Give me 150% money back if I, or any of my family, are refused entry and I'll think about it. Not before that.

Why can't you have both? Create the best value for customers, but you have to adhere to these regulations.

Seems like a perfectly reasonable position to me.

Look back at my posting history. There's no shortage of bad or dumb comments. But also a lot of good ones. I tend to focus on those. Well reasoned responses, even if they don't agree, I read and engage with.

Huh? You've posted one article and a few comments are a bit weird, so now you're leaving?

Is this your first day on the Internet?

It was a good link, keep going. We need more people posting about economy matters.

Strange. Just tested it again and it works for me, despite all the uBlock and PrivacyBadgers I have enabled. (;

All totally justified, therefore not sins. Apparently.

I was aiming for theodicy.

Regarding the last point, I thought it was relevant since migration is an issue that defines a lot of what's going in in the EU/Europe as of late, but feel free to remove it if you think it's appropriate. I don't think you're very heavy handed in your moderation, and I'll still keep posting things that I believe are relevant and interesting to share.

An omnipotent god that can't sin? Hmmm?

DJ USA -3,90%

But OMXS was up today, so it'll go down tomorrow I expect.

Already dropping again. So not even until then...

Archive link. https://archive.is/afu5p

Freedom of Movement (FoM) has worked out pretty well for the EU, especially well before the enlargement. The tensions came with the inclusion of the old "eastern bloc" countries where there was a rather large disparity between them and the richer west. I'm generally in favour of FoM, but I also recognise that with a big difference in standards there will be some issues.

So yes, FoM works, but there has to be rules attached. The UK didn't apply most of the rules they could have, which eventually led to a perception that FoM is bad, and then Brexit.

Surprising nobody. I'm convinced that Russia is using criminal gangs to create chaos in pretty much every country in Europe. If I had my way those gangs would face terrorism charges as well as the regular ones, if a link could be proven.

Maybe? But there's no evidence of US-government tampering with the brexit referendum, but there is for the Russian government. I'm not going to defend the US, certainly not currently, but I'd like to see evidence before accusing the US of something. They've done plenty of shady stuff, so there's no shortage of things to blame them for, but so far I haven't seen any evidence of US state sponsored brexit shenanigans.

There's a archive link. Here it is again: https://archive.is/20250407153840/https://www.ft.com/content/180063de-15a8-4077-8daf-a6a591e117ec

I'd say both. There were absolutely Russian money involved in brexit. By saying this I'm in no way denying US far-right involvement. I don't think it was state-sponsored from the US though. I 100% believe it was when it comes to Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_Brexit_referendum

Do I wish there was a better way for people to seek asylum? Absolutely. There was talk about setting up centers in some northern african countries to let people apply without crossing the Med. Don't know if that happened yet though. Sounds like a reasonable idea to me. And I seriously doubt that Frontex "sends them back to get raped & tortured". If they knew that was going to happen they're not allowed to.

Brexit was a Russia sponsored fluke. I'm not saying there aren't people using migrants as scapegoats for everything, but they're a minority, but as times gets tougher I get how migrants gets blamed. It's hard to help someone when you barely got enough for yourself.

About the americans, they would by what's commonly referred to as "high value migrants", meaning educated and experienced, someone who can go more or less directly into productive work. That's the kind of migrant every country on earth wants. Those are the kind of workers that helps grow the economy.

As a continent I think we're very far from both racist and backwards. Yes, there are those elements among us, but for the most part we're decent people. We make mistakes and stumble, but we're generally doing the right thing. I have fatih in us.

Then all countries hate migrants, which makes the statement meaningless.

Not sure how serious you are, but just in case...

https://www.englishjobs.se/job-role/it-software-engineering

https://jobs.thelocal.com/search/#results%2F67f4c4740357fbed229a30e9%3Fkw=&loc=sweden&page_num=1

Where are these open borders you speak of?

In the EU. You're free to move to any member country to live and work there.

Then we had brexit, and as huge part of that was the "freedom of movement" in the EU. The British didn't like "Polish plumbers" coming to the UK.