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Cake day: September 5th, 2023

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  • There was an article I can’t find from a year or so ago where a few libertarians were arguing that Bexit instead of giving them more freedom, took away from it, because they realized that the EU tended to limited the power of national governments to go on populist rampages on the left or the right, because the EU institutions average and balance between interests. I think they are right and if the EU were to turns…uh…fascist…by then the well would already be poisoned in most countries anyway.




  • They need some form of reciprocity: if you restrict these and these laws, we will restrict this and this influence in the block until you go back. e.g. you end independent media? We block you from owning any media in EU. You open the doors to visa-free russian citizens, lose access to Schengen. You take giant loans from China? Lose access to cohesion funds. You jerrymander your elections to the extreme? No votes in EU parliament/council for you…but proportional and reversible to provide an incentive to go back to normal at least a bit…obviously IANAL

    PS: I mean, look at Ukraine: “you block our military aid? We block your gas.”