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It's worse than a farce. It's actually evil. The way "they" are pushing chat control, and how Ursula is avoiding justice (she has a huge corruption case hanging over her head but manages continuously cancel court dates); this makes a all too clear.

The only way to fix this is EU member states become more critical: but for politicians in those states an EU position is the best promotion they can make. So almost nobody dares to speak out.

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Social context (pardon the subjective background, I'm trying to only provide what's collectively shared more or less in Germany):

Ursula von der Leyen is hated in Germany as an evil war-mongering gnome. She was previously appointed to replace a highly decorated military general of the Germany Army (Bundeswehr) without having any skills in that area, except being corrupt to the core. She miserably failed the military, cost the state large losses in tax-payer money and was promoted instead being removed. Then she "somehow" became the fierce and corrupt "Queen of the EU".

EDIT (I owe you sources at least):

I think it goes much deeper, I think it's not just corruption, she's a perfect traitor of the EU and Germany. Selling all 500 million europeans out to a foreign state.

- https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/eu-abgeordnete-dr...

- https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article191310021/Urs...

- https://journalistenwatch.com/2026/07/11/ursula-die-skandal-...

- https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/ursula-von-der-le...

- https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/bundeswehr-berater-von-d...

- https://www.zeit.de/thema/ursula-von-der-leyen

- https://trump.news-pravda.com/ukraine/2026/06/24/360828.html

Could you please give more detail about this for those of us less informed of EU things? What corrupt things has Ursula done? Or what has she been accused of, exactly? How long has she been cancelling court dates?

Who is the engineer of all this evil? Her? Someone else?

> What corrupt things has Ursula done? Or what has she been accused of, exactly?

I'm pretty sure that, for a start, backroom deals with Pfizer during the Covid pandemic. She's been accused of deleting evidence (like SMS) and pressuring companies to delete evidence if I'm not mistaken.

I don't know what GP means exactly but the EU institutions are a special jurisdiction: for example a belgian policeman cannot go inside the EU Commission and arrest someone without special powers. Source: I know an inspector who went in there and arrested an EU bureaucrat that happened to be a pedophile.

And it's well known that to be sure that the police cannot come and knock at her door with a warrant while she'd be anywhere else in Belgium, she's made herself an apartment build inside the EU Commission. So she's safe there.

> Who is the engineer of all this evil? Her? Someone else?

Note that that is another topic. And your tactic is a common, sneaky but obvious, tactic. One doesn't have to know the answers to those questions to point out wrongdoings when there are wrongdoings.

« I’m pretty sure that » and « if I’m not mistaken » are not words I’m glad to read on HN for such serious accusations. I’m far from being on the commission side on those cases and think that if you want to make a serious case you have to be more rigorous with the evidence and things you say

No, he really doesn't.

> ver withdrawing a defeated proposal they can effectively and in pra

didn't know about it but apparently there was the Pfizergate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizergate

Who exactly are "they"?

Those in EU-office.

Her name is von der Leyen. "Ursula" is fine for your friends, but it’s awkward for a public figure. Do you write "Donald" as well?

The "Awkward Police" is not a job.

"Snarky commenter" is not either.

yeah, I do write 'Donald', as do a lot of people. Awkward only if you are talking about the duck or the hamburger clown.

well actually, it's Ronald McDonald, not Donald McDonald

(but Donald Duck's first name is indeed Donald)

</HN is the 'well actually' capital of the internet>

Oh lol, i assumed trump was the "hamburger clown"

I write Donald sometimes. If you say Donald in the right context we know who are talking about. Or Kier or Emmanuel. There is nothing wrong with first names of public figures.

"ça va manu?"

You have 3 million threads here to police, talking about Elon. Get on with it...

Come on, "Elon" is the exception.

Because in the name Elon Musk, Elon stands out.

So does Ursula

I only know one Elon. Never heard the name before, don't even know the origins.

And I know only two Ursulas, the other one wrote about wizards.

It's very usual to name famous people by their first name. like John, Ringo, George, or Paul. Or Steve and Bill. Or Sam and Dario.

Mario and Luigi.

what? it's her name. people use it. it's fine. you act like politicians deserve respect

You can argue that it is somewhat disrespectful, but only to a low degree. Since everybody knows who is meant, and the disrespect fits the context, I think it is totally fine to just use the forename.

Censursula is her nickname that she got in the days when she was a minister of family or something and wanted to censor the internet and allow using it only with a permit (2009).

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