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Syldon , to Work Reform in Bernie Sanders Champions 32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay
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The vacation period is a minimum standard in the EU.

Beyond the daily and weekly rest periods, your staff has the right to at least 4 weeks of paid holidays per year. You cannot replace these holidays with a payment unless the employment contract has ended before the staff member has used up all their annual leave.

In the UK minimum holiday entitlement is 28 days. I am always appalled at how badly the US allows it workers to be treated. I really wish the US would start thinking more about working to live and not living to work.

Syldon , to Politics in Trump Mar-a-Lago security aide flipped after changing lawyers
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Doesn’t this leave the original lawyer open to some sort of complaint. If he told his client to perjure himself then surely this can have consequences.

Syldon , to Politics in Trump's lawyers propose 2026 trial date in federal election case
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If he is so innocent and this is nothing more than a witch hunt then defend yourself in court. It is not like he does not have the money for a defence. A $250m crowd fund took care of that. The fact that it is obvious he wants to take advantage of presidential prerogatives just shows he feels he has no other way out.

Syldon , to Politics in NATO is an aggressive military alliance. Everybody outside the West can see it.
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And Again no one is denying that there were actions taking place. Again only one of those was NATO. None was instigated, every single one was in response to another’s action. You combine a lot of what the US does with the rest of NATO countries.

That is similar to saying every country in the BRICS is party to Russia’s failed invasions of Afghanistan, Armenia, Chechnya or Ukraine. The BRICS are not responsible, Russia is solely responsible for the instigation of the invasive action without any other reason than self interest. It was a feeble attempt to extend their borders.

AFAIK not a single member has tried to extend their own border since its creation. Even the US with its aggressive actions in the last 50 years has not held onto any country it has held operations in. The hand over back to the nations concerned may not have been done very well. A statement both Russia and China cannot repeat with any honesty.

Syldon , to Politics in NATO is an aggressive military alliance. Everybody outside the West can see it.
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Countries have been killing each other since their inception. Again this is not NATO that is individual countries.

Syldon , to Politics in NATO is an aggressive military alliance. Everybody outside the West can see it.
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Nice word salad that doesn’t change the fact that NATO attacked Afghanistan and abused the people of the country for two decades.

Many countries were involved with Afghanistan and as I said it was in response to an attack on US soil. The rest is just gibberish and ignores the fact that there was an ongoing conflict before any NATO country intervened. No one can deny that mistakes were made in the handling or the initiatives involved, but this is not due to NATO attacking another nation to start a conflict.

Syldon , to Politics in NATO is an aggressive military alliance. Everybody outside the West can see it.
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Yugoslavia was an ongoing civil war, and was a humanitarian intervention only. NATO positioned themselves between the factions to prevent any further conflicts arising. NATO were criticised for not participating in stopping some of the atrocities at the time.

Libya was in response to a UN resolution regarding the conflict already ongoing within Libya.

Syria had a civil war running for years prior to US intervention. ISIS decided Syria was destabilized so much that it decided to form a self made country there. It was because of ISIS that some NATO countries intervened.

Afghanistan was a US led initiative that included a lot of NATO countries over its period, but was not initiated by NATO. It was in response to a cumulation of events, the penultimate was the 911 attacks in New York. The initial attacks were US, UK, Canada, NZ, Germany, Italy and the Arab NA. So no it was not a NATO attack, and no it was not initiated by any NATO state.

Syldon , to Politics in NATO is an aggressive military alliance. Everybody outside the West can see it.
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What aggressive act has NATO done?

AFAIK NATO has never started a conflict. It has reacted to some already in progress, but it has never initiated any military invasion since its inception.

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