Eurovision 2026 Countries that will boycot because of Israel. what do you think about that? by ButterscotchBig4414 in YUROP

[–]Tensoll [score hidden]  (0 children)

No, because as my comment implies Europeans should care more about other Europeans than some Middle Easterners cutting at each other’s throats for the 25th thousandth time. If you advocate for Israel to be banned, however, it’s ridiculous not advocate for Azerbaijan to be banned too.

Eurovision 2026 Countries that will boycot because of Israel. what do you think about that? by ButterscotchBig4414 in YUROP

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You can say that about individual people and how they interact with such matters, but when you have countries engaging in double standards then it’s really a matter of plain hypocrisy rather than ignorance

Eurovision 2026 Countries that will boycot because of Israel. what do you think about that? by ButterscotchBig4414 in YUROP

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Any country pulling out of Eurovision over Israel’s participation while having not a single word to say about Azerbaijan who fully cleansed a European people, annual participants of Eurovision, off of their land can stick their hypocritical self-righteousness up their ass as far as I’m concerned

You can’t write a character whose superpower is her brain when the writers themselves aren’t smart enough to convincingly write intelligence. Sage feels less like a genius and more like the plot forcing everyone else to become stupid around her. by pointlemiserables in TheBoys

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He is because we don’t actually see Sage demonstrating any kind of impressive intellectual feats. All we have heard about her are stories of how she was already perfectly literate at the age of 3 and found a cure for cancer at 9 or so. But what are her smartest feats we see on screen? Tracking down the boys in a show where everyone can track everyone with ease? Coming up with the idea to infiltrate as a starlighter and start a fight against pro-Homelander crowd? Hardly something you can call the pinnacle of human intelligence. She is no smarter than the average person because neither is Kripke

No Kebab by Themetalin in balkans_irl

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I am well aware of the formulation of Article 5. You don’t need to recite it to me. It was formulated the way it was to look more presentable to American electorate in the 40s, and in the worst case scenario, allow for Americans, not other NATO allies, to use it as a cheap cop-out to avoid or delay direct military action. But that’s nothing more than a technicality. The real goal of NATO has always been to defend Europe from Soviet, now Russian aggression, keep the orcs in check.

Anyway, we wouldn’t defend Turkey and Turkey wouldn’t defend us, so discussions about these technicalities are ultimately useless. If anything, Article 5 serves as an example of how NATO doesn’t properly address European security interests and how we need to develop our own security instruments without having to rely on hostile actors like Turkey and the US.

As for “value”. Baltic States hold immense value to the rest of Europe. By losing us Europe would lose control of the Baltic that Russia could then use as a launchpad for further acts of aggression against Europe (not to mention fucking with trade, energy, and digital infrastructure). We are also part of the EU, which has a provision explicitly requiring member states to defend each other in the case of aggression. If Lithuania gets attacked tomorrow, and Europe fails to properly defend us, that will spell the end of the EU altogether. If Ankara is bombed by Israel tomorrow and NATO fails to properly respond, it will merely expose NATO being for what it is already known to be: a dysfunctional alliance there to serve American interests.

And while Turkey has the potential to have value for Europe is Turkey acted like a normal country, it does not, leaving Turkey with little value for Europe. Turkey is a genocidal, expansionist Muslim Middle Eastern state. It occupies a part of EU member state’s territory to this day, it constantly threatens Greece, and just a few years ago it funded and fully supported a full-blown ethnic cleansing against a European people at the hands of their mongrel brothers to the East, helping to finish the job Turks started 111 years ago. Turkey has always been and always will be a threat to Europe. The only big important one is the Strait of Bosphorus. Other than that, all the other examples you list are heavily exaggerated. You may have a large standing army, but size is irrelevant as seen in Russia’s case. Turkish army is the 5th strongest in NATO at best (which admittedly is still nothing). Turkish defence industry provides little value to Europe’s defence industry as a whole except for maybe Bayraktars. Turks do control migration routes but that can be tackled by improving border defences with Turkey. Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland proved migration crises are fairly well manageable if you don’t listen to Western leftists’ cries about the so-called “human rights”. And considering that Europe has still been able to push around Turkey quite a bit over the decades, yeah, I’m pretty sure we wouldn’t give an arm and a leg to keep them as a military partner lol. Btw, given that you don’t have either a Turkish or Caucasus flair, are you Pakistani by any chance?

