As a Spaniard, I can confirm that this is a great balanced summary of Spanish politics, in my opinion.

When the middle class struggles, they eventually embrace anybody who promises a break from the status quo.

Moderate parties need to ask themselves what have they done so poorly that these extremists are now becoming popular. We've seen these sort of authoritarian far-right movements across the globe and I'm not seeing moderates offer a great answer.

Personally, I would rather see a shift towards a sustainable future where the necessities of life, such as food, housing, education, health care and public transit were enshrined.

JFC. This one is so much worse, being in the kernel.

If I may...

It is not okay to burn your own book but it is okay to burn somebody else's building

I'm with you that there is no publicly available proof of non-human intelligence. And I agree that the testimony of congresspeople isn't exactly the best way to ascertain whether something is true.

But I'm not claiming that non-human intelligences are here, I'm merely answering the question posted by the OP: the allegations made by Grusch and other whistleblowers are being investigated by Congress, and that they have shared with Congress testable evidence that has not been made public. That includes program names, names of the people in charge of those programs and the location of some of those retrieved craft.

Everything else is our personal opinion, strongly as we may feel about it. I personally think it is worth investigating these allegations. If the witnesses have lied to Congress under oath, they need to suffer the consequences. But if they haven't... Well.

> you need to touch grass, the text you sent just has the same allegations, nothing new nothing concrete

The details are classified. You and I don't get to see them. The people who do get to see the classified evidence, like some of the congresspeople I mentioned, take it seriously. The whistleblowers have allegedly provided Congress with the names of the people in charge of the reverse-engineering projects and the locations of the materials.

Think again about that: the elected representatives with the best access to the most sensitive information take it seriously.

What alternative explanation do you have for multiple congresspeople from both sides of the aisle being willing to investigate these claims and writing new laws to encourage more whistleblowers to come out?

> why have i never heard of flying saucers in africa?

How much news do you get from Africa, generally? You won't know things when you don't look for them.

One of the most widely known mass UFO sightings happened in Zimbabwe in 1994 in the Ariel School.

It is very much moving forward. Senator Marco Rubio has stated that he takes David Grusch's testimony seriously. Rubio is a member of the Gang of Eight, the group of people in Congress who receive the most sensitive US intelligence.

Rubio has stated that Grusch is not the only whistleblower who has come forward and testified to Congress. According to him, over the last two years there have been multiple other highly-ranked officials sharing with Congress their first-hand knowledge of secret programs to reverse-engineer non-human technology, corroborating Grusch's claims.

Senator Gillibrand and Rep. Burchett have publicly announced that in the coming months they intend to hold public hearings to hear the evidence put forth by Grusch and other UFO whistleblowers in various committees in Congress.

If you find the subject intriguing and would like to learn more, I can recommend the podcast Need to Know by Ross Coulthart and Bryce Zabel. Other good sources of information that have also been proven reliable in the past few years are The Debrief and Liberation Times.

As far as I can tell, we can either pay now for decarbonization, or we pay much more in the future for not having decarbonized. I know which one I would rather see.

With your permission...

You work work work to barely afford necessities like shelter and food and when you finally can enjoy your life, you’re old. Brilliant system.

But I need my lifted pickup truck To hAUl ThInGS. How can I go grocery shopping without a vehicle the size of a minibus? And how would other people know how strong and wealthy I am if I were to walk, ride a bike or use transit? I need a big metal box around me to protect my insecurity.

In some countries like Spain it is perfectly legal to be fully naked in any public space as long as you are not being sexually explicit. The Euro dude likely assumed this was the case in Italy as well -- I'm actually surprised that they had a problem with somebody in their underwear; it sounds prudish.

If Sweden was outright banning the Qur'an, I could understand how that would be a violation of Free Speech and thus problematic. But that is not what is happening, it's just one dude burning his own copy of the Qur'an. How could that be a problem? I'm an atheist and wouldn't bat an eye if somebody purchases a copy of The Origin of Species and set it on fire.

What we can't do is kneel down to the particular sensitivities of a particular group of people just because they have built the habit of committing (or supporting) acts of violence when somebody does something they don't like. Your religion imposes rules on what you can do, not me.