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The excuse for this is a fairly bad one at that as well. Allegedly, "San Cristobal y Nieves", i.e. Saint Kitts and Nevis in English, was what he meant.
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San Escobar is real, and strong, and is my friend: https://twitter.com/rpdsanescobar
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Cat Mattress posted:San Escobar is real, and strong, and is my friend: https://twitter.com/rpdsanescobar https://twitter.com/rpdsanescobar/status/818908340063440897 
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It's good that the Poles are recognizing the saints of other peoples, even Latin American ones.
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In other news, there's hints of a thaw in Poland's long-frozen relations with Westeros, and newly arrived US troops may act as a deterrent against Nilfgaard.
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 I've been avoiding news sites as much as possible since Christmas because I'm not ready to go back to being depressed about life yet, but is the only thing that comes to mind. If we're going to have authoritarians can they at least not be a pack of incompetent buffoons?
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No, being a pack of incompetent buffoons seems historically to come along with being a right-wing authoritarian party, and yet somehow does not prevent said parties from ruining enormous numbers of lives.
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A gentle reminder that Poland now has: - a foreign affairs minister who does not know what other countries we have relations with, - a defence minister who actively hinders the army getting new equipment, - an environment minister who supports chopping parts of the largest primordial forest in Europe and culling the largest herd of the European bison, - a minister of education who is actively aiming to fucks schools up as much as possible in time for the local elections, - a minister of health who said that the smog (Poland's health resort towns have nine times as much benzopiren in the air as London) is not a problem, since so many people smoke, - a minister of justice who takes an active role in dismantling the constitutional order, - I could probably keep on but what for
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Rex Tillerson sounds like good news for Eastern Europe, at least from his statements during his confirmation hearing.
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I watch a youtube channel about transit and trams and it seems at least poland is building some nice stations and expanding tram infrastructure. About the only hopeless bits of news I get in my life is a dude's channel on cycling infrastructure in NL and tram news in Poland/Central europe. I can retreat to a happy world of growing bike lanes and trams systems. Also my grandpa died so my wife is rushing off to Kiev to try to catch the funeral. It's going to be some big state/military deal so it's out of the family's hands which means a bunch of them won't be able to make it because 2 days is way too short notice for people to fly around the world. His hip surgery went well, they said he had a 80% chance of death and the family had to sign a bunch of waivers. Then he made it, beat the odds, became much less depressed and had a whole new lease on life. After some weeks of rehab he was being dropped off at home to continue his rehab at home, and died in the ambulance in the driveway of his own apartment building  That's my eastern european news
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Tevery Best posted:A gentle reminder that Poland now has:
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Tevery Best posted:- a minister of health who said that the smog (Poland's health resort towns have nine times as much benzopiren in the air as London) is not a problem, since so many people smoke, This makes sense, the cigarette's filter will probably catch some of the impurities in the air.
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GaussianCopula posted:Rex Tillerson sounds like good news for Eastern Europe, at least from his statements during his confirmation hearing. I have a hard time believing he will be, but he better be, because it sure as poo poo looks like Russia actually owns Trump.
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Fabulous Knight posted:I have a hard time believing he will be, but he better be, because it sure as poo poo looks like Russia actually owns Trump. It does, and Tillerson too. Unfortunately for him the Senate contains some of the few remaining genuine Cold Warriors in America and this has gotten them riled, so expect a differently corrupt pro-russian oligarch to take his place.
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Guildencrantz posted:In other news, there's hints of a thaw in Poland's long-frozen relations with Westeros, and newly arrived US troops may act as a deterrent against Nilfgaard. It remains to be seen which king (or queen) our government considers legitimate. I hope it's Daenerys Targaryen - Macierewicz failed to get workable helicopters for our army, but dragons could be a good replacement.
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Gantolandon posted:It remains to be seen which king (or queen) our government considers legitimate. I hope it's Daenerys Targaryen - Macierewicz failed to get workable helicopters for our army, but dragons could be a good replacement. The dragons may still be holding a grudge over that whole unfortunate Wawel incident. 
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Gantolandon posted:It remains to be seen which king (or queen) our government considers legitimate. I hope it's Daenerys Targaryen - Macierewicz failed to get workable helicopters for our army, but dragons could be a good replacement. The way Poland is going, they'd probably pick Radovid. Plus he is already dressed for the occasion!
