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MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Neeksy posted:

Any time I see something about the Liberal party, I can't take it seriously because their dumb logo looks so much like a dildo.

We're all liberal here friend :q:






I'd still argue it's better than KD's new logotype for at least being memorable.

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Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

Poil posted:

I'll put it this way, some people should get kicked out of Europe. Preferably into the sea. Tied to massive lego bricks made out of concrete.
I agree, but who would take their seats in government?

Poil
Mar 17, 2007

Collateral Damage posted:

I agree, but who would take their seats in government?
Truly their level of competence and dignity would be difficult to match.

Poil fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Sep 4, 2017

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe
Build lifesize lego statues of said scumbags and put those in the vacated seats, then see how long it takes before anybody notices.

Lima
Jun 17, 2012

Cerebral Bore posted:

Build lifesize lego statues of said scumbags and put those in the vacated seats, then see how long it takes before anybody notices.

If you attach a loudspeaker that bleets "deport everyone integrate noone" on repeat - never.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/nordea-flyttar-huvudkontoret-till-finland/

quote:

Storbanken Nordea flyttar huvudkontoret från Stockholm till Finland.

– EU:s bankunion visar att den har bäst fördelar för Nordea i framtiden. Därför tittade vi på Finland eftersom Finland är med i bankunionen. Det är också en av våra största marknader, säger Casper von Koskull, vd och koncernchef för Nordea Bank.

Good riddance. Have fun bearing the ramifications of our housing bubble Finland as one of our largest and historically most incompetent and corrupt banks becomes your burden. God did you gently caress up in joining the Eurozone.

Stefu
Feb 4, 2005

It's also one of our largest and historically most incompetent banks!

CAROL
Oct 29, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
lmao were loving over finland once again

RIP Syndrome
Feb 24, 2016

Well, I voted and am now waiting to get owned by the populist right-wing surge :norway:

Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011

RIP Syndrome posted:

Well, I voted and am now waiting to get owned by the populist right-wing surge :norway:

Is it really that much of a surge though? I mean FrP was bigger some 10 years ago than they can hope to be today, and they polled even better.

RIP Syndrome
Feb 24, 2016

Randarkman posted:

Is it really that much of a surge though? I mean FrP was bigger some 10 years ago than they can hope to be today, and they polled even better.

That's true, I was being facetious. It's more like there's a (probably deserved) downwards surge for Ap, so I'm tempering my hopes for a nominally left-wing government. Plus I trust polls less than I used to.

(Edit: I didn't vote for Ap, and wouldn't consider doing it strategically either. IMO they should collaborate to the left if they have to, and getting small parties above the election threshold is a strategy too).

RIP Syndrome fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Sep 7, 2017

Baudolino
Apr 1, 2010

THUNDERDOME LOSER
Voted V in the name of a higher cause. Now i am a filthy liberal too.

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

What higher cause is that? Yelling over and over again that this time FRP have definitely gone too far, but back out and support them anyway?

Government Handjob
Nov 1, 2004

Gudbrandsglasnost
College Slice
gently caress all the unions and let's stroke Listhaug's hate-boner for another four years?

Holy hell do I hope we can throw all these assholes out of government come next week.

Feel the Bjørn

Government Handjob fucked around with this message at 06:27 on Sep 8, 2017

Not a viking
Aug 2, 2008

Feels like I just got laid
I wish the bigger parties cared more about climate change and changing to a greener industry so I didn't have to feel I need to vote for MDG

thotsky
Jun 7, 2005

hot to trot

Baudolino posted:

Voted V in the name of a higher cause. Now i am a filthy liberal too.

Try harder.

Condoleezza Nice!
Jan 4, 2010

Lite som Robin Hood
fast inte

Not a viking posted:

I wish the bigger parties cared more about climate change and changing to a greener industry so I didn't have to feel I need to vote for MDG

MDG don't have any good solutions either.

Nice piece of fish
Jan 29, 2008

Ultra Carp

Condoleezza Nice! posted:

MDG don't have any good solutions either.

Interestingly enough, Rødt kind of has since economics and environment are heavily interlinked. Hell, just the free public transport idea would be a major emissions cut in real terms as people left their car at home. Better-flowing traffic too. Also, Rødt really is all-in on environmentally friendly policies, the most important of which is just no more oil drilling. We have to get off oil.

I can't see a single reason to vote for MDG that wouldn't also be true for Rødt.

