent one year as an exchange student in the USA, when I found out American highschools are at kindergarden level. EVER American parent who moves to Italy and send their kids to school here complain it is much more difficult than schools in the USA. So, what are you trying to say here?
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  34.  @NoName-hg6cc  I also have known people who studied in the Soviet Union and they were ahead of us. Education is super important in Socialist countries. Right now, we 'imported" HUNDREDS of doctors from CUBA to work in hospitals in South Italy because we have a shortage of doctors, and Cuba has too many. Russia also sent doctors during our Covid crisis. Socialism 101 teaches that an educated population is the basis for a good society. Especially education of women. Education in the USA is of very poor quality. You have many good Universities, but generally, those are for rich people. But up until highschool, the education is terrible. You do not even study philosophy. Without philosophy, people grow up without critical thinking. Thats why so many Americans are attracted by cults of all sorts. It just doesnt really happen in Europe. I dont mean to offend, it is just the way it is.
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  35.  @NoName-hg6cc  btw, I went to a "foreign languages and literatures" school, where we studied languages, literatures, history, geography, PHILOSOPHY, law, ethics, civics, art, maths, sciences, physics, computer science, chemistry and I am sure I forgot something. Let me tell you, not a piece of cake.
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  36.  @NoName-hg6cc  do you have an example of ONE of these "party" schools you are refering to and where they are located? Not in Europe and not in the ex Soviet Union, I can tell you that.
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  37. ​​​ @jacobjones630 Italian culture is violent?? Compared to what? American? 😂 Maybe you are not aware the Sicilian Mafia (they hardly consider themselves Italian) became powerful after WWII because of deals they made with the USA to assist the American army get into Italy to kill the Nazis. So thank the USA for giving the mafias any power. Plus the USA were funded on stolen land and genocide of the natives, they still have the death penalty, they are the land of daily mass shootings and gun worshipping, their pop culture from movies to videogames is full of violence etc. Italy has one of the lowest violent crimes rates in the world, no death penalty, not crazy about guns (even hunting is heavily regulated and very close to being abolished), very against wars (it is in our constitution: l'Italia ripudia la guerra) etc. Irish culture doesnt seem violent to me either.
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  38.  @eddiecalderone  misleading how? No country in the EU is as violent as the USA. Mass shootings never happened in Italy. Never. No country in the world has as many people in prison as the USA. What has the number of cops do to with any of this? The cops are not on the streets trying to prevent petty crime. Maybe we have more armed forces because we had to deal with decades of mafias, terrorism, etc? Maybe because every town, even tiny ones, have their own carabinieri? Whom, btw, I never see around. And I am well aware that at times Italian police and carabinieri have been brutal (I was at the G7 protests in Genoa in 2001 and I will never forget what they did), but the American police is SO MUCH worse, especially to black people. There is no comparison to the violence in the USA vs EU countries. I lived in the USA for almost 2 years, in the UK for 2 years, I have travelled all around Europe and Italy. No comparison.
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  39.  @eddiecalderone   @eddiecalderone  misleading how? No country in the EU is as violent as the USA. Mass shootings never happened in Italy. Never. No country in the world has as many people in prison as the USA. What has the number of cops do to with any of this? The cops are not on the streets trying to prevent petty crime. Maybe we have more armed forces because we had to deal with decades of mafias? Maybe because every town, even tiny ones, have their own carabinieri? Whom, btw, I never see around. And I am well aware that at times Italian police and carabinieri have been brutal (I was at the G7 protests in Genoa in 2001 and I will never forget what they did), but the American police is SO MUCH worse, especially to black people. There is no comparison to the violence in the USA vs EU countries. I lived in the USA for almost 2 years, in the UK for 2 years, I have travelled all around Europe and Italy. No comparison.
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  40.  @eddiecalderone  violent crimes against a person, like murder, rape, and such. Not arson. The USA has more murders than any European country (by percentage obviously). But that is not the only thing that makes the American culture violent. It is a mix of things, like obsession with guns, starting wars all over the world etc.
