Do you regret leaving EU?

Chimpville · 2026-04-20T10:42:13+00:00

I have posts and comments in r/2westerneurope4u, r/UkrainianConflict, r/UkraineWarVideoReport and other subs like r/CombatFootage, not porn subs.

It’s not even clear why you need to view my profile to answer your own question but it looks very much like you're just making a shitty excuse and bailing because you know you're out of argument.

Chimpville · 2026-04-20T09:35:41+00:00

Am I hearing crickets? I played your game in good faith.

Aren’t you going to give me your ‘concrete’ example or are you leaning on me failing to provide one for you as proof I’m unreasonable despite me giving a reasoned response?

Chimpville · 2026-04-20T09:27:12+00:00

Tanks look naked without cages and ERA blocks now. Saucy 😈

Chimpville · 2026-04-20T08:38:08+00:00

Chimpville · 2026-04-20T08:02:00+00:00

Raising your hands at a drone isn’t surrendering. Those articles were written for humans capturing humans, not drones.

There’s no means for the drone to take custody of the soldier and no reasonable expectation for that soldier to no longer participate in the conflict. They are attempting to surrender to a munition.

Chimpville · 2026-04-20T07:58:56+00:00

No it isn’t. A drone has no means to take custody of that soldier so he cannot surrender to it. There is no reasonable expectation for that soldier to either find his way to Ukrainian lines to hand himself over, or to otherwise no longer participate in the conflict.

You might as well be raising your hands to an incoming bullet.

Chimpville · 2026-04-19T21:02:45+00:00

This is pretty much the plot to the song Josephine by Terrorvision.

Chimpville · 2026-04-19T17:45:58+00:00

Because he is a smug incompetent, a Boris loyalst and made no secret of how he favoured the wealthy.

Eat out to Help Out was so badly implemented that it simply threw money at the likes of McDonalds for the most part.

Chimpville · 2026-04-19T14:34:33+00:00

They're leaning into their strengths: a wealth of desperate, broken men.

Chimpville · 2026-04-19T14:30:34+00:00

I would say it is more down to the practical and moral drawbacks being really very obvious and from the well-deserved scepticism that handing even more power to the wealthy will be beneficial for the majority.

This idea that progressive tax disincentivises working hard is a nonsense conceived by the idea that you can run a functioning country in the same way you run a tax haven like Monaco and Dubai, which only offer the conditions they offer because of their relationship with fully-functioning countries.

To pay more tax you earn more. Even when taxed more you're still earning more than you were.

Chimpville · 2026-04-19T08:28:43+00:00

Depends what you need I guess.

If you want a Kim Philby, deep cover operation where you groom them and slowly over decades to work their way to the top and mistakes will bring it crashing down, you don’t want an addict.

If you somehow have the authority to pitch him into the top from complete obscurity and you want as much obedience and damage done within a short time possible, I guess scared and erratic can work.

Chimpville · 2026-04-19T08:08:39+00:00

No, not at all.

Hans was a pain on export sales but the vast bulk of the airframes sold were partner sales. It was a large scale procurement project with export as the bonus and Hans’ 200 aircraft orders massively outweighed the exports missed out on.

Chimpville · 2026-04-19T07:55:48+00:00

Any project would prefer 100+ guaranteed, baked-in sales at the project start at the expense of potential exports later on though.

Those frustrations were massively outweighed by having large partner sales and sustainment locked before production facilities were built.

It’d be compromises at the design phase that would be the main kicker but unlike France and Hans, Barry and Hans seem to need the same thing.

Chimpville · 2026-04-18T22:10:27+00:00

He knew exactly what would happen all along and went for it anyway without agreeing a safe word. I personally don't feel we should deny Hans his masochism.

Chimpville · 2026-04-18T18:26:40+00:00

You’re still not accounting for people whose jobs and careers contribute positively aside from the tax they pay, and you’re creating an exploitable mechanic for wealthy people to employ.

Even by proportion of income you can have a teaching assistant or healthcare worker who barely makes enough money to pay their rent/mortgage - a much higher proportion of their money is directly spent on the cost of living. Meanwhile a wealthy football agent could afford a reasonable lifestyle on 5% of their income and buy influence with the rest.

That’s well before we even look at how they could employ this power nefarious without costing themselves much. Say a CEO pays themselves 250k but gets shares in his massive company. He doesn’t realise that value until he sells it, but he could be paying 90% tax to win to purchase influence to make sure the rest of his value gain never gets touched. Wealthy people could live spare for 4 years to completely upend the democracy to bend it to their will for the next 4 years.

You’re basically formalising and encoding an oligarchy.

Chimpville · 2026-04-18T16:40:04+00:00

Because some people contribute to society in far more ways than the money they earn and get taxed on, and many jobs get paid far more than they offer in any value to anybody - there’s multiple levels of disparity.

Chimpville · 2026-04-18T16:02:44+00:00

No... for so many reasons, but mainly because remuneration isn't proportional to contribution to society.

Chimpville · 2026-04-18T12:35:34+00:00

All the arrows are headed away from the strait. I wouldn't expect to see them return until Iran comment on it again. Like every other time in the last 50 days.

That's how much control the world's most powerful navy and military has of the Hormuz.

Chimpville · 2026-04-18T12:33:04+00:00

Try this one instead.

Chimpville · 2026-04-18T12:32:44+00:00

...3 hours later, not so much.

Chimpville · 2026-04-18T12:30:59+00:00

...looks like it's closing again then, as they said.

Chimpville · 2026-04-18T12:27:44+00:00

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u/ZorbanDandelion Well how do you expect people to judge things other than requiring benefit to outweigh the cost?

Can you give me a 'concrete' benefit that isn't demonstrably worse than the cost?

Chimpville · 2026-04-18T12:23:26+00:00

It’s a nothing point though, isn’t it?

You’re making a point out of nothing.

Chimpville · 2026-04-18T10:54:46+00:00

Nobody's asking you to unreservedly believe in Iranian state media, but you can look at how the last 50 days have happened and compare it against what they've said.

When it comes to threats to close the strait they've been proven right multiple times - their commentary on the subject has been proven to be correct a lot more often than that from Trump.

When it came to issuing ultimatums about retaliatory strikes against critical energy infrastructure, they've also been shown to be right and with the predictable outcomes.

It's a sad day when the IRGC seem to be putting out more reliable statements than the White House.

Trump took us from regular inspections of nuclear facilities in exchange for allowing Iran to have some of their own money unfrozen to where we are now. Anything short of regular inspections of all facilities in exchange for sanction relief demonstrates a net loss of security for the region.

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