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Foni
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Foni@lemmy.zipto Europe@feddit.org•Trump Threatens to Double Spanish Tariffs Over NATO SpendingEnglish1·9 days agoI’m not against professional politicians—there are things they handle and defend better than “amateurs.” What I’m against is dishonest politicians, and he’s shown himself to be one, by far.
You can agree with his policies, measures, and ideas—whatever they may be—but if a politician is dishonest, they’ll always end up betraying you for their own interests.
Foni@lemmy.zipto Europe@feddit.org•Trump Threatens to Double Spanish Tariffs Over NATO SpendingEnglish212·10 days agoUntil now, it was mandatory to spend 2%, and almost no country met that goal. Now it’s going up to 5%, and it’ll be followed just as strictly as before. On top of that, the deadline is set for 2029—by then, Trump will either be out of office in the U.S., or he’ll have damaged their democracy so badly that it’ll be impossible not to call him a dictator. In any case, by then the game will have changed enough that a renegotiation will be inevitable.
As a Spaniard, I can tell you that our president’s tantrum has more to do with trying to project strength at home—at a time of serious corruption scandals—than with any confrontation that might actually achieve something.
The rest of the world: oh my god
I think any European politician who said anything remotely close to this would see their careers instantly over. How is it possible that saying something like this doesn’t cost them votes in the US?
Foni@lemmy.zipto News@lemmy.world•Largest U.S. private prison operator faces lawsuit after inmate was killed a day before his release1·24 days agoAgain, I’m European so I can’t be sure about this, but I think some of those issues are worse because of the scale, not the thing itself. The entire healthcare system is private—if all prisons were too, I think that would be much worse than the healthcare situation.
As for politicians, up until this election cycle, they at least had the decency to pretend. From now on, we’ll see what happens.
Foni@lemmy.zipto News@lemmy.world•Largest U.S. private prison operator faces lawsuit after inmate was killed a day before his release15·24 days agoIn the Southeast of America a judge was fairly recently convicted of sending underage boys to a private prison in exchange for kickbacks from that prison. He had been doing it for over a decade. And that’s just one that made the news.
It is obvious that something like this would happen. You cannot create a system with perverse incentives and expect the good faith of those who participate to keep it clean. It is exactly the opposite of the spirit of the American revolution (and the rest of democratic revolutions)
Foni@lemmy.zipto News@lemmy.world•Largest U.S. private prison operator faces lawsuit after inmate was killed a day before his release66·24 days agoAs a European, I wonder what kind of dystopia the concept of a “private prison” fits into. I don’t understand how anyone could have imagined that this would end well.
Foni@lemmy.zipto The Onion and other satire w/ layers@sh.itjust.works•“Violent, insurrectionist mobs are attacking federal agents!” says man who called for violent, insurrectionist mobs to attack federal agents13·24 days ago[email protected] I think here they are stealing your news
Foni@lemmy.zipto politics @lemmy.world•3 Lessons From International Protests Amid the L.A. Unrest15·25 days agoNot always. I’m from Spain, and you can read about how our dictator Francisco Franco ended his life (spoiler alert: his regime lasted from 1939 to 1977).
Unfortunately, the real world is not like a movie where wars are always won by those who defend the most just cause.
Foni@lemmy.zipto News@lemmy.world•California Gov. Gavin Newsom is floating a federal tax boycott26·26 days agoI would like to leave this here as a warning, because it seems relevant to me.
Could someone explain it like I’m 5 years old?
Foni@lemmy.zipto Marvel Studios@lemmy.world•Dakota Johnson Says ‘Madame Web’ “Wasn’t My Fault” & Blames Flop On Decisions Made By People “Who Don’t Have A Creative Bone In Their Body”0·29 days agoIt was a film about Madame Web, there is no universe in which that could have a good script at any point of its production. It was evident from the same idea that it was a bad idea
Foni@lemmy.zipto Marvel Studios@lemmy.world•Dakota Johnson Says ‘Madame Web’ “Wasn’t My Fault” & Blames Flop On Decisions Made By People “Who Don’t Have A Creative Bone In Their Body”0·29 days agoBut did she read the script before accepting the job or did she just see the check? Because it’s true that it wasn’t her performance that ruined the movie, but I think the disaster was coming long before filming even started.
I think you can block the entire instance, not community by community or user by user.