cant tell if the dude is serious
He's not
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Also, at this point, it's fair to say that America just DOESN'T negotiate anything, they didn't negotiate with Putin to not invade Ukraine even though they knew he was gonna do it, they don't negotiate with China over Taiwan, the don't negotiate with Iran, they don't negotiate with Venezuela. It's an empire of maximalist positions, "do everything we want and we might leave you alone", and this is internally justified with american exceptionalism but the EU is behaving a lot like this too.
There's been a perfect example of Pre-Privatization and liberal hypocrisy in Portugal this week.
So we got a new center-right PSD government earlier this year, this week during a "Future of Media" conference the prime minister announced that RTP, the national public broadcaster, will gradually no longer have advertising on it until the total removal of ads in 2027, which would mean it would lose 6.6 million euros in revenue in the next 3 years.
Now, in theory, this could free up the channel from commercial influence and market shit, in practice all this means is that in a few years there are gonna be EVEN MORE calls to fully privatize RTP because it's not making any money.
This is functionally the same as when Orban takes over the public broadcaster or some shit, because once RTP is sold to some media conglomerate, it's obviously going to shift right, and serve its funders' interests, but of course there's not a peep from EU institutions about this.
And it's not like RTP today is some leftist or even center-leftist institution, for example in the news segments (the "telejornal") there's been plenty of "Passive Voice" shit when reporting about Palestine, and they have some pretty shitty anchors and guests too. But at the same time there's a lot of series, documentaries (both left and right) and cultural products that just would not get funded on other channels, if RTP gets privatized we'd see even less portuguese cultural production.
Funnily enough at the same conference, the PM also asked for journalists to be "more tranquil" and then complained that journalists ask him questions that they hear in their earpieces instead of asking what they want, which he's being made fun of for (not by me though, because I genuinely hate journalists)
Should mention that on the whole the RTP has like a bunch of channels and radio stations, and also turned a profit last year while the big private media channels didn't
Besides China is closer to the US now than probably any time over the last 3 years maybe even 5 years
Why do you think so? It feels like the rift is still widening, albeit slowly
Oh shit do they have any favorites? I watched a few nearly a decade ago and they were pretty sloppy, so I'd be interested in a curated list
Apparently people could buy the original game, on discount, and upgrade to the remaster which was cheaper than just buying the remaster, so they're plugging the hole by just not making the original available for purchase?
Nevertheless, Horizon feels like a "pirate it, beat it while doing some extra content, uninstall it" game to me, or it did before I saw some gameplay and watched some of the cutscenes of the first game, it just looks boring
No more half-measures, vladimir
That's a good point, I imagine the new environments take some time to build too.
Sweden's rep as a lefty country is so undeserved. Cool you have no national minimum wage because unions are so big they can still negotiate minimum wages sector-wise, big deal, you also love israel and nato apparently
Yes but the EU mediated, for example, the ceasefire between Russia and Georgia in 2008, and even admitted that Georgia ignited that conflict by firing on Russian soldiers.
This is unthinkable right now, the EU has adopted the same "we're better than everybody else and our enemies don't have reasons for their grievances" attitude that reinforces its intransigence.