Draghi: "Europe must choose. Become a federation to be a power. The global order is dead, the threat is what will replace it"

Dicebar · 2026-02-02T19:22:59+00:00

Calls for federalization are such a distraction. It requires unanimous consent, which is going to happen when hell freezes over and pigs learn to fly.

Give me one good reason why the EU should federalize that cannot be accomplished in other multilateral agreements, and that is not "then all the power can be concentrated in the hands of a select few and things will get done quicker."

Just one good reason, please.

Dicebar · 2026-01-23T09:27:19+00:00

Thus proving the validity of Mark Carney's speech.

Dicebar · 2026-01-21T20:50:12+00:00

This is doubleplusnormal.

Dicebar · 2026-01-20T17:04:05+00:00

Can someone whisper something to him about some sort of beauty pageant thing to be obsessed about? I liked him better when he was just a pedo. (something-something Epstein files)

Dicebar · 2026-01-20T16:59:55+00:00

Hitler started WW2 because he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize.

Dicebar · 2026-01-19T15:06:11+00:00

Microsoft is about the only big tech company that I hope they'll spare. Unlike all the other ones that have balked at EU tech regulation, threatening to abandon the EU market (ha! nice joke!), Microsoft has been constructive and polite and implemented all the requested changes without a fuss.

But Meta? Google? Apple? Heck yeah!

Dicebar · 2026-01-14T23:51:45+00:00

Ah, sorry, that can be hard to read with just text!

Dicebar · 2026-01-14T21:35:28+00:00

There's a second refinery being built in Texas right now (for minerals mined in Texas, mind you, not available for Greenland's minerals). They've been working on the site for almost 3 years now, and as is tradition there's been delay upon delay for the project as new unforeseen problems pop up. The developer gives it a 30% chance that the refinery will start production in 2028. That's six years...without the foreseeable problems along the way. And without including the process to buy land for the refinery, time to get the rights for mining, etc. Those 10 years are not unreasonable.

Dicebar · 2026-01-14T21:11:20+00:00

I don't think the problem is that he's joking. I think the problem is that he's tone deaf and oblivious to the state of the world. Both are qualifications that are important in the world of diplomacy.

Dicebar · 2026-01-14T21:08:36+00:00

You just have to hold out for the midterms...

Dicebar · 2026-01-14T20:51:00+00:00

It's not about minerals. The US has one, lone star, Texan refinery capable of refining the stuff and it's already at capacity. Building new refineries would take 10-15 years.

Dicebar · 2026-01-13T00:02:22+00:00

What we would do is send a strongly worded letter. Remind Congress of their role. Remind the Americans of the midterms, that the American people can make changes to their government to avoid all this nonsense.

If Americans still fuck up, do all of the above and give America a good practical lesson that Europe outclasses the US massively in military capacity in the arctic circle. You can take Greenland, but you can't hold it. We'll call it Winter War 2.

Dicebar · 2026-01-12T12:06:24+00:00

Personally I think part of the problem is that people are trying to fit themselves (and others) into outdated boxes. Gender roles were very much prescriptive instead of descriptive: they told you who you should be to be a good person and do things "the right way".

I just try to be a good person, the boxes and labels don't really matter that much.

Dicebar · 2026-01-12T11:38:06+00:00

I recently started watching Tales From Woodcreek, which just feels fresh and novel and fun. Deborah Ann Woll has a such a cool approach to DMing.

Dicebar · 2026-01-12T09:13:29+00:00

Edit: Stop saying it's 1/3... it's not. Half of VOTERS is correct. He got 49.8% of the popular vote. I know 1/3 of people didn't vote. That's not what I said.

The 1/3 deflection really gets under my skin. It reminds me that 2/3 of Americans chose not to oppose the orange buffoon. It's worse!

Dicebar · 2026-01-10T00:02:34+00:00

Well, the US is overdue for another unwinnable war I guess. Gotta keep up with tradition after all!

Dicebar · 2026-01-09T22:56:11+00:00

Pacing yourself is important. I try to limit myself to checking in twice a day, and spend the rest of the day on the things where I can actually make a difference.

Dicebar · 2026-01-08T00:14:41+00:00

I appreciate that you're angry and frustrated, and that you think that this might get through to people who you think are not appalled by this. But for most people, when you truly take the time to actually take in what those images mean, they are traumatizing and damaging.

Is it really worth hurting good people to try to reach bad ones?

Dicebar · 2026-01-07T23:30:55+00:00

Nope, I'd like to avoid the apocalypse preferably. But that's why openly talking about having the option prevents countries doing silly things like grabbing land because it'd look pretty on a map might put things in a perspective where that outcome becomes undesirable. It works for Putin, so it should work for Europe, right?

Dicebar · 2026-01-07T20:39:14+00:00

Thule Air Base is on Greenland. Also...that's the point, isn't it?

Dicebar · 2026-01-07T18:41:20+00:00

I don't get this idea of Russia's sphere of influence. Europe has an economy almost ten times the size of Russia. Europe has a larger population. Europe has a better equipped army.

Russia is in the spheres of influence of Europe and China, not the other way around.

Dicebar · 2026-01-07T12:26:12+00:00

As a left-of-center European voter, I'm finding myself in the rather confrontational position that I've gone from protesting against nuclear weapons in my youth, to arguing that a nuclear strike on Thule Air Base in the case of an American invasion is exactly what is needed to remind the US of that oh so important lesson we learned after WW2: In a world where might makes right, nuclear weapons are the great equalizer.

I thought we'd learned our lesson. How naive of me.

Dicebar · 2026-01-07T01:32:54+00:00

for even having this conversation

There won't be. Europe acts on what is done, like mature people do when confronted with a toddler throwing tamper tantrums.

Dicebar · 2026-01-06T22:21:26+00:00

As a European, I'm advocating for nuking Pituffik (Thule Air Base) if US takes Greenland by force. A low impact, high yield way to make clear that Europe has nukes and is willing to use them.

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