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by joe_mamba 20 hours ago
> The EU is pretty limited in what it can do due

Thank god for that. Enjoy it while it lasts.

>do due to Europe being so afraid to federate

Why would they be afraid? Yugoslavia, USSR and any other time in history where you force similar but not really cultures under one central leadership, it ended up great in the end, they didn't fight or break up at all. So what's to be afraid of?

Yeah, why bother with that pesky democracy, freedom of speech and what each country wants when we can have a German like Ursula v.d Leyen be the supreme chancellor over the European Federal Reich and all of EU's problems will be gone, we'll have our own SV, our own SpaceX, it will be amazing, right? It will be uncle Adolf's dream come true.
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dgellow 10 hours ago
Ok so you won’t engage with the fact that you misattributed to the EU issues you have with your local government…

The EU is both weak, powerless, and also that powerful tyrannical entity according to your various comments. You really might want to check your sources of information

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joe_mamba 1 hour ago
>Ok so you won’t engage with the fact that you misattributed to the EU issues you have with your local government…

You have it backwards. I trust my local government because I can vote for it, and if they fail to deliver they can have rioters in from of their house, I don't trust EU leadership because I can't vote for it and we can't all travel to Brussels to riot while still making it to work after.

>The EU is both weak, powerless, and also that powerful tyrannical entity according to your various comments.

Why argue in bad faith pretending you can't distinguish what I meant? Eu IS powerless versus China and the US, but it can also act tyrannical over its members who don't play ball on unpopular topics like open borders illegal mass migration with illegal migrants and fake refugees. So it's both weak versus stronger actors and a bully versus weaker actors.

>You really might want to check your sources of information

Please give us your 100% truthful and unbiased sources of information. Or you might want to invest in a brain if you don't see the things I'm talking about happen in real life. Maybe you work in Brussels and your lifestyle depends on getting people to parrot the party line and silence the dissidents.

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