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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by amiga_500 on Friday July 17, 2020 @11:30PM (#23878658)
They have it so good because they complain about stuff that is trivial relative to countries like Romania. It's a constant battle and to be satisfied is to give up.
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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by oblio on Saturday July 18, 2020 @06:46AM (#23880459)
Yeah, right. Survivor bias in action. Romania didn't choose to do a lot of the things it did. It didn't choose to be a Communist state for 45 years, for example. History matters.

And if you think Romanians are somehow content:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%932019_Romanian_p...

They were in the news everywhere, from Deutsch Welle to the New York Times.

I find your comment dismissive of those down the ladder, maybe I'm misinterpreting it. It also seems unaware of history or recent news.

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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by heavenlyblue on Saturday July 18, 2020 @01:05PM (#23882846)
Well, the fact that Romania is even less democratic that Germany doesn’t change the fact that Germany couldn’t be more democratic. And to be fair I would prefer if Romanians figured out their democracy themselves rather than have another proxy war happening there now.
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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by oblio on Saturday July 18, 2020 @01:55PM (#23883259)
What do you mean by proxy war? Romania is quite peaceful.
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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by heavenlyblue on Saturday July 18, 2020 @02:08PM (#23883393)
What do you think is going to happen if a wester state brought military to help you with corruption?
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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by oblio on Saturday July 18, 2020 @02:31PM (#23883615)
Who asked for military help?
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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by heavenlyblue on Sunday July 19, 2020 @12:14PM (#23890313)
How do you think the west should get rid of your corruption then?
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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by amiga_500 on Saturday July 18, 2020 @09:13AM (#23881199)
You are misinterpreting, it was thinking about how to be robust, not critiquing Romania
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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by oblio on Saturday July 18, 2020 @09:34AM (#23881302)
Ah, ok then :-)
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