“exclusive, stable, and indissoluble union between a man and a woman, naturally open to the generation of children”

Being a recovering catholic, from a country that is also recovering catholic, I cannot relate to most of your post.

I respect most faiths, but denounce all organized religion, “churches” if you will.

That’s almost certainly a 7FA

That it won’t immediately kill you doesn’t mean it’s good for you.

I don’t care. Water is wet.

Water is wet

That looks similar to mine. Maybe a little larger, though.

While I despise the current Spanish government for being interested only in being in power (progressive here. They just lack a moral compass), if this comes to fruition it will be hard for conservatives to roll back. It would expose how tight a leash the oligarchs have on them.

Split heat pumps are very common in Southern Europe. Modern units have insane efficiency, in the order of 4 units of heat or cold per unit of energy expended, and can be installed almost anywhere, in contrast to central units. The only downside is that they don’t provide hot water.

Sanchez is a pure politician, a party rat, who hasn’t worked in a real job in his life. He simply wants to stay in power. He lacks any morals.

Sadly, on the other side of the aisle it’s exactly the same…

According to Euronews, they are similar

I’m afraid I must disagree on some points.

While official numbers give an unemployment of 10.9, we must remember that there is a large underground economy, so actual numbers may be in the 5-6% range, or less.

I agree on the bureaucracy, but I think its downscalable.

Taxes I agree. They are proportionately larger than in most of the EU, and services worse.

On the military, a hard disagree. I know several people in the military, and as in may countries, you have hawks, but most of the army is professional, and very, very neutral politically. The image of a politically active military is an old image, from the dictatorship, 50 years ago. Even then, when a coup was attempted, the majority of the armed forces shut it down. That image of the armed forces is mainly a discourse used by separatist regions for propaganda (not saying that propaganda isn’t used in non separatist regions, just different), and the hard left.

Why?

Could someone please shoot whoever wrote the headline?

"Canada joined Ireland, Thailand, Spain, Argentina and Mexico as the few countries that saw support increase over the past year, despite remaining below 2021 levels.

However, those countries regularly outpaced Canada across all questions asked by Ipsos."

So, not leading, eh?

I’m still waiting for someone to explain why nuclear Israel good nuclear Iran bad

Meanwhile, Spain is the world’s 8th largest arms exporter

Oh, Austria!!

I always confuse Austria with Baluchistan!

Grunt infantry is redundant

As far as I know, a large majority of Israelis support the whole liebensraum thing, and fucking up Iran (whose government are also a bunch of murderous shitbags, btw). We don’t really know how many “Joe six-pack” iranians support this confrontation. Often, even people who are against a government will support warring against a perceived enemy, which is why so many leaders, when in trouble at home, start wars. See Putin, Bush, Netanyahu, maybe Trump next, and a looong list.