I’m open to minor gods and local fairies and elfs from NUTS III also. Mermaids for the insular regions plus Luxembourg, where Melusine is already worshipped.

What are you all buying there? I’m genuinely puzzled… I’m more and more convinced that the people asking for Amazon alternatives should just shop less. Often the best alternative is nothing at all. Do we really need a European Instagram or X? A European Temu? I don’t think so… just be more present in real life folks.

Yeah but… I kind of really need a god or goddess of the European Way of Life right now. Will sacrifice a pig to invoke them, hope it works 🤞

A EU sanctioned paganism with a god per NUTS I could be a solution, plus a god per portfolio of the EU commission. This should cover all our spiritual needs in a way that strengthens European integration and cooperation. Just think about it 🧘🏻🙇🏻🇪🇺

Time to revive paganism, these middle eastern monotheism has nothing to do with us. Europe has always been politheist till those invaders came.

Exactly. There are literally thousands of alternatives to Amazon, including physical shops by the way. This is not rocket science, do some research (Ecosia is your friend) and you’ll see you can always find better prices elsewhere also… And sometimes paying a bit more is worth it, for example for the convenience of having living commerce in your street with immediate delivery directly to your hands over the counter.

I just gave you the example of house prices in Lisbon, and those are not being pulled up by cheap labour, but uncontrolled migration also means cheap labor.

And no, a EU citizen in another EU country is not an immigrant. But an American digital nomad in Lisbon yes, is indeed an immigrant.

Also, advocating for limits and policies that regulate migration doesn’t mean being against it all together. It’s not a yes or no question, precisely what I’ve been trying to say since the first comment.

Iran has been helping Russia this all time, STFU.

You’re the one advocating for cheap labour without restrictions, how am I the one carrying the flame for the rich? The rich love cheap labour! But yeah, with that dominant ideology among left parties, no wonder the popular classes vote far-right…

This is not particularly fascist, as this is renouncing the importance of blood to keep the nationality. In fact Italy had probably the most easy going nationality law in Europe when it comes to give it to descendants. One Italian grandparent and boom, here is your passport even if you don’t speak a word of Italian or never been to Italy.

No region of the world can receive millions of people without disruptions. Some thousands and you have a housing crisis already, shitty apartments in Lisbon are more expensive than good ones in Brussels. And the total of the population barely changed…

Also, migration without controls is a neoliberal agenda, not a left one. Controlled economy doesn’t work with uncontrolled migration. It’s weird to me that it’s always the left carrying the defense of migration when it’s something of a free market ideology. Socialist countries are always extremely controlling of their borders.

The problem of the debate on migration is that it’s always black and white, it’s difficult to have nuance, and this is a complex topic where nuance is essential to achieve a reasonable policy, one that allows needed workers from outside Europe to work in Europe, but one that also addresses the safety and demographic concerns of Europeans. The debate is clearly being won by the far-right, although they easily reverse their own policies when they see a negative impact on their businesses.

But the left won’t win this if their position is always and only of defense of current policies against far-right attacks. Europe needs migration, but Europeans also need assurances that that migration doesn’t put in question their social contract and their way of life. And these are indeed being put to test in several places around Europe. Easy cheap labour makes everyone’s jobs more precarious, especially among the less qualified ones. Muslim migration is indeed changing the way of life in many neighborhoods and cities around Europe, in a way that doesn’t please the locals. There are real issues with real consequences in the real world, lefty university professors praising diversity while living in gentrified areas and having the most secure jobs in the country won’t be the ones winning the debate.

She could simply boycott like many artists did, but she doesn’t want to pay that price, she prefers instead to try to profit from the situation. Quite lame actually.

Third world countries getting contaminated by woke speech and consequently screwed… the woke professors in the West are not the ones getting worse living standards out of the silly policies they inspire. Lower French investment in Algeria has real consequences for people in Algeria. The woke guys in the West will continue to afford and consume French wine.

Nobody was expecting the Spanish inquisition.

He’s being wanted by German police.

Very hard to predict, but the more the war lasts, the least people will fly via the Gulf, which will increase prices for all connections from Europe to Asia and Australia… But I would say that now is too early to buy for October… As a general rule in life.

I still haven’t found what I’m looking for…

This website for vocabulary is simple but very nice, www.babadum.com from Poland. 21 languages available but still no Dutch :(

Hungary is a terrorist state. This can’t be tolerated, with or without elections. Everyone is just waiting for the elections… but nothing is assured, and I don’t really have much hope on a transparent process there. Time to act, if this “plays into Orban’s hands” well too bad, that’s the price of decades of stupidity among Hungarian voters. But Hungary must be stopped.