Comments by "Be Low Below" (@toyotaprius79) on "TLDR News EU" channel.

  1. The Irish government is certainly out of step with the Irish public
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  2. Economists are fantastical. They think there's unlimited growth on a dying planet
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  3. This has a very strong pong of anglo-sphere
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  4. The oil market itself is the problem
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  5. Only controversial when China does it. But it's not controversial when it's food...
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  6. The other half *sees that he's only in power to preserve the transfer of wealth and compromise towards the right.
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  7. You may have answered your own question
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  8. And when you call out Apartheid in Palestine, you're tarred as antisemitic
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  9. At least it's not like Ireland, back to "2007 levels" with out a blink, as our housing crisis has now turned into a free market disaster
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  10. ​ @napoleonfeanor get real
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  11. lol 't'is Weird to not hear a single mention about Northern Ireland.
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  12. But where does power and wealth reside? Historically and even today it tends to bankroll the extreme right to protect itself.
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  13. ​@user-tz9wk2rj2dby that logic is Keir Starmer "left wing"? pfft!
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  14. In all honesty, news around Europe has been very quiet about Portugal, even during the last election as a foot note; and only when there is news it was about covid in December or the political coalition instability. Despite being in a union, we really don't hear much about each other in the media unless it's a disaster.
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  15. That's politics for ya
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  16. Can Ireland bring the UK to the European Court of Human Rights? For, you know the war crimes in the troubles, Soilder F, etc
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  17. With that title, it's as if you've forgotten about Sinn Féin, who are apart of the Left-NordicGreenLeft pan euro party.
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  18. Ireland: hold my brown envelope
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  19. It was a very quiet news week that day. Including that horrific flood and damn burst in Libya drowning tens of thousands from the same storm.
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  20. Scotland has a better chance ...
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  21. So much for democracy and public investnent
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  22. 🎯
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  23. TLDR may not know it but it does come off as a cheerlead for chaos
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  24. What a surprise. We'd never hear news of this else where in Europe.
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  25. Underrated comment Their decisions carried risk. Ultimately as things have shown, prioritising short term profit, building nothing but crossovers to compete with competitors' profit margins have ultimately risked the industry, risked the jobs of workers, and delayed years of EV adoption.
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  26. You can thank the Brits for that (flooding money into the Prussian empire to fight France)
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  27. ​ @blueboy3990 you can definitely force them not to have kids by making living conditions so dire, and killing off the very natural ecosystems that our bread baskets and water supply depends on
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  28. What rules does china have to play by? Free market rules? China proved it succeeded in a more planned economy than the boom bust markets we're saddled with. In China is an automaker wanted to sell they had to build there, and in China there's no monopoly over patents, their technology and skills are learned by domestic partners like SAIC, Geely, GWM and the rest I would not shed a tear for western automakers. They squandered for too long until diesel gate and Tesla's rise bit then in the arse and they're still too late selling +80% of their fleet as internal combustion.
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  29. New members: Wales, Scotland, "Northern" Ireland
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  30. In times of Recession, where is the transfer of money flowing? Easy to blame refugees for the greed of private markets and institutions, ie Housing and Cost of Living expenses.
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  31. Wouldn't be so quick to call the Irish awareness and recent memory of racism, colonialism, authoritarianism and apartheid as "anti-semitic". That's a dangerous and Orwellian accusation that has been peddled for some weeks now.
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  32. We squandered 10 years of not diversifying our energy sector with renewable sources. This even includes local microgeneration of electricity, hydrogen, the agricultural effluent across all of Europe that can be biodigested into useable methane. But the EU (read EPP) had persisted in maintaining the market and the goal of unlimited growth under a thin coat of greenwash.
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  33. We're a tax evasion money washing machine with an added dose of plastic paddy tourist traps, and a civil democracy trapped by self serving charlatans and the threat of capital flight.
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  34. Or "Vichy Trance"
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  35. What's unusually high tolerance to you? Why discuss about immigration without discussing about Ireland's deeply broken and explored housing crisis and poor economic planning tailored for MultiNational tax evasion and service jobs.
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  36. It would demand a pivitol shift in our economic lives, outlook and planning. Something that's needed to address the crisis that is climate collapse But no. Private business interests will outlive us all until there's no economy left to buy from them.
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  37. And so does lePen and Meloni
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  38. And visa versa. But neither take seriously the catastrophic permafrost melt and wetland emissions from global warming
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  39. You really didn't explain anything with a finishing dose of flattery
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  40. If it weren't for the bloodshed
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  41. What's not fine is how there is an abundance of money that could help many things, many Americans and American society with that annual $800 Billion tax bill on the pentagon.
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  42. They're both seasoned technocrats with many business relationships, are you sure....
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  43. We can afford the reduced political lobbying-/-manipulation that has always made the UK the contentious contrarians in the EU Council.
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  44. Don't be a supremacist
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  45. Can't say you're unbiased with that purple-volt EU flag combo in your pfp Volt has shown an appalling attitude towards Palestinians though and entertain xenophobic and islamophobic views in recent months.
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  46. If only the Irish government politics would, despite scandal after scandal after scandal after sandals 🩴
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  47. and Ireland is the UK ...
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  48.  @ez9566  Greenhouse gases were discovered almost 200 years ago. Global warming, climate change was known since the 1940s. The cause being oil companies and executives in the 1980s. And now in the 2020s we come to understand that it's a product of capitalism in general; the production of fossil fuels, the lies and delays from the industry's infiltration in the political and media space. And if course, the systemic nature of employment and the economy as a whole
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  49. He wouldn't be the only one
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  50. Gotta feed that algorithm
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  51. Fascist lesbianism?....
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  52. ohhhh france...
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  53. Who actually wants fascism?
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  54. What about their private paramilitary threatening a mutiny?
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  55. ​ @karankapoor2701 you may need some self reflection if you can't scrutinise the FDP yourself
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  56. And both are conservative authoritarian governments
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  57. They weren't just slow. They were deliberately trying not to switch and invest in EVs or even hybrids or microcars. Desperately trying to hold back Euro emissions regulations. Desperately trying to keep selling petrols and diesels while neglecting investment in workers and R&D. That's why the EPP are such good friends with these private business interests.
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  58.  @StephenRayner  that's no excuse to drop Al renewables and spend +10 years building a nuclear site
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  59. ​​​​ @marcobonesi6794 you're showing your ignorance there pal The housing market (and homelessness/wealth inequality) across Europe is in poor shape What good are cheap houses in Spain when there's massive speculative investors manipulating the market aiming towards customers who aren't just expats and holiday makers but in particular people from Ireland who literally find it cheaper to commute by air
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  60. You think the weapons industry isn't delighted by that fact?
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  61. Ask yourself who is creating the fear, who is creating the risks.
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  62. 301 vIeWs!1!?!2!1!!
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  63. So, superficial?
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  64. ​ @HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva Fascist
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  65. The workers or the bosses?
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  66. So this is what happens when a party gets inti government on superficial and manipulative culture war and anti immigrant issues?
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  67. Yay?
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  68.  @sigurdchrist  not even close pal, it'll be an imperial empire like that USSR but without communism.
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  69. As long as it distracts from environmental disasters caused by lobbying and profiteering.
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  70. Is there no thought to be given on the FPD and its business friendly incompatibly with reducing emissions?
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  71. Isn't the FDP not responsible for consistent contradiction and mismanagement in the current coalition?
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  72. Farmers should be able to organise prices for themselves and not be pushed further and further into debt to keep up with commodity demand.
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  73. Everyone manages to turn a blind eye to Orban's Hungary or the similar policies of Poland or Italy's new government. But when it comes to actual political critique of NATO that you'd see from the likes of "far left" NGL parties - it always ends up in a dog pile.
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  74. And isn't it a problem when there's no will power or planning to organise all those small businesses together to adapt and defend themselves from economic shocks - because of short sighted decisions from an Automaker that's vulnerable from Chinese competition that invested in affordable EVs a decade in advance?
