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@ernestshercenbergs706 Yes, it is rude. However, compared to denying them citizenship and basic rights that's essentially nothing. People don't learn a language because you try to force them. You have to make them feel welcome and like they want to interact with you.
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 @pavelbavtra Exactly. People need to respect each others languages, cultures and indeed just each other as *people*.
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 @snarveien1853 Exactly. I'm not going to lay down my life to defend people who are actively discriminating against fellow residents of their country.
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 @hydro00505 Yes, it was Russification. And that's a issue that you have with the Soviet government at the time. But it does not justify Latvianization. One wrong doesn't make another right.
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@sebe2255 Forcing anyone just doesn't work. It breeds resentment and that in turn leads to resistance against your policies. Be they language policies or policies with regards to crime. The racism in the US has lead to a increase in crime among their minorities. And we here in the west have made plenty of mistakes ourselves leading to similar issues. But in recent years we at least have stopped treating significant percentages of our population like crap like they are. Of course, that still doesn't justify our treatment of immigrants. But I do believe that we have a right to criticize this.
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@sri33333 We offer a whole school education or at the very least a interpreter whenever someone don't understand the main language of instruction. It's harder to learn things if you don't understand the language. If you came to Norway as a child and we didn't offer classes taught in either English or Latvian and you didn't understand Norwegian you would be at a significant disadvantage in class trying to learn math or history or anything else. You have a right to have classes in a language you can *understand*. You'd of course also be taught Norwegian to help you adapt and save us on interpreter costs. Thankfully we're also proficient in English, so if you are as well that's usually a decent compromise. But we wouldn't expect you to learn anything in Norwegian unless you're actually proficient in it. And expecting you to do so is racist.
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@elvangulley3210 If they had been there for 3-5 years I'd probably agree. But this is people who have lived there for decades or even centuries in the case of people who moved there under the Tzar. Treating them as second class citizens is no longer acceptable in any way, shape or form.
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 @titosyettos2689 Not if they're being treated like second class citizens.
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 @titosyettos2689 "proper nation" jeez you guys really are racist...
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@HungaryBased On and off. Remember that the Baltic languages where always a majority language there, also under the Tzars. And also, they spent a lot of time under German and Nordic rule as well. Their history is nuanced. But they definitely should respect that they haven't been alone in their own country since before the northern crusades. And pretending otherwise is foolish. Any other ethnic groups living there, even if it's their former conquerers have *rights*.
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@Sivatra Some will always refuse to integrate. But if you refuse citizenship etc that's definitely not helping. If they had been treated with equal respect from the start you'd probably have had more integration.
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@RoninTF2011 Because said colonizers are also inhabitants and a significant portion of the population. And quite frankly we've all been colonizers at some point in our history, even you guys. At the very least compared to the pre-indoeuropean hunter gatherers. As humans we need to learn to live together in relative harmony.
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@RoninTF2011 A place that's also a autocratic hell hole. They have a right to make a live for themselves. If they where Russians currently living in Russia and they wanted access you have a right to deny them said access. But they're not. They are currently living in your (and also equally much *their*) country. Any talk about them needing to move out is a racist fever dream.
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@sebe2255 That I can actually agree with. Requiring Latvian classes in school is reasonable. Requiring Latvian as the language of instruction for people who don't have it as a native language is *not*.
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 @elvangulley3210 You're the one that's arrogant demanding that they learn it. People learn a language because it's useful to them, not because of the norms of a different society.
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 @ion282 Teaching French is one thing. Teaching in French is another. The first is of course fine. The second is unacceptable.
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@ion282 Do you really expect someone who only speaks Basque and don't even understand French to understand math taught in French? Would you understand anything you learned in school if you where suddenly expected to be taught in Russian or Mandarin or Thai or some such?
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@sebe2255 Perhaps not advanced math, but you're still years behind your peers, and since they're talking about outlawing it, anyone who has till now bad Russian as their language of instruction, and who are learning advanced math is suddenly at a major disadvantage. Also, I fully believe that whatever country you are in where violating your human rights as well.
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Alright, I have to go now. To anyone that wish to talk with me, I wouldn't be able to reply for a while.
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@emails8621 Are they allowed to run schools with Russian as the language of instruction? No? Then it's banned. We're all aware that we're talking about schools here etc. But it's still a human rights violation.
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@sebe2255 May I ask what language you speak?
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@F Youtube Good luck with that... The Republicans are losing ground generally speaking, even if Trump managed to make use of populism to steal some frustrated former Democrat voters. But even the demographics that are viable targets for populism just aren't that big anymore and are trending downwards long term in terms of total voter share... WASPS are going to become outnumbered soon. That's a fact.
