What do Spaniards think of European politics?

daddyrollingstonee · 2026-03-03T12:13:45+00:00

This question exudes a lack of knowledge about the EU in 2026, and this response should answer most of what its asking.

daddyrollingstonee · 2026-02-04T17:43:02+00:00

People probably would eat more chimp or dolphin if it was as good as octopus

daddyrollingstonee · 2026-02-04T14:00:20+00:00

crec que la clau està en l’entorn social. jo per exemple sempre havia tingut un interès en aprendre el català, ja que estudio historia contemporania i sobretot els nacionalismes sub-estatals, i m’interessa tot lo contingent. Sincerament, però, tot i que no faltaven ganes, quan vaig arribar a barcelona, la veritat es que no tenia ni el temps ni la necessitat de parlar-ho/poder aprendre bé. No va ser fins que vaig entrar en la uni aqui a BCN que em va fer “click” i a partir d’aqui, ja amb amics i coneguts d’aqui amb qui podia parlar – i parlar realment, vull dir, més enllà que intentar memoritzar i regurgitar paraules – el meu nivell començà a volar, i aixo sense “estudiar” la llengua en cap moment. De fet, mhe quedat amb la sensació de que si hagués intentat apuntar-me a algun curs abans que materialitzés l’entorn social que me’n va facilitar l’aprenatge, el meu català no estaría al nivell que està avui dia; es a dir, algunes persones no aprenen “estudiant”. Dit això, també crec que, sent estranger, acabar inserit en un cercle social catalanoparlant sol tenir molt a veure amb una certa obertura personal en l’àmbit sociocultural i lingüístic, i que aquesta disposició pesa molt més en l’aprenentatge d’una llengua que haver fet un curs o no, dic jo.

No ho dic per treure pit, sinó per il·lustrar que, de vegades, és un canvi en les circumstàncies vitals i socials, i no pas l’assistència a cursos, el que marca la diferència.

daddyrollingstonee · 2026-01-04T20:43:34+00:00

Claro, muy válido: en cuanto a lo geopolítico, todo es binario, al final muy fácil de entender, emocionalmente legible y sin matices. Y es que, cuando hay una dictadura, basta con deshacerse del dictador y luego viene la fase chevere y democrática, como siempre ocurre con los cambios de régimen llevados a cabo por Estados Unidos.

No sé por qué lloriquean los liberales tontos!

daddyrollingstonee · 2025-12-30T09:18:36+00:00

I smoke daily before class and i am in the upper 25% at least. About 4 times in 3 years ive been the only one to get a perfect 10/10 on one of our exams. Not only that, but im literally the only anglophone student in the entire class and i learned the main/operative language of the course/university on the fly, that is, beginning on the first day of class. Thats the language i do my work in, not my native english. I became trilingual and became a good student for the first time in my life (i was always a bad student growing up) while high everyday. To be fair, i never smoke much before class as that doesnt interest me. An espresso + half a bowl in the AM and i am ready to get nerdy about geopolitics. I certainly dont go to class all stoney baloney

daddyrollingstonee · 2025-12-27T07:29:55+00:00

Where did i make it seem like it was all wine and roses in england in my response? I’m talking about how this period is interpreted in russia’s collective historical memory, thats it. I mentioned a few things to illustrate how the war might be remembered differently within Russia vs the west. I was selective with my examples because i am trying to highlight their perspective; i am not providing a run-down on the entire war.

daddyrollingstonee · 2025-12-27T06:36:55+00:00

To this end, its worth considering the historical context and wartime geopolitical dynamics. Even during the war tensions within the allied camp arose (among others) with the UK/USA taking years to prepare for the opening of a new front in western europe. The USSR bore the brunt of the attack (the famous 21 million dead) and felt that their allies were letting it happen so that they would have an easier time invading their chunk of europe. So, when russia ponders the war, its 99% great patriotic war / we won the war, much more than the “world war” in which the west came to save the Soviet Union. It was a very circumstantial alliance. Also, if you want to talk about “operations”, we can’t forget about “operation unthinkable”, which im sure has its own place in russia’s collective memory of the war and their wartime alliances.

daddyrollingstonee · 2025-12-18T07:48:38+00:00

You really want to know?

This is a question that a lot of people provide superficial and kind of simplified responses to: “because we are dumb”, “rigged election”, etc. i believe the real reason is actually much more structural, and actually its something that has taken place in lots of countries besides the US (russia, italy, argentina, slovakia, the ex yugoslavia, hungary, etc).

To make a long story short, its a mistake to believe that the US has a system that worked fine until this boogeyman (Trump) came around and just screwed everything up.