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  75. Vonder Genocide
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  76. It's been down that path for a while. Every social media channel that struggles to keep the algorithm on its side eventually clickbaits but also puts off long time followers
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  77. That's GM for you Imagine if the people of Australia, the workers of Holden were able to make their own decisions for their own industry instead of a faceless group of executives who needed their quarterly profit margins for stock buy backs?
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  78. If he did, the Oligarchs would immediately have him in the rough.
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  79. That's the intention of centrist or Neoliberal parties. Frustrate and deny any meaningful change and allow fascists/fascist-sympathisers to flourish
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  80. The BBB are not for small and squeezed farmers, it's painfully clear
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  81. Plus le change plus la meme chose
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  82. The housing crisis Europe wide is more important tbh
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  83. Austerity didn't work ? Shocker
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  84. ​ @user-op8fg3ny3j clearly the gritty economy reality alludes you Have you heard of climate collapse? I sure wouldn't mind dragging new life into a world that will certainly be worse off when I turn 40
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  85. ​ @joeblogs6598  This world knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. From hospice care, to healthy families, healthy communities to a healthy biodiversity that all our food relies on.
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  86. Ask the industrial capital powers to not invest in them and their union busting.
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  87. It should be up to the people of russia. But the likelihood of a people's revolt is a lot more dangerous now than it was in 1917
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  88. But don't sweep the past under the rug. It's like Ireland and England, all good to aspire for the future and cooperation, but skeletons in the closet must not be given a blind eye What happened to Greece in 1947 sedimenting its (let's be honest) fascist military coup era?
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  89. Was already a lose lose in terms of emissions
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  90. Oo aah up the RA
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  91.  @wlee9888  you're getting it backwards. In the last 20 years China's automotive industry transformed itself through its internal market. Buying +10 year old tooling of cars long since discontinued from Europe, having Foreign manufactures to pair up with Chinese manufacturers to develop their engineering. They succeeded long before now. Only now are they exporting cars that are on par with external "free markets" 🙄😂. Whether you see it as a threat or as a sign of weakness that their internal market is showing signs of fatigue.
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  92. Yikes
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  93. Alright. But you do know that western Automakers have invested heavily in the prospect of China being the largest automotive market since the 90s. So if a tit for tat occurs and China just blocks any foreign car sales, hundreds of billions in investment will be stranded and at risk essentially. Stocks go down, economic free fall
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  94. Hey TLDR! This sounds like perfect ground to collab with youtuber MoFreedomFoundation
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  95. German industrialists with a hand in the CDU ignored the warnings
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  96. ​ @josephcarland shhhh 🤫 Conservatives and fascists don't like that fact
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  97. ​​​​ @manudwarf49 and there's FA decent transport outside of Dublin. I've 8 years no claims on insurance and the quote is below €800 for the first time. Most people reliant on the car here in Ireland tolerate +€1200 as the norm. An 18 year old who passed their licence in a 1.4 fiesta would be facing +2500 per annum. They're a monopolistic cartel, Ireland is valued and exploited like an isolated market on to itself... There's FA public alternative or any alternative that deliberately undercuts the cartel I could also be talking about health insurance too...
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  98. Are farmers going to realise that they shouldn't let big factories and supermarkets puppet them?
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  99.  @aleksaradojicic8114  or the Catholic church in Irish government.
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  100. ​ @reaperz5677  reality pill too bitter for ya?
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  101. Despite the sanction, freedom of trade/market is still far too valued politically to be reigned in.
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  102. Exactly
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  103. All this yellow peril is getting feverish. Fetishized even.
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  104. The one and only solution? No deep sea wind and large scale battery storage? But if course, being able to store electricity when free or cheap and selling it in the 7-11am and 4--9pm rush is hard to swallow for some energy suppliers - especially when it's their customers.
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  105. 5:05 You can't blame the vagueness when your cultures are being conditioned outright by the material conditions we have and compete for. What exactly happened to public discourse after the 08 crash? It wasn't pretty. Wealth moved upwards and migrants became targets, particularly for right wing pundits, ala Brexit
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  106. Such as global warming/climate change/collapse, but only when trade supplies are threatened even when they were warned of years in advance
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  107. We also in Ireland have a massive blight of hoarding of vacant or derelict properties. The majority of whom evade vacant tax penalties Private property is sacrosanct in Ireland, only if you're well connected tho.
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  108. Reform how, for who? Large farmers and supermarkets?? 🤔
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  109. Don't spend too much of your time doing that
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  110. ​@@arisnotheleslook at you and your 3 Ks 🙈
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  111. ​ @danielwebb8402  "Am I out of touch? No it's the children that are wrong"
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  112. "Sharia Fein" is one of the common accusations
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  113. ​ @scipion34 Ask King William of Orange Fascists are all alike
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  114. A fascist
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  115. Unless it's LePen Those kind of protests most definitely benefit the status quo in France.
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  116. Accelerating climate collapse, ecocide, debt and rampant poverty and inequity too
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  117. ​ @scratchy996 free market dogma is not progressive! Seriously have some criticality. In case you have forgotten we're living through a grave climate collapse
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  118. Chrysler saved itself by making the minivan market and completely ditched it simply because of the image of minivans/mpvs Now all they do (especially under Fiat/FCA with Dodge and Jeep) was prioritised enthusiast cars that were the most polluting but the most profitable. You might remember the 200C and dodge dart. They were just rebadged Alfa Romeo sedans. But sedans were already dead on arrival in the 2010s So every automaker just jumped on the crossover bandwagon without even taking serious investment in hybrids and EVs. That's a tell tale executive's decision
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  119. A lot of "politically central" and proNATO folks from Ireland to Austria, Greece to Lithuania are itching to send working class and unemployed citizens to the war front.
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  120.  @soundscape26  you say both but clearly one had a monopoly of executive function as long as the industry existed.
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  121. Hardly
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  122. Middle class are conscious-ing
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  123. Build affordable Chinese EVs, solar panels and energy storage that Europeas are needlessly deprived of for years...
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  124. Good point Sadly whatever climate policies are left have been watered down by commercial interests and turned into a political football. Climate policies have been undermined into being another vehicle to indebt farmers further and further into the unsustainable spiral of endless growth of yields, which the commodity brokers and supermarkets demand It's a self destructive economy
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  125. Which is left to each member state government elected at the time, which opens up 26 cans of worms
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  126. Nordstream 2, anyone?
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  127. What happened to decarbonisation and phasing out fossil fuels rapidly??
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  128. ​ @notusneo don't be thic
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  129. 3:35 odd cause most Irish people renting would spend at least 2/3rds of their income on rent
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  130. And there you have it folks! 🥇
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  131. A shockingly understated poem and reminder for the comfortable in a time of poverty and crisis .
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  132. In this day and age?
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  133.  @petterbirgersson4489  Exactly. Not to mention when communities are able to own said storage facilities and renewable generation. In a microgrid households are able to generate and share/trade electricity; which is a death nail for electricity providers and their current business method of providing electricity Method of ownership is key to a new generation of energy useage.
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  134. 3:03 GOAT🙌
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  135. Speak for yourself, from a fellow European
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  136. The largest failure of the German presidency was their Appeasement of Poland and Hungary.
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  137. The S*n could take some notes
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  138. The Wulling Bingo EV looks the ticket. A no nonsense proper electric car that would be the size of an old Ford Focus. You definitely don't get that anymore in Europe
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  139. Burning wheat....
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  140. Resorting to scapegoat migrants and minorities instead of addressing key root problems and inequity of wealth and assets (and military adventurism in Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, etc) and we're being led to believe that fascism in Europe is not a real threat?
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  141. Ireland and *GB
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  142. Just like how Ireland did: They kept the hospitality industry and flights open throughout the winter holiday season.
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  143.  @Uzishan  that's the whole point of R&D, they, executives, literally dismissed hybrids and EVs as childsplay long since the 1990s. And I wouldn't be so blithe to "asking more money for a job", have you a notion of what workers' unions are for? There's a great surplus of value in these organisations and it's all for private investors and executive pay, even that sphere of influence has its own competition against other competitors. "Talent" as they call it.
