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Baronjutter posted:I love the petty trend of re-naming streets in front of embassies you're having a tiff with. Shortly after the 1989 revolution the street on which the Czech Communist party is HQd was renamed to "Political Prisoners Street" lol
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Rinkles posted:Running theories for the new PM dumping Macierewicz? Duda's conditions for signing the bill that completely hosed up the Polish judicary system and put us in danger of EU sanctions?
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Aumanor posted:Duda's conditions for signing the bill that completely hosed up the Polish judicary system and put us in danger of EU sanctions? There was tension between the two of them?
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Rinkles posted:There was tension between the two of them? For some time, and for several reasons, yes. Most direct is that in June Macierewicz started an investigation into general Jakub Kraszewski, Duda's closest associates in the Office of National Security, blocking his access to secret information. Duda was very vocally displeased about this, callling Macierewicz's methods "UB-like" A lot of the conflict seems to stem from butting heads over the competences. See, the President of Poland is, ostentibly, the Supreme Commander of Armed Forces (not Commander-in-chief, mind, he merely nominates one in wartime,) but pretty much all the actual military competences are held by the Minister of National Defence. Duda is pushing for extending the competences of the President, and Macierewicz does not like to share. The third reason, related to Duda's ambitions, is that he enjoys a far broader support than PiSs in general and wants to keep it that way and Macierewicz is possibly the single politician in Poland more polarising than the duckman. There's also a chance that PiSs is preparing for Macierewicz's Smoleńsk report to end up a wet fart, since that's the only thing they've left him in charge of.
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This is the way the plane lands Not with a bang* but a whimper** *multiple thermobaric explosions **mouthed Kurwa
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The other theory is that Morawiecki is trying to improve relations with Brussels by dumping those ministers most responsible for our conflicts (Szyszko) with them or perceived as most anti-EU (Macierewicz) or who have a bad reputation for being ineffective and buffoonish in Brussels (Waszczykowski). In reality its probably a combination of the two, internal and external motivations. I'm glad for the reshuffle because those were all unquestionably terrible ministers (as are nearly all PiS ministers) and Morawiecki seems more like a technocratic centrist in the vein of Macron rather than an Orbanite ultranationalist thug and while neither is great, I'll take the guy who isn't actively evil. I just wish he'd had the balls to can Ziobro who is the biggest fuckboy and most dangerous person in Poland if his ambitions aren't reigned in. PiS is strong enough now that they could absolutely can Ziobro and the 5-7% of the votes that he brings to them without fear of being in danger at the next election.
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Ziobro's personal vendetta is not reason enough for now. He's legit Stalinist level thug when unchecked, but I'm not sure if Macierewicz "let's organize militia instead of buying any modern hardware" is not worse.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:drat that's not a good thing. I know very little about kosovo politics post about 2002, can someone give me the paragraph version of what's happening?
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That's a poorly phrased tweet. It makes it sound like the guy's lawyer is announcing the fatal shooting of himself.
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hey im curious about something, is there any significant presence of anarchists in eastern europe? im just curious because a lot of the eastern european expats ive met seemed to be pretty into the idea after i talked about it with them since it took the concepts they saw as good about life under the soviet union and took away the stuff like authoritarianism/problems with central authority etc. does any of the anecdotal stuff im saying here make sense or is this really just because i have a tiny biased sample pool of liberal expats who were even willing to talk to a leftist about politics in the first place
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The only young Russian I ever mentioned anarchism to remarked some line that seemed to be from a textbook about how "anarchists only knew how to destroy, not how to build." It's funny that in Ukraine, they have been trying to reclaim Maxho as some nationalist hero rather than an anti-statist.
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I would still say they have a better attitude than in the U.S. were most Americans don't know what the Haymarket affair was.
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HorrificExistence posted:I would still say they have a better attitude than in the U.S. were most Americans don't know what the Haymarket affair was. all the high-profile antifascist happenings in 2017 have definitely made a lot of liberals in my life more curious about what anarchism even is which is a good thing i suppose. we still have a long way to go tho
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Kanine posted:all the high-profile antifascist happenings in 2017 have definitely made a lot of liberals in my life more curious about what anarchism even is which is a good thing i suppose. we still have a long way to go tho Anarchism is good now?
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Kanine posted:all the high-profile antifascist happenings in 2017 have definitely made a lot of liberals in my life more curious about what anarchism even is which is a good thing i suppose. we still have a long way to go tho Towards the pit I hope? Thankfully in Eastern Europe anarchism seems to attract idiot children, or Greeks, since people tend to appreciate right to education or healthcare or such. *american, weirdly* Kanine posted:hey im curious about something, is there any significant presence of anarchists in eastern europe? Rinkles posted:Anarchism is good now? No, but they think they are important now because of Bitcoin.
