Comments by "Posthumanist" (@thornelderfin) on "TLDR News EU" channel.

  1. The deal: I get 50% of all your natural reasources and in exchange you get... nothing. Amazing deal, would sign it immediately.
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  2. I wish you never have to use it. I wish you peace and independence. (I spent 2 weeks in Taiwan, you have a beautiful conutry, especially the mountains)
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  3. How many political parties do you want? Slovakia: Yes!
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  4. Oh, you have no idea my Polish friend. This video just scratched the very surface of the clown show that is Slovak politics. It's just a very condensed TLDR. We have 50+ political parties and insane voters (and a legitimately clinically insane ex-prime minister). Please, send help.
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  5. It's true. And Mariupol bombed itself. (/sarcasm of course)
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  6.  @bananaguard  My country has had free universities and completely absolutely free healthcare for more than 3 generations and it absolutely does not benefit the wealthy more. It levels the playing field and people from any family can achieve anything they want with same effort. If you are a rich parent there is nothing you can do to give advantage to your kid over others - he or she has to earn it. Result is that absolute majority of my country is middle class (one year we had highest equality index in the world, GINI). But you do you. It's your country.
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  7. We did not do it for your minerals or for profit, but out of principle. I don't want my country (EU) to take any of Ukraine's minerals (except for fair market prices). Otherwise what do we even stand for as Europe?
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  8.  @whitezombie10  Is that why Soviet Union started world war 2 as allies of Hitler (Ribbentrop-Molotov pact) and Soviets invaded countries in the east while Hitler in the west and they split Poland in two. Soviets and Nazis even had joint military parade in Poland.
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  9.  @pondeify  If you believe what you wrote, then no plan will ever be good for you. So what should we do?
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  10. Even more important - EU has economy that is 13x larger than that of Russia (now probably even more after 3 years of war).
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  11.  @dylanmurphy9389  Also the left-right divide in EU is very very complex compared to clean cut in the USA. In Europe you have parties that are left wing economically and right wing nationalists at the same time, and vice versa and also any variation of cultural conservativism vs liberalism, then environment, immigration. So when someone says they are moving left or right - it is very missleading for someone from the US, becuase all those EU parties would be all over the place partially Republican partially Democrat and centrist. Just my very small country has 36 notable political parties. Our governments are always 3-4 political parties in unstable forced alliances. Most parties don't exist longer than 2 election cycles. It's messy and inefficient, but also 100% democratic (not like having only 2 bad choices) and insured against any politician getting too much power.
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  12.  @Steelrat1994  Oh really? And who did flatten Mariupol? Entire city of 500 000 destroyed. Mariupol was completely surrounded by Russian forces and Ukraine had absolutely no access to it. I guess Mariupol bombed itself all the way to the ground. 97% of buildings were hit or completely destroyed in a city of half a million. It is insulting that you even suggest that Russia spared any civilian buildings. The 30 000 dead Ukrainians from Mariupol are turning in their graves right now.
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  13. @ You want me to tell you about Gaza? Well Trump's Gaza plan is the same - I get your entire country and you get... nothing (tents in Jordan and Egypt). Same amazing deal.
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  14. I love how they (AfD) criticize renewable energy as "ideologicaly driven" and not based on data... and then want to abandon EUR currency, for ideological reasons (their voters want to get rid of everything western and non-German), when all data shows it's massive benefit for Germany. But I understand, having consistent values is hard.
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  15.  @8Bitzzz  Why do you care who calls what "family"? It's just a word. Don't you have bigger problems?
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  16.  @chat4783  I understand your logic, but it doesn't apply here in Slovakia. Fico lied to his voters so many times already. They have goldfish memory and next day they vote for him anyway.
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  17. This is exactly how political parties operate everywhere in the world, because it is much easier to run your campain on "We're not them! We are opposed to them in everything!" (easy) than "We have this very complex economic and social reform that will hurt all of us in the short term but is better for future of our children and will make the world a better place" (too much work and risk).
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  18. When did you get this feeling that we have learned anything at all from our history?
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  19.  @rogerthat3157  Our (Slovak) special ability was to be invisible on the maps, in the list of countries, always accidentally omitted, confused with Slovenia or Czechoslovakia, or completely unheard of. But this video kind of screws it up.
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  20. The West of EU si not giving money as some charity. West has been proping up economies of the Eastern EU members so they can sell all their products to a developed rich markets and earn a lot more profit in return than what was invested. And this is exactly what has happened. Local production has been crushed in Eastern EU because no import taxes can be levied. I am not saying this is not a win-win for both sides, because it is, but I am saying Western EU is not doing some altruistic charity, this is calculated investment that is already paying back its dividends.