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  144.  @alexsocial9525  the vast majority of cars sold are still petrol or diesel Sorry. Short term profits come first, even when our world is burning over put
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  145. You literally think that all farmers are treated equal? Do you think the thousands upon thousands of small farmers who have to sell up to greedy landlords/rich farmers are the same and deserve incentives proportional to output for unsustainable commercial demand? Have you not seen what's been accelerating since the 90s? Have you not seen this massive wealth divide and social vandalisation?
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  146. ​ @gameofender4463 and they have been undermined, overworked, indebted and pushed out of business by much larger farmers for decades
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  147. That's the sad truth of it
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  148. It's slowly becoming that, and I really wouldn't want that for it, having subscribed and shared it from the start
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  149. Mmmmmmeh
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  150. 🤡
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  151. Farmers need unions. Not corporate sabotage of Monsanto/pesticide companies hiring PR companies concocting far right rhetoric, scrupulous supermarkets/commodity traders and "Associations" who all have their lobbyists in the EU comission and national govts If farmers knew they were being hoodwinked by nefarious and profitable businesses , they could and should organise for themselves - not for the filthy rich
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  152. ​ @joeyjojojrshabadoo7462 both, but primarily the US
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  153. What on earth would Jreg say about this!?
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  154. ​​ @Astro_Guy_1  very true. The crisis is impacting more countries than others, let's not forget that inflation is caused by Profit Speculation, and industries especially the oil industry had rampaged on recovering lost profits from covid. National politicians have run rampant on interpreting EU directive inti their political objectives. But it's ultimately the single market that facilitates free movement of trade (capital and assets) - and you must admit it makes it and the collaboration with scrupulous politicians that much easier.
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  155. Just like Ireland
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  156. Were we really democratic in the first place? Democracy seemed to be conflated with free market enterprise and competition for jobs since the early 1980s.
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  157. You don't have the slightest clue of battery management systems or battery manufacturering
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  158. I wish more sense could be made in changing the base load business model of the electric market. To not lose sight of wind, solar gravity etc renewables and battery storage (there's more than 1 type of battery, guys) that is paramount to emission reductions. Both in the sense of grid scale, local/substation scale, storage from vehicles and residential homes that are able to smooth out the inefficient high-and-low peak demands throughout the days and months. That people, individual homes, to collectives and even businesses themselves can gather and trade their own electricity Of course , this is bad news for some. I don't have the best confidence in the Nuclear stans we see often, particularly from reddit. Same thing with hydrogen, the precieved convenience pays more than the costs of reality. The way we see the ownership of grid and electricity needs a do-over for everyone, and that can go for a lot more things other than how we plan our utilities in the future.
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  159. The mess is colonial debt. Same with Haiti. Forgiving debts and sins, that's what Jesus was crucified for.
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  160. ​ @sebastianprimomija8375  you must handwave yourself with that rotten carry on
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  161. Lmao. Putin was put into power to maintain the robbery of the Russian people since the collapse of the USSR
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  162. Ireland did pay off 42% on your and France's central bank debt in exchange for a dreadful work-life balance, bullshit jobs and a bullshit economy, among the highest prices in the EU and a depressing renting/housing/homelessness crisis.
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  163. It's our dire housing crisis Nobody was crying foul over the wave of easter European and other migrants before the 2008 crash. Every crisis in Ireland is being spiralled by the housing crisis and the legacy of austerity Now Yank and British fascists after bored by Sweden are having a field day of manipulating Irish political life.
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  164. ​ @joshyfox99 funded by the UK remember
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  165. ​ @duskokukolj5571 Greta Thunberg...
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  166. Honestly - the fallout from Climate breakdown is so far a more immediate threat than nuclear threats and use due to the fact that the damage will be exponential and are already "baked in" by how our climate works and accumulates more and more energy. We know the facts, the scientists have been on the same page for 4 decades and have apparantly underestimated the affects of global warming seen since 2015, just 7 short years of no action has overwhelmed climate scientific data expectations or means tests. Nuclear strikes are in people's minds an immediate danger hence why we galvanise more quickly out of fear. It's a sickening tragedy how we (our governments, industries in our "democratic" governments) aren't feeling the same. Frog in a Boiling Pot syndrome
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  167. ​ @sonneh86 tankies? Speak for yourself hun
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  168. The Social Democrats infighting sounds fishy and similar to Britain's Labour party that led to the rise of Kir Starmer.
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  169. I hope you've been thorough with this one lads
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  170.  @AeneasGemini  So Russia is imperialist? The same flaw the USSR had.
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  171. ​ @DudeWatIsThis very blunt objective you got there
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  172. 4:23👄👌✨ now that's a tasty use of meme TLDR you know your platform well 👍👍
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  173. Another region scarred by a history of British interference Speaking of Northern Ireland and Israel!
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  174. 2:55 I hope TLDR wasn't quick enough to admit that the Tories were in the ECR since Cameron.
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  175. ​ @soundscape26 he's joking about "Full Self Driving" I wouldn't trust FSD on anything but motorways. That was the main purpose
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  176. Did you forget about the hundreds of thousands of hoarded, vacant and unfinished housing?
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  177. ​​​​​ @danielwebb8402  I'm not agreeing with you. Don't be arrogant. And since you mentioned the 1700s, yknow, Ireland's colonization being the birthplace of British colonisation and capitalism... My parents had the stones to admit to me that my standard of life was not going to be better than theirs, marred by the 2008 crash. A better life does not mean being spoiled for choice at LIDL or by the unless stream of coffee shops. Living off sustenance wages. A better life means a tangible outlook to make a better life. That simply doesn't exist, the jobs simply doesn't exist. We may live in different countries but we're all living through an unfolding climate collapse It's all wishing with you. My generation are fully aware that neither did we inherit a free and independent Ireland, we're also inheriting a climate collapse being fueled by a runaway, nonsensical demise of chasing GDP as the only mission in life. Those who have kids are only lucky that they have generational wealth from parents or grandparents to absorb the time and cost. Those who didn't have wealth in the family get welfare with their kids and I'm glad that they can, because there are many who suffer in destitution with and without welfare or any kind, working and living in a hotel. Many other with or without kids have to emigrate to the likes of Canada, Australia and New Zealand who are undergoing the exact same socioeconomic crises like housing and renting but life over there is still better than it is in Ireland.
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  178. Volvo, London Taxi Can company, they all have a Chinese parent company but are actually given more engineering autonomy than what GM used to give Opel and Vauxhall
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  179.  @strikeformatik  exact same story with the Irish Farmers Association or IFA They make the biggest disruptive protests against government without fail or push back, when they're literally big business farmers, supermarket suppliers, factory owners and land owners It has been indebted and struggling farmers who have been protesting for them. It's a crying shame, a farce.
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  180. Ah but what about all that tax avoiding Foreign Direct Investment ? We'll be thrown back to the 1980s without them 🙄
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  181. Crippling austerity served by self serving chancers, bailing out scandalous banker's but not bailing out people and +400,000 emigrating
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  182. That's the fault of western automakers for not taking EV seriously. Thinking they can convince everyone that they want expensive crossovers.
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  183. Every war ends in consultation. It's not worth to consider them failing.
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  184. Why are there no jobs anywhere that bring a net positive towards climate resilience and reversing land misuse, ecocide/biodiversity collapse? That's the question
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  185. And the same EU (all the finance ministers of the member states) who instead of solidarity pushed Greece's people into complete and abject poverty and Privatisation of their infrastructure - hence the recent rail disaster.
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  186. What about economic dictatorship? The reason why why can't get rid of oil to save ourselves from climate and societal collapse, or unions and protestors demonized for organising? If we're to stand a better chance beating dictators like "Putler" Putin we also have to finally catch our own demons. Free movement international capital and the like that everyone generates. Like the trade empire and pirate ships of the 1600s.
