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[Sheb]

Belgium would have an adorable 14 years old Queen. Most of the world would be safe due to having proper distinction between head of states and head of government.

[Antsan]

Hey, so we can exchange an airport that's never going to be finished against housing for immigrants? Sounds like a great deal to me.

What the hell are you talking about?

There's an airport being built near (in? I can never tell in the area near the Berlin border) Berlin which is… I don't know how much overdue, but it's already a running joke here so it's long enough, already having cost around a billion (10^9) more than was originally predicted. It's not the only project of that kind.

I wonder if LW ever considered that the huge raise in immigration under Labour might have more to do with the EU enlargement that any policy to replace Briton with foreign leftist voters.

You say that like they don't go hand in hand

Because the countries in the EU enlargement are known for their leftist voting blocks.

[Sheb]

Vice-Chancellor Gabriel; "Germany can take 500,000 refugees a year"

[notquitethere]

It seems like the cool thing for heads of state to do nowadays is sign off on extrajudicial assassinations. Davy C is just jealous of all the folk Obama has had killed and is having a crisis of masculinity that only drone-based murder can solve.

That's my Hot Take. I'm available for newspapers and online outlets, just drop me an email.

[Helgoland]

There's an airport being built near (in? I can never tell in the area near the Berlin border) Berlin which is… I don't know how much overdue, but it's already a running joke here so it's long enough, already having cost around a billion (10^9) more than was originally predicted. It's not the only project of that kind.

Ten years by now, I think.

What's the difference between Stuttgart 21 and Berlin-Brandenburg International? Well, below that unfinished airport, there's already a fully functional below-ground train station.

[Sheb]

Whats Stuttgard 21?

[Antsan]

A heavily protested train station in Stuttgart, also unfinished.

[misko27]

Brazil would remain stable

Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. Let us say as stable as they are right now.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Brazil would remain stable

Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. Let us say as stable as they are right now.

That uneasy peace will come crashing down as soon as the next yellow card is given.

[Loud Whispers]

There's an airport being built near (in? I can never tell in the area near the Berlin border) Berlin which is… I don't know how much overdue, but it's already a running joke here so it's long enough, already having cost around a billion (10^9) more than was originally predicted. It's not the only project of that kind.

Oh fair enough, sounds like your version of our HS2; transport project costing much more than people expected for reasons dubious.

Because the countries in the EU enlargement are known for their leftist voting blocks.

Exactly!

Yeah the problem isn't the intensity of the anger in parliments, the problem is that extrajudicial killings by the state are a horrible precedent.
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."

Oh I perfectly understand that, hell I'm one of the most vocal opponents to mass surveillance since it allows us to catch terrorists... Alongside snooping the entire country, but when it comes to killing people who are so low down the legality ladder they're not even following the Geneva Convention I see no dangerous precedent since it's such an extreme example.

[Kot]

project costing much more than people expected for reasons dubious.

You just described every public (transport) project in Poland.

[LordSlowpoke]

project costing much more than people expected for reasons dubious.

You just described every public (transport) project in Poland.

it's an open secret that all post-soviet countries went full-on ukraine in varying degrees

what's the guy your secret service ended up hanging, lepper? miller? someone with six letters and two same ones in the middle, did a speech in parliament about how everyone's a thief and how everyone's gonna get prosecuted

[miauw62]

Belgium could house refugees in het Justitiepaleis

[scrdest]

project costing much more than people expected for reasons dubious.

You just described every public (transport) project in Poland.

it's an open secret that all post-soviet countries went full-on ukraine in varying degrees

what's the guy your secret service ended up hanging, lepper? miller? someone with six letters and two same ones in the middle, did a speech in parliament about how everyone's a thief and how everyone's gonna get prosecuted

Lepper. Although the official version is a suicide, he wasn't that important and those friends of his who claim it's a murder are generally somewhat of the conspiracy-theorist persuasion.

[MarcAFK]

Wake up sheeple! The lizard army from zeta reticuli staged 911 so that Enron would collapse and we would get iPhones.   
It's so obvious!