Mastodawn

This is why you can’t trust Europeans with their regulations, they are just as corrupt as the Americans. And I love regulation, but the politicians that end up calling the shots are as stupid, tainted and corrupt as our trumpian overlords.

We truly are ruled by crooks.

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/eu-us-sanctions-gaza-russia

Europe Is Sanctioning Critics of Israel and Militarism

Sanctions were once sold as a gentler foreign policy tool for exerting pressure on dictatorships and terrorist organizations. Yet measures like banning individuals from having bank accounts or traveling are increasingly used to chill free speech in Europe.

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txtx 🇪🇺18h ago

@Migueldeicaza People working for Putin, whether directly for RT or for a subsidiary of RT, should be sanctioned by the EU. This is reasonable.

Russia is shooting drones at the EU and cutting our undersea cables, and we just let their propagandists run around? That's crazy.

I'm glad the EU is doing this.

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Miha Markič 18h ago

@txtx @Migueldeicaza Right, a single journalist takes all the possible sanctions without a due process on dubious charges while ie Orbán and Fico are fine. Figures.

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txtx 🇪🇺18h ago

@mihamarkic @Migueldeicaza RT isn't journalism.

Orbán and Fico are *not* ok.

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Sneezy 18h ago

@txtx @mihamarkic @Migueldeicaza

Free speech?

Are you afraid that the power of words and investigative journalism might prove the EU is not the benign entity it advertises itself as?

Listen to yourself.

You're backing totalitarian control over words and truth - destroying your democracies... For what? Israel?

Free speech for you but not for you - never works.

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txtx 🇪🇺17h ago

@rapsneezy This is the EU, not the USA. If you copy American constitutional argument, that's your thing. It has nothing to do with us.

Nazi speech, russonazi/communist speech and other hate propaganda is banned in many EU countries.

As it should be.

@mihamarkic @Migueldeicaza

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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉17h ago

@txtx @rapsneezy @mihamarkic like I said, go debate with ChatGPT so you can be told how smart you are. Or grok- that will also do.

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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉

@txtx @rapsneezy @mihamarkic for now, I have derived nothing of interest from you in this exchange, nor do I anticipate you will be able to enrich me personally on any way - so I have muted you.

Sayonara!