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  187. I wish more sense could be made in changing the base load business model of base load electric market rather than just make big touts about nuclear. To not lose sight of wind, solar gravity etc renewables and battery storage (there's more than 1 type of battery, guys). Both in grid scale, local/substation scale that are able to smooth out the inefficient high-and-low peak demands throughout the days and months. That people, individual homes, to collectives and even businesses themselves can gather and trade their own electricity Of course , this is bad news for some. I don't have the best confidence in the Nuclear stans we see often, particularly reddit. I see the same enthusiasm/or hubris from Hydrogen stans, coming from a desire for convenience. The ownership of grid and electricity needs a do-over for everyone, and that can go for a lot more things other than how we plan our utilities in the future.
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  188. Very irrelevant to trow Keir into that mix.
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  189. Works for the US ...
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  190. Winner is whicher party msmifesto that businesses like most. Reviving fascism
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  191. Germany is at it again And not one mention of Israel and Gaza
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  192. "French development"
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  193. Leo Varadkar by a long shot
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  194. At the expense of making insane profits for the weapons industry - yeah. In a war situation, no one should be allowed the chance to profit.
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  195. All the more pressure is useful to get rid of the S&D, that can't be overlooked.
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  196. You don't give AF, it's just a culture war in your head
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  197. Compulsory next is talk endlessly of how Ireland is Europe's weakest link in defense
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  198. ​ @karankapoor2701 🤡=🏭🛢️💣
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  199. If only economic woes bother you then sorry if that's seen that you'd be apathetic to preventable massacres and atrocities world wide
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  200. ​ @mattgummerson8370 y'all forgetting about climate collapse?
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  201. "green" natural gas anybody? The 2010s were a laughable waste of time
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  202.  @soundscape26  no, and I'm speaking as a "car fan" Have you seen most new car buyers? They don't care about their cars, they don't know their cars. They're reliant on them for work, quite often it's the company car. If most people liked cars we wouldn't have a market oversaturated with samey Crossovers and SUVs
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  203.  @DerDoMeN  like myself, you probably live somewhere that has been fundamentally designed around the car, oil market and de-investment of public transport like railways
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  204.  @undaijoubunii-chan586  you need to consider that the decisions and risks of executives can determine the very existence of a worker's job.
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  205. What is there to be pro- about? They have self avowed fascist Likud politicians many of whom expressed racial hatred and incitement of harm, dehumanisation and Genocide.
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  206. ​ @LoneWolfInsane  Always a good sign of a healthy economy, aye?
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  207. I sincerely hope. We had our chance in Ireland with Sinn Féin last year, just too few candidates. But let's be frank here, a progressive pact of member states is a grand idea (look at how Hungary and Poland threw their weight around at the EU Commission) But it feels practically far too late. Not just for the climate, not just for strengthening social democracy; but also Greece. They had Syriza and were pummeled by every EU member finance minister with no ally. Now Greece is on fire
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  208. Sure
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  209. The US is definitely not in control of that sort of thing. It's business ran.
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  210.  @omnisciency  freedom is money. The more 💰 the more freedumb And inherently, that will make some individuals far freer (privalaged) than others. That's the age old liberalism in a nutshell for ya.
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  211. Well needed point
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  212. Neoliberals be like
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  213. But Europe buys oil from Saudi Arabia, who compensated that with cheap Russian oil....
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  214. .... Not even close. But yes, if there's one thing that can defeat Putin and the Oligarch system, it would be a seizure of the Russian state and economy by its citizens But we're not fortunate enough to live in that timeline
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  215. What kind of communist party in its political sense be pro-Russia and not be a vassal?
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  216. Makes fast friends with EPP & VonderLeyen
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  217. You're onto something 🔥
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  218. At that time of rebuilding economic politics were very different than today, they were much more advantageous for workers. Particularly for the likes of Citroen and VW, there was plenty of investment in R&D. But since the 70s everything went down hill and austere.
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  219. Imagine if a barrel of oil was priced to the equivalent of carbon per tonne? Crude would cost around $2/barrel. But noo, that's too damaging for the oil industry that is knowingly killing us
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  220. The EU practically views Israel as European/western... For the wrong reasons
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  221. ​ @joecaa3722  that's post colonialism for you. For Ireland, it was butter, milk and livestock. And there was a trade war between Ireland and the UK in the 30s... Not as simple to explain how a post colonial country ends up so reliant on an unvaried economic.
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  222. "Why does neoliberalism breed fascism"?
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  223.  @HibikiKano  🎯🎯🎯 Concepts like the Mia electric ? The Citroen Czeros and the like. By 2010 things were already late, I know in France and in Ireland at one point some 200 electric cars were loaned as a pilot to families by a public electric company. It was mostly successfully but mothballed it If only they could have persisted. . In France such schemes also made relatively used second hand EVs much more accessible. There was no political will for it, and the crass business as usual dominated and suppressed not just private EV sales but also charging infrastructure
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  224. ​ @HibikiKano you're dead right there
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  225. And what reasons do you remember? Does it have much to do with the battery management system? The manufacturing stage of cells? What is it? Just hear say
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  226. ​​​​​​ @luiscastro1906 That is the crux of it, they are an occupational force and have basically forfeited any right and narrative for self defense but enjoys near complete geopolitical immunity. At the UN & UNSC, the US specifically vetoes any motion to address Israel's illegal settlements, war crimes, etc. So it is completely safe to say that what's happening now is purely a result of politics that has been a non-negotiable in US politics for decades where any dissenting political or civil voice that criticised Israel had been villainised beyond recognition. That's coercive and authoritarian, it's Fascistic, and it looks like it's coming to an end.
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  227. 🥉✨
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  228. The lack of control on the cost of living crisis and control away from privatising national/social services and assets would only help dissuade against joining the EU.
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  229. What happened to the argument for de-growth in regards to climate impact?
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  230.  @ciaranbrk  why comment pray tell?😅
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  231. ​ @megakillpt1332 you don't bat an eye of who owns all the properties and the rental market? Look at how dire the situation is in Ireland and Great Britain
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  232. They love doing that though
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  233. Well that's something
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  234. Would Iceland had been able to jail its bankers if it were in the EU?
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  235. I wonder which political ideology has always warned of a capitalist tendancy to create the conditions for a growing far-right/fascism movement that the centre always inevitably collaborates with before destructive takeover? 🤔
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  236. ok - especially regarding the climate emergency we're in, as all these strifes including wars, austerity, discrimination, corruption and inequality share the same roots but are you going to be in work tomorrow?
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  237.  @ishaannag4545  we're all on one planet sorry to say 🌀🔥🦟🌍🏭
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  238. Wonder if a decade of "anti left" think ganks like turning point whose content are prolific had any role
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  239. ​ @Ar1AnX1x they'll never learn
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  240. More capital strikes like the early 80s?
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  241. What policies of PiSs do you like .. ?
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  242. 🎯
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  243. There's no winter for them with this climate
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  244. If you're gonna call Keir Starmer's Labour left, I have some shaking news for you. Immigration is easy bait for many, it is presented as threatening. What helps is to acknowledge some grasp of market forces that existed in our western societies, like what encourages migration and emigration. What many people like us in "rich" countries experience now is an antagonisation of "change". That we see in both housing and employment markets and on the street (tourism more like). Housing is the giant problem in many "globalised" countries now. The lack of supply both state owned and speculative is not only a blight in society it's a catalyst for political narratives that western white communities are being erased - as a consequence of years of political policies since before and after the 2008 financial crisis. But the far right will never articulate anything about the market . But any left politician that does would receive far more political and media suppression than the right. And right wing supporters (who aren't well off) end up being the biggest loser's of their own ambitions.
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  245. And the commission more accountable to the citizens of the national governments that comprises it.
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  246. I'll trust you don't actually view "druggies", people regardless, with such disdain.
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  247. Because they're much more competitive than what stabilised brands offer
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  248. ​​ @user-nl9xh8iw4v hey're too fick for that
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  249. You say Europe did but what you meant to say was that executives and investors did at the expense of everyone else for cheap goods 20 years ago that eventually inflated in price.
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  250. Protecting the executives from their own consequences
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  251. Exporting inflation goes straight into oil industry and Saudi Arabia. It isn't exactly making inflation disappear
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  252. Centrism always opens the door to fascism.
