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Maybe I should just leave all of this "social" network stuff to those that want to destroy any positive moments and retreat. (I won't. I pity those that seem to be so filled with negativity that there is nothing positive they can ever add here. I will continue to try and hope my mental health won't suffer too much.)
@jwildeboer Take care of yourself. Have a small media break to be quiet. But stay further more. Mastodon is a relatively safe place to speak out.
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Maybe I should just leave all of this "social" network stuff to those that want to destroy any positive moments and retreat. (I won't. I pity those that seem to be so filled with negativity that there is nothing positive they can ever add here. I will continue to try and hope my mental health won't suffer too much.)
@jwildeboer I just want to add to the positive voices here because I feel like it is needed:
I don't comment often but I just wanted to let you know your account and posts are my favourite on the fediverse. I'm sorry you have to deal with so many such accusations and negative comments.
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@jwildeboer I just want to add to the positive voices here because I feel like it is needed:
I don't comment often but I just wanted to let you know your account and posts are my favourite on the fediverse. I'm sorry you have to deal with so many such accusations and negative comments.
@dlsl Thank you. That really means a lot to me.
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@jwildeboer For all its faults, I think the EU is an important stepping stone towards the European Federation, which is an important stepping stone towards Gaia Republic, which is an important stepping stone towards The Sol Federation. And then we'll see.
I really don't understand why people would rather identify with something small than something larger.
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(It took less than an hour for the first "Yes, but" folks to show up and accuse me of being ignorant of the EU border policies and how we drown refugees in the mediterranean. Thank you for giving me that short moment of peace. Everything I have done and do for refugees is irrelevant to you because you just want to make your point. So. Welcome to my blocklist.)
@jwildeboer I for one wish you only joy.
And I too really appreciate all the good things that EU has brought us. -
@jwildeboer For all its faults, I think the EU is an important stepping stone towards the European Federation, which is an important stepping stone towards Gaia Republic, which is an important stepping stone towards The Sol Federation. And then we'll see.
I really don't understand why people would rather identify with something small than something larger.
@larsmb A lot of people don't want to identify with or support anything bigger than themselves. So they are simply against everything. It's saddening to me how the internet seems since many years to have made that way of thinking take more hold. We need communities, not factions
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All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?'
Brought peace?
REG: Oh. Peace? Shut up!
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but the EU:
- is intransparent and complex
- is slow to move when it matters the most
- is a supranational entity that can overrule local legislature
- is in many regards a dubious democracy
- did not hold its promise of no more wars on its soil
- has frontex
- is a neoliberal economic bloc
- drives a parliament around between belgium and france for no other reason than pettiness and costs laughably high amounts in the process -
but the EU:
- is intransparent and complex
- is slow to move when it matters the most
- is a supranational entity that can overrule local legislature
- is in many regards a dubious democracy
- did not hold its promise of no more wars on its soil
- has frontex
- is a neoliberal economic bloc
- drives a parliament around between belgium and france for no other reason than pettiness and costs laughably high amounts in the process@mfru As someone who actually changed EU politics through real, personal action back between 2002-2005, resulting in a 90+% vote against an EU directive in the EU parliament, I don't agree with all of those points. You can fight and win. I did. Not alone, with many other people. We stood up, had good, convincing arguments and won.
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@wigbert I am trying hard and your support helps me. Thank you. But sometimes there is only so much I can take. Le sigh.
completely understand - that is why conscious breaks are so important - a few hours at least…
or even better: a few days offline and more days in nature
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@jwildeboer And peace! Never has Europe been more peaceful! That alone is reason enough for me.
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but the EU:
- is intransparent and complex
- is slow to move when it matters the most
- is a supranational entity that can overrule local legislature
- is in many regards a dubious democracy
- did not hold its promise of no more wars on its soil
- has frontex
- is a neoliberal economic bloc
- drives a parliament around between belgium and france for no other reason than pettiness and costs laughably high amounts in the processYou seem to complain about both the glass being half full and the glass being half empty.
As difficult as it is for a 27 member bloc (now including a couple of bad faith actors) to operate on the basis of unanimity, we are way better off with the EU in place. It's amazing how far something that started as an economic agreement among a handful of countries has gotten.
I hope there'll be a day when it'll be possible to reform the treaties to adapt them to the times.
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@jwildeboer
Und das lieber @Bundesregierung ist die "Bürokratie" den ihr immer abbauen wollt.Bürokratie schütz Verbraucher: innen.
Abbau von Bürokratie bereichert nur die Superreichen
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@jwildeboer you can tell how useful the EU is by the amount of effort various corporate and state bad actors are putting into crippling it. Here in Brexitland some of the people who voted Leave are finally realising that, but still complaining that nobody told them they weren't going to get the Brexit they voted for.
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@jwildeboer the fast bank wire is my favorite out of these. It really makes payments across Eurozone simple and i have begun to favor that over all other payment forms.
Another great thing from regulation not mentioned here is the single link on all e-mail newsletters to unsubscribe from them. Before that, it was a terrible headache to try to get rid of marketing spam that you got into by accident.
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@jwildeboer I miss them particularly their Court of Human Rights
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In theory, you can "work and study with the same rights" within the EU as an EU-citizen.
The reality is unfortunately far from that theory. One has to be very white, blonde and privileged to be spared xenophobia and discrimination, and very blind not to see it.
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@jwildeboer Yeah but, but… North America is much better at separating consumers from their money!
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@jwildeboer Yes, the EU tries to outlaw strong encryption.
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Actual trickle down is when the EU makes a good regulation, and it ends up de-facto regulation in the US because manufacturers want to sell the same products across markets.
