You are wrong about beer in Spain. The Spanish have only recently discovered beer, there are very few beer houses in Spain, the number of types of beer is also small and the price for beer is very high.
Yes, I know that for example in Germany there is a lot of beer, but I think that the price of a mug of beer is very high. The same in Spain.
I do not understand why a mug of beer should cost the same as a bottle of Spanish beer. And in some cases, even more.
Compare a bottle of wine, how long it takes to make this wine. And some beer, which is made in just 1 month. Wine is much healthier. And what is the benefit of beer? A huge belly and big boobs on men.
You are wasting your years on beer, in Spain you should only drink wine!

Pretending go be ukrainian and pro Trump is ilke pretending to be jewish and pro
 Hitler.

Pretending go be ukrainian and pro Trump is ilke pretending to be jewish and pro Hitler.

History has a habit of repeating itself.
"The Association of German National Jews (German: Verband nationaldeutscher Juden) was a German Jewish organization during the Weimar Republic and the early years of Nazi Germany that eventually came out in support of Adolf Hitler.

The organization primarily attracted members from the anticommunist middle class, small business owners, self-employed professionals such as physicians and lawyers, national conservatives, and nationalist World War I veterans, many of whom believed that Nazi antisemitism was only a rhetorical tool used to "stir up the masses"."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews

This may be intertesting and informative, but unfortunately I can't hear it very well. Others may fare better:
https://sfi.usc.edu/video/manfred-steinfeld-why-germans-voted-hitler

Quote from: stoker2014 on February 22, 2025, 05:28

Quote from: trabuco on February 22, 2025, 03:49

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WHY DO YOU WEAR AN UKRAINIAN FLAG WHEN YOU ARE A TRUMP SUPPOERTER?

As for Trump, I would not say that I am his fan or follower, he is simply better for Ukraine than Biden or any other Democrat. At the moment, this is also the opinion of Ukrainian experts.

�According to diplomats, the US government wants to introduce a draft resolution in the UN General Assembly that does not explicitly name Russia as the aggressor.
...
Russia's UN representative, Vasily Nebenzia, described the surprising move by the US government as a �good step�.
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The paper, reported by the news agencies dpa and AP, among others, also does not call for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukrainian territory.�

Any moves in geopolitics are made for a reason (it's like in chess). Only an expert can understand the meaning of information noise. I can give several possible answers, but I don't know which of them will be correct, I have not heard the opinions of experts on this disinformation yet.
On my own behalf, I can only say that the UN is a useless organization that has only been justifying violence for the last 30 years. Its head, Guterres, is a friend of Russian Na.zis and a friend of putin. He is banned from entering Israel and was not allowed into Ukraine.
I believe that Ukraine needs to leave the UN and not pay any money there.
Therefore, it does not really matter to Ukraine what is adopted in the UN.

.... Can you go to court in the USA? Move here.


Some months ago I went to my doctor. Last year I felt sick. I don't like doctors, I NEVER go there.
He found something in my throat. Thought it was a really bad thing. So, I needed surgery.

Cost of doctor 0.

He scheduled surgery in 2 weeks !!!!! after that day. A long long long wait. In fact I did not have time enough to be afraid.

So I needed hospitalization the day before and then a general anesthesia surgery the day after. In a couple of days after I was at home with my prescriptions.

Cost of hospitalization 0.
Cost of precriptions during hospitalization 0.
Cost of surgery (a dozen people team) 0.
Cost of prescriptions after surgerey: about 15 euros I think.
Cost of biopsy 0.
Cost of doctor afeter surgery 0.

Have to wait 3 weeks for results. Nothing wrong there and I'm fine now. � 3 weeks is a longer time, because in my country when you are well things go slower, really ill people have the TOP priority.
...

definitely the US is behind EU in most social services, esp'ly for health care, education & legal services.

yes, individuals can go to court independently - I did probate when my wife died but it was confusing as i worked thru the various rules - eg had to file a form that let me file a letter to the court that let me apply to become executor to formalize the fact that i was already the sole beneficiary

but for anything more you likely need lawyer - to do a title [proof of property ownership] search recently i paid almost $2K legal fees for < 5 hrs of their work.

...
medical care really varies - even after obama's healthcare improvements we still have tens of millions without insurance. and many red states refused to participate even tho the federal govt paid 90% of costs.

I'm one of the lucky ones - medicare & private insurance do cost me about $450/mo I have an excellent HMO for which I co-pay $15/visit & low amount for major expenses � eg paid only $1000 each for multiple ICU stays billed at $100K each. i've had MRI, CT, x-ray & PET scans over last 2 years with no wait & no cost - long story, but ruled out anything major

 but too many americans have poor or no insurance.

otoh , in Turkey, I received 2nd degree burns on my torso after a bbq fuel bottle blew up, spraying me with flaming gel.   the ambulance, emergency room care and overnight in a private room, specialist follow-up, pain killer & topical treatment cost me $300 even as a foreigner who paid no taxes.  Over the last 50 years, we or US friends raveling with us have also received emergency care in France, Austria, Canada, Bhutan, Nepal and India for nominal costs  (varied from severe cuts to broken legs to heart attack). and the medical care was fast and excellent in all these cases with no complications

Quote from: trabuco on February 22, 2025, 06:47

Pretending go be ukrainian and pro Trump is ilke pretending to be jewish and pro Hitler.