Also,


Government Handjob
Nov 1, 2004

Gudbrandsglasnost
College Slice

Honestly, MDG should stop trying appeal to the right wing, not a one of the parties right of Labor are even remotely interested in getting out of oil, and most of the labor/center/right voters are ridiculously hostile towards them.

With how much of MDGs politics are left leaning they should just say gently caress it, embrace socialism and merge with Rødt.

Monteunicorn
Jun 19, 2004
https://youtu.be/4ICG77lGkE8
If you only watch one debate this election, make it this one

Anta
Mar 5, 2007

What a nice day for a gassing
The only green policies the big parties go for these days are the comfortable ones, the ones where we don't have to give up any luxuries or money. I don't see that changing before disasters start happening to us. It's all weak, ineffective poo poo that will do little or no good, other than make us feel better. It's mostly on the individual level too, which is not where most of the emissions are.

Example: electric cars. (which I'm all for, btw)

Nice piece of fish
Jan 29, 2008

Ultra Carp

Government Handjob posted:

Honestly, MDG should stop trying appeal to the right wing, not a one of the parties right of Labor are even remotely interested in getting out of oil, and most of the labor/center/right voters are ridiculously hostile towards them.

With how much of MDGs politics are left leaning they should just say gently caress it, embrace socialism and merge with Rødt.

I guess it's a sort of bid towards centrism, as in MDG think they can siphon off voters from the right wing that really care about environmental issues? It's a classic mistake, in my opinion, to think that the group this applies to is A: In any way, shape or form an appreciable amount of voters and B: actually willing to vote MDG over this single issue as compared to every other issue they agree with the right wing on. There's not enough of them and they don't give a poo poo when it comes right down to it.

I'd love to see statistics about their membership and exactly where their vote growth is coming from. I'd be very surprised if it's mainly FRP or H voters.

The fact remains though, that you can't have an realistic - and real - environmental policy that is compatible with consumerist, market liberalist ideology and continued reliance on fossil fuels. It's just :psyduck: to even entertain that thought. It can't be done. Consumerism and ~*infinite growth*~ is incompatible with a sustainable society with our current and future technology, it's basic loving physics and we knew this way back in the eighties. It breaks down real simple: You can't fight global warming without fighting consumerism, you can't fight consumerism without fighting market-liberalist late stage capitalism, you can't fight market-liberalist late stage capitalism without fighting the rich who very much want the system to stay, no matter what they say out loud.

Eat the rich, it's enviro-conscious food.

Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011

Nice piece of fish posted:

Det haster å avvikle kapitalismen som økonomisk system!

Cardiac
Aug 28, 2012

Nice piece of fish posted:

I guess it's a sort of bid towards centrism, as in MDG think they can siphon off voters from the right wing that really care about environmental issues? It's a classic mistake, in my opinion, to think that the group this applies to is A: In any way, shape or form an appreciable amount of voters and B: actually willing to vote MDG over this single issue as compared to every other issue they agree with the right wing on. There's not enough of them and they don't give a poo poo when it comes right down to it.

It worked for MP in Sweden, until they changed party leaders and reoriented left and went from a 10% party (never in an election) to a 4%.
MP at their height applied to liberal-green middle class voters in larger cities.
FrP or H are not going to lose voters to MDG, but I would assume more liberal center parties would (like for example C and L) in Sweden.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

You'd call Fridolin's MP left? :psyduck:


The party is just as centre as it was in 2010, it's just being led by an idiot who can't help himself from stuffing his foot up his own rear end.

Grimson
Dec 16, 2004



Nice piece of fish posted:

I guess it's a sort of bid towards centrism, as in MDG think they can siphon off voters from the right wing that really care about environmental issues? It's a classic mistake, in my opinion, to think that the group this applies to is A: In any way, shape or form an appreciable amount of voters and B: actually willing to vote MDG over this single issue as compared to every other issue they agree with the right wing on. There's not enough of them and they don't give a poo poo when it comes right down to it.

It's why I refuse to vote for them, they got some good environmental policy but the rest is garbage and as you said previously, both the Reds and the Socialist Left have good environmental policies which they mix with good labour/economic policies. I have zero interest in voting for a party that could join up with the center or conservative block.

Not a viking
Aug 2, 2008

Feels like I just got laid

Condoleezza Nice! posted:

MDG don't have any good solutions either.

