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I fully agree, now, larger society doesn't and if all of my schooling is proof of it, feminism is the dominant discourse in Western Europe. So we can'be having women be fully equal in all spheres of society when it benefits women, but then remove them from every obligation those rights come with.
The full consequence of your ideas is that men and women are different people meaning it affects every sphere of life, and leads you to ask some unsavory questions, which doesn't mean curtailing women's rights necessarily but it does mean that the the way we model society and genders is opposite to reality, because when reality, like war, asks hard questions we default to the old order of men in the front and women in the factories.
The true hardcore far right is incarnated in Reconquete and the Zemmour/Knafo/Marechal axis.
There is also a dilution process by which you assimilate or adapt a population and if the % of new people is too high the culture that produced those societies basically disappears.
This is without all the social issues of putting them in ghettos and pulling up the ladders to their kids to integrate in society.
It works like debt, in the sense that you are taking a band-aid solution and kicking the can 15 years but they have been doing it since the 1980s so the can is here now.
This explains the fact that aside from the slopulist and bombastic subjects, they don't have any real plan or serious depth in their policy proposals.
If the traditional parties fixed those issues, and most notably the migration policies, the ECHR extensive read of asylum/immigration rights the whole momentum behind them would disappear. I think Bardella will unironically continue Macron I's economic reforms of liberalizing the market and removing the extreme social protections which in times of abundance are ok, but in times of recession seem to enhance the unemployment and productivity issues even more.
2: In 2000, Congress passed the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act (TSRA), which authorized sales of food, medicines, and medical equipment to Cuba. So basically how it is a blockade or a siege.
3:Spain trades with Cuba. Canada is one of Cuba's biggest export markets. China is a top partner. The Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy all trade. The EU passed a "Blocking Regulation" making compliance with Helms-Burton a criminal offence in some member states
4: Almost 2 Billion $ of remittances are sent every year from Cubans abroad, and like 1.8 of that comes from the US. If there is an blockade, how can the money go into the island.
All of the issues of Cuba are due to its endemic government, the external conditions are just a reaction to that. Talk with some Cubans about the reality of Cuba and you will get the story.
[1]: https://www.quinnemanuel.com/the-firm/publications/title-iii...
myth, an incredible myth, the US has a package of sanctions and an embargo, Cuba is free to trade with other nations. The reason of the economic powerty and Cubans not being able to live a normal life is mostly self-inflicted (by their government, not the people) from an extractive elite who kept the old colonial system but just changed hands and drapings, with who is on top, plus the disastrous results of marxsist-leninist economic policies who are blind to reality
It can be seen as a modern addnedum of "No Silver Bullet" where AI increases Accidental complexity while not resolving the issues inherent with essental complexity. This contrasts with the view that AI actually removes accidental complexity to reveal essential complexity
I mean yeah, not free but a minimal fee like 20$ or something, doable in an easy place., the problem is not really the ability or will, but political polarization that makes even reasonable propositions become weaponized.
It's not a pointless expense if it is integrated into other systems like healthcare, driving licence, and for example, online identification to do taxes and such. You cannot meaningfully digitalize bureaucracy without standard IDs.
I am familiar with the history, but from an outsider POV it feels like the story of the sheep that got electrocuted once and then never ventured outside, the path dependency is not really helpful in general. Also I followed the law in the US to make ID mandatory at voting, and from what I saw the whole debate around it seemed deranged, if voter fraud and non-citizens voting is inexistent, why did so many people oppose it. Ironically what will happen is that the elderly will be most affected and will stop voting Republican (chat happened in the UK).