They have a nuclear Programm and everybody knows it.

That is just the worst bullshit to respond with. Yes they have nuclear power, and they use enriched uranium for that. So what?
You don’t use 60% enriched uranium for nuclear bombs either, also Iran had agreed to dilute the Uranium as part of a deal before the attack.

I dont support the attack on Iran.

Why then are you defending Israeli and Trump talking points?
You sure act like you are supporting it by defending it.

It’s comments like this that makes me read the comments. 😋

They try to build nukes

That’s a lie, and everybody knows it. And even if they were trying to build nukes, can you blame them?
What right does USA have to deny others what they themselves have.

You are making excuses for USA to attack countries without reason. Something that will make more countries want nukes not fewer.

The Iranian leadership is not innocent, they are a crazy bunch of maniacs, but in this war they are innocent.
It would be nice for everybody if Iran could get back to democracy. But having a patriarchy that was instated by the people, is not an excuse to attack or even sanction a country. It’s actually against international law. As international law guarantees the self determination and right to trade of any sovereign country.
That right was taken away from Iran without good reason by USA as soon as the patriarchy was established in 1979. Overturning the USA instated dictator.

Wow, I’m surprised you think so, I thought Brazil and Argentina were better. But again, it’s not something I really follow. When I was a child in the 70’s, Denmark was “røven a fjerde division.” a very impolite way of saying we sucked very very badly. The ass (bottom) of the fourth league. And Sweden was way better than us.
then a plan was made in the Danish football league, that we needed to make professional football legal, and build the top league around professional teams like they had in for instance UK.
That paid off already in 1984 where Denmark reached the semi final in the European championship. A previously completely unheard of result for the national team. Where in the 70’s I doubt we ever even qualified to participate.
I still remember some of the names of the Danish national team from back then, and that we lost to France.
8 years later we actually won the European championship over Germany, ironically during very tough negotiations in EU, because Denmark had voted no to a new treaty.
Our foreign minister even saw the match together with the German delegation, and the smirk on his face when he came out after was priceless. And he said: “If you can’t join them, beat them!”
I can’t overstate how much of a sensation it was for us to win the European championship, as a very small country against many countries with 20 times as much money and talent to pull from.

Those were good times. 😎 😀 😋 🎉

No that is not currently possible. The Scandinavian countries could do it, but most of the rest of EU cannot, because they don’t have a solid enough infrastructure to not have old fashioned cash.

When we talk cash here, we mean physical cash as in non digital payments.
But even though EU as a whole isn’t ready to go cashless yet, they can still make limitations on cash payments like the ones we have here in Denmark.
And that can be used to increase national oversight of how money is being used.

I’m not a football fan, or a fan of any sport. But I do know that here Argentina is very highly regarded as a leading football nation.

IDK what you mean by liquid €?
AFAIK EU is determined to have a digital Euro payment system soon, I assume all EU countries can use that.

That sounds incredibly stupid by Iran if true.
AFAIK most European Jews do not support how Iran behaves either against Gaza or Iran.
This can only make the attitude against Iran worse in Europe. And also AFAIK most here are against the Israel / USA attack on Iran.
Not so much because we like Iran, but because Iran is an innocent victim in this war.

Wow, major cultural difference then. Are you in Germany?
That’s what I would expect only in USA. Not from a single EU country, at least not the old Western European part of EU.

As soon as an european alternetive for visa / mastercard is available I’ll swap

Absolutely, this can’t happen soon enough.
Cash is still legal tender here, meaning they have to be able to take it in supermarkets.
However I think there must have been a change to the law, because the new chargers for Electric cars cannot take cash, and that would have been illegal a few years ago.
You can only pay with card or phone.

But the allegedly center conservatives are parroting every AfD line

That’s exactly what happened here, many parties took the Xenophobe line from our most extreme party.
The Social Democrats even took a lead on that. Since that The Danish Peoples party has never come near their prior strength, and they almost didn’t get a single candidate elected a few years back.

The result is that our immigration politics are extremely harsh, bordering on what’s legal according to treaties we are part of.
But at least we did it without getting a “Geert Wilders” in government, like they did in the Netherlands.
I don’t personally like that our immigration policies are probably the harshest in EU. But unfortunately it seems to be politically necessary ATM. Problems with immigration are so blown up in the media, that the population demands it.
Not fascism, but that we protect our society against influx that some people seem to think is damaging to our society. And in a sense that should be the right of any sovereign nation.
But it certainly doesn’t help the situation, that we now have a retirement age of 71. Which might have been avoided if we had more immigrants. But people see it as our wellfare is threatened, and they see immigration as part of that threat.

A minority can take over if the majority does nothing to prevent it.
That’s way more how it looks in USA than in Germany IMO.
Still I hope USA has a tipping point, where normal people has had enough.
And I wouldn’t bet 100% on the mid terms fixing the problem. USA is in a much worse position, because it’s a flawed democracy, with only 2 parties that realistically can have the power of governing. That makes people much less likely to see an alternative they like better than the sociopathy and destruction of society that has become the brand of Republicans. It’s a mindset of “If I have to suffer, you have to fucking suffer too.”

In Germany there has actually been convictions against AfD people, so there are already limits to what they are allowed to do without going to prison. Contrary to Trump who is allowed to make crime after crime without consequences.
For instance AfD party members have been sentenced jail time for being Russian agents, and for a period of time, AfD members of the Bundestag were not allowed to see confidential papers, because their integrity was questioned.

With the Russian federation seemingly collapsing, a lot of outside influence will probably disappear, and Trump/Musk are no longer popular even among AfD members.

Yes I understand it’s a problem that AfD is as big as it is, and it can cause problems governing Germany that so many support AfD, but I don’t see Nazism taking control of Germany, by taking control of a German government.
The opposition to them is too strong for that.

Maybe Germans should vote more left wing, if they want to be able to negotiating with employers on an equal footing.
Unfortunately we have some of the same problems here. It’s as if people who own a house and a little bit of stock, think that now they are suddenly not wage workers anymore.
It is still their wages that enable what they have, but people forget that, and think they are somehow individual successes, when all they do is standing on the shoulders of the work the unions and labor friendly governments have done in the past.

Without them, Germany would be like USA. No holidays, insurance based health care, no free education. And the 1% owning twice as much of the wealth as they already do.

As one who has experienced this frequently, you are dead wrong and don’t know what you are talking about.

It seems hypothetically logical, but that is not how it works in reality.

Absolutely not, Nazism was seen as protection against communism, there is no such need today.
Also today AfD is extremely disliked by the rest of the population.
Nazism won before WW2 because Germany was disillusioned, they felt unfairly treated by the world, and their democracy was failing.
You can’t point to any of those mechanisms today. Today it’s almost 100% xenophobia, and for some east Germans, they feel unfairly treated by west Germany, despite it was West Germany that footed the bill, and West Germany and EU have invested billions in east Germany.
The East Germans were just not aware how far behind they were.

Please note that the attitude towards AfD among the population in general is VERY negative.
With the Nazi’s some supported them because they were anti communism. That is not the case today.
It’s sad that AfD has gained as much as they have, maybe Germany shouldn’t have been united after all. It seems the former East Germans are extremely unhappy about it!?

😀

I have worked manual jobs, where we were offered overtime, the incentives were always good enough for enough to volunteer.
I’ve worked both nights and weekends. Especially when young, many want that extra income, a little older and most prefer time off, for instance for extended holidays.

It’s about giving employers more flexibility

Absolutely.

about how they can exploit you better.

That would be failure of the unions. AFAIK Germany has protected unions pretty much like we have here.

On that we agree.