Czech President Blames “Green Madness” For Energy Crisis
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Pretty much, I wonder if this is getting close to the straw that breaks the camels back for the Eastern bloc that they just leave. The EU is everyday is looking less like a united states of Europe and more an old institution desperately trying to hold power as it slips through their fingers.
The eastern European states only stay in the EU in exchange for massive subsidies and wealth transfer from western Europe. If the West's resources become so stretched that they can't keep that up, the eastern states will start leaving. Starting with Poland and Hungary, then the Czechs not long after.
They should wean themselves off toxic EU wellfare, ram-up policies to raise their native birth rates and aim for self-sustainability.
Because the ''diversified'' West is dying, and the ''refugees'' that will be knocking the door on the remaining White countries in Western Europe, if let in, will make the same thing happen there.
Weakening national cohesion can start with White refugees lowering the ''immune'' defenses of the formerly-homogenous host society.
( Edit : ArtemisFoul corrected below, Czech Republic is not 99% Czech. )
Not really, you can't throw a beer bottle in Brno without someone going "čo si kokot?!" (as in, hitting a Slovak).
Jokes aside, on top of 10 or so million Czechs, we have about 1 mil Slovaks, half a mil Ukrainians (pre-invasion, it's more now), 300k or so gypsies (who technically have Czech citizenship, but come on), and assorted other national minorities. Plus a bunch of people call themselves Moravian instead of Czech (Bohemian), but noone really pays attention to them.
Thanks for the correction.
How are your gun laws? You make some damn excellent pistols.
Better than pretty much all of Europe, licenses are shall-issue and with a type E license you're allowed to conceal carry (can't open carry unless you're working in a specific profession - cop, army, security guard etc.). The class E license is specifically meant for "the defense of one's life, health, or property".
You do need a license for anything remotely useful today, as well as for buying ammunition, and every firearm that requires a license is registered, which kinda sucks. Full autos and explosive rounds are banned. I'm not sure about armor piercing ammo. Hollow points got legalized a few years back, together with stuff like laser pointers, barrel-mounted lights, and suppressors. Rifle magazines are theoretically limited to 10 rounds, but you can get an "exception" which is granted automatically immediately, you just need to fill out one form and pay a fee of like 200 crowns (about 10 US dollars). The reason for the "limit" is a recent attempt by the EU to regulate firearms in all member states, the "exception" is a workaround, it's dumb but I'm glad it was implemented (and the same bill also legalized hollow points, etc., so EU's attempt at regulation ended up deregulating a bunch of stuff. Take that you pinko faggots.)
There are some weapons you can buy without a license: air rifles (and they even recently removed the energy limit, they used to be limited to 16 J, now the only limit is a caliber =< 6,35mm; black powder flintlock guns, floberts, and anything made before 1890. Other stuff, like knives, bows/crossbows, etc. is completely unregulated, you can walk into the metro in Prague with a broadsword on your back and noone will raise an eyebrow. If you chase a road-raging taxi driver with it you might become a meme.
The bigger problem are laws around self-defense, or more precisely, the courts interpreting them. If you use a gun in self-defense you're potentially in some deep shit; it'll almost definitely go in front of a judge, and the judge might have some redditor-tier ideas like "you could have shot him in the arm" etc. There are continuous attempts at improving the legislation to prevent it (e.g. establishing castle doctrine), but so far no luck.
There was a case about 2 years ago, I think, where a guy shot a home invader. A recently released felon broke into his house with an axe in the middle of the night, and guy ventilated him. The case was eventually dismissed after a police investigation, but it still took about 6 months or so, which must have absolutely sucked for the poor bastard.
That's surprisingly not far off from many states in the US, and the self defense laws are similarly murky. Some states you've got a duty to retreat from a fight, others you can stand your ground. Pretty much anywhere you have a right to defend your home with lethal force, but that can depend on the level of threat that you are faced with (violent, armed criminal vs a lost girlscout breaking into your home).
Yeah, our gun laws are more permissive than some US states as far as I know. And we're in the top 10 safest countries in the world. Funny how that works, I'm sure it's because central Europe has magic soil and not because we have like zero nogs and arabs around here.
Say late 80s Soviet Union?!
Sundance has broken this down pretty well. We’re basically heading towards a multipolar world order that will be defined by two distinct and competing economies: the western “green energy” economy (in which citizens will increasingly own nothing because production costs will be prohibitively expensive) and the eastern oil and gas economy (in which citizens will continue along much the same path as now).
That seems pretty shortsighted. History paints a pretty clear picture of what happens to weak cultures. They get erased.
It will take decades for this multipolar world order to mature and solidify, and perhaps decades more for any swing back to a unipolar world order (in either direction). I’m not sure how that qualifies as “shortsighted”.
Not a huge fan of Sundance. He's a depressing blackpill for humanity I cannot agree with, and I also think his 'analysis' is a muddle of truth and fiction; the hallmark of effective propaganda. No trust in his output.
The multipolar world order is straight from Putin’s mouth. He’s pretty clearly talking about BRICS+. We already have trade between Russia and India without the US dollar, a trend that is only growing. China is on board. In terms of pure population, the world is not aligning with the West. Where is the error in my post? If I hadn’t mentioned Sundance, would you have even replied?
The error is in thinking that the West will keep following the green insanity forever. There is no green energy economy, there is only green energy enslavement and genocide. This is becoming increasingly clear to the Western public and it will end with the toppling of the corrupt governments that push it. It may happen as soon as this winter.
multipolar is straight wef
Czech Republic seeming more based than I previously thought. Also it's not the most popular, but I'm vaguely interested in learning Czech because it sounds cool.
Have CCW and added a 2A to their constitute makes them mega based.
Eeeeeeh, the "2A" thing is kinda iffy. It was a nice gesture, and you wouldn't believe the seething it caused among shitlibs, but the actual text added to the LZPS (Czech Bill of Rights) is: "The right to defend one's life, or the life of another person, is guaranteed, as regulated by law." Meaning, it's still up to legislation to define the circumstances in which you can defend yourself, so if they decide to say you can't ever do that, the constitution doesn't stop them. It's a far cry from "shall not be infringed".
That's the flaw with most constitutions that are not the American one. And even that one is actively under attack at every turn. But at least the Bruen decision is a win, and there might be others in the future.
Well, yeah, duh.
Also, Zeman can go fuck himself with a cactus, because it was HIS fucking government that sold the entire goddamn Czech gas industry (Transgas) to the Germans (RWE) in 2001. This clusterfuck we're in right now is your fault too, you fucking fossil.
He's right and he should say it. The only green energy that matters is nuclear. It's the cleanest energy available and it's deliberately ignored because there's more money in fossil fuels and the failing (and therefore in need of continued replacements) "renewables".