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  21. ​@Christmas12 I grew up under Russian occupation. My family was brutalized, everything was taken from us, my entire country has been ruined. Then 20 years ago I had a chance to vote in a referendum to join the EU and NATO. I voted yes, as did overwhelming number of people in my country. The absolute arrogance of you telling me what I can and cannot do with my own country. Same goes for Russia. Russia has no say in who joins what. Russia has say only and only in what happens inside Russia and nowhere else.
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  22.  @allydea  Yes, people were saying the same about Vietnam, that it cannot possibly win against the largest military in human history - USA. And look how it all ended up. Same with Afghanistan where both 10 years of Russian invasion and 20 years of US occupation failed.
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  23. ​ @gavasiarobinssson5108  You: "Orban is fighting for Hungary" -- How is Obran fighting for Hungary? If Hungary thinks EU is so evil and destroying their country, then it's very hypocritical to stay in the EU and take all the massive funds from the EU (they just want the money, but not the rules). Hungary can leave! Nobody is holding them. UK wanted to leave and left, nobody invaded UK with tanks for them wanting to leave. So no excuses. Hungary is in a VOLUNTARY organisation, so if they think EU is pure evil and destroying their country, they have to leave right now! Otherwise I don't take it seriously - it's just whining for theatre show but in reality they don't think it's destroying their country, otherwise they would have left already.
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  24. ​ @vh5663 There are two Slovakias - One is Bratislava, and the other is rest of the country. There are very different political climates and orientation in these two distinct parts of Slovakia. But all the Russophilia and anti-EU, anti-USA, anti-UA, anti-West sentimet is a result of massive Russian propaganda that has been running here completely unchecked and unopposed for 10+ years. I have seen it in my closest family, extended family and friends. So many people got completely brainwashed. Now they are almost 50% of the population. While our intelligence agency did nothing, government did nothing... now it's too late to do anything. If Republika (neo-nazis) get to be active part of the government, I am selling everything here and I am going back to my life abroad. Slovakia is lost.
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  25.  @Son_of_Burebista  Yes, Slovaks voted, but Fico won only 23%, so it is not accurate to think majority of Slovaks support what is happening. His opposition is extremely fractures (10+ politicial parties and twice as many "leaders" who all absolutely don't want to give up power or "leadership", so they fracture further into more and more political parties that have less than 5% votes which means zero MPs, which means lost votes). Fico's win was not caused by his popularity as much as it was caused by absolute chaos and ego ridden fracturing of his opposition. And now all Slovaks are labeled as anti-EU, anti-US, pro-Russian. Which is not true, but I understand it may look like it from outside.
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  26. ​ @gavasiarobinssson5108  What do you mean about "unelected rulers"? They voted in European Parliament - I voted for those people in person. They are all elected. I know you hate the EU, but don't say they are unelected, we all vote for them.
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  27.  @Pidalin  I admit Babis is worst Slovak export ever, but you voted for him, we didn't force you :) And no, we don't want him back
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  28. ​ @mostlynothing8130  Maybe USA should first "annex" and integrate as the 51st state their own colony of Puerto Rico. So more than 3 million Puerto Ricans can get their own representation in the Senate and get same rights as any other US citizen (which they already are). American Samoa, Guam, ... Maybe only after this they should offer integration into USA to other countries like Canada or Greenland.
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  29. What do the Russian trolls always say? That "You just don't understand it, Putin is playing 3D chess and you are playing checkers!" Putin is a master strategist! :D Everything is going according to plan! :)
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  30. @randomfootballfan2952 Because millions of people in Ukraine cannot physically vote - they are under Russian occupation
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  31. Most important is that Ukrainians are not protesting demanding an election, like in 2004 (Orange revolution) and 2014 (Maidan revolution). If Ukrainians wanted Zelensky out he would by out by the end of the week. Especially with so many foreign observers and media. If people of Ukraine are not calling for elections and Zelensky's opposition is not calling for elections, then what authority has USA to tell them what they should want? (same USA that deals with Russia, Saudi Arabia, Israel)
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  32. ​ @roy6907  What investments? Into what industry in Greenland specifically? And what is holding these investments right now in current situation? (USA will not subsidize Greenland out of goodness of it's heart... USA is a brutally capitalist country and would only do so for profit... if that is possible, they can do it right now - make a trade agreement with Greenland, invest there, build industry... you don't have to own a country in order for your companies and megacorporations to do business with it)
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  33.  @liquidsnake6879  What do you mean by NATO enlargement? All people are equal. So all countries are equal too. Security concerns of Estonia are EQUAL to security concerns of Russia. So any country has a right to decide to join NATO and Russia has absolutely no say in it. What is this colonial imperialistic mentality that Russia has any say what happens in other countries?? Russian jurisdiction ends with their borders, PERIOD.
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  34. Oh my Czech brother, you obviously want us to send you 5 more models of Andrej Babis :D We have a lot more of them here, we can send you as many as you need, as a gift, no charge.
