KevinOnEarth

@HocSunt @Pip
Sounds a bit like “#Insurance” today. :ablobcool:

@NorskSud @GardenGeek
Countries don’t.
Countries’ LEADERS do.
And that makes the *countries* that much easier to extort and compromise.

@Gorilladrums @kossa
“IF their claim to asylum was genuine AND they aren’t causing real harm to the host society.”
So, logically, if the “IF” condition is True and the “AND” condition is False, they maintain their rights to asylum. 🤷
“Moral arguments” are subjective. (Especially in this thread. 😏) “Send them to certain death” & “All humans have rights” can both claim subjective moral rectitude. 🤷

@JensSpahnpasta @geissi
I’m actually using cash more & more (& will not put my bank account on my phone!!). Rather that than some far-foreign digital “financial service” with all its tracking tech.

@CanadaPlus @plyth
So in other words ALL Americans are now bombing schools & arming genocide.

@Gorilladrums
I guess the fact you’re “pretty sure” is encouraging. Along with “no evidence that these individuals are going to be tortured”.
What we really need is ACTUAL evidence that they are NOT mistreated on their return. THAT is what is absent.
Personally, I don’t see how Germany could care less once it’s no longer their problem.

@Gorilladrums @phoenixz
If there had been, who would be doing the reporting?

@CAVOK @resipsaloquitur
Yeah, no reason why 25 or 26 countries can’t coordinate to do exactly what they were planning via the EU. And more still.

@towerful @abbadon420
My logic on the possibility/probability of “are they interfering” / “Would they interfere” etc. etc. is… Well, get in their heads & ask yourself, why would they NOT? 🤷
Of COURSE they are!

@gravitas_deficiency @skepller
Exactly.
And continuing to imagine the US is on Europe’s side is essentially Stockholm Syndrome at this point.

@BigShammy80 @Quittenbrot
Some European alternatives to #AWS - https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/aws-amazon-web-services

@balsoft
He hasn’t though. Either verbatim or not. He’s been sabre-rattling & playing war games around Taiwan.
When has he actually approached the Taiwan govt with any respectable offer of long-term cooperation?

@balsoft @pixeltree
Xi could *substantially* improve his global reputation if he opted for a cooperative approach to relations with #Taiwan. They have been at loggerheads for decades because their govt systems & economies have been very different, but it’s China that is now evolving closer to Taiwan’s market-economy model. But they could be more inspired in establishing a more cooperative political model.
Either way, it is for the Taiwanese to choose their destiny.