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@F Youtube If you have a particular video you wish me to have a look at I'll do so. But seriously, I'm not going to be following that youtube channel. The wast majority of republican "influencers", youtube and otherwise video channels, twitter feeds +++ just keeps repeating eachothers arguments and using eachother as sources eventually going back to sources that was missunderstood by the original user of said sources... It's just a few nuggets of truths mixed in with a ton of half truths and outright lies. American deserves a real right wing instead of just... that... I can respect not wanting immigration or lower taxes, or less centralized goverment, or less goverment in general, or more military spending or any number of Republican policies, but not the consistent use of lies, twisting of facts and history to try to argue for those points of view. There's some real arguments for many of those poltical views and both the left and other right wing people would be more willing to actually listen to republicans if there was a bit more truth going around... But with all the logical fallacies, assumtions, circle arguments, confirmation bias etc, etc, etc, it just doesn't work... And since I only have a single life (no "afterlife" for me), I don't want to use that to listen to a channel I have no reason to trust due to generally bad experiences with sources of that nature in the past. But if you can find a single video rather then a whole channel that you wish for me to have a look at then I will. Oh, and regarding Americans... My girlfriend is American and my sister and her husband live in America. I'm just hoping to get my gf out of the country as soon as possible.
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@F Youtube Is there any particular point that you object to by the way?
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Maybe, but at least it'll be at reasonable prices now, and given how limited the trade with Russia is right now that's going to hurt them a lot...
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(Solution to the Belgian problem follows after this preview, click the "..." to read more) Regarding a video about proportional representation, yes please! Also, let me know if you guys want a hand in researching the details of how that works in the nordic countries. (I can help you with Iceland, the Faero islands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Åland. As for how to fix the situation in Belgium... Simplest solution: Make it official that no cabinet can be replaced till an alternative is presented and that the parliament can present a alternative at any time. That encourages cooperation. Anyone who isn't cooperating ends up losing power to parties that do, and if no-one can then whoever could do so last time ends up in power. Also, given the regional splits I suggest that any party that makes it into the federal parliament in the previous year should automatically be available on the ballots everywhere in the country, regardless with what culture and language they represents. That gives the voters more choices and should with time discourage political splits between cultures in favor of actual policies. How many seats each region is given can be balanced based on political, cultural and linguistic considerations (for instance a 50-50 split between the Flemish and Walloon areas and extra seats for areas like the German regions and possibly more or less for the Capital region depending on what's perceived as more fair. Then just add leveling seats to each region that's not given based on the proportional popularity of a party in that region but in the nation as a whole but where the representatives are still from said region. All of this would encourage fighting for seats everywhere instead of just in the areas dominated by your own culture and language. If your region has a higher population then another region but less representatives then you can use that higher number of voters to get leveling seats either as a small or big party but you'd need your representatives to be local in those regions meaning that people from that area would be important to your party and its values, it's political appeal and the amount of power you'd get. So say a Flemish based party would have Wallonian representatives to negotiate with their counterparts in the party with its power base in Wallonia, and as a result you wouldn't have to deal with those pesky a-holes of x or y ethnic group but instead would have someone with a shared cultural background but with differing political ideals actually discussing things together and relating to each-other.
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@chihaya2299 The EU made an effort to ensure that everyone got it. A lot of EU countries had the capability to outbid other EU nations in a bidding war but didn't. There was preexisting deals etc too of course, but on the whole in terms of vaccines the way EU dealt with it was actually relatively fair...
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@birdatbattlefield That and just the whole it's wrong to leave Taiwan and other democracies to be anexed by China is part of why I dissagree with Macron on that topic. That said, he has a point with his overall sentiment. While Americans are overconfident in their "nuclear shield" it's likely that it would reduce the damage of a nuclear war to the US even if it definitely won't stop all the major cities from being destroyed. Europe doesn't have that kind of protection, even if the tech was in place, in part because Russia simply is too close and there's not enough response time so vs Russia the tech is a waste of money. But for China Europe is a easier target if they need to scare Americans with a nuke if they want to avoid sending several to either overwhelm the defenses or to make it more likely to encounter flawd parts of the quite frankly prototype nuclear shield. Attacking Europe would save more nukes for a main attack vs the US since it's less likely to be intercepted. Especially if China manages to get Russia to use theirs instead of using a Chinese nuke... They're allies so it would still be a deterrence... Also, European capacity to do much good in Asia in a conflict between superpowers is... Limited.... US allies generally have armies designed to deal with the local threats, be that South Korea with their huge number of artillery pieces or Finlands reserve army or Swedens SAAB Gripen fleet and Scandinavian CV90s. Not to mention all the infrastructure etc. US allies enable the US to be relevant geopolitically in their respective areas and even with the lower military spendings they still reduce the amount of resources that the US would need to get close to the same relevance significantly. NATO without the US is still bigger then the US military even with the low spending after the cold war. And in Asia the US allies there also got more troops etc. The US role in these conflicts would be to cover the capabilities lacking locally, like in South Koreas case nuclear deterrence for instance.
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@assertivekarma1909 I suggest that you have a look at Peruns videos about why the US is allied to relatively speaking weaker militarily nations. Because the story about "Europe leeching on US military gurantees" just isn't true.
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If you look at the comments they're pro-EU. I'm not sure about the federalist vs confederate vs a unitary aspect of their party program. I don't know if they want tighter integration or looser integration. Personally I hope they want to go with a confederate approach (because a bottom up approach to power is important for many in Europe) but also for tighter integration, improving cooperation between member nations as well as with other nations... We'll see...
