Europe as a whole is swinging too far too the right. Y’all all are descending back into Fascism. The recent popularity of the AfD in Germany being a prime example. My own parents - who immigrated from Germany - are deeply disappointed in the direction the country is taking.
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I think everyone everywhere knows the world over is sliding to the right.
Pot, Kettle, Black. The US Republican party is about as, if not more fascist than the German AfD or Austrias FPÖ.
In comparison, the US Democrats are about where European conservatives can be located on the political spectrum.
This does not imply that the current political direction is not problematic.
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Too many people smoke in Europe and it's too widely accepted.
Believe it or not, it was way worse and it's getting better. The horrors of even 10 years ago, man. Smoke everywhere, cigarette butts all over the place, all the surfaces are covered in yellow grime.
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GDPR is great, but we all hate cookie banners
The cookie banner law isn't the problem, websites don't have to have one.
They only need to ask permission to invade your privacy.
Too bad nearly every website wants to.
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Commas are for separating thousands, periods are decimal points. Stop trying to be unique, you're not.
Stop trying to be unique, you’re not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Conventions_worldwide
I see China, India, and NZ that’s over half the worlds population.
So you're aware of this and choose to be wrong!
as soon as you stop measuring things with body parts
I thought America was racist until I saw a member of UK Parliament tweeting about a boat of migrants sinking with "Good riddance".
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Many of your economies strive cause they stolen loads of values from us.
Most of us know about that, so not a real shocker. And besides France we actually stopped
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