Time for some traditional Moldovan epic victory music!
this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2024
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Moldova is a major tax haven, right? Is this going to start changing that?
Woohoo!
So not only does putin get a big fat L, but the EU continues to grow! I believe from the EU and NATO partnerships, we will someday see 1 global, unifying government that will formalize conflict resolution, leading to a lasting and sustained peace on Earth. And what does global peace mean? It means a massive increase in standard of living for all, as well as expansion into SPACE! When we can unify as one people, only then can we truly embark on the journey Star Trek promised us.
I just wonder what our flag will look like.
But staying in the present, way to go Moldova. As a terrified American, it does me good to see favorable election results.
The UN was created for conflict resolution after WWII. Look at how its working out for Palestine.
EU (and NATO for that matter) are just beneficiaries of colonialism and will employ force to keep it that way.
Most of my problems aren't caused by conflict between my nation and other nations. One world government is just another government, it can be a capitalist hellscape just like mine is today.
I keep seeing this repeated, but it's simply not true. Capitalism isn't the problem, Oligarchy is. This article I linked mathematically proves that it doesn't matter what form of governance your society uses, it inevitably falls into an oligarchy without strong recurring investments into social welfare.
So, keep voting for the people that want to expand social security, expand job protections, expand medicare/healthcare, increase the minimum wage, while decreasing cost of living, education, and housing (progressive democrats, basically).
If we can get Kamala in office, with a supermajority in the house/senate, we could finally pass some much needed shit, and stave off the inevitable turn to fascism that an oligarchal society seems to induce. It would have been better if we just elected Bernie Sanders, but can't stall progress for perfection!
That's literally saying that capitalist economies concentrate wealth and lead to oligarchy. It's not talking about "any kind of government" and in fact it's always talking about economies: specifically free market economies only. You can combat those forces, but they're the forces of capitalism, and capitalism is the problem.
You show a lack of knowledge and imagination. This is capitalist realism incarnate. Yes, every kind of capitalist economy moves towards oligarchy, good point?
huh. you're both wrong AND an asshole. interesting combo you've got goin' on there.
Here's a link showing how oligarchy forms under free market systems https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/
Have you read it?
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That was kinda the dream after WWII, no?
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Exploring space should be a uniting purpose of humanity, but colonizing space, as humans live now, is just wildly, hilariously impractical. It would be orders of magnitude cheaper and easier to live at the bottom of the ocean, or under the antarctic ice sheet. And this is speaking as someone really into exotic rocketry and transcendental sci-fi.
I'd recommend reading through Project Rho, if you're interested: https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/
As well as "farther future" but grounded Sci-Fi like Orion's Arm, where humanity doesn't really resemble its current form. And play KSP! The more you read and see, the more you realize "wow, sending humans through space is hard, and living there kinda doesn't make sense right now."
I mean, I still think that having an operational moon-based spaceport is something we could see in our lifetime.
And as with all things concerning global affairs, it takes time and consistent pressure to overcome the lizard-brain us-vs-them mindsets that is inherent to our human political sphere. We've already grown to the point that we could take care of everyone on the planet, shuffling off the shackles of a scarcity-based economy which so severely hindered global human advancement in the past. I can only imagine what the combined efforts of the American, European, and Chinese economies/governments could accomplish if they put aside their differences, and embraced a true lasting partnership.
Also the website you gave is so incredibly interesting, I need to look at it more before I can appropriately sing its praises
I still think that having an operational moon-based spaceport
Depends what it's used for, but yeah. But I think the human habitation would be extremely minimal, and it would be more of a utilitarian "midpoint" for deep-space missions and a research site rather than a place of extensive human habitation.
Also read: https://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oaeg-front
It's a fictional universe in a wiki format (with some short stories), but based on hard science, and (IMO) a much more realistic idealized depiction of what future humanity could look like.
Being hard is the point. (That's what she said).
In making that attempt, we have to solve a lot of problems. How do we make a self-sustaining ecosystems where humans can live indefinitely? Can humans live that long in reduced gravity without issues? Can children be raised to healthy adulthood in reduced gravity? Is human pregnancy even possible there (probably is, but we don't know that for sure)? Are there technologies or genetic engineering that we could use to solve the issues we encounter?
How do we mine asteroids? How do we manufacture things in zero gravity? How do we build the Internet to handle latency measured in minutes or hours or days?
These are all hard problems, but if they were easy, then they wouldn't be interesting.
And I'd say the same for ocean colonies. That's hard, too. Not quite as hard, but hard.
Colonization doesn't make sense in light of what's likely to come first. Artifical intelligence, mind uploading, extensive genetic engineering, programmable nanotech for fabrication, take your pick... All these are infinitely more reachable and cheaper than dedicating tons of resources to sustaining a squishy, fragile human bodies in space while the vast majority are still stuck on Earth due to economic constraints.
