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Facebook To Buy Opera? Maybe. by sulfin operabrowser

[–]comelli 0 points1 point ago

Yandex.Mail is fantastic, but I still use Yahoo! Calendar. Yandex.com is a pretty good search engine too.

Brussels wants e-identities for EU citizens by knuxgenin europe

[–]comelli 1 point2 points ago

pff.

facebook is worse, by far.

BBC News - Scottish independence: One million Scots urged to sign 'yes' declaration by arnieeuin europe

[–]comelli 10 points11 points ago

I hope so! Go Scotland!

Hey, Germany: You Got a Bailout, Too - Bloomberg by anabolicin europe

[–]comelli 0 points1 point ago

oh! another very useful moralizing comment. thank you for your contribution.

Hey, Germany: You Got a Bailout, Too - Bloomberg by anabolicin europe

[–]comelli 2 points3 points ago

Sure, but it's not really news?

you're right. :)

but reading the average moralizing-passive/aggressive comments of /r/europe I think that's might be an important news for someone...

Billion in America is less than a billion in Europe by saldejumsin europe

[–]comelli 12 points13 points ago

TIL you English fools didn't use anymore the word milliard? what's wrong with you people?

Merkel doesn't know where Germany is by notangelamerkelin europe

[–]comelli 5 points6 points ago

obviously.

Hey, Germany: You Got a Bailout, Too - Bloomberg by anabolicin europe

[–]comelli 3 points4 points ago

did you read the article?

Merkel doesn't know where Germany is by notangelamerkelin europe

[–]comelli 8 points9 points ago

Is fine if your mother doesn't know where Saint Kitts and Nevis is.

But after the age of 10 everyone - in Europe - should know where Germany is.

The future of the European Union: Break-up or Superstate by arcadeninjasanin europe

[–]comelli 17 points18 points ago

Superstate!

Merkel doesn't know where Germany is by notangelamerkelin europe

[–]comelli 4 points5 points ago

She is a chemical physicist

...aaaaand so?

Merkel doesn't know where Germany is by notangelamerkelin europe

[–]comelli 12 points13 points ago

ahahahahah!!

Merkel doesn't know where Germany is by notangelamerkelin europe

[–]comelli 5 points6 points ago

She must be quite tired... but it's a bit disturbing nevertheless.

So, how many years does Greece deserve to be punished? It's 5 years in recession. In a few more years, there will be kids that will slowly go into productive ages that only knew the punishment years. by NonAmericanin europe

[–]comelli 2 points3 points ago

So, how many years does Greece deserve to be punished? It's 5 years in recession. In a few more years, there will be kids that will slowly go into productive ages that only knew the punishment years.

I can't do anything about that, but I feel your pain. Don't be angry for the moralizing hate speech of the privileged, they don't know how life in Greece is.

Why do so many Europeans speak English? by executivemonkeyin europe

[–]comelli -2 points-1 points ago

This should be the top comment.

Why do so many Europeans speak English? by executivemonkeyin europe

[–]comelli 1 point2 points ago

ahaha! very good point.

Why do so many Europeans speak English? by executivemonkeyin europe

[–]comelli 0 points1 point ago

What does that even mean?

http://www.cbs.dk/en/content/download/161966/2121654/file/Discurso%20Sociedad%20English%20Phillipson.docx

Abstract: British and US imperial policies have explicitly aimed at physical and mental occupation worldwide. The critical analysis of the resultant global inequality needs to explore how it was legitimated. The myth of terra nullius, expounded by Locke, served to legitimate European colonial dominance, which was denounced by Kant. Americanisation has been exported as a cultura nullius serving to consolidate consumerism and the underlying military and economic system. Neoliberalism increases inequality that is a causal factor in dysfunctional capitalist societies. The economic and political integration of Europe has been closely coordinated with and choreographed by the US. The presence of English has been dramatically increased throughout Europe. Its active promotion worldwide is of major political and economic significance for the UK and the USA. Advocates of English as universally valid, including the current applied linguistic vogue for analysing English as a ‘lingua franca’, see English as a lingua nullius detached from the forces behind is expansion. The integration of European higher education is being coerced into a single template, ‘internationalisation’ equating with ‘English-medium studies’. Some European countries however are forming language policy to ensure that English is only used additively. Critical scholarship that seeks to increase social justice exposes how occupation, physical and mental, has been legitimated and can be counteracted.

We need to be the change we wish to see in the world. To give millions a knowledge of English is to enslave us.

Mahatma Gandhi

the British Empire and the United States who, fortunately for the progress of mankind, happen to speak the same language and very largely think the same thoughts.
The power to control language offers far better prizes than taking away people’s provinces or lands or grinding them down in exploitation. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

The plan is for the United States to rule the world. The overt theme is unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of domination. It calls for the United States to maintain its military superiority and prevent new rivals from rising up to challenge it on the world stage. It calls for dominion over friends and enemies alike. It says not that the United States must be more powerful, or most powerful, but that it must be absolutely powerful.

D. Armstrong in Harper’s Magazine 305, 2002.

It is nonetheless the desire of every state (or its ruler) to achieve lasting peace by thus dominating the whole world, if at all possible. But nature wills it otherwise, and uses two means to separate the nations and prevent them from intermingling – linguistic and religious differences. These may certainly occasion mutual hatred and provide pretexts for war, but as culture grows and men gradually move towards greater agreement over their principles, they lead to mutual understanding and peace.

Immanuel Kant, Perpetual peace, a philosophical sketch, 1796

Why do so many Europeans speak English? by executivemonkeyin europe

[–]comelli 1 point2 points ago

The real question: if English is mandatory in school, why did your nation decide to teach it to all children?

Because of linguistic imperialism. I am not entirely sure, but I think that Spanish has more speakers than English, and it is spoken in more countries as well, nevertheless it doesn't have the economic/imperialist power to be imposed to others nations. A lot of other Asian languages are in the same situation: those languages are spoken by a great number of people, but mostly poor people.

Merkel & Hollande: A video worth a thousand words by nilszin europe

[–]comelli 19 points20 points ago

A video worth a thousand words

pff.

The anatomy of the eurozone bank run by indirectapproach2in europe

[–]comelli 0 points1 point ago

there is a funny side to that.

maybe for germany, for the others i'm not that sure ;)

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