History has a habit of repeating itself.
"The Association of German National Jews (German: Verband nationaldeutscher Juden) was a German Jewish organization during the Weimar Republic and the early years of Nazi Germany that eventually came out in support of Adolf Hitler.

The organization primarily attracted members from the anticommunist middle class, small business owners, self-employed professionals such as physicians and lawyers, national conservatives, and nationalist World War I veterans, many of whom believed that Nazi antisemitism was only a rhetorical tool used to "stir up the masses"."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews

This may be intertesting and informative, but unfortunately I can't hear it very well. Others may fare better:
https://sfi.usc.edu/video/manfred-steinfeld-why-germans-voted-hitler

similarly, trump  voters have already seen

   -food prices continue to rise, inflation to increase
   -punitive tariffs that increase consumer prices
   -denial of women's health  care
   -partial closure of national park
   -firing of those who investigate business fraud and practices that harm workers
   -destruction of agencies like EPA (environmental protection)
   -drastic cuts for scientific & medical research
   -eliminated jobs at the Federal Aviation Administration which had direct roles in supporting safety inspectors and airport operations
   -destruction of USAID which helps more than 60 million people in 65 countries each year with emergency food aid (and  buys billions of dollars of grain each year from American farmers - many of whom are in red states)

It has been claimed that Trump's foreign policy views are impulsive, inconsistent and that they were improvised on the campaign trail. However, drawing on interviews from as far back as 1980, leading historians Charlie Laderman and Brendan Simms show that this assumption is dangerously false. Revealing that Trump has had a consistent position on international trade and America's alliances since he first considered running for president in the late 1980s, his foreign policy views have deep roots in American history. For this President, almost every international problem that has confronted the United States can be explained by the mistakes of its leaders. Yet, after decades of dismissing America's leaders as fools and denouncing their diplomacy, Trump now has to prove that he can do better.

This insightful and compelling book reveals the world view that Trump brings to the Oval Office, illuminating how that world view was formed, what might result if it is applied to foreign policy and the potential consequences for the rest of the world. An essential read.

https://www.amazon.com/Donald-Trump-Making-World-View/dp/1788310489

Quote from: stoker2014 on February 22, 2025, 05:33

.. in Spain, the number of types of beer is also small and the price for beer is very high.
Yes, I know that for example in Germany there is a lot of beer, but I think that the price of a mug of beer is very high. The same in Spain.
I do not understand why a mug of beer should cost the same as a bottle of Spanish beer. And in some cases, even more....

more of your ignorance- i've sampled beer (for purely scientific investigation, of course) and in the EU it's much cheaper than in the US - -- here a pub pint is $7-8, in EU, 20-50% of that, and in some places cheaper than soft drinks.

Don't show your ignorance, I didn't write the word pint anywhere. Learn to read and think before you write on public forums, communist.
I don't use this American unit of measurement because I'm not American. I use the European system of measurement. I wrote about a mug of beer, and by a mug of beer I mean either 0.5 liters or 1 liter. But I think the Germans and the Spanish should join this discussion. It is necessary to calculate what is more expensive in Germany and Spain - wine or beer?
A bottle of wine contains 0.75 liters. Spanish wine starts at 1 euro per bottle. Sherry starts at 8 euros per bottle.
When I studied the prices of beer in Spain and Germany, I found that beer is not cheaper than wine, but often more expensive.

Best thing in Spain is not wine. Our wine is the best in the world, wich is a different thing.  We don't use to drink wine every day or "sangria", wich is crap for tourists and we never drink it, we drink beer.

A good verdejo never hurt anyone 

Quote from: stoker2014 on February 22, 2025, 15:45

A bottle of wine contains 0.75 liters. Spanish wine starts at 1 euro per bottle. Sherry starts at 8 euros per bottle.
When I studied the prices of beer in Spain and Germany, I found that beer is not cheaper than wine, but often more expensive.

You obviously copied the price comparison of beer and wine from your Ukrainian experts again without any personal experience.

There are cheap beers from large breweries all the way to expensive craft beers.

The range is even wider for wine. You can't get a drinkable bottle of wine for one euro.

A crate of decent beer with 24 bottles costs around 12 - 14 euros. For this price you can get 1 - 2 bottles of decent wine, no matter where the wine comes from (Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Chile, Australia). In this respect, you can say that beer is cheaper in Germany in terms of quantity.

However, the price comparison is pretty stupid from the outset, because the drinking habits for wine and beer are completely different.

How much does 1 liter of beer cost in a pub in Germany? What is the price range for average quality beer? Although I am sure there is no such thing as average quality. After all, all beer in Germany meets the standard.
Comparing bottled beer and wine is not correct. Beer in a pub is more expensive because it is of higher quality. Therefore, you need to compare the price of beer in a pub.

