Yeah, I’m not sure what the difference is with last time anyway. A lot of posturing, but nothing changes in the end. “Not a political event” my ass

It’s not though. It could be the point in some cases. But often enough, constitutions have been granted as concessions from the sovereign to whatever group was putting up pressure, often the nobility, who had no further intent to introduce a republic or democracy or whatever else. Just looking out for their own interests.

The typical character arc for these types, unfortunately.

found the SUV driver!

I mean, fits within the whole extreme private property fetish going on within N-VA, and western society at large.

Normalize seizing more things, I’d say. Seize Russian assets. Seize assets of corporations that pollute and kill. Seize assets of the overly rich. Seize the means of production.

It’s war mongering and ever since the invasion of Ukraine, emotion has taken over. 10 years ago we were all remembering the First World War and how it should never happen again, and yet here we are: attacking anyone who tries to argue for peace as being a traitor…

Some thoughts:

• All wars end in negotiations, so the sooner the better;
• We need to get the fuck out of NATO - the US is a rogue state and we, as Europeans, have no say whatsoever in its functioning;
• We need a European defense alliance that’s credible - meaning: if we say it’s about defense and our so-called western values, we shouldn’t be part of imperialist adventures;
• Russia isn’t going to attack the EU, it makes no sense - the amount of mental gymnastics that pundits are making to make Russia both menacing as incompetent is staggering;
• Europe already spends three times as much on defense as Russia - if there’s one sector that could really use some of that magic Free Market Efficiency™, this would be the prime candidate for austerity;
• Rearmament doesn’t make the world safer, on the contrary, it makes war more likely - if all you have is an army, everything looks like a military conflict;
• Rearmament will only line the pockets of the industrialists and other capitalists and cost the working people in their well being or even their lives if we start throwing them into the meat grinder.

They got full rights as employees. That’s a step further than just decriminalization.