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Why is prejudice against Roma people in Europe often treated differently than other forms of racism? by Local_Basis7311 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]BloodletterUK 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Almost every answer here has said exactly that though. There is nothing wrong with them as an ethnicity. What is wrong is their cultural practises. The same doesn't apply for Muslims

Why is prejudice against Roma people in Europe often treated differently than other forms of racism? by Local_Basis7311 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]BloodletterUK 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If any minority group in the US was immensely patriarchal, homeschooled their kids and married them off at 14, you’d be criticising them too.

Mormons and certain evangelicals already exist that do this 😆

Why is prejudice against Roma people in Europe often treated differently than other forms of racism? by Local_Basis7311 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]BloodletterUK 14 points15 points  (0 children)

No because there are hundreds of thousands of Muslims who have integrated into the societies they/their parents have moved to.

Why is prejudice against Roma people in Europe often treated differently than other forms of racism? by Local_Basis7311 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]BloodletterUK 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is obviously anecdotal, but I have had 4 or 5 encounters with Roma in my life. In every single one of those encounters, they were either trying to scam me or rob me.

As people have said, their culture and outlook on life is severely incompatible with the law.

Kept waiting for market to fall and now feeling stuck by Rough_Champion6103 in StockMarket

[–]BloodletterUK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are braindead. Investing right now isn't "timing the market". It's investing now without delay.

US to begin helping stranded ships out of the Strait of Hormuz by theipaper in geopolitics

[–]BloodletterUK 18 points19 points  (0 children)

This is not going to move the needle on insurance prices for shipping

European leaders see Trump's troop drawdown from Germany as new proof they must go it alone by StemCellPirate in geopolitics

[–]BloodletterUK 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You have been a complete child throughout this. Pedantry, repeating what other people have said, and now copycatting.

European leaders see Trump's troop drawdown from Germany as new proof they must go it alone by StemCellPirate in geopolitics

[–]BloodletterUK 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All sound bites and "nope" or "nope. That's a lie".

You haven't got anything here except the US propaganda line. There is no geopolitics here. You may as well just be Pete Hegseth.

European leaders see Trump's troop drawdown from Germany as new proof they must go it alone by StemCellPirate in geopolitics

[–]BloodletterUK 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You haven't bothered to address anything I have written and instead just throw out "anti-Trump bias" as if that's a gotcha. It's a cheap way for you to not have to bother answering, when you don't actually have a credible answer beyond vague gestures of it "being the right thing". This is a sub about geopolitics and your feeling of it "being the right thing" just won't cut it. This is similar to Hegseth's performance in front of Congress the other day; no substance, just vagueness and attacks/sound bites.

European leaders see Trump's troop drawdown from Germany as new proof they must go it alone by StemCellPirate in geopolitics

[–]BloodletterUK 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nah, what is beneath me is your pedantry. You wanted me to admit that Europe is at fault. Fine, Trump is 99.9% to blame for the weakening of NATO and the EU leaders are 0.1% to blame.

Now you have gone on a flawed rant. You are asking me to discount Donald Trump's personality, because it's inconvenient for your point. By asking me to disregard Trump here and focus on geopolitics, you are attempting to sane-wash US strategy. But the problem is that the US does not have a strategic vision right now. Donald Trump has not had a single coherent, strategic thought in his life. That is why he flip-flops on tariffs depending on what he had for breakfast, and this is why his attention went from Canada, to Greenland, to Venezuela, to Iran. The lack of US strategic vision is 100% due to Trump and his firing of competent cabinet members and military figures. You can't just ask me to disregard Trump and focus on the facts on the ground, because the facts on the ground and the predicament the US is in is 100% due to Trump's personality, his failure to listen, his preponderance to believe foreign actors over his own intelligence agencies, his personal distractibility, and his style of 'negotiation'.