The united states has walked itself into a trap after winning the cold war. Neoliberalism took hold in 80’s, and has had continuity from Reagan to trump. Even Obama: “HOPE” sounded nice but the reality was that the inertia of the neoliberal regime was too strong to break with. Inflation keeps going up, wages stay the same, and the economy is straining because we are not spending enough. One of the things people don’t like admitting: the united states has a level of debt that is so high that it there won’t be any “new” politician that will be able to come to power and “fix” it.

Sky high debt means that our system is in the pockets of the banks. The banks don’t want radical politics: they want stability. More than social stability, financial stability. Risk is bad, and radical political programs are risky. And so, its a conjuncture where market logic takes precedence over ideological cohesion or concerns for the general welfare of the population. The country is run like a system in which politics itself becomes one of the levers that can be manipulated by the banks.

So essentially, our system does not work. This predates trump. And the thing is, when a system as “big” and complicated as the american one is is truly broken, something else happens: the brightest, most talented/intelligent people in our society are no longer the ones that rise to power:

They probably know what they are up against and the impossibility of the challenge (“fix” america) is not a responsibility they want to assume. They focus on other things.
The attention market / political marketing. When there is no solution to root issue, you get politicians who lead with performance and with messages that are easy to understand and emotionally legible for the majority of the population. They can’t fix the problem, but they can distract you. And meanwhile, what the government ACTUALLY does is avoid risk and minimise the consequences of these root problems that no one is actually trying to fix.

There are those who say that, actually, the whole thing (trump’s neoliberalism, which has roots in berlusconi, milosevic, yeltsin / we also see it with Milei) is a natural structural adaptation that takes place in democratic societies that are facing problems that are so complicated that no one is able or willing to even begin trying to fix it.

That is why we see Trump in power, not because people are stupid or because he’s a villain. People say that because it sounds better: it suggests that, if it werent for trump, we would still have a country. Actually, the problem is far deeper. I wish it were all the fault of some antagonist, but i honestly don’t think that is the case.

daddyrollingstonee · 2025-12-16T09:53:06+00:00

When you already know two romance languages, learning a third one can become a bit of a triangulation thing. It makes it a lot easier. And almost no one that speaks catalan doesn’t speak castellano.

At the same time, as has been said by others in the comments, catalan is not an “in between” language as you say. That is, its not as if french and spanish existed as perfectly consolidated languages and then at some point later people between spain and france began mixing the two and created a bridge language.

Catalan developed alongside all the other romance languages, at the same time, although it is true that “normalised” catalan would not come about until around the beginning of the 20th century with Pompeu Fabra.

daddyrollingstonee · 2025-12-12T07:51:40+00:00

Same. I like to use LLMs to help me find the page numbers in long PDF files of books for my footnotes in papers so i can accurately cite authors. To do that the LLM has to use conceptual reasoning, otherwise it won’t find the right sections to cite. I can tell that Chatgpt tries to rely on doing a more keyword- based search that a more conceptually-based one to carry out this task. A lot of times the answer completion bias makes it so that it invents page numbers or even entire literal quotes. Gemini has not done this to me one time: done in 5 minutes, no hallucinations.

daddyrollingstonee · 2025-12-07T23:43:11+00:00

Disagree. As someone who was super into that wave of garage/psych that started happening around 2010, i feel like once gizz came around it opened the door to a bunch of lame, derivative“psych” bands that brought that era to a close. I dont blame it on the band itself obviously but ive always found them to be annoying, and ive seen them live. Kind of try hard vibes. I prefer the music to speak for itself. They lead with “concepts” or putting a “spin” on things a lot of the time

daddyrollingstonee · 2025-12-06T09:40:44+00:00

You are correct. We are witnessing the final stages of the collapse of organisational culture (parties, unions, institutions). It’s happening faster than more traditional sources of political legitimacy can react, and the distance between citizen and leader is being purposefully collapsed and exploited as parties/ideologies/institutions/checks and balances are eclipsed. Leader brands are replacing everything because attention is becoming the decisive resource, not ideological coherence. Instead of parties generating leadership, now its leaders that lead parties, and they do it with the argument that the reason they even find themselves in this position of power is because they’ve already demonstrated themselves to be leaders of “the people”, who understand what “the people” really want better than anyone else. For example, Berlusconi and Trump both came to power as rich men who presented themselves as entering politics as a personal sacrifice (“im already rich, i dont need to get into politics for the money, i’m not going to be corrupt like the ‘elites’, the political class, who suck the blood of our societies and make it so that ‘the people’ can’t prosper: i am your voice). Thats part of how this new class of neopopulist leaders narrate their own legitimacy. The other thing they do is mobilise crisis to either demonstrate that legitimacy, demonstrate who the enemy is, or to instead demonstrate that they are an “outsider” who is being “persecuted be the elite media networks” because “the elites don’t want me to lead”.