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  253. You also omitted what happened to Greece in 2015. Stuck between a rock and a hard place and its fate demanded by other nembers' conservative finance ministers including the UKs
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  254. War of attrition...
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  255. Bingo! 🎯
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  256. There's always big farmers in the pockets of ALDE and EPP politicians.
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  257. And partly that's why Northern Ireland and Brexit becomes so critical for the EU
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  258. That's just weak minded
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  259. Get your head out of that hole Was that the measley $600 cheques? Or was it not the trllions given to corporation's and other businesses who squandered every penny and still jacked prices up in line with the rest of the competition?
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  260. It's not surprising. Dublin is Dire, Dark, Depressing and Dead. Donezo. FineGael and FiannaFáil and their economic policies of vandalism are entirely to blame And it has been creating fertile ground of well connected brexit-lite fascists who only put their sights on conspiracies of gay people and dark skinned people as a threat to replace the white Irish straight man 😬🙄 And our neoliberal politicians who sold us out will get what's coming to them. That's why they put in more effort preparing their next step of their career in the EU Commission or in the private sector who have been given work on the behalf of the state externalised by those same politicians
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  261.  @tringuyen7519  foreign investors
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  262. Who in their right mind would want to bring up children in this day and age of unfolding climate collapse and where crehes and child daycare demands a swcond mortgage?
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  263.  @blazer9547  same planet dint forget
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  264.  @useodyseeorbitchute9450  Quick and easy way to say you're too cowardly to face the facts of physics of what happens when oil companies burn hundreds of millions of years of CO2 back into the atmosphere in the period of less than a century, For the sake of the economy
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  265.  @dimaignatiev6370  you forget the weaponry sales
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  266. 2:08 what? but they're not even close to being the USSR. The current regime fed off its ashes
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  267. Thank you 👍
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  268. Ireland: "hold me yoke"
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  269. You don't know what his politics actually is
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  270. Tír for tatting
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  271.  @craftworded  yes
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  272. The Northern Ireland question will not to escape anybody
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  273. 7:05 very optimistic speculation that newly seized russian territory will ever be communist in any way.
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  274. The cowboys who got rich sucking Russia dry in the 90s are gonna have a shoot off with eachother.
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  275. And likewise with the modern day, nature is being poisoned and killed off for decades just like organised labour and culturally demonising the thought of unionising in many western countries.
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  276. Not one word regarding climate& biodiversity collapse creating havoc for farmers
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  277. Can't wait for the upcoming Irish/N.I elections 🤞🤞
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  278. Neoliberalism
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  279. A parasitic behaviour. Unless you live with your tenant's and live within your means.
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  280. You ignored Dublin and other Irish towns and cities. It's an extreme outlier compared to the rest of Europe that yourugtly say is going in the wrong direction
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  281. Ironically because of high rents, many young people from Ireland, Netherlands, UK etc are moving to Lisbon and other Mediterranean countries for the relatively cheaper rent
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  282. It's a part of the wider market, of corruption
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  283. The ideology of austerity: the "tighten your belts" extraction of wealth from the population much like the ideology of constant growth on a finate and vulnerable planet is the logic of a clumps of cancer cells.
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  284. It's all lip service, greenwashing. Every business especially those that profited for decades on fossil fuel will be as slow as possible to decarbon They'll always prioritise profits and dividends over meaningful R&D (or full labour pay). It's literally trying to have their cake and eating it.
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  285. Does this beat Northern Ireland?
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  286. 🏆🥄
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  287. ​ @alexanderkowal5710 Hubris
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  288. Don't forget: Nuclear only provides a large base load which in itself, the method of Electric generation and business model is destructive to carbon reduction. As well as a different method of ownership of said renewables (community owned microgeneration)
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  289. Where's the democracy in any of this? Serious consequences will be had if the EU commission forces NATO in the republic if Ireland. A European army collective that's independent of NATO (and US) is not given enough seriousness.
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  290. Profit begets Poverty
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  291. They're doing no better Brexit or not
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  292. Anyone questioning the fact that the coldness of Germany's debt sharing is hypocritical given that it was the German central bank who put Eurozone countries into debt? Ireland paid off 42% of the banking crisis debt
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  293. Don't talk soft
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  294. ​​​​ @F22ERaptor the Religious example is a red herring and a wedge issue to divide communities, much like what was achieved in Northern Ireland for generations. Protestant, Catholic, or Judaism and Islaam. Everything depends on who upholds the structure of power at the expense of others; that being a heavily militarised state & Apatherid, Displacement, Land theft, discrimination, internment without trial, Racism and Supremacy. Settler colonial supremacy. We saw the same in Apartheid South Africa, Rhodesia, Jim Crow South, Western Sahara, Algeria, Papua New Guinea and Israel in this case.
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  295.  @maavet2351  antisemitism is racism
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  296. ​ @meldamo and don't forget how they killed off Fás
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  297. Enough of that hollow NIMBYism crap Unless you're referring to former politicians who actually bribe developers up to 100,000 to not object to new plans There has to be an intervention in the market. Like state/council compulsory acquisitions of houses on sale and vacant sites. Market intervention in the predatory investors. And I do doubt Sinn Féin will want to rock that boat, that's why I have more faith in the more left wing parties who have been sounding the housing crisis alarm for a decade should they all end up in coalition
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  298. The dire housing crisis creating fertile ground of fascism that effectively buys time to protect Fine Gael and FiannaFáil's consistent vandalisation if Ireland?
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  299. ​​ White replacement racist theory. Know their dogwhistles. It's fine when protests come from the yellowvests with altRight infiltration but not when its brown and black people defending themselves from decades of unaccountable police violence Not surprising from this geebag
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  300. Hiya
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  301. ​​​ @Christopher_Giustolisi maybe you don't know what it's like to live in Ireland. Everything in Ireland, economic prosperity revolves around Dublin, even if that means you have to rent a house with others and drive near an hour away from work to survive. And most of that work are bullshotjobs that only exist for boosting GDP numbers and servicing the debts of fraudulent bankers from 2008 while also undermining any sense of sustainability on earth.
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  302. ​​​ @manudwarf49  avocado toasts, TV licence andinternet and that time of year you have a pint with your friends but forget that the pints are +€5 and give up on meeting up at all as pubs around the country sell out to the dismay of auld fellas
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  303. ​​​ @danielwebb8402 first off, try fitting climate collapse into that picture. Ireland was poor in living memory. A can of coke or a pizza was exotic then, but don't we realise how BS that is? The 80s you couldn't have a pot to piss in, or a corner to hide away from the church. Our history was marred with constant emigration. Yet, times always gotten better. But that rosy outlook, especially after the crash has been a lie, both economically, socially and environmentally Only the first time in Ireland's history are people emigrating because it's too expensive and no where to live despite being told there's countless of jobs that pays less than what is was in the early 2010s and explicitly doesn't keep the money in the town or country. All GDP mimicry and servicing of foreign national tax evaders.
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  304. ​​​ @danielwebb8402 you've completely deflected fella. I'd be worse off if I was living in the UK... That's worse than living in Ireland. The politics of vandalism of the Tories are copied by Fine Gael, but at least we're still in the EU. That's no bright side, it's just less depressing than the mess you're content in letting your young people live in. The real children are those who squandered the futures of future generations
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  305. Basic ass fascist
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  306. You got everything backwards. EVs are over priced for two reasons: Lack of R&D, if they invested a decade earlier they'd be cheaper. Executives and investors held back for too long. Most EVs are crossovers. No matter the fuel type crossovers and SUVs demand an immediate premium. That's why there's so few small cars left that are not profitable even with +30 year old technology.
