@tomvasseur
Director at the Cool Heating Coalition (@coolheatingco.bsky.social) working on ♨️ and ❄️ decarbonisation Also cares about democracy ✊ and Europe 🇪🇺 All views expressed are my own Sometimes writes at: http://tomvasseur.wordpress.com
Difference is that unions can mobilize the power of employees´ own (denial of) labour.
Most NGO-organisers are limited to the force of argument or lawfare, which rely on a good command of language.
Tactics of power available to them rely on putting bodies in the way of stuff, and that's high cost.
Not that consistency is the measure of good politics, but incoherence isn't either.
It's not just Costa contradicting VDL, VDL contradicts VDL as well.
Even in the speech where she made that notorious statement she says the EU should give up on the RBO, but will always defend it except when it doesn't.
One day it's transactionalism, the next moralism (see her Iran post of 9/3)
But to be fair they were polite enough otherwise and did not call me a peasant to my face
I once told a few (wealthy) Americans they don't need to take a taxi to Luxembourg airport because the tram stop right front of their hotel will take them to the airport for free and the reply I got was "we don't do that" in a *certain* intonation.
Make no mistake. The Israeli govt wants to destroy int. law as we know it so it can commit atrocities without any consequences.
The most "moderate" coalition party (Likud, Netanyahu's party) is an associate of PfE, the alliance of European far-right. All the others are even further right.
Ik denk niet dat we ons dat af hoeven te vragen. Er was gewoon duidelijk slecht over nagedacht.
De VS vroeg niet naar onze mening, heeft er ook geen interesse in, dus waarom begrip tonen?
Schrijven én denken. Héél veel van het analytische kader komt uit de VS en wordt toegepast met weinig aandacht voor de verschillen tussen de VS en Europa. Maar dat is ook zo op centrumlinks met de fascinatie voor de Democrats.
Wellicht ook een factor die bijdraagt aan dat links zo op z'n gat ligt.
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My impression is that left-wing Spaniards are also negative about Sanchez but for not being more left. That doesn't mean they will stop voting in a way that perpetuates his coalition.
That said, all(most all) political careers end in failure, but I wouldn't say it's over yet.
You publish like 15 posts per minute.
You're unavoidable + decent posts.
SHAPE in België heeft zelfs ook nog een Duitse school naast de Amerikaanse.
Varoufakis!
Lucht-luchtwarmtepomp is meerderheid in Zweden, niet de aardwarmtepomp
Op dit moment betekent "goede relatie met Tunesië" een oogje dichtdoen voor mensenrechtenschendingen. Moeten we niet willen, onduurzaam.
There is a constant tension between the case for decarbonisation being extremely solid along all lines & much of her political family disliking that path out of combined prejudice against change & status quo interest representation.
I'm quite confident this is where EU countries would draw the line
Turkish communities in Western Europe are huge, engaged with Türkiye, but also plugged into politics at home
Our govts are too fixated on migration. They couldn't stop Turkish refugees coming in or accept it disappearing as buffer
Ik begrijp best dat er keuzes moeten worden gemaakt. Maar in maart zeggen dat in heel 2026 geen extra geld beschikbaar zal zijn is gewoon prematuur. En het argument "Nederland kan niet in zijn eentje alle gewenste steun leveren" slaat nergens op. www.rtl.nl/nieuws/polit...
Good lesson in it as well. If it looks unlikely, maybe it is.
Didn't only need to have been journalists doing this. If something like this happens again, I won't hesitate to just reach out to a few companies and ask them I've they're not being taken for a ride.
Nee, dit is beter. Hij had zó graag geroyeerd willen worden, maar niemand heeft hem die voldoening gegund.
Nu de partijen fuseren is dit zijn laatste kans om er nog even mee te dwepen, maar het is een slap alternatief.
Completely agree.
Makes me laugh when people say "Bluesky isn't as absorbing as X was" as a negative.
Pijnlijke waarheid is dat één reden waarom de bezetting van Italië & Duitsland na 45 goed ging is omdat enkel de top écht gestraft werd. De meeste mensen die voor de regimes werkten konden normaal verder gaan met hun leven.
Vergelijk dat met Irak waar precies de tegenovergestelde keuze gemaakt is.
Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another.
A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.
The extent to which debate over the attack on Iran rotate so completely around the Iraq, Afghanistan or Vietnam experiences distracts from how every badly managed conflict can generate different kinds of disasters from previous ones
"En in dit clair-obscur worden monsters geboren", schreef Gramsci.
Het was een beangstigende opmerking.
Yeah that's what I thought and see on the politicians side, but I was completely unaware something similar happened in the US on the activist side.
We zien een terugkeer van reactionair denken. Een zorgwekkende trend voor wie gelooft in gelijkheid en vrijheid.
@wbgroenlinks.bsky.social publiceerde mijn analyse over de oorsprong, logica en huidige verschijningsvormen van de reactie.
www.wetenschappelijkbureaugroenlinks.nl/artikelen/de...
Just last week the German government gutted the heating law which was supposed to drive a transition away from gas.
The timing could not have been worse: Gas prices are up 50% today and this crisis could worsen significantly. This will happen again and again and the consumer pays the price.
Zeer negatieve ontwikkeling deze uitspraken over int. recht (niet enkel door NLe ministers). Slecht dat journalisten daar niet op doorvragen.
"Dat is aan juristen". Nee, dat is ook aan regeringen.
"Niet het enige kader". Wat is dan het alternatief? Een nachtmerriescenario, vermoed ik.
