@RoKhannaNews This comments section is a cutlure shock moment. As a European if a politician said anything else than our team they would be hanged publicly.
@NKY_Leftist Anyone in here trying to argue about the "not make anything" part: The entire rocketry industry on the globe combined is not worth 3 trillion. I would be sceptical about the entire areospace industry combined being worth that much.
@CrossMaul As we all know, whenever the FBI central bureau notes down a petty criminal unimportant nobody on a random day, they immediately make sure every grunt in Bumfuck Base knows his face by heart and will recognise him years later.
@ProgDirectorate We have a concept for this it's called lingua franca.
Besides, anyone who has any busines reading an in-progress draft of an EU treaty in full can probably be expected to know English
@matthew_petti The President of the European Comission used to be a bureaucratic post nobody knew and nobody cared about but as soon as the most stereotypical Christian Democrat imaginable gets sent to EU retirement after fumbling national politics the position becomes geopolitically relevant.
@matthew_petti A failed German Defence Minister, daugher of a CEO and politician, wife of a literal noble, who rides on the family horses as a hobby, was the one person who happened to be EU President in 2020 and through the perpetual crisis ever since
The EU could not have been more unlucky
@JohnWakefieId While reading Plato one must understand that, unless you're born into remarkable wealth and status, all those remarks about the unwashed masses that need to be guided by better men include you the reader as the unwashed masses.
@AnonymousLeftie It would be the greatest upset in human history if the quickly developing post-colonial Africa just...never actually catches up. All the birthrate and year-on-year GDP growth in the world and it looks like they could stay as the irrelevant forgotten continent for my lifetime.
@jeremy_f5@AlexDemSoc_161 The Western European socialdemocrats collectively adopted the inverse of this for the past 2 decades and are now almost all at historic lows.
@Matan_Vilensky@jayofthev When you build a scene in a movie you don't think what color the fictional dictatorship would paint the buildings. The world isn't real.
You think of what mood you want to convey.