💗 Schengen
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@fj Imagine how it used to be!
“Passport please”
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@fj I do hope that anyone who uses the swing isn't going to need to mention every visit to a foreign country on something like the US immigration form.
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Does anyone know if swing safety regulations are harmonised in the Benelux countries?@alterelefant @fj if not this incident will probably lead to the EU creating a new commissioner for harmonising safty regulations of border swings
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@urlyman @electropict @ReggieHere @vfrmedia @metaphil @fj
to be honest with you what i'm really saying is i resent the authoritarian - libertarian axis
1. libertarianism (in the usa) is not social libertarianism it's right wing economic libertarianism. useful fools for plutocrats since less economic control means the rich win
2. i don't believe in an authoritarian left. yes it's a thing but i see only fascists who haven't fully worked out the contradictions in their thinking. tankies suck
Eysenck used the terms 'tenderminded' and 'toughminded' in place of libertarian/authoritarian if that helps?
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How about a carousel instead of or around that stone pillar?
@project1enigma @CannaParts @stf @fj Exactly what I though. What do you think, can we create a movement that will install carousels on each Schengen Area three countries meeting point? Could use a slogan like "freedom all around"
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@ReggieHere @benroyce @vfrmedia @metaphil @fj wait just a few more years and their funding from Moscow will have dried up.
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Schengen “Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the towns of Baarle-Hertog-Nassau, you can fly from the Netherlands into Belgium and back.”
Borders are a construct, but this swing isn't
Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the
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@fj In 2020 I just made a small cross country tour to the Czech-German-Austrian Border.
I know the times in the past when it was impossible to go spontaneously to Czechslovakia (CSSR).
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@ReggieHere @benroyce @vfrmedia @metaphil @fj wait just a few more years and their funding from Moscow will have dried up.
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@urlyman @electropict @ReggieHere @vfrmedia @metaphil @fj
to be honest with you what i'm really saying is i resent the authoritarian - libertarian axis
1. libertarianism (in the usa) is not social libertarianism it's right wing economic libertarianism. useful fools for plutocrats since less economic control means the rich win
2. i don't believe in an authoritarian left. yes it's a thing but i see only fascists who haven't fully worked out the contradictions in their thinking. tankies suck
@benroyce @urlyman @electropict @ReggieHere @vfrmedia @metaphil @fj
We have local, Welsh and Scottish elections here on May 7. I got a leaflet from the Independent Socialist candidate for my Scottish constituency. It's full of the usual things you might expect, but clearly also pro-Russian.
Ukraine can't win and 'the Russian threat isn't credible' (in bold). We should 'negotiate a non-aggression pact with Russia. Buy cheap Russian energy.'
Definitely tankie. I'm voting SNP1, Green2.
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@benroyce @ReggieHere @vfrmedia @metaphil @fj
Me neither but this map of it has stayed with me https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/114437610906205685
Wow.
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@project1enigma @CannaParts @stf @fj Exactly what I though. What do you think, can we create a movement that will install carousels on each Schengen Area three countries meeting point? Could use a slogan like "freedom all around"
@project1enigma @CannaParts @stf @fj Just tried to look some up, seems a lot of them are either on a mountain peak or in a body of water...
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“Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the towns of Baarle-Hertog-Nassau, you can fly from the Netherlands into Belgium and back.”
Borders are a construct, but this swing isn't
Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the
The European Correspondent (europeancorrespondent.com)
@fj
Imagine this with border check: a child constantly showing its passport and two officers consrantly watching.Funny thought and a little bit creepy.
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Schengen
“Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the towns of Baarle-Hertog-Nassau, you can fly from the Netherlands into Belgium and back.”
Borders are a construct, but this swing isn't
Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the
The European Correspondent (europeancorrespondent.com)
@fj This is brilliant and such a nice way to mark a border.
Until now I thought the "art border" between Switzerland and Germany is a nice symbol for a merging Europe but the swing tops it!
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@benroyce @urlyman @electropict @ReggieHere @vfrmedia @metaphil @fj
We have local, Welsh and Scottish elections here on May 7. I got a leaflet from the Independent Socialist candidate for my Scottish constituency. It's full of the usual things you might expect, but clearly also pro-Russian.
Ukraine can't win and 'the Russian threat isn't credible' (in bold). We should 'negotiate a non-aggression pact with Russia. Buy cheap Russian energy.'
Definitely tankie. I'm voting SNP1, Green2.
@riggbeck @urlyman @electropict @ReggieHere @vfrmedia @metaphil @fj
i don't quite understand why people don't immediately see that tankies aren't on the left. they are obviously fake in some cases. in other cases, extremely deluded people who are somewhere on a midpoint in their ideological journey from a left background to becoming outright right wing fascists. a scam or future MAGA, that is all tankies are
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@electropict @benroyce @urlyman @ReggieHere @vfrmedia @metaphil @fj FWIW, I believe The Political Compass' methodology is to keep the same metrics and scale, allowing results to be compared over time. This allows, e.g., UK Labour's shift to the authoritarian right to be tracked, rather than them being portrayed as vaguely centre, or even leftwing, as rightwing rags and social media platforms normalise extremist, authoritarian political discourse.
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Schengen
“Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the towns of Baarle-Hertog-Nassau, you can fly from the Netherlands into Belgium and back.”
Borders are a construct, but this swing isn't
Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the
The European Correspondent (europeancorrespondent.com)
@fj still have to remember to get a childrens passport for kids who want to use that swing
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@riggbeck @urlyman @electropict @ReggieHere @vfrmedia @metaphil @fj
i don't quite understand why people don't immediately see that tankies aren't on the left. they are obviously fake in some cases. in other cases, extremely deluded people who are somewhere on a midpoint in their ideological journey from a left background to becoming outright right wing fascists. a scam or future MAGA, that is all tankies are
@benroyce @urlyman @electropict @ReggieHere @vfrmedia @metaphil @fj
That sounds a bit like the No True Scotsman fallacy. I think you can take different political positions, place them on the left/right spectrum, and still find arseholes everywhere. For example, were the Bolsheviks socialist or fascist? The government founded by them created a tyranny.
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@benroyce @urlyman @electropict @ReggieHere @vfrmedia @metaphil @fj
That sounds a bit like the No True Scotsman fallacy. I think you can take different political positions, place them on the left/right spectrum, and still find arseholes everywhere. For example, were the Bolsheviks socialist or fascist? The government founded by them created a tyranny.
@riggbeck @urlyman @electropict @ReggieHere @vfrmedia @metaphil @fj
no because the no true scotsman fallacy is an appeal to purity. as if tankies aren't pure leftists because they embrace authortarianism
but i am rejecting the classification of tankies on the left entirely. i'm not saying they are impure leftists, i am saying they aren't even leftists at all. either liars: agent provocateurs, or delusional idiots who haven't worked out the contradictions in what they say they believe
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Schengen
“Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the towns of Baarle-Hertog-Nassau, you can fly from the Netherlands into Belgium and back.”
Borders are a construct, but this swing isn't
Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the
The European Correspondent (europeancorrespondent.com)