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  307. Bursting into flames mid journey sounds an awful lot like your Tata Nano 😅
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  308. The whole point is that practically none of new builds are kept in public ownership, our government serves the developers and private market above all else. It doesn't have to be new builds either, councils have the means to purchase properties but they're politically deciding not to. If there were more public housing, that would mean less desperate people, couples and families on the private market
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  309. MG
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  310. ​ @soundscape26 only an eagle eyed Tesla sycophant could tell if a certain Tesla is built in China or not
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  311.  @user-iy3gx9qg4y  less farce. Try witness the double standards and undemocratic actions in their primaries. Because it's an internal event of a private party. So manipulating the result for a nominee doesn't get scrutinised. Definitely not in the EU Try Cornell West for size
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  312. @@alexpokrandt4378 someone gets it
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  313. We're a vassal to the global economy which is dominated by private speculators awarded by the US
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  314. ​ @QwoaX that's the fault executives of said manufacturers who dug their heels and dismissed EV R&D until it was too late They're the ones who still profit most from selling petrols and diesels Get your head out of your hole. They played the game and they'll burn the local economy. Get that straight
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  315. Good luck convincing the EPP, ALDE and more reactionary ECR etc to not serve the business interests of wealthy pesticide, commodity traders, supermarkets and lending institutions
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  316. ​ @autumnjacaranda106 good eye
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  317. ​ @keke6254 Bingo 🎯
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  318. ​ @HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva  you're showing off your power level National Party are aligned and funded with money from Brexit/Turning Point/Murdoch They're a fascist party and don't you forget that people are not wise to that insidious infiltration
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  319. GDP is ridiculous, full stop
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  320. Italy
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  321. Climate change is terrible but? I don't think you've truly acknowledged it
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  322. MG, Volvo, ORA, BYD
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  323. The main ideology involved is business interests pouring money into fake politics designed to preserve the business model of pesticide and overproduction of commodities and monopoly of deciding prices for farmers' produce.
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  324. ​ @sardendibs it's called a global tax haven for a reason
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  325. ​ @Pancakelover969 we're not rich, we're overwhelmed by economic activity and poverty
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  326. ​ @mam0lechinookclan607 the reason why our stupid government didn't accept any 0 interest pandemic investment
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  327. If you look back at how wasteful everything was in the 2000s, cheap and substandard buildings for +100% profit. And once the 2008 crash came, hundreds of thousands of skilled workers were forced to leave, starve, suicide.. and in less than ten years being cute in acknowledging there wasn't enough labour or resources Not to mention NAMA a big state asset holder of properties that we're resold back to fraudulent developers and institutional investors/cuckoo funds at +90% discounts It's called artificial scarcity for a reason . It's corruption
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  328. All the while Von der Leyen's Carte Blanche of supporting Netanyahu's genocide project in Palestine has done a lot more to fracture Europe
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  329. ​ @globuscola the rest of the world clearly wasn't all of it.
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  330. What kind of an economy, pray tell?
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  331. Always the death of us
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  332. DiEM25
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  333. Plus - in any national echochamber with easily controlled press, patriotic sentiment can be easy enough to maintain. Western sanctions have also played a role in galvanising Russian people for said authority, working people are always the ones hit first and hardest by sanctions, but they're the ones who are the most resilient and least responsible. Sad to say, a boy called wolf dynamic is in effect when the US made internal political decision to sanction Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and so on. And Putin being the dishonest actor he is capitalises and co-opts an an anti-imperialism narrative.
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  334. No one wants to really talk about Greece's human rights violations of rounding up refugees and putting them out to sea? This is what shores up right wing and far right votes
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  335. ​ @Klote3241 inefficient and expensive bureaucracy? Ireland: Hold me pint
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  336. ​ @MrStealYourBalls Industries, particularly the EPP and ALDE that represents them are stuck in the past. Look at how the EPP sabotaged the Nature Restoration bill
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  337. Someone who gets it
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  338. Cmon... How can $800 billion per year on military spending run out of weapons!?
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  339. God, your country's people are conned and warped beyond belief
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  340. It's a market place. A capitalist playground for free and unfettered movement of capital (especially Ireland) Isn't that not what you wanted or do you want a real democracy?
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  341. No fan of Hungray's despot of a leader. But the last two years of the Ukraine war, the actions of NATO and the neonazi malitias they train, and now the EU Commission's (and Ukraine's) whitewashing of Israels Genocide of Gaza - I'm disgusted and disillusioned by all this
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  342. They only work for "the economy" that transfers wealth of both public and everyone's personal pockets to private market players. That's been Thatcher's ideal
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  343. ​ @user-op8fg3ny3j try modern day climate collapse
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  344. ​ @blueboy3990 try modern day climate collapse
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  345. ​​​ @joeblogs6598 You can't see the fact that our governments are held captive by capital interess, much more than our democratic will. I know the world neoliberalism may harm the lot of you guys but that's the world we've inherited. Climate collapse baked in.
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  346. It's as if MEP Clare Daly warned this to us all along....
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  347. You'd never hear TLDR take that seriously
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  348. That was driving me low-key crazy
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  349. China didn't have a corrupt oil industry misleading them and wasting time.
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  350. Unless you're the UK, where engineering the Irish Famine served to make the Empire and a wealthy few more powerful and wealthy than before.
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  351. How out of date is this?
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  352. Ahh here we go
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  353. Hail? Neither king nor kaiser, pal.
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  354. Word for word, I strongly agree with your comment as a person from Ireland.
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  355. And that's not yet counting the multiple risk and "fat tail" factors brought on by climate change
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  356. Liberals have no problem with the Right. They both protect the status quo of power and wealth
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  357. 😑
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  358.  @Idkihavenolife  that's exactly what I'm pointing out kid! Profit benets from a war of attrition But too many of us are too accepting of that reality.
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  359.  @user-op8fg3ny3j  and that demands political will and intervention in the private market on the grounds of war time.
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  360.  @user-op8fg3ny3j  👀😉
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  361.  @bababababababa6124  yeah, it's a real 😂💀
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  362. ​​ @theuralictribes5689 Tbh, if the shoe fits...
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  363. Something to do with being able to acquire conditionally cheap natural resources from Niger and other "post" colonial countries, etc
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  364. I thought that was Israel
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  365. I never heard about this, please share. I only knew of Estonia rebadging their tiny EVs
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  366. Uwu
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  367.  @herisuryadi6885  🌹
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  368. You don't think that said politicians are working hand in glove with pesticide and fertiliser companies, supermarkets, commodity traders and institutional lenders? This is capitalism at play, when a crisis of their own doing comes they will seek any means to curate pressure, including Monsanto funding PR companies to start fascistic political parties that dishonestly claim to represent farmers.
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  369. Democratise is a misuse of the word. Democracy should not have any assosiation with economies of scale. Wtf
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  370. You can't say that we have soured to the false economy that doesn't serve Ireland?
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  371. No mention about the central role Poland's coal industry has in the country and especially its politics...
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  372.  @gl1500ctv  and why do many Russian people, conscious objectors have fled
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  373. Not comfortable at all with the rhetoric that a Green Energy Transition is in conflict with the issue of energy stability. It shouldn't be. Investing in has has slowed us to defend our energy grids from energy market disruptions such as this ongoing war by Russia in Ukraine. It's so fucking dumb how we lose sight of things over and over again
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  374.  @RCXDerp  for Ford it was their F150 that kept it afloat throughout
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  375. What did the devil do? All these moral panic far right parties decry everything and anything as Satanist
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  376. You're a daft liar Let ALDE's sabotage off the hook
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  377. Democracy and liberalism is what made this world. It's what made Russia today. It's what made the climate crisis today. Obviously none of that is democracy, it's a slogan and propaganda tool for capitalism - no democracy or planned social utility of the economy.
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  378. Stature and appearance is a pretty flimsy and typical way to do politics.
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  379. ​ randomnickname123 why the fuck do you use one of the most infamous jew-hate memes online as your profile pic?
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  380. ​ @AlbatrossCommando  criminally
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  381. Ireland will have more lessons learned. Profiting on a human need is a scurge
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  382. See: Sinn Féin
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  383. Racism is a tool to conquer and divide, to dehumanise us against others and preventing all of us to mobilize. To distract us from the real transfer of wealth as times get tougher.
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  384. Note for yourself, bring it inside from the elements and sleep with the engine purring 😴
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  385. Smells like oil lobbying
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  386.  @Spacedog79  bull
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  387. I wish there was less framing...
