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Rikard's avatar

However, the leader of a sovereign nation can say:

"I will make it legal" when someone interjects that some course of action isn't covered by law.

Also, it is perfectly within legalistic arguments to declare void a treaty or similar agreement, when said treaty is in violation of the spirit it is claimed to embody, and when the treaty has been used as a tool to make praxis things not covered by the negotiations and actual text of the treaty.

Which is pretty much the entirety of the EU's paperwork since after German re-unification.

Or as people like me ask EU-apologetics here: "When did we vote on [insert list of stuff done to us via the EU]? When was [ibid] part of the election-campaign?"

Usually pisses politicians and journalists off and causes them to accuse you of insert usual screed of pejoratives.

I really hope the AfD somehow manages to kick the anthill, and get a Union-wide DOGE-style operation going, at least in Germany. I'm pretty sure the Germans - the German Germans so to speak - would like to know just how many thousands of EUROs they contribute net per year, so that Greeks and Spaniards and Italians can retire with full pensions several years earlier than can Germans, just to name one item.

Or the cost total after neither of those three kept their end of treaty and guarded the Southern border: it's not as if mass-migration started this side of 2015. The Southerners were happy to allow in millions of migrants ("refugees"), provided said migrants were only passing through on their way to France, Britain, Germany and Scandinavia.

Odds are that the Southern nations in the Union owes the Central and Northern ones a couple of hundred billion EUROs each.

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Perry Simms's avatar

A writer by career or avocation should know this:

The phrase "begs the question" doesn't mean what you think it does: it doesn't mean "raises the question" or "invites the question." Its original and proper meaning is more nuanced.

The phrase "begs the question" is a shortened form of the phrase "begs the question, assuming the answer," which is a type of logical fallacy. In this context, "to beg the question" means to assume the truth of the very thing that is being questioned or disputed. In other words, it means to use a premise that is essentially the same as the conclusion, thus circularly reasoning and avoiding a genuine argument.

I'll pick my head up on the way out...

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