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I think the Euro would primarily be for countries in the inner circle with exceptions made for microstates like San Marino or Andorra which already use the Euro. I’m not sure if adopting the Euro would provide much benefit to Canada. Membership in the European Economic Area (EEA, basically the single market), or some light version of the single market, might make more sense for Canada.

The UK’s first-past-the-post electoral system usually ensures that one party wins more than 50% of seats, often without winning more than 50% of the votes.

A gold-digger

For Meta, it’s all about the money.

And avoiding regulation

To be fair, most of Germany’s current crop of Nazis are more like the grandchildren or great grandchildren of the original Nazis. The AfD isn’t actually that popular with the older generations. They’ve got the strongest support from Gen X. Grannys against the Right (Omas gegen Rechts) is probably the largest antifascist movement currently active in Germany.

Because the death penalty is obviously only applied to those most deserving it and not to those with the smallest defence budget and the least public support

This graph is misinformation

Although we have seen a small decline in traffic, in no way is it what the graph is showing (which some have incorrectly interpreted to be a 50% or 35% decrease). This year [2023], overall, we’re seeing an average of ~5% less traffic compared to 2022.

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https://joinpeertube.org/instances

There’s already Peertube for that.

https://bsky.app/profile/taylorswiftjets.grndcntrl.net

https://bsky.app/profile/elonjet.net

I found these two with a quick search. I don’t know how trustworthy they are

Not quite. The presidential election isn’t decided yet and this referendum wasn’t directly on joining the EU but on a constitutional amendment that would have required future governments to work towards joining the EU.

Heavier than an African or an Asian elephant?

This is giving me conflicting feelings

According to a German language Der Spiegel article, he was convicted of murder, not manslaughter.

The national government is probably not able to do more than a very basic check on would be international travellers. Local government on the other hand is capable to scrutinize individual teachers much more thoroughly.

In Germany, political parties have been banned successfully, both the far-right Socialist Reich Party and the far-left Communist Party. While successor parties were formed, these were less extreme, at least in public, and less successful.

While the AfD is bigger than either of these parties, it still doesn’t poll any higher than 20%. Furthermore, polls indicate that the vast majority of those who don’t support the AfD, believe it shouldn’t be anywhere near power. No other party in Germany receives that level of rejection from those who don’t support it.

If you tried to ban a party with wider appeal, it would probably fail, but with the AfD it may succeed.

There will always be a subsection og the population that adheres to fascist ideas. For a liberal democracy to function, these ideas have to be ostracized to make sure that no fascist party can establish itself in a major way. Some far-right voters will vote for minor far-right parties, some will vote for more moderate conservative parties and some won’t vote at all. The key is to keep them from uniting while appearing moderate enough to win over some more moderate voters.

she repeatedly passed information to Jian Guo — a German national who was an aide to far-right European Parliament lawmaker Maximilian Krah

Why is it always the far-right AfD that’s involved in such cases of foreign espionage?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercity_Express

InterCity-Express