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Cake day: September 12th, 2023

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  • Well there’s zero chance Macron will resign, so we’ll need to consider the other options…

    So, his attempt to co-opt the far right into supporting his agenda failed, so he either has to make more concessions to RN to get them onboard (doesn’t really matter who the PM is, more what he will promise to get their support. Or he will try and get the NFP to agree to his agenda…which they won’t particularly after shunning them and refusing talks.

    So, it’s either play a game of appointing PMs who lose confidence votes to run out the clock, or Macron making concessions to one side.

    I’m betting on running out the clock, he seems utterly unwilling to negotiate with the left, and if he rolls over for the right the centrists get annihilated next election












  • To suspend Hungary (your first point) legally requires unanimity of all EU countries aside from the one to be censured. (Article7)

    Unfortunately Slovakia has recently elected a pro putin govt who will now block any attempt to deal with Orban.

    There was a short window between the end of the Polish far right PiS being in power and Slovakia changing leadership when it could have been done. Unsurprisingly Orban was very compliant during that period and as soon as he regained an ally is back to his old tricks.

    There is no legal way to do what you suggest

    Edit, missed a word



  • I can’t work out if this is well intentioned ignorance or trolling, so I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt and a serious answer.

    The first point is there are a huge number of threats to privacy and your online and data security from connecting to the internet even in western countries.

    VPNs are not just for protection from govt abuse, in fact their efficacy there is far lower than for several other use cases.

    If you’re in the US (for example) and with one of the biggest ISPs then every DNS request being made is (was anyway, I assume still is) logged and your internet usage is then sold off to data brokers to profile you.

    So yeah, dont trust your ISP, and if you’re dealing with a VPN that wants all that info then find a better one (proton or mullvad for exampke, you can pay with monero or bitcoin or even cash by snail mail)