Culturally, confessionally and politically it is not European. Not even remotely. Other than a tiny strip of land that should never have been left to Turkey in the first place (I'm talking at the end of World War I), it isn't even geographically IN Europe.
How the EU can even consider inviting in a nation that brutally kills Kurds, keeps them from being able to speak their own language and hasn't even admitted to killing millions of Armenians in the first genocide of the Twentieth Century is beyond me. The nation is a military dictatorship because it would be an Islamist theocracy if it weren't. Secularism is being eroded in society.
How the EU can even consider inviting in a nation that brutally kills Kurds, keeps them from being able to speak their own language and hasn't even admitted to killing millions of Armenians in the first genocide of the Twentieth Century is beyond me. The nation is a military dictatorship because it would be an Islamist theocracy if it weren't. Secularism is being eroded in society.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Ireland accepts Lisbon Treaty
- 03/10/2009 02:09:29 PM
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A sad sad day for europe
- 03/10/2009 02:13:53 PM
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Please tell me you didn't vote UKIP at least. 
- 03/10/2009 02:21:38 PM
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- 03/10/2009 02:21:38 PM
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United States of Europe! Here we come.
- 03/10/2009 02:25:16 PM
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- 03/10/2009 02:25:16 PM
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We don't get a vote, because we would not say the right thing. So fuck democracy.
- 03/10/2009 02:29:25 PM
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Why does Tim think No is the right choice?
- 03/10/2009 11:02:53 PM
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What would you say is the most important effect and/or overall significance of the treaty? *NM*
- 03/10/2009 02:30:29 PM
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Mostly making the EU less unwieldy.
- 03/10/2009 02:37:06 PM
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Why on earth would you want to let Turkey in?
- 03/10/2009 04:05:24 PM
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Several reasons.
- 03/10/2009 04:41:59 PM
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*NM*
I am pleased by this. Here is hoping for an effective elected leader.
- 05/10/2009 03:20:36 PM
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Yeah, that's true...
- 05/10/2009 03:42:29 PM
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So the European parliament will not elect the leader?
- 05/10/2009 05:08:25 PM
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Er, that's news to me... but let's look it up.
- 05/10/2009 05:14:09 PM
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I would have rejected any treaty that would not let me elect a representative or
- 05/10/2009 06:14:46 PM
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