Anything is better than "pump more oil!"

E: that said, luckily they aren't the only ones who want to stop pumping

Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011

Not a viking posted:

Anything is better than "pump more oil!"

E: that said, luckily they aren't the only ones who want to stop pumping

True, but Ap, Sp, (KrF?) H and FrP all want to continue straight ahead at full speed.

RIP Syndrome
Feb 24, 2016

Whatever happens -- we gonna pump oil till the Devil come, suck this fucker dry, and then the Arctic too. Pension fund will be gambled away by a rogue trader/used to plug budget holes left by tax cuts for corps and the 1%/rendered worthless by financial collapse and expropriation of our ill-gotten foreign assets/just kind of do nothing because we can't use it domestically without causing massive inflation.

Nice piece of fish
Jan 29, 2008

Ultra Carp

RIP Syndrome posted:

Whatever happens -- we gonna pump oil till the Devil come, suck this fucker dry, and then the Arctic too. Pension fund will be gambled away by a rogue trader/used to plug budget holes left by tax cuts for corps and the 1%/rendered worthless by financial collapse and expropriation of our ill-gotten foreign assets/just kind of do nothing because we can't use it domestically without causing massive inflation.

Stop it, you time-travelling rear end in a top hat! I want to maintain my illusions a while longer. No spoilers ITT god damnit!

RIP Syndrome
Feb 24, 2016

Nice piece of fish posted:

Stop it, you time-travelling rear end in a top hat! I want to maintain my illusions a while longer. No spoilers ITT god damnit!

:ok:

doverhog
May 31, 2013

Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

RIP Syndrome posted:

Whatever happens -- we gonna pump oil till the Devil come, suck this fucker dry, and then the Arctic too. Pension fund will be gambled away by a rogue trader/used to plug budget holes left by tax cuts for corps and the 1%/rendered worthless by financial collapse and expropriation of our ill-gotten foreign assets/just kind of do nothing because we can't use it domestically without causing massive inflation.

Join the Euro, we could use some inflation over here.

Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011

doverhog posted:

Join the Euro, we could use some inflation over here.

Why would we want to use your mickey mouse money?

doverhog
May 31, 2013

Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦
To avoid your oil inflation problems, duh. It was all in the first post.

RIP Syndrome
Feb 24, 2016

doverhog posted:

To avoid your oil inflation problems, duh. It was all in the first post.

I think we're already helping inflate your asset bubbles. That good enough? :q:

doverhog
May 31, 2013

Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦
Look dude, RIP Syndrome is the one who complained about "we can't use it domestically without causing massive inflation", I was just trying to help. :agesilaus:

Condoleezza Nice!
Jan 4, 2010

Lite som Robin Hood
fast inte

Nice piece of fish posted:

Interestingly enough, Rødt kind of has since economics and environment are heavily interlinked. Hell, just the free public transport idea would be a major emissions cut in real terms as people left their car at home. Better-flowing traffic too. Also, Rødt really is all-in on environmentally friendly policies, the most important of which is just no more oil drilling. We have to get off oil.

I can't see a single reason to vote for MDG that wouldn't also be true for Rødt.

Also,

Exactly. Bjørnie for prez

Baudolino
Apr 1, 2010

THUNDERDOME LOSER

Biomute posted:

Try harder.

It was very hard to do. I am going to need a four year break first.

Insurrectionist
May 21, 2007
Siv Jensen has become like some kind of shadow leader or something over here on the northwestern coast, Listhaug is the only FRPer whose statements and appearances and opinions get paraded around everywhere, it's kinda weird. Maybe I'm overestimating the difference in exposure but it's seriously gotten to the point that I temporarily stopped disliking Siv Jensen this past week because I almost forgot she existed at all. I'd love it if this strategy backfired on FRP, but for now an FRP civil-war is only a beautiful dream of far-flung futures.

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Grimson
Dec 16, 2004



Insurrectionist posted:

Siv Jensen has become like some kind of shadow leader or something over here on the northwestern coast, Listhaug is the only FRPer whose statements and appearances and opinions get paraded around everywhere, it's kinda weird. Maybe I'm overestimating the difference in exposure but it's seriously gotten to the point that I temporarily stopped disliking Siv Jensen this past week because I almost forgot she existed at all. I'd love it if this strategy backfired on FRP, but for now an FRP civil-war is only a beautiful dream of far-flung futures.

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