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Baronjutter posted:I watch a youtube channel about transit and trams and it seems at least poland is building some nice stations and expanding tram infrastructure. About the only hopeless bits of news I get in my life is a dude's channel on cycling infrastructure in NL and tram news in Poland/Central europe. I can retreat to a happy world of growing bike lanes and trams systems. Condolences on your loss.
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Baronjutter posted:I watch a youtube channel about transit and trams and it seems at least poland is building some nice stations and expanding tram infrastructure. About the only hopeless bits of news I get in my life is a dude's channel on cycling infrastructure in NL and tram news in Poland/Central europe. I can retreat to a happy world of growing bike lanes and trams systems. Man, that's lovely. Sorry about your loss. I'll try to catch the news about the state funeral, should be worth an article or two if it's that big of a deal.
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Sorry about your loss. One of the workers at the school I'm assigned to died last week because of cancer. He was only 52. One of the other English teachers, her mother is getting treatment for cancer in Lviv, so is constantly traveling back and forth on the electric tram 4-5 hours. Will your grandfather's funeral get press on 1+1 or something like that?
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Not sure, just have like 3rd hand info translated through family. My wife missed the big official military funeral by 30 min, but at least she got to go to the wake. I have no idea about media coverage, might get a mention in the papers or something I don't know. In eastern european political chat, I notice I've been getting upset at "leftist" friends who are very pro-russia. Not exactly pro-russia, but seems to have this sense that being worried about russia, disliking putin, and thinking the west needs to continue sanctions and actually do things to defend against russian invasions and meddling is some how "stoking a new cold war". There's this whole meme that "clinton wanted war with russia" that even the left has bought into. That giving a poo poo about Ukraine means you're some war-monger and we should just let Russia have eastern europe because anything less would be "antagonizing russia" or "distracting from the real issues at home". Like what the gently caress, I can't be upset about domestic issues and russian invasions at the same time?? Also how is treating all the people of eastern europe as having no right to self determination and having no agency some how "progressive" ? It's like they associate being anti-russia today with being anti-russia like 30 years ago being so closely linked to the right, so clearly being pro-russia today is left?? I don't even know. And these aren't RT reading idiots, they have no love for Putin or Russia but just keep pushing this narrative that doing anything other than disarming NATO and giving Russia their empire back is immoral western imperialism and pointless antagonism towards poor little russia. I never quite know how to deal with people like that or sentiments like that.
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Speaking of reasons left-wing people should not like Russia: the Duma just passed the first reading (IIRC they need 3?) of a bill reclassifying domestic violence as an "administrative" offense, as opposed to a criminal one, with only one vote against. With this change, if I understand it, the first offense carries no punishment. (Or maybe not, t seeks a bit unclear) https://meduza.io/cards/pochemu-dekriminalizirovat-poboi-v-rossii-eto-plohaya-ideya https://meduza.io/news/2017/01/11/zakonoproekt-o-dekriminalizatsii-poboev-v-semie-prinyali-v-pervom-chtenii OddObserver fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Jan 12, 2017 |
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Baronjutter posted:In eastern european political chat, I notice I've been getting upset at "leftist" friends who are very pro-russia. Not exactly pro-russia, but seems to have this sense that being worried about russia, disliking putin, and thinking the west needs to continue sanctions and actually do things to defend against russian invasions and meddling is some how "stoking a new cold war". There's this whole meme that "clinton wanted war with russia" that even the left has bought into. That giving a poo poo about Ukraine means you're some war-monger and we should just let Russia have eastern europe because anything less would be "antagonizing russia" or "distracting from the real issues at home". Like what the gently caress, I can't be upset about domestic issues and russian invasions at the same time?? Also how is treating all the people of eastern europe as having no right to self determination and having no agency some how "progressive" ? It's like they associate being anti-russia today with being anti-russia like 30 years ago being so closely linked to the right, so clearly being pro-russia today is left?? I don't even know. And these aren't RT reading idiots, they have no love for Putin or Russia but just keep pushing this narrative that doing anything other than disarming NATO and giving Russia their empire back is immoral western imperialism and pointless antagonism towards poor little russia. I suppose they live comfortably far from the Soviet Union's sphere of influence, so they don't feel threatened and therefore it doesn't matter.