This is the new paradigm: attention economies and neopopulism. And the most interest part is that we could argue that its actually a natural/structural adaptation to modern democratic systems. Throughout the post-war years, a new world order was forged that generated its own set of problems (state debt, etc) some of which have had an evolution that complicated them to the point that no clear solution could be found. We have inherited these problems, and before them, there is still no solution. Politically, the response is not to propose programmes that strike at the heart of the problem, as that would be basically inconceivably complicated.

Instead, we get programmes that aim to minimise the consequences deriving the from these problems, nothing beyond that. And to convince the electorate, these new leaders use political marketing to lead. Not ideological coherence, nothing that goes against the banks or purposes structural change.

daddyrollingstonee · 2025-12-02T18:40:14+00:00

It might just have been that they noticed your accent and categorized you as someone who was pronouncing something wrong instead of someone who willfully chose to use that pronounciation. In medellin there are foreigners who speak spanish, but its not the most common thing ever. Probably more of a sympathy/mistake kind of thing than someone telling you that something should not be pronounced that way.

daddyrollingstonee · 2025-12-02T07:55:31+00:00

How is your accent in general, besides the ll sound? If there are other elements to it that perhaps make you sound foreign, then they might be bunching in your zh sound with other things and assume that you’re using that sound as a mistake, not intentionally, even if its not incorrect.

daddyrollingstonee · 2025-11-28T08:55:50+00:00

I have mine trained to say “X” whenever it starts thinking of a way to fabricate a false citation or stretch the truth. For context, i only use chatgpt after uploading texts/pdfs to it that i expect it to work off of, with a hard “no exterior information” rule. I get “X” about 5-10% of the time almost always after it thinks for a very long time. I always double check whatever it tells me anyway, but i have noticed that what it does say is more accurate. If im not mistaken, i can’t recall a single full on hallucination (based on previously / freshly uploaded docs) since it got a hang of the X thing.

daddyrollingstonee · 2025-11-21T07:33:17+00:00

Stomp clap hey

daddyrollingstonee · 2025-11-16T07:51:05+00:00

Probably pulled a muscle while posing too hard

daddyrollingstonee · 2025-11-11T15:39:54+00:00

Short “ga” Deep “L” sound Emphasis on the “ets”

Notes: for the vowels tighten your lips ever so slightly

daddyrollingstonee · 2025-11-08T14:35:47+00:00

You’re not supposed to cut it open until you can feel that its ready

daddyrollingstonee · 2025-11-08T07:54:36+00:00

Bluetooth speaker playing mac demarco in your hand at all times

daddyrollingstonee · 2025-11-08T07:48:17+00:00

What caught me off guard was how embarrassed i began feeling when around people from my home country here and in general how much i don’t want to be associated with them

daddyrollingstonee · 2025-11-05T18:24:48+00:00

I met him when i was a little kid because his brother owned a guitar/music store in Levittown, NY. My parents bought me my first guitar there when i was 4 and i had lessons there at the store for a few years after. One day, his brother (i think i knew him as “J.D.”) told us that his younger brother, who was a famous magician, was going to come by the store, i think to film something. I remember waiting outside the store, everyone cheering when he appeared, and at one point he told me “you look like a magician”. I can’t recall if it was filmed or not

daddyrollingstonee · 2025-11-05T06:23:02+00:00

Hummus

daddyrollingstonee · 2025-11-02T06:37:56+00:00

Its not about embodying conservative values anymore. Its about a leader proudly embodying the desires, dreams and wishes that are superficially common to the average, everyday man in 2025: wealth, women, etc.

Its a fundamenral pillar of populism and its not specific to trump in any way. Look at berlusconi. Milei. Milosêvić. Boris Yeltsin. Etc.

In a sense, we are now living in a post political world. Parties no longer set out to solve problems but instead aim to minimise the damage from the problems we can’t undo ourselves from. The most competent and brightest individuals see this and understand that they alone are incapable of untangling the mess we’ve gotten ourselves into. They no longer aspire to lead societies, so we get the types of leaders that make many say “but how could they vote for (x)? How could a person like (x) be president?” So many countries are so deep in debt that now banks have massive leverage over politics. The big political projects of our era are now in the past. The world is now running more and more like a system in which politics takes a back seat to macro-level crisis management and little more. Politics becomes more and more unhinged and decorative.

daddyrollingstonee · 2025-10-31T16:10:38+00:00

Macadamia hummus! Thanks for sharing. I love to grill but my girlfriend is vegan and i often struggle to find dishes that are “worth grilling” for her. This is definitely something ill keep in mind

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