Brexit

[Montegriffo]

Galactic not global.

[StCapps]

Galactic not global.

Space Commie

[Otern]

Government regulations solve everything, who knew?

Hey, do you want people exercising their free speech to burn to death? We need common sense flag regulations now, before more people die/embarass themselves. Making flags out of dinitrocellulose would make them burn quickly, without much risk of setting other things on fire, and people wouldn't need to use gasoline or lighter fluid to set them on fire. As it's the same thing table tennis balls are made out of, we know the effects already. It will burn visible enough to be properly used in protests, but not too much, so the risk for harm is reduced. Dinitrocellulose has all the properties you could ask for, when it comes to burning a flag.

[StCapps]

Government regulations solve everything, who knew?

Hey, do you want people exercising their free speech to burn to death? We need common sense flag regulations now, before more people die/embarass themselves. Making flags out of dinitrocellulose would make them burn quickly, without much risk of setting other things on fire, and people wouldn't need to use gasoline or lighter fluid to set them on fire. As it's the same thing table tennis balls are made out of, we know the effects already. It will burn visible enough to be properly used in protests, but not too much, so the risk for harm is reduced. Dinitrocellulose has all the properties you could ask for, when it comes to burning a flag.

Top level trolling Otern, well played.

[BjornP]

As for worker rights. They've been improving in some countries in Europe, but they've been declining in others. Norwegian worker rights are constantly under threat from the EU, same with Swedish and Danish worker rights. Food standards in Norway are way better than the nightmare you have in the EU, because we managed to keep our agriculture outside the EU legislation. Don't need to go further than Denmark to see a drastically worse food standards. Norway has the safest food in Europe, while the rest of you guys keep dying from food poisoning, and there's more and more antibiotic resistant bacteria in the EU due to overuse of antibiotics in agriculture.

The free movement of people in Europe has turned into a decline in worker rights in the richest countries of Europe, while at the same time turning in to a brain drain in the poorest countries of Europe. Both these effects will in the long run lead to increased tensions and less stability in all affected European states.

Just seeing this now. I'll add that for labor rights in general, the new Commission appointed some Luxembourger who has argued for a common EU minimum wage, rather than what we'd prefer in Denmark, Sweden (and Finland?), the Swedish candidate who at least knew that labor can be organized in a way that neither needs to lead to minimum wages laws NOR lead to companies treating their employees like Chinese workshop workers. Let those affected by increases/decreases in wages, or increase or decrease in labor conditions, as in employees and employers work out amongst themselves what the best wages, what the best working conditions, etc. are.

As for food and general consumer safety...? Yeah, admittedly we absolutely suck in that department. We lag behind Bulgaria (!) in food safety. Food safety's not where the latest bad stories come from though, that's beauty and medicine products, where it's the responsibility of the company selling their product to prove that their product is safe. If they say it is, then it can be sold. Some Instagram influencer had made some dental bleaching product (some gel + braces contraption that glows blue) really popular, but it turned out it contained a very high amount of hydrogen peroxide, which it expressly advertised it didn't contain and apparantly caused gum burns. Oh, and they used some Australians' facebook photos (without notifying or paying for them) + their own caption to sell it on social media.

[Smitty-48]

Space Commie

Star Trek is Bolshevism.

If you watch old Soviet science fiction films; it's Russian Star Trek.

Centrally planned Post Scarcity Utopia to the Stars

[Montegriffo]

The Klingons were clearly the allegoric Russians.
The Federation was the freedom-loving USA.

[Smitty-48]

The Klingons were clearly the allegoric Russians.
The Federation was the freedom-loving USA.

That's the Kool Aid.

The reality is the opposite, the Klingons were the Imperialists, the Federation was the Utopian Workers Paradise.

In the future, there is no money, no business, no crime, no dissent. Just a bunch of eggheads playing 3D chess.

United Federation of Communists, Freedom is Slavery.

Star Trek is the sugar coating to get Americans to swallow the pill. And it worked.

[Montegriffo]

No. The Federation is the American dream where a country boy from Riverside Iowa can qualify top of his class at the Academy and go on to become an Admiral.
The Klingons were a feudal caste-ridden society with an Asian appearance.

[Montegriffo]

...and the Vulcans were the ancient, advanced race of highly intelligent but emotionless people who lost their once great Empire and had to ally themselves with the Federation. Clearly the British.