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Cat Mattress posted:I suppose they live comfortably far from the Soviet Union's sphere of influence, so they don't feel threatened and therefore it doesn't matter. Don't worry, that'll change very soon.
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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/donald-trump-picks-mattis-pompeo-aim-russia-170112174751684.html So Trump is stocking his cabinet with vocal opponents of Russia. It's almost like you can't actually trust anything trump says and we don't really know what the hell his actual policies on subjects are (if he even knows)
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So Clinton was owned by Ukraine, I'm so glad america dodged that bullet. When will anyone stand up against Ukrainian global meddling and imperialism?
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Baronjutter posted:So Clinton was owned by Ukraine, I'm so glad america dodged that bullet. When will anyone stand up against Ukrainian global meddling and imperialism? Well they have videos of her doing extremely weird sex things out of spite so it's not like she had a choice.
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Cat Mattress posted:lol they're little children. "Nuh-uh! It wuz you that did it!" Maybe they should have told John McCain and Lindsey Graham before they spent New Years' over there.
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Young Freud posted:Maybe they should have told John McCain and Lindsey Graham before they spent New Years' over there. Or vice versa.
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Russia's upset. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38592448 BBC posted:Russia says it views the arrival of more than 3,000 US soldiers in Poland as a threat to its own security. SoggyBobcat fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Jan 13, 2017 |
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I think when it comes to leftist apologia for Russia's behaviour, I think there's two explanations: the first is the simplest, that a lot of leftists have a lot of nostalgia for the Soviet Union, and even though modern Russia has practically nothing to do with socialism, those older Cold War leftists are still probably big Russophiles. The second seems that, for many Western leftists at least, the only sins worth caring about are America's sins, and the sins of any other major actor is seriously downplayed or not acknowledged at all. You'll see this defense used for any dictator that manages to wrap themselves in any sort of pseudo-socialist rhetoric ("Qaddafi gave his citizens universal healthcare, how could he possibly be bad???").
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OddObserver posted:Speaking of reasons left-wing people should not like Russia: the Duma just passed the first reading (IIRC they need 3?) of a bill reclassifying domestic violence as an "administrative" offense, as opposed to a criminal one, with only one vote against. With this change, if I understand it, the first offense carries no punishment. (Or maybe not, t seeks a bit unclear)
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OddObserver posted:Speaking of reasons left-wing people should not like Russia: the Duma just passed the first reading (IIRC they need 3?) of a bill reclassifying domestic violence as an "administrative" offense, as opposed to a criminal one, with only one vote against. With this change, if I understand it, the first offense carries no punishment. (Or maybe not, t seeks a bit unclear) As people more knowledgeable than me summed up, this pretty much means that the first time a woman is beaten up by her abusI've husband, she has to gather evidence and witnesses herself and even if she succeeds, the most serious punishment the abuser can get is a fine. Which he is probably going to pay from their shared budget.
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Baronjutter posted:And tons of western leftists 100% believe Russia's side. "Why is the US destabilizing eastern europe?? Why is the US antagonizing Russia???" it's the weirdest thing. US foreign policies are often vilified outside the US, and too often justifiably, so people often believe anti-US propaganda. They also believe anti-Russian propaganda often enough, but that doesn't change the fact that US is moving troops into Poland and Putin isn't right now. Furthermore, not many people really understand the internal differences between US and Russia (both are officially democracies of some sort), and just put them both in the same basket based on their foreign policies (imperialist shitlord wannabees  ). Also, US is far more successful in their endeavours than pretty much anyone else, so jealousy is probably also a factor. So when someone says "hey, those US fuckers are putting troops near our borders", the common response is obviously "well, maybe US shouldn't do that, then", rather than "shut your fascist dictator mouth".If I publicly call Putin a dictator or Russia a fascist state, people generally believe I'm doing a  , rather than stating actual facts.Personally, I blame the media. Nobody dares to call someone who looks like a nazi, swims like a nazi and quacks like a nazi a nazi, as if they're somehow scared of offending them or something.
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