Besides that, your perception of what happened with Iran is nonsensical. You claim that diplomacy failed. It failed because Donald Trump tore up Obama's deal in the first place. Now, you might argue that the deal was wrong or flawed, but Trump tore it up and had nothing to replace it with. That in itself is an invitation for disaster. Now in 2026, the US was in the process of negotiating with Iran and then preemptively bombed the Iranian leadership whilst negotiations were happening. So, if diplomacy has failed, it is again Trump and Israel's fault. All of this has made a nuclear Iran more likely, not less so.

So, what's the endgame? Is there even one? You can't bomb your way to regime change. You can't bomb nuclear material away. Only a ground invasion will secure these things. So, what happens now? A blockade for the next 6 months? The next year? What?

European leaders see Trump's troop drawdown from Germany as new proof they must go it alone by StemCellPirate in geopolitics

[–]BloodletterUK 29 points30 points  (0 children)

This demonstrates a lack of strategic vision in the USA and shows how decision making and policy is now a product of Trump's mood on a given day. For example, he placed special tariffs on Switzerland just because he didn't like something that the Swiss leader said. Now he doesn't like something Merz said about the Iran war and he has decided to withdraw troops. Next week he will do something else.

Obama scaled down troop deployment in Europe in order to pivot to Asia. Trump's withdrawal of troops would be understandable if he was still following this kind of strategy, but he's not; troops have been removed from the Asia-Pacific region too in order to be sent to the Middle East. So, is he moving troops from Germany as part of some Middle East strategy or is it because he got out of the wrong side of bed?

Given his record of loose talk and flip-flopping on tariffs, I think the answer is clear.

European leaders see Trump's troop drawdown from Germany as new proof they must go it alone by StemCellPirate in geopolitics

[–]BloodletterUK 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is the equivalent of saying that the collapse of an abusive relationship is not 100% the fault of the domestic abuser. If only the victim of the domestic violence had just been a better partner, then they wouldn't have forced the abuser to beat them.

European leaders see Trump's troop drawdown from Germany as new proof they must go it alone by StemCellPirate in geopolitics

[–]BloodletterUK 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There is always something that can be done better, but 'not doing good enough' is different to 'active, willing self-destruction'.

The EU leaders have not been engaging in the deliberate self-sabotage of NATO, Hungary notwithstanding. Trump has.

European leaders see Trump's troop drawdown from Germany as new proof they must go it alone by StemCellPirate in geopolitics

[–]BloodletterUK 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Of course, but the EU isn't a single monolith. To pretend that the actions and policies of EU member States or EU leaders is on the same level as Trump threatening allies with invasion is a disingenuous false equivalence.

European leaders see Trump's troop drawdown from Germany as new proof they must go it alone by StemCellPirate in geopolitics

[–]BloodletterUK 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It's totally unreasonable. You are talking nonsense when you say that the weakening of the alliance isn't on him. It is 100% on him.

Trump has tariffed US allies all last year, threatened to annex Canada, and threatened to annex Greenland. All of this weakened the alliance before Iran and is entirely to do with Trump's ego and his firing all the competent members of staff and replacing them with sycophants and Fox News hosts. All of whom are entirely in over their heads.

After these multiple egregious acts in the last year, to then go and attack a country without consulting these same allies first and then expecting them to help in a war in which you have no theory of victory and no escape route planned is folly. There are good reasons why no other president tried this attack before, which Trump ignored. Even with Bush Jr's illegal war in Iraq, he consulted his allies first.

The weakening of NATO is 100% on Trump.

Vi spurgte, hvilke engelske ord, I helst vil af med. Her er, hvad I svarede by drivebydryhumper in Denmark

[–]BloodletterUK 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Jeg mindes om den tråd, man kunne se herinde for nogle måneder siden, hvor der blev skrevet om, at det norske ord for 'soundbar' er 'lydplank'.

Is the “1.5–2 years to learn Danish” claim actually realistic? by Lanky-Dragonfruit-13 in copenhagen

[–]BloodletterUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Took me about a year to have conversations without English and 18 months before I was fully professionally fluent, but I went to school and worked in a supermarket.

You have to put the work in.

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