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1:06 Stoltenberg, not "Sholtenberg" He's Norwegian and the "t" after the "S" in his name is very much a clear, audible pronounced sound in Norwegian and should be in English too. A gunshot type T sound where you start with the "S" sound then release a small burst of air out in the "T" sound before transitioning to the much softer "o" sound.
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Apparently in the thumbnail of this video northern Norway isn't a part of NATO like the rest of the country. :-P
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The Polish economy is definitely impressive. But when it comes to models of the transition from communism to democracy I'd say that the Baltics (or at least Estonia) are doing better then Poland. Still, it's nice to see Poland doing so well.
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Hum, what about a we do want more immigrants and refugees, but we want local governments to decide if they want to accept anyone in first kind of stance? That way people won't be sent back, good from a progressive point of view, but immigrants won't end up on the streets before a local government decides to accept them in, meaning that they're presumably okay with them. And local self determination tends to be popular in rural communities.
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@fka-Kaya Hum, I prefer our system here in Norway, it's less rigid. Anyone can create their own coalitions before a election, what party has the most votes doesn't matter for who gets to start the coalition negotiations. The labour party has been our largest party in every election since the war, but they've lost plenty of elections because they together with their coalition partners wheren't the biggest together. Indeed, sometimes a party may be among the smallest and still get the prime minister job.
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@TheActualFuckingSun They where mentioned in the video. They're not a part of the establishment. And they don't sound like extremists. I'm mostly imagining them as a counterweight against the communists. And I believe that the best coalitions tend to be multiple smaller parties finding compromises rather then a few big ones. I'm a green voter in my own country. But I think they work best as coalition partners making compromises with other parties.
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@jonathanj.7344 Do who know what a woman is?
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Jeg håper de gjør det. De har alt dekket Israel og Island som ikke er i EU, så tror nok at de dekker oss også. Skjønt kanskje ikke i EU varianten av kanalen. Det kan være at det blir i "global" varianten.
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@sofiaormbustad7467 While you are right about the green voters being fragmented you're wrong about the estimated numbers. There's green voters and party members for non-green parties too, like labour. They try to work for a change within the labour party.
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@creepinasicrawl You're playing a game while they're building a engine, instead of the regular taking a premade engine and running with it (with just a few tweaks). (The whole Amazon/lumberjard thing was just about copyright and licensing and stuff, DC is still running on a custom engine).
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 @pc_suffering6941 101 countries of the world (or more then half) dissagree with you there... My own included.
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@OrthodoxSerb_ Blaming your chaos on the west isn't even close to covering it all. Yoguslavia was a doomed project from the start and shouldn't have existed.
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Dislike, not hate. The only party in the parliament that's hated by anyone is probably FRP.
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@irthamepali "Senterpartiet" means the center party. They where formally named "Bondepartiet" (the peasant/farmer party). They're a ruralist party. And a extremely pragmatic one at that having ruled in coalitions with pretty much everyone at some point or other in their history. Up to and including the local equivalent of the Nazis. They want more industry and public spending in rural areas as well as better conditions for farmers and fishermen. They're somewhat environmentally friendly (farmers need predictable weather), but want to drive our wolves to extinction within our borders and since railways and electric cars are more useful in urban areas then rural ones they tend to be more positive towards cars, ferries, small local passenger planes and other types of infrastructure that works in rural areas. They're somewhat sceptical towards immigration. They don't mind government spending though, especially in rural areas, like small local hospitals etc.
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@Benjaminimal They're not going to change any of the fundamentals. There's regular negotiations about how much we'll pay to the EU and they might weight in a bit on that, and if there's any particularly hard pills to swallow in terms of EU directives they might demand that we'll veto those. But they're not going to block EU directives willy nilly or change the fundamental deal. The labour party would enter a coalition with the conservatives first before that would happen. Norwegian political parties are pragmatic in general. Also, although they want out it's not a first priority for either party, not even the SP considers leaving the EEA as a primary issue. And they where the main "No" party during both of the two EU referendums. Norway can afford the status quo, and SP and SV both have bigger fish to fry.
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@haakonts Fingers crossed. Last election I was hoping for a H, MDG, V, KrF cabinet (possibly with SV as a support party), but two terms under Erna is enough. She handled the pandemic well, but more than two terms in a row isn't good with either side at the helm. Now I'm sharing your hope, perhaps with R and V or KrF joining in, although I doubt that they would...
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@hokton8555 Who where in a coalition with H? If you're asking me if MDG was, no, not at a national level. MDG has been in coalitions with H and others on the right in the individual municipalities.
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@hokton8555 I'm voting for MDG myself, the greenest party in the parliament while FRP, one of the coalition partners of H is the grayest.
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@hokton8555 No, I wasn't suggesting that you where. I was wondering what you meant with this: "Hakon Hofrichter Hakon Hofrichter for 18 timer siden @Luredreier they were in a coalition with H? " And in case you where referring to my comment about hoping for a MDG + center-right goverment last election I tried to elaborate on that a bit more.
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@kiritugeorge4684 Alright, so what's your hypothesis? And why do you believe that?
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