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Markus Plesner Dalin 🇪🇺 retweeted
This video exchange captures our existential fight today.
The woman we might call the heritage French woman, a socialist, is willing to surrender her nation out of white guilt. The immigrant from the Congo could not be more French and capitalist, and she has to fight for her livelihood against this evil of white guilt.
What makes the values and principles of the West immensely great is that they were never about color, even when those in the West fell short, but about who was willing to embrace the freedoms in order to have the opportunity to pursue their dreams.
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Like many people, I would like nothing more than to retire at 60. Ideally even before that. But it’s simply not going to be possible given the current demographics. There’s no way around it, and no amount of “protesting” is going to change that.
There is simply not enough people to pay for pensions and there’s not going to be until birth rates improve. You can complain all you like but the math doesn’t lie.
As it stands, retirement age needs to increase across Europe, especially in countries like France. Pension systems need to be reformed based on present demographics. And older pensions need to be adjusted to be sustainable given the current economy.
Don’t like it? Too bad. This is how it is. You could make a thousand revolutions and it wouldn’t change a thing, just as it wouldn’t change the speed of light.
Markus Plesner Dalin 🇪🇺 retweeted
Videos from Paris are radicalizing libs who experienced the BLM riots in cities like LA
“If leaders of the Democratic Party can’t come out and draw a very clean line between right and wrong, I’m out”
Markus Plesner Dalin 🇪🇺 retweeted
"Rape victims may take time to process trauma & understand they were raped" is now standard discourse. I'm sure delayed reaction to trauma happens -- but how much of this is ideology-driven "science"? @EmilyYoffe's 2017 @atlantic piece raises questions
theatlantic.com/education/ar…
Markus Plesner Dalin 🇪🇺 retweeted
If a country is invaded & you only call for the invaded nation to surrender, you do not ever get to declare yourself "anti-war".
There is no clearer definition of "pro-war" than advocating for Russia's military victory over Ukraine as a
"solution" to "end the war".
Markus Plesner Dalin 🇪🇺 retweeted
In all the movies and shows I have seen about the Salem witch trials, the accusers were always men, and women were burned alive. Nobody was burned alive. 25 people were killed, 6 of them men, and the accusers were all women and girls. We have been lied to.
Markus Plesner Dalin 🇪🇺 retweeted
This is not an airport you don’t need to announce your departure
Markus Plesner Dalin 🇪🇺 retweeted
I am increasingly getting the impression that progressives just straight up don't support the idea of balanced laws and impartial justice at all and want to use the justice system as a partisan agent on behalf of certain groups of people who they empathize with.
Markus Plesner Dalin 🇪🇺 retweeted
Bukele is the wildly popular and democratically elected leader of El Salvador. The Economist call him the ‘Dictator’.
Maduro, according to virtually all other countries, stole the 2024 election in Venezuela, but is solemnly described by The Economist as ‘the President’.
I’d genuinely like to know how and why the editorial team at the Economist makes these sorts of calls.
El Salvador’s dictator has put chatbots in schools and created what he calls “the best medical system in the world”. Now he needs another success story economist.com/the-americas/2…
Markus Plesner Dalin 🇪🇺 retweeted
Did you know there was a civil war in Ethiopia from 2020-22 that's estimated to have claimed 600,000 lives?
Markus Plesner Dalin 🇪🇺 retweeted
They're not anti-war, they're not anti-imperialist, and they're not anti-genocide.
They're on the other team.
Francesca Albanese accusa la NATO – non la Russia – di tenere aperta la guerra in Ucraina, chiede di togliere le armi a Kyiv e, quando arriva il momento di spiegare come fermare la guerra, ammette: «non ce l’ho la soluzione».
Quindi l’aggressore resta armato, l’aggredito no e la colpa se la guerra continua è della NATO.
Una narrazione colonialista, complottista e perfettamente sovrapponibile alla propaganda russa. Da una relatrice speciale dell’ONU è davvero agghiacciante.
Markus Plesner Dalin 🇪🇺 retweeted
I see a lot of confusion about the EU–Canada relationship:
1. “Associate membership” is not a thing in EU law but
2. It can and should go beyond CETA.
3. It can hardly go beyond EEA-level integration.
4. The likely landing zone is somewhere around the EU–Switzerland model.
But the significance may lie elsewhere:
this modest new status could make the EU an institutional hub around which other democracies organise strategic autonomy, without joining the Union.
That is more consequential than “Europe + Canada against the US” and may unleash new relations with Uk and candidate countries -#canada
