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> They don’t spy on their own citizens They sure do; whatever gave you the impression they don’t?
From what I get, countries ask friendly countries to spy on their behalf.
That's the parallel construction.
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#392Look at the map of the earth and notice how isolated and far away USA is from the rest of us. Why do we let USA companies and military & gov. puppets do their destroying outside of USA? Why ? Europe and asia should ban USA and all of it's companies and specially the nato/military to enter or steal & destroy anything from outside usa. Why do we let them do this destruction ?
The EU for example didn't want to risk enforcing reciprocity if the laws regarding the visa waiver program (law says that if the US doesn't enrol a EU country in the visa waiver program, the EU can start making it a hassle for US citizens as well to enter the EU, similar to what people from countries outside the visa waiver program have to go through).
As someone once said: The EU has no balls (and was promptly critiqued on gender grounds which is the more important problem in the EU)
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#393Look at the map of the earth and notice how isolated and far away USA is from the rest of us. Why do we let USA companies and military & gov. puppets do their destroying outside of USA? Why ? Europe and asia should ban USA and all of it's companies and specially the nato/military to enter or steal & destroy anything from outside usa. Why do we let them do this destruction ?
Because might is right, and the USA is #1 ;)
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#394The US should f*ck off
Nah, I don’t think so. And what are you going to do about it?
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> terrorism through public demonstrations of driving while female Do you think Saudi Arabia is the Taliban or what? Even when it was banned, it wasn't the big of an offense. And yes its no longer banned, and there are a lot of women drivers now.
> Do you think Saudi Arabia is the Taliban or what? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Saudi_Ar... "In September 2011, a Sudanese migrant worker was beheaded for sorcery" Was this a rhetorical question?
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Given the US has army bases all in and around Europe, more than any European country, I bet the US wouldn't comply. It's rarely talked about, but you gotta imagine, the fact the US controls most of the land and sea is a big factor in how diplomatic issues are resolved. I don't think this is a great thing, btw.
> US controls the land and seas of most of the Earth They do so with the help of allies which they seem to forget.
Help of allies? Lol.
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I didn't say anything about "the information collected and organized in files and databases". And I don't think businesses find your fingerprints very helpful in selling you things. Mostly the value in tracking you comes from profiling you, i.e. building relationships between facts, mostly metadata about what you do over time. But biometrics aren't metadata and aren't what you do. I did mention "discrimination" but r…
Fingerprints and DNA are valuable with regard to identifying a particular person (or to place them at a certain location, like the scene of a crime). It's easy to enter a country with someone else's cell phone. It's much harder to enter a country with someone else's fingerprints or DNA. Isn't that the goal here? To have a more reliable method identify who has entered a country? > People are especially sensitive about…
> To have a more reliable method identify who has entered a country?
On the US’ side yes, but it’s not more reliable tracking because the US doesn’t have exit customs and so doesn’t actually verify if people have left the country again.
Though nobody’s against biometrics because of this surely? I don’t think anyone campaigns for the right to enter on fake passports. Spies maybe.
As for health insurance, there’s no country where they’re allowed to act on opinions like that, aside for asking if you’re a smoker. They’re specifically banned from genetic testing on top of that, but they wouldn’t be secretly collecting that info anyway.
…Not that they even exist in most countries.
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Finance background here. All these PEP, sanction lists, ofac monitoring, financial sanction lists already exist and every company with a worthwile monetary turnover ever facing an audit runs these background checks. The laws are there, they are called the aml directives, the lists are there. And most of the entries there are provided by eitjer uk or us entities, youll usually find foreign military personells data the…
On the related topic of Arabic names, I currently visiting Tunisia. The other day I asked one of my friends how to spell her name using Latin letters, and she said “you can use one C, two Cs, one K, it doesn’t matter.” Now I’m wondering how many people have problems because their names have been casually spelled a few different ways and linked to someone else’s name in accident.
It has already happened https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List#False_positives
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Where is this coming from? The vast majority of what the EU does doesn't concern anyone but the EU, and is sometimes actively hurting non-EU entities like American corporations. Be it the GDPR, the Digital Markets or Services Acts, the Covid recovery funds, farming subsidies, various projects to improve random hyper local infrastructure, etc etc etc.
Idk if you've been asleep the last 10 months regarding the politics of Ukraine, which isn't even an EU member. VdL bends over backwards on anything the US asks of her. How she even became the head of the EU council can only be explained with corruption. And that's also the main reason why the right is on the rise on the EU, because they don't want an undemocratic overlord. The irony is real.
The vast majority of EU people and member states support helping Ukraine over bending over backwards to Putin's genocidal regime.
von der Leyen is a terribly incompetent person, and shouldn't be allowed anywhere close to a place with power. Nonetheless the current EU actions are in line with what the EU wants. The only exceptions are annoying fringe groups, and Hungary which is ruled by such a fringe group.
> Ukraine, which isn't even an EU member
So fuck 'em and let them die at the hands of a brutal invader or do you mean something else? Appeasement doesn't work, and the countries that have the most to lose if Ukraine falls, like Poland and Romania, are very much in the EU.
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#400Earlier quoted context omitted.
Idk if you've been asleep the last 10 months regarding the politics of Ukraine, which isn't even an EU member. VdL bends over backwards on anything the US asks of her. How she even became the head of the EU council can only be explained with corruption. And that's also the main reason why the right is on the rise on the EU, because they don't want an undemocratic overlord. The irony is real.
Yep... people are getting really fed up with the current state of the EU (especially the unelected leadership), and even when locally some "alternative" is elected, they go along with whatever the heads in EU tell them... Considering the history, sooner or later another failed artist will represent a real "alternative", and considering i'm a slav in the first line of slavic countries the the south, I'd prefer some EU…
> Yep... people are getting really fed up with the current state of the EU (especially the unelected leadership
You're going to have to provide a source here. All the polls I've seen have indicated that the vast majority of EU citizens support thr actions of the EU with regards to Ukraine (helping them with financial, humanitarian and military aid, and hosting their refugees) and Covid (the relief funds).