chloroquine99
@chloroquinecake
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Centrist foreign barbarian who likes eating pasties and drinking tea, migrated to England and became a British citizen.
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Once you understand the incentive, the reason for the behavior becomes obvious: they are importing a left-voting bloc that depends on government handouts. A prominent example of this in America is Ilhan Omar and her Somali voting bloc in Minnesota, an area which used to be
It is deeply weird that the absolute top priority for a lot of American and European politicians is bringing in millions of unvetted third-world immigrants. They could have shut down right wing populism entirely by compromising on this issue, but they refuse.
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„They've gone from 90% of the GDP of America to 65, that's not because America did anything bad to them, It's their own bureaucracy, their own cost.“ Says the CEO of the most important bank in the world, not a politician. Get your act together Europe.
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The European mind is a sight to behold. They claim that they have total freedom of speech, but when you point out that you can be arrested for simply insulting someone (hurting their feeewings) or posting an “offensive” meme online, they pivot and claim that those things aren’t
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How do EU people not understand that their laws read as absurd to everyone from a remotely free country “Your extremely well-documented checkmark system is deceptive because it’s not exactly the same as ten years ago. $45 million!” This is just obvious extortion
You can be a sheep and accept Elon Musk's groundless claim that the EU is attacking free speech. Or you can try to understand why the EU is fining Twitter. It is not an attack on free speech.
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EU makes more from fines on US tech, than tax from ALL of public European tech in 2024 EU fined US tech companies €3.8B meanwhile public internet tech companies paid only €3.2B in income tax
Hello, I am Jürgen from Bruxelles. I have a masters in social business welfare studies. I demand 10% of your global revenue for violation of cookie popups.
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I think most Europeans are actually completely ignorant about their track record for arrests for social media posts, probably because their press is captive and the data is almost always heavily censored / not released. But here are the facts: - UK: >10k arrests per year for
Europe is KILOMETERS ahead of the US on free speech and free press. You're delusional if you think otherwise.
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Another “Only in Taiwan” moment: Who says the practice of organizing exotic dancing in inappropriate places is dying out in Taiwan? #Taiwan
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They sure did! @realDonaldTrump
Remember when the EU issued a formal letter to Elon Musk, demanding that he censor Donald Trump in their interview during the presidential election? Because I remember. Elon didn’t censor Trump btw. So this is really an attack on both Elon and Trump.
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european lawmakers talking about american business revenue like it belongs to them. what an embarrassing people they’ve become.
Reality check: @X global ad sales are due to be > $2 billion this year...
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@JacquiDeevoy1 Consequences of getting what you voted for as you’re a Brexiteer right? The rest of us who are anti Brexit, are not stamping our insular isolationist trotters having had to accept our fate outside of the 🇪🇺 so instead of blaming Europeans focus instead on those who lied to you.
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You could stop prosecuting 13,000 people a year for tweets and thoughtcrime. That would get rid of a good chunk of the backlog without eliminating a thousand year old right to trial by jury
Almost 80,000 court cases are held up in the Crown Court backlog and behind every delay is a victim whose life is on hold. We’re going to change that. Later today I’ll set out a plan to modernise the system and make justice swift and fair.
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Why can a fundamental right in place since 1215 be removed by the stroke of a pen without primary legislation?
Lammy is today scrapping the same jury trials he once lauded. It's an attack on our democracy and our individual rights. This is a political choice. Labour chose to release prisoners and now have chosen to scrap jury trials. They are not on your side, as Rob has exposed.
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I'm hoping to unite Left and Right - they'll all hate my piece in today's Sunday Times, saying that successive Budgets have overtaxed the highest-earning 20%, and under-taxed both the median earner and the richest 0.1%. https://t.co/2UBeLykUdo
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ah yes, the famous interest rates that depend on your income ??? welcome to the UK
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Some people genuinely believe business owners shouldn’t get any tax incentives above PAYE employees. As if the person who takes zero risk, has no money invested, gets holiday pay, sick pay, a pension, protections, and guaranteed wages should be treated the same as the person who
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