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  41.  @eddiecalderone  no one is a "fan" of the USA outside USA. I have lived in Missouri for a year (exchange student) and Florida for 6 months (ex bf). I met nice people, yes, of course. I was treated well and had a good time, because I was with progressive people, and, lets be honest, I was a pretty, white young woman guest of 2 wealthy families (I am not rich myself). But as an ex journalist and activist, I could not unsee the violence, poverty, racism, unjustice, religious extremism, ignorance, bigotry, the awful "purity culture", the awful approach to drug addicts (treated as criminals and not people with a health problem), etc. I know Europe (and my country, Italy), has many problems, but most people in Europe agree that life is just better in Europe than the USA. In the USA, I could only afford the doctor because my host family and my bf were rich. In Florida, people thought I was weird just because I wanted to go for a walk alone at night. They told me it was too dangerous. In the USA I saw no public transport. American highschool was terrible, like going to kindergarden. The decent food was expensive. The cities were ugly and all looked the same. People know nothing about politics, philosophy, history, geography, the arts etc. I was interrogated at the airport for 2 hours because I was a MUSIC writer for an Italian left newspaper. I said "communist" and they panicked 😂 I forgot for a moment that "communism" and "socialism" are crimes in America 😂 while they are perfectly fine political positions in Europe. The American propaganda machine is worse than the Russian one. I also found both Missouri and Florida to be more sexist than Italy, which is a very low bar. The American bf wanted to marry me, his family was ready with the papers for me to move to Orlando. I took a plane home asap and broke up with the guy. Besides all the stuff I mentioned, I could never live in a country that is at war all the time and is responsable for millions of deaths around the world. The Italian constitution, written right after WWII, says that Italy rejects war. That's why we are not giving offensive weapons to Ukraine. We are also not friends with the rogue country committing war crimes since last october. Is that enough reasons to hate the USA? Oh wait, here is another one: American military bases occupying our country since post WWII. Intefering in OUR politics with (failed, lucky us) coups, CIA-sponsored terrorism, propaganda, assassinations etc. I could go on all night.
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  42.  @eddiecalderone  also, wtf were all the pictures of young women who has disappeared in Orlando I saw in many malls and such places?? It was about 15 years ago. It freaked me out. People just dont disappear like that in my country. And the horror of teen pregnancies. Never happened here.
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  43.  @eddiecalderone  and wtf were all the pictures of young women who disappeared that I saw in many malls in Florida?? It creeped me out. Teen pregnancies creeped me out too.
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  44.  @eddiecalderone  I have lived in the UK for 2 years, I spent alot of time in London. I also have lived in Missouri and Florida. I speak both from personal experience AND from years of study and activism.
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  45.  @eddiecalderone  I dont get it. If you have never lived in the USA, why are you defending them?
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  46.  @eddiecalderone  awesome, you just mentioned of bunch of countries destroyed by the USA/Nato. Yugoslavia was a much better place when it was still Yugoslavia. It's been a mess in the region after the fall of Yugoslavia. Same with Lybia, which had the best living standards in the region under Gaddafi and look at it now. Of course I could have been an activist in Yugoslavia and Lybia, they both were socialist countries and I am a socialist (see European communism).
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  47.  @eddiecalderone the USA and the UK were never against nazifascism. They liked both Mussolini and Hitler before the war. Hitler himself was inspired by the USA and UK (genocide of native Americans, colonialism, eugenics etc). A lot of Nazi scientists were saved by the USA to work for NASA for example. The USA and the UK were forced to intervene in the war, they won (they used the Left resistance movements in Italy and other countries, then tried to crush them after the war), and then wrote themselves in history books into heroes that saved the world from fascism. I know that in the USA they dont even mention Russia's huge role in defeating the Nazis. Nor the important role of Communist/ Socialist resistance. As an Italian, I have nothing to thank the USA for.
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  48.  @eddiecalderone  yeah, because it is not MY view, it's just history. And most Italians who are in London are educated young people, so I expect them to know history. Btw, London is my favorite city to visit, I have been there many, many times. I would not live there because it is too expensive, but it has a place in my heart. And I know many Brits who live in Italy. They are totally different than Americans.
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  49.  @eddiecalderone  Ask them if they are doing better now. I know many who say they were better off then. Of course not everybody is happy in a socialist country. Everywhere in the world there is a minority who wants to make money exploiting labor. We can find racists, supremacists, ultranationalists, etc. in every country. There is even a tiny minority in Italy who would like to bring back the monarchy. Yugoslavia was keeping all the ethnicities together under one flag. It was keeping economic inequities in check. Most citzens were better off.
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  50.  @eddiecalderone  Europe is far from perfect, but it is a paradise compared to the USA. It would take me hours to tell you why I would never move to the USA. Education of the population is certainly one of them. I mean, MAGA people. Project 2025 is scary for women. The new EU government has about 40% of women, many from progressive parties. Nothing like Project 2025 is on our steps. Just the fact that Project 2025 is out in the open before elections tells alot about the state of American politics. That would be a political suicide in Europe. Do Americans even know about it before they vote??
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  51.  @eddiecalderone  can I ask you what you find so beautiful about Italy? Because us Italians can see everything that is wrong with it. Complaining is a national sport, more then in the UK (they complain alot too). I mean, yeah, I guess arts and nature, but it's not like we are special in that.
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  52.  @eddiecalderone  and one of my comments got deleted. Sorry, cant deal with yt censorship today.
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  53. EU countries need to solve the issues about immigration together. If every member State have different immigration policies it will be the end of EU.
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