• adeoxymus@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    He’s talking about the “no one gives a shit because they’re part of the EU” line. If you think that you haven’t been paying attention

    • Solumbran@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      Well did you see my list? And are there any consequences, is Poland forced to change by Europe or threatened to be kicked out? No, because no one cares. As I said, Turkiye is unable to join the EU because of things that are basically the same as Poland, but one is told that they need to improve, the other is not.

      • homoludens@feddit.org
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        6 days ago

        What are you talking about? The Court of Justice of the EU ruled against Poland and fined them for [~half a billion €}(https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-court-finds-poland-guilty-in-rule-of-law-dispute/). The EU started an Article 7 procedure against them and stopped it after the new government started to implement changes.

        Oh, and the new government came into power through voting, I didn’t know that’s something “clearly fascist” countries do.

      • chaogomu@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        Your list was kind of shit.

        The actual fascist stuff you listed was very recent, and the rest is conflating a bunch of less desirable things like religion and conservative farmers with outright fascism.

      • Ougie@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        Maybe irrelevant but who the fuck decided that Turkey is to be called Turkiye now? If you’re speaking English it’s fucking Turkey. Otherwise better start calling Germany Deutschland, Finland Suomi, Greece Ellada and so on.

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            5 days ago

            Agreed, but for some weird reason the fact that Turkey is the only one where somehow everyone suddenly abides by their whim pisses me off.

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              5 days ago

              I’m pretty sure “everyone” did it for Myanmar as well. And in Germany we changed from Weißrussland to Belarus.

              • Ougie@lemmy.world
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                5 days ago

                Thanks for the downvote :) But on point, it’s not the same, is it? Turkiye is just Turkey in the Turkish language, it’s not a change of the country’s name like going from Burma to Myanmar. It’s more like saying Deutschland instead of Germany. In fact for that one there’s a bit of a history, the view being that Myanmar was more inclusive as opposed to Burma which relates to the Bamar ethnic group. And it was the UK that primary opposed the change from the colonial era name, which brings us again to the issue of colonialism and the fact that the English think they can tell the world what to do because they control the narrative on the internet.