I urge my fellow Europeans to have our representatives reject this pathetic proposal.

Why is France consistently the only country with a spine in here?

We've caught on to how this works now. I anticipate about two more iterations of tedious, drawn out flip-flopping and misinformation during the remaining steps before we are either finally let in or the whole thing fizzles out.

I'm looking forward to our market share doubling from almost nothing to almost nothing. Still, not a terrible idea.

These guys are literally the last people in the world I would trust to regulate themselves responsibily.

I mean, I have as much of a problem with Musk and his insane antics as the next guy, but is TikTok really an improvement in that regard?

Are we at the point where we have to select "the lesser fascist" when contemplating who should have control of our social media?

Yeah dude, it's the brand that's the problem, you've figured it out.

After this, everyone will love it.

And as expected, the destructive consolidation of the industry moves forward again, cheered on by consumers celebrating the short term bump to the value of their subscription service.

In any other situation I would ask what the hell you guys are doing over there, but as it stands we have pretty much exactly the same situation here in Sweden.

Pretty scary development honestly. Europe really does not need a populist far-right resurgence right now.

You can't fool us Erdogan, we've seen this move before.

By tomorrow he'll have new demands. He'll demand Sweden form a space agency and plant the Turkish flag on the moon or something like that, mark my words.

A couple of things.

• Our defence has historically been coordinated to a high degree with Finland, and with only one of us in NATO it makes this coordination more difficult. So, in some ways, we are worse off than before the process started.
• As it is now, Sweden is generally not worried about a land invasion. The danger is how exposed we are from the baltic.
• A large part of why we want in is for continued solidarity and support of Finland. It is much better for Finland if we are in than if we are not.

Some people seem to frame the shooting as justifiable to prevent the potential danger the kids reckless driving would pose to others. While I personally think this was a completely undefensible escalation of violence on the police's end, I think there can be some reasonable discussion on what the appropriate level of force to stop the kid from speeding off would be. Sure, why not. Would I argue a person who is speeding away from the cops while shot is likelier to cause an accident involving others than one who isn't shot? Also yes.

But having a crowdfunder for the individual that did the shooting, in practice rewarding someone for executing a kid for speeding without a license? What the actual fuck?