Michael Forbes

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Politics, retro games, education, inclusiveness, social democrat, independentista, Aberdonian
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[Michael Forbes @Michael_For14]

@MadelaineLucyH This is insane. I would never want to be in a relationship with my two best friends: I love them to bits, but I'm not attracted to them in the slightest. There's nothing "failed" there, there was nothing in the first place.

[Michael Forbes @Michael_For14]

@d_foubert I'm more impressed you managed to find someone to talk to. Polish car dealerships seem to be experts in not actually wanting to sell cars to anyone.

[Michael Forbes @Michael_For14]

@Porkchop_EXP Honestly, I'm a bleeding heart liberal, but this is not cool. It should be absolutely mandatory for people to be able to serve customers in Dutch, because without this, a language starts to die. We've lost enough languages in Europe, we don't need to lose more.

[Michael Forbes @Michael_For14]

@Porkchop_EXP @sorin_cristescu Honestly, this is pretty bad. As nice it is to be able to use English, they should still be able to communicate in Dutch in such a position. This is exactly how languages die :(

[Michael Forbes @Michael_For14]

@SirousTimy @MichaelAArouet What has been sold in Poland in the last few years?

[Michael Forbes @Michael_For14]

@alex_avoigt But I think this is also a reflection of the German mentality: the management don't need to have hideously expensive flashy cars outside, it's enough to have a comfortable BMW 330 or similar.

[Michael Forbes @Michael_For14]

@alex_avoigt One thing I'd also point out is that many of these companies are socially responsible - something that isn't the case elsewhere. I know one which has around 20% more employment than it should do, but the family that owns it is very clear that they have a duty to their town.

[Michael Forbes @Michael_For14]

@CharlemagneClub I think there's an interesting point here, in that not enough attention has been paid to parties like Fidesz and PiS and how they oversaw huge amounts of legal migration. We're in a situation now that the centrist-liberal parties are stronger on migration than the RW ones.

[Michael Forbes @Michael_For14]

@AlexDemSoc_161 @mesheviksus2 A third way when it's genuine (see the Scottish SNP) is ok, but watching social democratic parties fall into the trap of New Labour is heartbreaking. The mess that Blair left behind economically is still hurting the UK.

[Michael Forbes @Michael_For14]

@hubertlepicki But did it really not win here? I'd argue that the PZPR's form of nationalism was ridiculously successful. It may not have been Dmowski-style, but look at the reaction to any proposal to getting rid of the reading canon in schools.

[Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @eeldenden]

@kajakallas @oana_toiu the kremlin would never attack a federal Europe. Speed up Ukraine's integration and Europe's federalisation

[Michael Forbes @Michael_For14]

@RAXU215578 @Wince_Kogut @visegrad24 It's amazing how they translate this stuff in their head. We're spending a huge amount of the money on our local defence industries, yet this is somehow "pro-Brussels" and "pro-Germany". Yet spending money on overpriced American weapons is "pro-Poland".

[Michael Forbes @Michael_For14]

@Szabadsag1956 Yeah, I think he knew that it was over, and that his role was to guide the power institutions (like the military) into democracy without bloodshed. In a way, he was an ideal President - he didn't interfere, he simply acted as a neutral referee.

[Michael Forbes @Michael_For14]

@johnnyjmils I'm ashamed that someone born in Scotland would support the Russian regime in any way. Those Russians that you meet in Moscow support the war and Putin, and they would also support bombing Warsaw, Riga and Tallinn if Russia did it.

[Michael Forbes @Michael_For14]

@vtchakarova I'd actually say that Canada would make perfect sense as an EU member. It's wealthy, it has plenty of natural resources, it's a mature democracy, and they would be far less problematic than the remaining non member states in the Balkans.

[Michael Forbes @Michael_For14]

@Szabadsag1956 I mean, look at Poland: there are plenty of people who don't want liberal democracy with elections. If you proposed to many PiS voters that they would always be in power and that KO would be only allowed to have no more than 50 seats in parliament, they would be happy.

[Michael Forbes @Michael_For14]

@RAXU215578 @Wince_Kogut @visegrad24 "Wince" blocked me. Surprise, surprise. What is it with these foreigners telling us how Poland works?

[Michael Forbes @Michael_For14]

@Szabadsag1956 Things might have been rather different. There was a genuine problem in Solidarność over his election, and I'd argue that it was the first sign that Solidarność were never going to survive as a political party. And indeed, it didn't.

[Michael Forbes @Michael_For14]

@Szabadsag1956 Having said that, I think the most interesting thing was what happened afterwards: there was a real struggle to get Jaruzelski elected as the President. He was the only candidate, and only just got over the line by a single vote. If he hadn't been elected, well...