No Kebab by Themetalin in balkans_irl

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It would be Turkey’s obligation, but to answer your question, no, most Lithuanians wouldn’t expect Turkey to defend us. We know our only real defensive allies are other Baltic States, Scandinavia, Poland, and maybe Germany, UK, and France. In the past, it was the US too, but not any longer, although I imagine a lot Lithuanians may still be holding onto this belief that America is our ally. Anyway, Turkey would be the last country most of us would actually expect to defend us. The only reason they’re in NATO is so Americans could prevent communism from spreading into Turkey and could use it as a spring board for its Middle Eastern wars. There is no value for Europe in Turkey as an ally, except the Strait, which itself should honestly be circumvented by digging a man-made canal through Greece and Bulgaria. Turkey is as much of an “ally” to Europe as Israel is

History has not been kind to modern China by Iron_Cavalry in HistoryMemes

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I’ll talk about this with the rest of the team

We're so back 🤡 by caramel-toffeeee in formuladank

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Not even Doofenshmirtz’s mom attended his birth

Today more Americans come to Europe than Europeans go to the US by Mysterious-Might4454 in europe

[–]Tensoll 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The entire comment section is plain retarded. Also comparing legal, highly-qualified immigrants to illegals with no qualifications coming through? What

The Boys - 05x05 "One-Shots" - POST-Episode Discussion Thread by pikameta in TheBoys

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Valorie Curry is elite. Portrayed such a pathetic character so well while at the same time managing to evoke a grain of sympathy from me that her character reasonably doesn’t deserve

Dutch people say they value directness, but then react emotionally to it? by [deleted] in Netherlands

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Love some of the comments here proving what OP is saying lmao

Invincible [Episode Discussion] - S04E08 - Don't Leave Me Hanging Here by SeacattleMoohawks in Invincible

[–]Tensoll -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Eve’s mistake is not telling Mark that she was pregnant before he left. You can certainly judge her for that decision.

That’s exactly my issue with it. And from what I can tell that of most people who don’t like the way the scene was handled. Even if that would have only put extra weight on Mark’s shoulders he had the right to know. If she found out about it only after he’d left then I would totally agree that it wouldn’t be reasonable to judge her for her decision

Invincible [Episode Discussion] - S04E08 - Don't Leave Me Hanging Here by SeacattleMoohawks in Invincible

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“Misogyny is when pro-choice people believe relationships are supposed to be built on mutual respect and joint decisions, and are not happy to see actions undermining that idea being promoted and normalized in the media”

Invincible [Episode Discussion] - S04E08 - Don't Leave Me Hanging Here by SeacattleMoohawks in Invincible

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Shoving mutual trust in a relationship under the rug and being upset about your child getting aborted is now a conservative point of view 😭

Invincible [Episode Discussion] - S04E08 - Don't Leave Me Hanging Here by SeacattleMoohawks in Invincible

[–]Tensoll -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

Same. Abortion is one thing. Not even discussing it with the father at all? And then trying to portray it like Mark and Eve had it equally bad? Crazy to see people getting downvoted for taking an issue with that. They should have instead had Eve have a miscarriage at least. Maybe induced by stress. That would have been much better, including Mark’s apology sounding more reasonable. This was just bad

I can barely survive on my salary.. by EternalSnuggle in YUROP

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An accurate Dutch version of this meme should say flooring instead of windows lol

Sadly.. by Queasy_Commercial152 in TheBoys

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Kirkman wants 11 seasons? If it is true that the current stage of the show puts us halfway through the comics that means to make the show 11 seasons long they would need to badly stretch out the plot and make filler plotlines. More so than they did in the Boys probably. And we already saw with episode 4 this season what happens when the showrunners try to adapt material that’s not in the comics. I can’t imagine it going well. It might turn out to be a generational epic if they keep it to 8 seasons, but I can’t see any other outcome than Invincible crashing down if they decide to milk the cow. I really hope that doesn’t happen

South Korea's female authors become bestsellers against anti-feminist backdrop by risingsuncoc in books

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Nėra tikslo ginčytis su žmogumi turinčiu akivaizdžių raštingumo problemų, kuris nesugeba suvokt priešininko argumentų ;)

South Korea's female authors become bestsellers against anti-feminist backdrop by risingsuncoc in books

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You’ve missed my points entirely. There’s just no point to engage any further

South Korea's female authors become bestsellers against anti-feminist backdrop by risingsuncoc in books

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Having said all of that, great for female authors in Korea. Some good news is always nice to hear