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@jwildeboer Yep, the naysayers are not completely wrong that it has its gross sides – and you probably know that as well as all of us – but to overcome them, it needs more EU, not less. Most anti-EU platforms want to be even more gross, not less.
Have to work with what is realistic. And for that it helps to highlight the things that are actually quite impressive compared to the bad reputation.
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@jwildeboer
Incidentally, I would like to point out that these graphics come directly from the European Commission's social media accounts.It's sad you (or someone else) cropped out the watermark.
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I really tried to stay friendly and welcoming. I asked for the people that reply to have a bit of respect and to not use my post as a soapbox to stand on to spread negativity. But still, replies have been added on Frontex, the EU being racist and so on. Lesson learned: Some loud people just MUST be negative and project their negativity on me whenever I say something slightly positive. Those will all be blocked by me. My timeline, my decision, my freedom. Have a wonderful day!
And For The Record (FTR) I am acutely aware that we, the EU have closed our borders and that Frontex did horrible things to refugees. Pushbacks, attacking their boats. I am fully aware the EU integration is far from perfect also on the inside. But the EU also did good stuff. There's a thread for everything. This one was meant to give you a bit of reassurance and positivity. That the EU is also worth it. Let's make it better.
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@jwildeboer
Incidentally, I would like to point out that these graphics come directly from the European Commission's social media accounts.It's sad you (or someone else) cropped out the watermark.
@nerdherz Do you have a link to the original post? Will be added immediately.
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@diasyy11 Born in the Netherlands to dutch parents, moved to Germany at age 12, now living in Munich. With the dutch passport to prove it
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And For The Record (FTR) I am acutely aware that we, the EU have closed our borders and that Frontex did horrible things to refugees. Pushbacks, attacking their boats. I am fully aware the EU integration is far from perfect also on the inside. But the EU also did good stuff. There's a thread for everything. This one was meant to give you a bit of reassurance and positivity. That the EU is also worth it. Let's make it better.
Yes.
Let’s.
And if we are unable to celebrate our successes, we’re not going to have the strength or motivation to try and improve things further.
So let’s pause, and appreciate, regularly. And then move on to the next step.
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And For The Record (FTR) I am acutely aware that we, the EU have closed our borders and that Frontex did horrible things to refugees. Pushbacks, attacking their boats. I am fully aware the EU integration is far from perfect also on the inside. But the EU also did good stuff. There's a thread for everything. This one was meant to give you a bit of reassurance and positivity. That the EU is also worth it. Let's make it better.
@jwildeboer Always when people tell me how bad the EU is, I ask them, what they would like to have instead. Yes, the EU could be better, and that is, what everybody should try to achieve every day, but we have also great fortunes, that we would not have without it. I love not carrying around 8 different power supplies and not paying roaming fees. I had times, when I paid several € per minute, when somebody called me in Spain. Phone bills with several hundred € where normal. And we can travel in the complete Union (and beyond) without passport and visa and so on. So let's celebrate the EU while we try to make it better.
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I really tried to stay friendly and welcoming. I asked for the people that reply to have a bit of respect and to not use my post as a soapbox to stand on to spread negativity. But still, replies have been added on Frontex, the EU being racist and so on. Lesson learned: Some loud people just MUST be negative and project their negativity on me whenever I say something slightly positive. Those will all be blocked by me. My timeline, my decision, my freedom. Have a wonderful day!
@jwildeboer peace brother
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@jwildeboer I lived in a refugee camp in Europe for three years, coming from a country that was not in the EU. Now it is, having ditched communism. Over the last decades, my life and ability to work and travel has continuously improved, thanks to the EU.
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@nerdherz Do you have a link to the original post? Will be added immediately.
@nerdherz I found the original pictures and have replaced the cropped ones with them so now with the commission logo. Thank you for pointing that out and my apologies for not doing my research right away.
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@jwildeboer DONT EVER FORGET; EUROPE HAS HAD ITS LONGEST PEACETIME SINCE EVER.
The EU isnt only a people project, its a peace project.
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@jwildeboer
And don't forget the Euro €! Going to The Netherlands, France or Greece and you don't need to go for an exchange desk, just pay with the coins you have in your pocket.
I really like to go for Czech Republic but there you need to change, hope they will join someday ...
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@krist @mfru @jwildeboer What is Frontex then? There seems to be a lot of chatter and condemnation of Chat Control, but yet I've yet to hear anyone condemn mass surveillance done through Frontex outside of EU borders.
> Thanks to funding by EU taxpayers, Senegal has built at least nine border posts and four regional DNLT branches since 2018, supplied with invasive surveillance technologies that, besides the black briefcase, include biometric fingerprinting and facial recognition software, drones, digital servers, night-vision goggles and more.
@budududuroiu @mfru @jwildeboer
A lot of people seen to equate Frontex with ICE.
I acually spend some time on Lampedusa last year. Refugees is a complicated subject, with a lot of moral hazard traps. I don't know the solution either. -
(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
Even the original toot has a nice blocklist recommendation!
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@budududuroiu @mfru @jwildeboer
A lot of people seen to equate Frontex with ICE.
I acually spend some time on Lampedusa last year. Refugees is a complicated subject, with a lot of moral hazard traps. I don't know the solution either.@krist @mfru @jwildeboer I don't know the solution either, but having Frontex be the best funded agency in the EU structures, while at the same time committing to upholding the Dublin Agreement seems like a bit of a contradiction.
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@jwildeboer that is really good, now do trains
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Maybe there are two Europes. I think it's possible to be pro-Europe, and pro-European integration and still critical of the EU. I think we all want a socially liberal and more economically just Europe. Some might call it a socialist Europe. One where immigrants are treated fairly. I'm living outside the EU now. (Not my choice) But would want to be part of a progressive EU. But don't want to be part of an ethnonationalist Europe. It feels like that's the way the EU is going. And the UK tbf. Not much of a choice...
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@krist @mfru @jwildeboer I don't know the solution either, but having Frontex be the best funded agency in the EU structures, while at the same time committing to upholding the Dublin Agreement seems like a bit of a contradiction.
@budududuroiu @mfru @jwildeboer that frontex is the best funded agency is a bit misleading. Its budget is still only a tiny fraction of what the EU spends.
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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@mfru @jwildeboer It is great to still be reading the Russian talking points on social media all this time after Brexit became a fact.
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@jwildeboer Ha! Thing is we already had de facto universal charging in that regardless of if the device itself used micro USB or USB-C or lightening everything went into a charger with a USB-A port on it. Then gear started turning up with cables with USB-C at both ends and folk needed to buy new chargers when their USB-A ones were still perfectly functional. And I refuse to concede the often cited notion that carrying 2-3 wires instead of one (which all worked on a USB-A charger) was a problem
@wiredfire @jwildeboer 1/n
1) I am not particularly elderly and still have reasonable hand-eye coordination. A USB-C plug is much simpler to insert into the relevant socket than a USB-A plug is and a USB-A plug is an order of magnitude easier to plug in correctly than a Micro-USB plug.2) Other people's chargers usually come with their own cables. The important bit is that the end you need to plug into your device has a USB-C plug on it. It does not matter what is on the charger end.