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  388. They're already less competitive by offering the same over priced crossover garbage.
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  389. You're deluding yourself. The climate is absolutely fucked get that one thing clear. Our land quality and nature has been exploited to near death to meet the unsustainable profit demands of commodity traders and supermarkets. Factory Farms and big farm landlords profit massively from CAP, small farmers are being drowned in debt (locked into maximising efficiency/yield) who are still too small to get enough CAP that they deserve and forced to sell to greedy landlords. No surprise that farmer suicides are rife.
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  390. Considering that Monsanto has spent millions in Europe to manipulate farmers and people against "green policies" rings similar to your comments The green policies compromised by the EPP/ALDE who work hand in glove with large, profitable businesses are not green at all. They're just another vehicle to indebt farmers further and force them to unsustainably grow yields for commodity prices. Yields that gets brutalised by poor growing weather from a collapsing climate.
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  391. Commercial Forest plantations that amount to ecocide
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  392. We had a decade. EPP, ALDE and US politics have held entire generations back.
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  393. Fascism left unscrutinised again, because they don't actually threaten change to business interests. It's more PC to demonise and drown refugees than to source austeriety and centre-right political choices as a cause for the sense of social and economic alienation for most people since 2008, and since the 90s
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  394.  @Flipflopflopper  you have no idea what the EPP does
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  395. When your pedalling racist ethnic talking points without saying "I'm not racist but" Housing is being profited by a wealthy minority, whom have power in almost every government working against your interests and ours. But blame migrants. That's the easy PCway
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  396. It's uncontrolled planning of housing and economy
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  397.  @franekkkkk  We love ya don't worry! But like with so much of Europe, we're told that we are close as a union of nations and peoples, but in reality we are very unaware of each other's news across borders. Like I mentioned, Greece is having a terrible time with the new laws of the NewDemocracy EPP gov't and consequential police violence; that news is very minimal across europe. They would make PiSS and Videz blush
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  398. Is the Kurdish Workers' Parthy any bit like SinnFéin?
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  399.  @elias_xp95  as Farage had once put it when questioned "I don't know how you can turn two into three"
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  400. ​ @austinleong3319  🚽
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  401. That's what they keep telling us, and it fooled us for a while. Load of PR
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  402. Oh no. It's pickle Rick.
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  403. You guys scream blue NIMBY murder to the 11th degree. It's a big issue, especially in recent months of a former FineGael politician found to have been manipulating the complains process in order to bribe developers - which lead to the closure of the Tara Lead and Zinc mines But NIMBYISM no where near as damaging as the policies that recklessly allowed open and volatile global market investment. It's outright corruption and socioeconomic vandalism
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  404. You literally are blind to the most profitable factory farms, landlords, commodity traders and supermarkets who destroyed the majority of farmers livelihoods?
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  405. Not one mention of the devastating climate change induced floods both countries just had.
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  406. FDP are sabators
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  407. The gospel has spoken...
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  408. "I'm not racist but"
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  409. Our government relies on young people emigrating every time to ensure old votes for old conservative politicians stand above us all. Our government's priority was not to house asylum seekers and refugees, if you ever take a look at how disposable they're being treated. Our government's policy is to give state funding to large property owners, such as TD Michael Healey Ray as just one out of thousands. Direct Provision was the same for decades. It's theft of the public purse when our government has every mechanism in its power to intervene in the market You're quick to make this about foreign people who you know are vulnerable. Without a doubt it's a lot more vulnerable being an Irish citizen and homeless since we had our futures signed away from bailing out the reckless speculative gambling bankers and developers
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  410. Nah, you're snatch is gorge, Jack
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  411.  @yeetjones927 õwó no homo lol
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  412. "dO yOu cOnDeMn KkkHAMAS"
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  413. Like how Israel invaded Palestine?
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  414. The EU has most definitely failed Palestinians
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  415. You're doing the opposite of convincing. Y'all yanks are no saviours
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  416. ​ @notusneo VDL Approves
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  417. Sure. This wasn't a problem when it was about the very climate change the fossil fuel industry is fighting against solving. But now it's a problem when free trade is proven to be unreliable....
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  418. ​​ @MegaBanne  putting private profit aside?
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  419.  @jameskarg3240  by your account, Ireland wasn't a real country with
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  420. Mitsotakis is the Greek Leo Varadkar
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  421. Combine low voter turn out, minimal media coverage on the run up of the election (and previous referendum), a non stop political narrative of the refugee crisis compounded by FineGael FiannaFáil's housing crises inflamed by a non stop racist rhetoric of "Sharia Féin traitors" from the likes who would arson bomb refugee centres and intice lynch mobs on random people - then no wonder this looks like a decline for SF despite them gaining a poultry amount of seats.
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  422. You also forgot fossil fuel subsidies
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  423. ​​ @user-op8fg3ny3j and ironically ahistorical, blind to actual war crimes and years upon years of intent for Genocide and incitement of racial hate for Likud's political gain.
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  424. That's horrible
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  425. Forgive Debt?
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  426. But it's an idea that comes naturally to Brits
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  427. ... yeah, it's not a popular badge at all unless you're an ardent pro-treatyer , and y'know, either 90 years old or a big larping dork.
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  428. @plentyness h-
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  429. Odd that you zeroed in on the public sector when their careers all clearly represent pro-free market and private capital interests; big agri-businesses, automotive, pharmaceuticals, weapons and armoury, tech and surveillance, global financing, OIL, etc
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  430. Are you guys not going to make an all-ireland badge? Doesn't have to have any particular flag on it. It's just that wearing a badge with only the 26 counties can often be a bad if not naive look.
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  431. It's like saying that the IRA started the troubles in Northern Ireland with the Brighton hotel bombing after Margaret Thatcher, ignoring her authoritarian policies. Nothing occuring before the 1970s, 1960s, 1920s, 1910s, etc Brush up on the history and dig a little deeper
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  432. I swear it feels likd it's been years since TLDR brought up climate change/collapse
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  433. I guess this implies Ireland wouldn't be considered European...
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  434. So are the Kurdish people going to be thrown under yhe bus?
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  435. Where did all of the islamophobic, NATO/NAFO, pro-zionist commenters go? 🤔
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  436. ​​ @Astro_Guy_1  As a single market, wouldn't you agree that the EU should act more as a union on market wide intervention on, say private transport companies, oil companies, Banks?
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  437. The ADLE's FDP have done their job, reak havoc
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  438. When speculative investor foreign "cuckoo" or "vulture funds" can buy up entire new estates without paying fair stamp duty and overwhelmingly hold sway over the market and Irish politicians- why are we surprised when fascist vist peddlers blame blameless people originally from abroad? 6:04
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  439. This smells an awful lot like the "responsibility" aura of the Irish Green party. And theyre's grim hope that they will survive after forming a coalition with the two dominant parties that half of the electorate wanted gone.
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  440. The FineGael party benefitted most from the Brexit saga by appearing as proEU with the backing of the commission against the clown show, despite SF doing plenty of heavy lifting in NI despite the shuttered Stormont. Sinn Féin benefitted (in 2020) as being an alternative to FineGael and FiannaFáil (FFG) in light of their disasterous series of crises in particular the housing and homelessness crisis. In 2024 FFG managed to weaponise their own housing and now migration failures against Sinn Féin and other left wing parties with the help of dangerous "far right" lynch mobbers who enticed the arson bombings of dozens of refugee centres.
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  441. Sounds like the same trick that worked in getting rid of Corbyn for his stance recognising Israel as an Apartheid state, aye?
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  442. Europe should collectively nationalise automakers for have failing and actively delay building less harmful products. But that window of opportunity is long gone
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  443. You're proud of any of that ? She got her votes by demonising refugees and letting them drown is the most action they'll take. What on earth do you expect to come down the line when ongoing Italian crises aren't mediated or resolved?
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  444. ​ @GwainSagaFanChannel electoralism. Don't believe middle aged fools sayong that Europe is right wing. Clearly that ignores those who are too disenfranchised to vote, but only live to work.
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  445. Are you willing to say that any transparency, even if war crimes were exposed by a whistle blower should be stamped out?