It's just not economical until humans are so different that it doesn't really resemble are Star Trek-ish visions of humans on space boats (eg they're flying around in computers, AI are sent ahead to construct habitation, bodies are genetically engineered for survival in space, that sort of thing).
Again, I am not talking about research or the glory of stepping foot somewhere, but I just don't see the point of trying to emulate a traditional human living in an environment where it's so impractical.
Hopefully our election across the pond will go against the fascists as well. 🤞
Hell yes. Fuck you Russia, fuck you putin, fuck you orcs. We get another W
I read orcas for a second and I was like fuckin free Willy is a bad guy?
That brings some memories.
When the referendum for Lithuania's joining of EU started, the attendance was abysmal.
It picked up when a supermarket chain offered to exchange the "I voted" sticker for a bottle of beer, a chocolate bar or a small bag of laundry powder.
If there's one thing I learned from observing Brexit first hand as an EU immigrant in Britain, is that the vast majority of people don't really care about the EU unless they are or see a way to directly benefit from it (as I benefited from Freedom Of Movement) and even when they do care they don't understand how most of the mechanisms which are the point of the EU affect their lives (hence Brexiters only saw immigration and not how an island with no natural resources and a Service-centric Economy can't just default to WTO rules for exporting Services because WTO Treaties don't cover those, whilst even Remainers couldn't see the whole "together we're stronger" side and kept claiming that Britain could "better change the EU from the inside", which is not a teamplayer position).
So EU membership ends up being sold to the public on pretty generic promises of improvement of their own lives and on single sides the EU's many-sided nature, a message which is far easier to distort and even use in reverse by anti-EU actors.
Fuck yes! Putin failures are some of the best failures!
Mhm. For some votes I'd rather see a 65-75% requirement. Not every vote should be 50%, especially on a scale like this.
Such significant commitments on a national level with international treaties should I think be carried by more than a simple majority. Its not a simple choice and without decent will behind it there is every chance it doesn't last or causes enormous strife within the populace. But the vote is advisory and fundamentally will probably be based on the majority regardless so its now up to government to decide if its enough to move forward.
That was my initial thought aswell, but after thinking about it I changed my opinion to preferring the simple majority.
Imo one of the deciding factors is how you think about it. Do you see it as a choice between two conscious actions (acceptance or active rejection), or is only the "yes" vote an active choice and "no" something of a "natural" state?
Also if you set hurdles for change to high, then you are potentially hindering progress and systematically favoring conservatism. Which isn't always bad, but the status quo and how things were done in the past aren't always sustainable and worth the advantage.
Why would you like to see a supermajority in order to join an economic union?
If it was genuine (no interference) then I can see how having nearly half the folks opposed to joining could cause some, erm, friction in the union.
But I'm willing to make an exception in this case - when Russian disinformation gets involved, it makes sense to move the bar in the opposite direction to counter them!
I'm pretty sure votes like this require a certain percentage of the population to vote anyway. Like... the vote wouldn't count if there was only 15% voter turnout.
ultimately, a majority of the country had a chance to vote and a majority decided (by a slim margin) that they wanted in.
The other issue as you stated was authenticity. Of course you'll have natural dissenters. But a lot of evidence does indeed point to interference. Like people asking the poll watchers where to collect their money and becoming upset they won't get payed for voting no.
The EU isn't just economic.
And you can literally say only half the people want it, which doesn't make sense for such big decisions. "Most" people should want it, but I wouldn't call this "most people" in the practical sense.
Canada has a law to this effect called the Clarity Act to make sure that Quebec never votes for independence by a margin like this.
See Brexit. That was to leave but same principle.
Given how much noise exit parties, or generally anti EU sentiments can cause, I'd also prefer a higher bar. Be welcomed if you join, but please be sure about it.
Moscow stands accused of launching a massive campaign of vote buying, funneling cash through its proxies into the accounts of ordinary voters, as well as using social media to sow fears about the prospect of EU membership leading to a direct conflict with Russia.
Watching Putin fail never gets old.
The funny thing is that Putin thinks he's following the same playbook of "color revolutions", a conspiracy theory popular among Marxists, and showing practically why it doesn't work. But he keep trying because he believes it's actually being used against him. So he keep failing hilariously like that again and again.
A conspiracy theory popular amongst delusional Marxists-Leninists, and that's an important difference.
Still it's funny to see these (often) so called anti colonial thinkers struggle with the idea of self determination of other nations. Nothing can happen without American involvement, obvs.
American diabolism - just American exceptionalism in a mirror.
If only he kept failing - see brexit.
Best way to show that he did fail in the end is to kick out every politician opposed to rejoining the EU and rejoining. Before UK falls any lower.
the prospect of EU membership leading to a direct conflict with Russia.
Classic abusive relationship.
"Look what you're going to make me do!"
This confirms that Russia wants to annex Moldova
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