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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 3h

Sooner or later he will have tried to intimidate every country on the planet.

Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 3h

No worries.

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 10h

…average UK person get…20, 25, 30, 35. A long way from 180.

Also stop with the misinformation.

Part-time resident does not exist as a category, in Spain or anywhere else.

If you don’t have residency (and pay your taxes) you are either a tourist and if you overstay you are an illegal immigrant

Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 10h

There are no 90/180 problem.

The UK has plenty of problems these days, Brexit is the reason for many of them.

Entitled tourists not being able to stay for more than half the year abroad is not an issue. They would of course have to pay taxes but they won’t.

How many days of vacation does the…

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 10h

For some reason neither will the democrats still playing after a rule book which the GOP burned years ago.

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 10h

…shithole country.

Democrats better wake up soon. Once entrenched the fascist will be very difficult to kick out. It might already be too late.

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 10h

The US is not a democracy.

Democrats are still playing a game in which the competition simply doesn’t care for any of the rules…no wonder that the democrats and democracy have been losing for years.

The US was never a modern democracy…now it has a fascist regime.

Didn’t Trump have a word for this

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 15h

A group of young fascists are racists and misogynists…that can’t come as a surprise.

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Dr. Olaf Bachmann @falo2.bsky.social · 15h

Warum muss ich in der Epoche leben, in der alle einem narzisttischen Uebelmenschen den Hintern lecken. Es fühlt sich an wie eine bedingstlose Kapitulation unserer Hochkultur vor einem Inbegriff aller primitiven Bösartigkeit. Als wenn das Zeitalter der Aufklärung in Peinlichkeit wegschrumpfen soll.

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 15h

That irritates me too.

Not only the level of evil but how primitive they are.

It is one thing to be conned … it is another thing when the conmen are morons.

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Dr. Olaf Bachmann @falo2.bsky.social · 15h

Why do I have to live in an era where everyone licks the ass of a narcissistic evildoer? It feels like an unconditional capitulation of our advanced culture to the epitome of all primitive evil. As if the Age of Enlightenment is supposed to shrink away in embarrassment.

Dr. Olaf Bachmann @falo2.bsky.social · 15h

Warum muss ich in der Epoche leben, in der alle einem narzisttischen Uebelmenschen den Hintern lecken. Es fühlt sich an wie eine bedingstlose Kapitulation unserer Hochkultur vor einem Inbegriff aller primitiven Bösartigkeit. Als wenn das Zeitalter der Aufklärung in Peinlichkeit wegschrumpfen soll.

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 15h

They have allowed him to go full fascism…it is not possible for the US to think much lower than that.

Threatening old allies with invasion was especially despicable.

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 15h

He is buying the election. Like elections are bought in the US all the time.

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 15h

US is not civilized. It was always corrupt and never a modern day democracy…though outright fascism is a new low.

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 15h

Argentina.

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 15h

He is trying to buy Argentina.

I guess it is still better than threatening allies with invasion…but not by much.

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 15h

…solved.

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 15h

…to someone that don’t deserve it.

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 15h

No he absolutely didn’t.

Machado doesn’t give out the Nobel prize. She can dedicate it all she wants. Doesn’t mean anything except showing that she was unworthy to get it herself.

Praising a fascist should mean automatic disqualification. Of course it is not the first time that the prize was given

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 15h

…more, that would be great.

In the current political landscape…a snowball would probably stand a better chance in hell…but there is always hope.

A commission is better than what the UK has been doing for the last 9 years.

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 16h

…not likely to keep it).

So there are a few options, though only one if article 49 is used.

The status quo seems very likely as the UK has difficulty in committing to anything more than this (they have trouble committing to that too).

If a commission can find unanimous support for something…

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 16h

…the line FTA (the TCA). This relationship serves the EU just fine. In any negotiations the EU will continue to hold all the cards.

A bespoke relationship like Switzerland…forget about it. The EU doesn’t even want that anymore with the Swiss it will never be offered to anyone else (and Swiss are..

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 16h

On the outside you have a potential EEA membership (also comes with a long list of requirements) or simply joining a few EU programs (the UK has already joined Horizon) but it will not be an exercise in cherrypicking or the status quo (a FTA controlled relationship. Here the UK already has a top of

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 16h

…can’t it shouldn’t apply at all. It would be a waste of our time.

The UK would win nothing from being long term parked next to Turkey.

The EU is a rules based organisations. The CC and the acquis is known up front.

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 16h

…change its treaties for any applicant.

The EU acquis is known. There will be no opts. Not for Moldova not for the UK. It is not possible.

That is what a commission should be looking at. If the UK can agree to the entire acquis then it should apply (still needs to qualify too of course), if it…

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