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One more prestigious date to add to the 14-years long (and counting) "Zuckerberg Magic Apology Tour". Quite the show.

(For reference: https://www.wired.com/story/why-zuckerberg-15-year-apology-t...)

I liked how Guy Verhofstadt called him out on that, that he has apologised 15 or 16 times in the past years. I’m annoyed that I cannot vote for the guy for EP elections because he lives in another country, one of the many weird things about EU politics, but this man deserves a medal.

If you read (and believe) Yanis Varoufakis' book "Adults in the Room", he's a part of the group of assholes who was determined to bend Greece to their will, mainly that "austerity will work!", never mind the economic squeeze means hungry, homeless people and the rise of suicides.

Currently I love how the EU is making the British Brexit team look like a bunch of clowns, but the EU is no saintly organization, the way they couldn't let go of austerity politics made a lot of people suffer, and has indeed lead to the rise of populism as well (the right wing in France, Germany, and populism in Italy).

Verhovstad is just one mep, you can like him or not (i do on some issues, not other ones) but he isn't in any way "the eu" :)

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