I bought a bottle of wine in Spain for 1 euro. The wine was natural, I liked it.

What's really messed up is...

Many people get caught up in the theater of 'republicans' vs 'democrats'... the 'red vs blue' team sport... Arguing points of what the "news" tells them (which is simply a propaganda machine) designed to manipulate people's emotions... Very few people have an actual clue what they are talking about. Very few actually look at the source documents for things like statistics (not realizing many times those are manipulated as well - I've personally WORKED in very high up environments where 'officials' discussed how to fudge stats to promote certain agendas/'desired outcomes', etc)... not to mention things like "economics" degrees are all about how to manipulate and exclude information to support your 'desired' results...

Super funny... and yet.

a) Many people believe there was a "contagious virus" (there wasn't).
b) Many people wore demondiapers on their face for EIGHT+ HOURS/DAY, SUFFOCATING themselves, doing BRAIN damage... and don't even know they've become dumber... because they are now 'judging' themselves from a suffocated standpoint... let alone breathing in poisons deliberately sprayed on them to 'make them sick'... to induce them in order to get a poisonous injection that permanently makes them sick...

(Esp: you spacestockfootage, for some reason you seem to gobble it up and drink as much koolaid as the news gives you. I really don't know why you do it, but, you do... Maybe you've drunk so much fluoridated water that your glands are calcified and you literally just can't think straight/see the forest for the trees, I don't know. Anyways perhaps purify your water and eat non sprayed food, and if you eat fast food, stop)

Most of you guys (for the most part) are only seeing surface level things that are rather insignificant..

Here's some "secrets" (aka obvious things if you simply pay attention).

a) "Blue" vs "Red", "Conservatives" vs "Liberals" - it's a GAME and BOTH sides are pushing the SAME AGENDA. "They" want a super slave class, and a super wealthy class. No middle class. Also tracking you like cattle, through facial rec, the "vaccines" (i.e., think of yourself like an iphone, with software now to be installed). "Vaccines" also CAUSE "cancer" so you can be "sold" a "solution", i.e., another "vax" to "cure that" which then causes other problems, etc.
b) There is "tech" that you do not have access to that is a LOT more advanced than you think it is. Everything from body doubles, to cloning, to robotics, etc, etc.
c) The people organizing a lot of this really derive pleasure from seeing people suffer. They "enjoy" it. Makes them feel "powerful" & "important".
d) "Inflation" is not a "mysterious force". It is deliberately manufactured by printing more paper money. Quite simple. You have $100 trillion in the "economy" spread amongst 300 million people. If you print another $100 trillion (such that the 'economy' now has $200 million) - and keep it all to yourself - you've effectively stolen 50% of the wealth from those 300 million people. KYC&AML have absolutely nothing to do with 'protecting' you - its designed to control how you can spend whatever little you may have left after 'voluntarily' being taxed.
e) "AI" is NOT a "thinking machine". It is simply sophisticated theft. And you CAN be compensated for theft of your assets if you wish. Now, that being said - there are computer programs being used to co-ordinate a lot of the insane nonsense.

Realize the political 'arena' is theater... don't be a slave, be a free man or woman living a life.

Quote from: trabuco on February 22, 2025, 06:47

Pretending go be ukrainian and pro Trump is ilke pretending to be jewish and pro Hitler.

History has a habit of repeating itself.
"The Association of German National Jews (German: Verband nationaldeutscher Juden) was a German Jewish organization during the Weimar Republic and the early years of Nazi Germany that eventually came out in support of Adolf Hitler.

The organization primarily attracted members from the anticommunist middle class, small business owners, self-employed professionals such as physicians and lawyers, national conservatives, and nationalist World War I veterans, many of whom believed that Nazi antisemitism was only a rhetorical tool used to "stir up the masses"."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews

This may be intertesting and informative, but unfortunately I can't hear it very well. Others may fare better:
https://sfi.usc.edu/video/manfred-steinfeld-why-germans-voted-hitler

It's an important point.

Many jews collaborated with the Naz.is in Shoah. Deportations were started ruled by jewish councils in a lot of cases, we don't know exactly why and we don't know how n.azis got it.  Pure evil is hard to face, you can't expect it if you are a normal person. An american philosopher, Hannah Arendt (an underrated one, I have read all her books and are all great) talks about this kind of problems a lot. Eichmann in Jerusalem is an amazing book if you are interested in evil. The best work about the total annihilation of european jews during WWII is a movie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoah_(film)

[don't know if the movie is avaiable somewhere, if you want it, pm me and can upload it to somewhere -with spanish subtitles inserted by my own]

More than a book, you can see the Shoah, hear it, feel it, smell it...

Nazi Party was supported by the whole country and for many people outside Germany (politicians too). American companies (Texaco) provided essential supplies to Hitler during WWII to kill americans. I think we are not in that scenario but we the point is we don't have learn this kind of lessons, because Putin is an european creature. He has been a murderer and a psycho for decades, is not a new habit. Should have been hanged decades ago, not welcomed for our PMs.

We fed him. It's ours and It's disgusting.