Comments by "Peter Lund" (@peterfireflylund) on "TLDR News EU" channel.

  1. Remember that the AfD is not actually crazy or extremist.
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  2.  @willhudson5625 plenty of politicians were outright Communists when they were young. José Barroso, for example. Or Federico Mogherini. Or my own former PM in Denmark, Helle Thorning-Schmidt. I don’t remember any smear campaigns against them, even though that should obviously have kept them out of politics for life.
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  3.  @FilAnd01  it was far beyond naïveté. Of course they belong in jail. I fear you might belong there with them…
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  4. Austria? What on Earth did they do wrong? I thought you would mention Hungary, Poland and the South!?
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  5. @@captainplanet483do you think the Communists would have done better?
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  6. "outside", not "behind".
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  7.  @English_Dawn  The Council? The voters in the member states, sometimes directly (for some of the Presidents), usually indirectly (for Prime Ministers). The EU Commission? The Commissioners are proposed by the member states + the Commission President (designate) has to accept that person + the European Parliament has to accept that person. Several candidates were rejected by the European Parliament in 2019. The Council President? The Council, that is, the Presidents/Prime Ministers of the member states. The Commission President? Proposed by the Council and confirmed ("elected") by the European Parliament. But you already knew that, didn't you?
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  8. Why!? It’s obviously nothing but mad dreams and Communism!
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  9.  @Leo-ok3uj he started a media production company with some of his uni mates while he was still at uni. He was never just an actor.
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  10.  @neodym5809 not really (and they could have been refueled)and no. Old fuel still works, it is just less efficient. There was plenty of life left in the reactors. The initial approved lifetime was running out but they still worked fine. We do the same thing with bridges: design for a given lifetime, certify them for a shorter lifetime, continuously maintain and inspect them, and extend the certification if the bridges are still fine. Take your “green” propaganda elsewhere, please.
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  11.  @handle_unknown  Because Bornholm managed to liberate itself… besides, you should have handed the rest of Scania back centuries ago. You were only supposed to hold onto it until we paid our “debt” (war reparations owed after you invaded *us*) or until 50 years had passed. The real reason you got Scania (but not all of Denmark) is that the Great Powers of the day wanted the two Øresund coasts to be owned by different countries.
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  12. I think you are saving that for the endgame — and the objective would be to demilitarize a buffer zone around the border.
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  13. Because they are wrong?
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  14. Didn’t you watch too much RT?
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  15. "build more solar and wind power" doesn't really work without gas power plants -- so it is actually NOT ok.
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  16.  @rizkyadiyanto7922 I think so, yes.
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  17. And all the French speakers who live in Flemish suburbs around Brussels...
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  18.  @seneca983 Americans also have crazy opinions about European citizenship laws and be very loud about it :(
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  19. some people insist that they buy exactly the right ones -- because it would be a waste of money if they don't. Such people can easily delay things 5 years or more -- especially if it's just an excuse because they don't like the military in the first place.
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  20.  @georgethompson1460  yes, on a good day (and with many more PV panels and wind turbines) they can definitely provide enough output. The problem is just that sometimes they can’t. Well, most of the time they can’t. The gap between best case and median case is huge for wind/solar so you would need to massively overprovision. And the gap between best case and worst case is of course even worse. This is of course never accounted for when the “greens” boast about the cheapness of renewables.
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  21. Don't forget the Russian general supply issue -- as in "issues with supplying enough generals to replace the dead ones".
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  22. The biggest container shipping company is Danish.
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  23.  @ckokloong  Nuclear energy, heat pumps for heating instead of gas... plus a better attitude towards fracking. The EU could easily be entirely energy-independent.
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  24.  @nickybutt4117  Hopefully some of them will end up in Belarus and Russia and cause problems for Lukashenko/Putin.
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  25. ​ @Diabolo0011  Yes it will. There are lots of places to get Uranium from. It is also extremely easy to store which makes it impossible for rogue nations to use a "Uranium embargo" to pressure us into compliance.
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  26.  @nanucit  you only need to buy (or make) the heaters once. They’ll last decades.
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  27. Timmermans is leaving Brussels? Fantastic news for Europe!
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  28.  @hectorvega621  Bollocks. Sweden has treated its Muslim immigrants better than its natives.
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  29. “Refugees” (and a smattering of actual refugees).
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  30.  @wookie2222  I pronounce it Breslau... 1) it is correct, 2) it pisses off the Poles...
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  31.  @andreagenovesePhD  How about if the Italians fixed the Italian economy? And the Spaniards fixed the Spanish economy? And the Greeks fixed the Greek economy? People in Northern Europe are very willing to help. We are not willing to be taken advantage of decade after decade.
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  32.  @Veritas-66  genetic studies say you are wrong. The language changed from Celtic to Germanic (several types) and later got a huge chunk of Romance added to it, but the DNA stated mostly the same. Of course there are traces of Saxon, Frisian, Danish, and Norwegian DNA, but most of it didn’t change.
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  33. Berkcan Ulu It’s not too late to implement the Treaty of Sèvres. It is still legally binding, after all.
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  34.  @igorlopes7589 we could easily control our borders with a little political will. We have really good weapons, really good navies, really good armies…
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  35. You make a good case for workhouses. You don’t make a good apology for mass immigration or Islam or weak punishments or the welfare state.
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  36. Due to a silly demand from a bunch of Former Ottoman Provinces…
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  37. "Victim of colonialism"?! We were there first. They live on our land and we pay them for it.
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  38.  @neodym5809  invading migrants, you mean? Violent invading migrants? After trying teargas and rubber balls? When they are so many and so violent that you have no other option? Hungarian border guards can do that now, btw. I wish German border guards could, too. This was btw considered obvious and sane until very, very recently. It was consensus everywhere except on the extreme left in countries where they didn’t (yet) run a dictatorship. Nothing extremist about it. Nothing.
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  39.  @notfunny3397  African and middle eastern countries are fully capable of waging wars themselves. Ever heard of Rwanda? Or the “African World War”? Or Saudi Arabia and Iran’s proxy wars in Yemen? Or the civil war in Lebanon after the explosive population growth among the Sunni underclass?
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  40. They absolutely could, they are just not allowed to. Lots of European voters are pie in the sky socialists who believe in a “better world” instead of the actual world we are living in and they fully believe the migrants are refugees and good people and willing to work and totally not terrorists, criminals, or lazy. Democracy doesn’t work when most voters are that dumb.
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  41.  @pep-qew  Piss. Same as in many other European languages.
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  42. Not true. There was lots of immigrant crime long before you moved there. You just didn’t (want to) know because it was still possible to deceive those who wanted to be deceived.
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  43. Because long term it leads to lower supply.
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  44.  @keyboarddancers7751  don’t trust me. Read the Canadian immigration statistics. Prepare to be shocked.
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  45.  @CroatianUltraNationalist no, the EU forced (almost) none of it upon the member states. They did it to themselves.
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  46. That only works with a small welfare state (which the US no longer has) and strong punishments. Europe has neither.
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  47. or youtube keeps deleting their comments...
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  48. Mainly because they are extremely expensive and slow to build (and insure)... which is mainly due to the regulatory climate and not at all intrinsic to nuclear power.
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  49. Turkey maintains an occupation of an EU member state. As long as it does so, I don’t want any further alliances with them. A lot of us would also like to make Smyrna Greek again and liberate Constantinople.
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  50.  @certaindeath7776  No, Switzerland won't allow Germany to do that, either.
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