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  446. ​ @AlexP-mi2bc the EU is entirely economically captured by wall street dint you know?
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  447.  @donkey459  had to Google what wumao is. Paid trolling? You bloody wish.
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  448. Maybe there's something wrong with NATO?
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  449. Saying that they made bad decisions is an understatement. Try forcing living generation after generation living in poverty and oppression. That's why western countries and their industrialists saw pre-1917 Russia as a desirable place to invest in mining.
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  450. Oof
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  451. That's what should have happened if your government leaders took renewable and self sustainable energy seriously. But they gambled on natural gas. From the German government's policies, the Brit's, the US' and so on. They faile to future proof our energy grid from market destabilisation and climate destabilisation
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  452. ​ @agramarten ikr...
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  453. The ones who are biting are the anti-democratic supermarkets, processor plants, "farmer associations", CAP hogs and reactionary politics who are hoodwinking farmers against their own interests in the goal to dismantle environmental regulations. Environmental regulations that are already chronically compromised, still hostile to biodiversity and dependent on predatory loans on farmers
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  454. Borgor
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  455. Please, update the Irish badge. It's just not happening
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  456. You're definitely giving that Clinton Era a flattering
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  457. The conservative finance ministers of member states in 2015 basically punished Greece. It's ideology first, civilians last
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  458. 👀👀🇮🇪
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  459. ​ @giantWario The British are better at cultural genocide. Look at Ireland
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  460. With the robust welfare state?
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  461.  @srccde  that's nuclear power plants for sure. But not for typical domestic energy generation And yes, free market dogma and the rich have pissed our time away.
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  462. ​ @tomizatko3138 And crucially grid storage flexibility, co-op or personal microgrids
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  463. You can't recognise neoliberalism?
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  464. Austerity breeds fertile ground for fascism, just look at Portugal, Ireland, Italy, practically every EU member. And the supposed antidote? Centrist and autocratic authoritarianism that continues the austerity and worsening conditions.
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  465. Could it be economic corruption?
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  466.  @cianmcguire5647  c'mon now. They're just being more careful. Not that they're being less corrupt and domineering of who pushes and writes which laws on our behalf.
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  467.  @5koKirilov  "Brown Envelopes" was the term. And no, we are still corrupted with our EPP and ALDE represented political party gov'ts.
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  468. Gee, mass immigration must come from nowhere, not from a military destruction of people's homes. God the arrogance and mindlessness of ya
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  469. ​ @dieterhofner7043  the only fact you're guilty of is racist dogwhistling.
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  470.  @Edinburgh1000  🔥🔥
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  471. ​​ @RafaelW8 Jesus wept🙈
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  472. ​ @cameron6770 🤷‍♂️bad move if you prefer reliance
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  473. The west made Putin
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  474. ​ @HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva unironically promoting fascists with zero real policies, not one that will intervene in the private market.
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  475. Forgive Debt?
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  476.  @michaelogrady1002  unflatter yourself Mehole
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  477. Brits be like
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  478. Did you mean to omit the Górta Mór or Great Hunger, a famine that became a genocide perpetuated by West ministers policies? Mass evictions because tenant farmers only had blighted crops, mass exports of food to feed the booming and impoverished workers of the English industrial revolution, massacres and the infamous work houses and corn laws that killed 1 million and made another million emigrate? That most ridiculous thing?
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  479. You think its leftists that are pursuing to keep the GDP machine growing every year? That's all we're valued as, as workers.
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  480. 3:44 similar, but also under very different circumstances if we remember that Serbia committed genocide with intent, wheras Taiwan was the break (run)away state of the old chinese republic with their own infamous reputation
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  481. Still allowing fossil fuel companies to make murderous amounts of profit and investments when we know very well they're knowingly killing us off..
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  482. It's the richest farmers, it's the commodity traders, factory farms, pesticide and fertilizer companies, institutional lenders, and supermarkets that are causing this. Don't just sacrifice the starving farmers who have been forced to sell up to greedy landlords/estate agents and still live in debt.
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  483. ​ @chronnyc what you don't see, or refuse to see is that small farmers are being used and abused by wealthy landlords/factory farmers, pesticide companies, commodity traders, lenders and supermarkets. That's how things always worked, indebting farmers to grow more killing off the land until they're forced to sell. Monsanto is funding PR companies orchestrating these anti-green politics. Is that too obvious for you?
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  484. ​ @duskokukolj5571 Greta Thumberg....
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  485. ​​ @danielefabbro822 hence the history of pogroms of Jews and Muslims
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  486. What are you insinuating?
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  487. ​ @karankapoor2701 ok Karan 🙄
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  488. So every centrist/liberal party that always do that
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  489. IT'S
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  490. Isn't it weird and revealing how the video topics of immigration seem to get x3 the views when the deliberately engineered housing crisis is a major root cause of the former? Does TLDR know yhat they are playing with fire to krep viewership uo? Does TLDR take the effort to oin this video on the more "anti migrant" populat videos?
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  491. It's not deregulated migration. It's a deregulated/free-market and unplanned service economy that runs on migrants workers.
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  492. ​ @Hujhjgffw exactly. And the center right will always coalesse with fascist politics to stay in power. Such as the Tories.
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  493. All Canadians build are Chrysler Caravans, extreme wild fires and mass murders of indigenous women.
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  494. EPP MEPs certainly
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  495. You should seriously look at how Netanyahu reliant on a far right, self avowed fascist extremist cabinet are the only ones who can keep Netanyahu out of jail, and thus enabling the genocidal conquest of Gaza
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  496. That sounds like the ECR tbf
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  497. Now that is true. Unfettered competition or free market forces is what brought on the 2008 collapse
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  498. Russian oil simply navigates around and sells outside of western sanctions...
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  499. If you look at Ireland's rental crisis, it's not hard to see it as legalised corruption and manipulation of the market
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  500. Nicaragua accused Germany of aiding and abetting Genocide in Palestine. That's reason enough for many to turn away from German products
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  501. ... Russia after the liberalisation of the USSR was already a failed state!
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  502. 🎩 "you are wrong" the Fat Controller laughed
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  503. TLDR, I introduce you to The Ditch
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  504. ​​​ @PabloTBrave you should be thinking that it could be a lot better with no excuse But it's held captive in waging warms and climate collapse. Honestly, things would be better without US currency hegemony if there's no signs of serious change
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  505. ​ @Ugapiku  usurping the Nature Restoration Law you mean. That's existentially bad
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  506. You're ignoring the massive decline in said welfare funding
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  507. ​ @zeq4207 hardly
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  508.  @AmassuoCoon  maybe you did believing in that myth in the late 90s, 2000s, but honestly a feckless thing to believe. No one seems to be benefitting now, look around you, wealth inequality is rampant.
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  509. What's woke about any of that? I wouldn't call the EU Commission woke for whitewashing Israel's war crimes and genocide of Gaza You do realise racist yanks have stolen and misappropriated the world woke from the black lives matter movement? Woke is a long dead horse being kicked
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  510. Was it an MG, BYD or ORA?
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  511. ​​ @Omni0404 very US automaker is garbage. Their business is exploiting their workers and sending surplus labour into a cash casino for stock buybacks. Not to mention decades of tax breaks, incentives, political donors, etc
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  512. Ala, the Tories and the DUP
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  513.  @elias_xp95  not out of character for you then
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  514.  @Vii905  we're in a climate crisis and a pandemic after all.
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  515. Private coal amd private military industry interests holding Poland's state captive. Talk about democracy
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  516. The free market is not convinced. Sorry, deal with precarious oil dependency and inhospitable changes to the climate ,🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️
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  517.  @davidescristofaros2241  JustHaveAThink You should look that channel up, and why the instant demand and delivery base grid system is a major cause for inefficiency and carbon emissions.
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  518. And they know that's what western markets consumers want. But all we get are over grown crossovers that make the highest profit margins/inflation
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  519. ​ @stixinst5791 what? Sinister threats of famine, what are you Pritti Patel?
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  520. ​ @robsch21 farcical
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