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  35.  @vigilante8374  Exactly! Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, Poland 1980 ... once you are a Russian colony you are not leaving or going independent. They only way out was to wait for complete economic and social breakdown of Soviet Union... and for 10 years, when Russia was really weak, we quickly joined EU and NATO. Now Russia feels strong again and is trying to get all the imperial colonies back by brute force. Fortunately Russia spends on military 2% of what NATO does (no biased opinions, just hard numbers) and will get obliterated if it crosses the red line.
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  36. @randomfootballfan2952 Regular Ukrainians are not protesting demanding elections, opposition politicians to Zelensky are not demanding elections. We have no right to force it on them.
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  37.  @gavasiarobinssson5108  What do you mean harassed? UK was just not given everything for free. They wanted to keep all the advantages of tax free trade with the EU, but give nothing in return (ability of EU citizens to work in the UK - open labor market). You cannot leave the EU but keep all the benefits of the EU. That's not harassment. UK WANTED the benefits of the EU, so they negotiated what will they give up in return (the long negotiations). In the end they negotiated a deal and all was fine. UK didn't feel harassed or cheated, you just can't leave the busienss club but keep all the perks, that's not how it works. Hungary would be in the same position, they would negotiate something and bye bye. No problem.
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  38.  @vladconstantinminea  Exactly! People are creating division where none needs to exist.
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  39. ​ @matehorvath8296 I grew up during communist Czechoslovakia and it was NOT better. It was much much worse. We had one small aparmnet, both parents working, communist wages, and could barely make ends meet. Also couldn't leave the country (I lived right at the border with Austria, people got shot (even children) if they wanted to run away from Czechoslovakia to the neutral Austria). Then after the fall of communism we all studied IT, we found great jobs, our standard of living went +800% over the 3 decades. I then left Slovakia and lived in many countries on 3 different continents. None of this would be able duing communism. What kind of nonsense is that communism was better? (also communists killed quarter of my family and took our entire farm (made it a JRD) and sent my grandfather and his brothers to forced labor camps. You have some "romantic fantasy" version of communism in your imagination.
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  40. In 1941 Russia (USSR) blew exactly the same dam with 20 000 kg of TNT to drown advancing Nazi Germans. They killed 1500 German soldiers and drowned 20 000 - 100 000 Ukrainians. For Stalin, that's a double victory.
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  41.  @sachin2842  Nothing says greatest military superpower like using museum pieces (T-54) in a war and begging for weapons from Iran and North Korea.
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  42.  @ecurewitz  No, I think he meant it for EU army to be in a same format as NATO. I don't know why we just don't kick USA out of NATO and we have an EU army.
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  43.  @HrHaakon  Well, Americans or not, Ukraine is a free country and Russia has exactly ZERO moral right to say what happesn in Ukraine. People of Ukraine decide everything, Russia decides nothing. But Russia never understood this concept of a "sovereign free nation", they think they own everything.
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  44. ​ @mikel9138  You: "Do you believe that you should force people to do something they don't want just because your country has more people in it?" -- But that's exactly what democracy is. In your own country (I assume it's democratic), the parties that "have more people" win the elections and then have more weight at the decision making and are literally FORCING those that voted against it. This is democracy, and countries don't break into small fragments (usually). So voting inside EU based on population is very democratic (my country is just 5 million, so I am not saying this as a German or French). 1 person = 1 vote. We are all equal. This should be respected.
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  45. ​ @vh5663 To be honest I have lived in Prague for 9 years already, it's my second home. Also Philippines, my third home. I don't have a problem to leave it all here. I just thought Slovakia can be NORMAL for once. I would even accept mafia and corruption, but not neo-nazis (Republika) and anti-EU, anti-NATO, anti-West government while Ukrainians are dying to same Russians that killed our grandfathers with same arguments. That's just too much.
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  46. Captain America: I understood that refference!
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  47.  @nattß1978  The problem is not just Musk, the problem is that the country has only 2 political parties for 250 years - nobody in US can actually vote for something different, only the same two choices over and over. Corporations pay both.
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  48. ​ @JohnyPlayGames_ Don't worry, you are not alone. I spent most of my adult life abroad... if Republika becomes part of the government and we turn anti-EU and anti-West, then I am going back to my life abroad. I wanted to give Slovakia a second chance, but it doesn't look promising.
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  49.  @gavasiarobinssson5108  My country wanted to leave Russia... I mean, we were the European Eastern block and we just wanted little bit more independence, not even full independence, just a little bit... Russia immediatelly invaded us with tanks, massive amount of tanks against completely unarmed peaceful civilians. Russia captured all the airports, government buildings and kidnapped our leader to Moscow. Leaving the EU is nothing like that. Also leaving NATO is nothing like that - France left NATO, nobody harassed them, they just left and that was it, no problem. Big difference.
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  50.  @milanlabus1582  Do we have any evidence of this enthnic cleansing happening?
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