HK65

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[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago

Other than seizing assets in the US, as someone else mentioned, there are methods for international collections.

It's a very different case, but if you go read the website of the CJIB, the Dutch Central Fine Collection Agency, they say that if you are a foreigner who gets a speeding ticket in the Netherlands, and you don't pay expecting to avoid being charged as you don't have any financial presence there, they will just go to Belgium as they own SWIFT, and quite literally just debit your bank account in your country directly without needing the consent of any other party, including you, your bank or your country.

Similarly, remember the Kim Dotcom case, where the guy expected to avoid the RIAA by doing his piracy in a country where it was technically legal, and the FBI still raided his home in a way that was technically massively illegal?

When there is a will, there is a way. On the other hand, the US does not like to bother corps though.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Fair enough, I just wanted to say that I meant no insult to the good people of Haarlem.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 hours ago

This is why the ICJ cases matter.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

That sounds like buying women with extra steps.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 hours ago

That's the thing, it's Congress being a limp dick that forces the Fed to fight inflation with rate raises that inevitable ends hurting workers.

If the inflation induced by the monopolization of key industries and pure greed would have been addressed by legislative action restoring the free market and clawing back windfall profits through smart taxation, people would be better off and would not be looking to elect a fascist.

The "Fed only has this one tool" situation is a false dilemma. Inflation is not the root problem, the oligarchy is.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 hours ago

At this point I really can’t understand what is driving Orban anymore.

If he stops stealing, his empire collapses, and he (or his family who are also involved) might even see some form of consequences. The EU does not let him steal any more, hence the openness to the East.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

Oh, they definitely do, in their own way.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Sorry, I think it might have been something lost in translation, I was trying to say "settlement located close by and heavily influenced by another much bigger settlement". I don't know a better word for it.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 hours ago

Don't get me wrong, I actually don't mind Russians being able to make a better life for themselves, I'm happy for them if they can leave and move and be happy.

It's just that Russian spies have been moving openly in Budapest, several years ago there was this one guy who defaced a Soviet monument - that IMO has no place standing outside a museum, much less Freedom Square in Budapest. A random Chechen without ID or documentation or a reason for being in the country or Schengen appeared and coerced the guy to apologize publicly.

It's a disgrace that an undocumented Russian citizen can appear in an EU country, brazenly commit a crime of coercion against an EU citizen while livestreaming it on Youtube, and the authorities of said country just stand by doing nothing and covering for him.

All I'm saying is that I have no illusions of the intentions of Hungary's government in removing all visa restrictions, specifically and only for Russian and Belarusian citizens.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 42 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

after its ant-migrant government

Lol, editing.

And just to be clear, the fine is not for denying asylum, but for not processing queries. No one is forcing Hungary to admit anyone, they just need to do their job and follow their own laws and reply to queries.

BTW, Hungary is currently importing a ton of immigrants from East Asia to break Hungarian unions, and also Russian and Chinese spies.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 17 points 5 hours ago (8 children)

Wait until they figure it out that Harlem is named after the Amsterdam suburb, since New York was originally New Amsterdam.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

That's a map of the NL, is it not?

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