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This is grassroots unlike that was though. And being upset that they are threatening with war is also quite different from being upset that they won’t come bomb the Middle East with us.

Orbán’s media empire has a tactic where they buy liberal news outlets and let them continue to be independent so they maintain their readership. They go full blast on disinfo in critical moments only. Of course that wears credibility out, so they run a treadmill of buying new outlets and wearing them out.

See index.hu for example, check their articles now and on like 2015. Then check origo.hu, they were in this pipeline much earlier, today the Russians are winning the war every day with their wunderwaffen on there.

Or just decent regulation. You’re offering an AI product? You can’t attest that it’s been trained in a legitimate way?

Into the shadow realm with you.

If you compare any other massacre to it, you start trivialising it.

It feels though as if we trivialized other massacres because they will never hold up to a standard we consider to be beyond comparison.

You are right that comparing such events, as in “this event is less significant because less people died” trivialises the immense human suffering involved in the Holocaust. But that has to go both ways, and comparing the Holocaust to these modern events also trivialises the impact of these current events. Each of these events, indeed each of these deaths is a singular atrocity, a tragedy beyond belief.

No massacre is like the holocaust

Honest, truly honest question here, why?

I don’t feel like it is trivialising anything, if anything the Holocaust and its worldwide condemnation gives a special voice to victims of such crimes everywhere. It’s less easy to trivialise other such crimes as the Holocaust has been accepted worldwide as one of the darkest chapters of history, so comparisons to it can bring that suffering closer to people and leave less room for the perpetrators to muddy the waters.

You can express a controversial view on any European campus (outside Hungary, at least) without fear of losing your tenure or your grant.

You can freely express any controversial view on Hungarian campuses, nobody cares at all. Most people in Hungary don’t care about the whole Gaza situation one way or another, with a slight exaggeration if you asked the average university student in Hungary where Gaza is, they would think you’re looking for some nightclub.

The only people who care about Palestine in Hungary are the far-right, Orbán’s far right being pro-Israel because kleptocrats stick together, while the extreme far right is pro-Palestine because they hate Jews. They usually won’t be university educated either.

As faculty, you can also express whatever views, a lot of people were straight up protesting the government at one point, but there is not much they can do with them legally and Orbán’s gang didn’t care enough to alter the laws for that.

That’s the western EU you are talking about. The average amount of bank accounts in Italy, Romania, Hungary is actually less than one, as in not everyone even has a bank account. A collapse of the Italian banking sector would still cause an EU-wide problem.

And the question is how much money will stay with commercial banks. If close to 100%, then the whole initiative is pointless since nobody uses it. If it’s less than 50%, then that means that 50% of the money in the commercial banking system is gone.

Digital currency is only within EU regions

I wonder how that would even work, since the CDBC should be fungible with the Euro. Does that mean I would not be able to pay someone in Albania in dEuros, only in physical Euros?

Even so, my point is that there is no point in creating another European payment system besides SWIFT, and if the new accounts could do SWIFT, then they can do most everything and they won’t be limited to Europe. And even if they are, I imagine most payments - like 98%+ - of Europeans are within Europe anyway.

Yeah, but if the tariffs would have stayed in place, we would have potentially caused a trade war with China, isolating us against the US and Russia.

If the minimum prices would have not been set, we would have lost additional industrial capacity, and while I loathe VW and BMW leadership, I feel for their workers.

Yes, some EVs will be more expensive, but compared to those other outcomes, it only affects people buying new cars.

Yeah, but if everyone keeps their money on their dEuro account, what do banks loan out money from? Also most people don’t need anything other than basic SWIFT transfers in their lives.

The others still use European software for cockpit display, fuel management, on-board vehicle systems, Euripean made rear fuselages, and ejection seats.

Do they speak a different language, have their own celebrations or social groups?

Well, the F35 uses European engines, so there’s that.

It’s super confusing when anyone tries to explain it, but it’s actually simple. You get a free as in paid for by the taxpayer bank account from the central bank and you will be able to use that card as freely as cash. No card processing fees, no account fees no nothing.

That said I’d be extermely sceptical about any plans since it would kill commercial banking in our current sense.

That is an okay middle ground TBH

IDK, I imagine the US is lagging behind China in that, especially now, if we’re looking at foreign imports.

But their pasta sold in the EU seems to be made in Parma, Italy.

That’s exactly what I’m saying, sorry if it came across somehow askew.

My point was there is no point in competing over whose job is “better”, we should be working together.

Maybe, just maybe, people have different strengths and weaknesses and cooperating around our differences is what makes us succeed.