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HorrificExistence posted:The only young Russian I ever mentioned anarchism to remarked some line that seemed to be from a textbook about how "anarchists only knew how to destroy, not how to build." It's funny that in Ukraine, they have been trying to reclaim Maxho as some nationalist hero rather than an anti-statist. Wouldn't anarchism in Russia be associated with bomb tossing maniacs? That could change the connotations a bit.
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Ah yes, Kropotkin was well obsessed with his cryptocurrency. And Durruti literally died so the Spanish people would have their education taken away. 
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steinrokkan posted:Wouldn't anarchism in Russia be associated with bomb tossing maniacs? That could change the connotations a bit. Modern anarchism in Russia is like at best two decades old, and was basically a 90s "do like the West" fad. The associations are usually either with Bakunin or Makhno, or with generic drunkards, because Soviet propaganda did stomp anarchism into the ground for its entire lifespan. The actual anarchists, however little of them ther is, are usually one of three socialist flavours (communism or syndicalism most often).
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Poland has some smallish-but-active anarchist movements, plus a lot of teenage ancaps like everywhere else, but out of respect for history I wouldn't call those anarchist so much as radical libertarians. Mostly they copy and adapt the western "punk, veganism and squatting (the building kind)" lifestyle, but overall the movement peaked in the late 90's-early 2000's. They still have a notable presence in the tiny bubble of left-wing activism, but it's really more of a subculture than a political movement - again, like in the West. I won't poo poo on them, though: they may be annoyingly dogmatic, but some anarchist groups do very good things socially, especially campaigning for tenants' rights (an issue because of vulnerable people getting evicted from reprivatized housing).
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Wikipedia opinion poll aggregates tell me Zeman could actually lose the second round in the Czech Republic, is this likely to happen?
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Zeman was 12% ahead of the second place candidate (38 vs 26). 35% of voters will have to pick a new candidate in the next round, and of the runner ups who didn't make it to the second round the three most important ones with a total of like 28% have jointly supported Drahoš, Zeman's opponent. So all things remaining equal, 26 + 28 = 54% for the anti-Zeman camp. Will this hold? I have no idea.
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Guildencrantz posted:squatting (the building kind) lol that in this context this needs to be clarified cinci zoo sniper posted:Modern anarchism in Russia I would heartily recommend reading about the evolution of Egor Letov's political opinions to everybody who reads this thread for some quality laughs - from leftist but ragingly antiauthoritarian, anti-soviet anarchist committed to a mental health institution for his protests over being a founding member of the National Bolshevik Party with our old friends Dugin and Limonov to finally being an unironic communist / soviet nostalgic with some weird blend-ins of world-Christianity or whatever the gently caress at the end SaltyJesus fucked around with this message at 10:41 on Jan 17, 2018 |
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Fabulous Knight posted:Wikipedia opinion poll aggregates tell me Zeman could actually lose the second round in the Czech Republic, is this likely to happen? There are basically two main unknowns here: the people who did not show up to vote in the first round but will come for the second and the people who voted for the other candidates who almost unanimously pledged support to Drahoš but may not sway some of the more extreme voters. Surveys are remarkably inefficient when it comes to predicting the size of both groups.
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Kanine posted:hey im curious about something, is there any significant presence of anarchists in eastern europe? hi, i'm a realistic anarcho communist and understand it can never work with the human condition
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That's why an anarchist society must be preceded by an universal lobotomy.
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steinrokkan posted:That's why an anarchist society must be preceded by an universal lobotomy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)
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SaltyJesus posted:lol that in this context this needs to be clarified Drugs are a helluva drug. But he was a hell of a musician before well, everything.  WWII footagehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqWIe4Exk7E ThisIsJohnWayne fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Jan 17, 2018 |
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What's the old saying, "Communism has failed every time it's been tested, while Anarchism has failed to even be tested"? I'd be an anarchist if I had more faith in humanity. Anarchism is a beautiful dream, but some people have dirty minds. And that is why we can't have nice things.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:What's the old saying, "Communism has failed every time it's been tested, while Anarchism has failed to even be tested"? I'd be an anarchist if I had more faith in humanity. It's usually more that it's why there needs to be a social structure to ensure most people can both have and keep their nice things.
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Oh boy, the things that happen in Estonia. We have the celebration of 100 years of declaration of Independence happening soon, the president's office picked theater NO99 to arrange something for that day. One possible reason they chose that group (possibly by the president herself) was because that group has been criticized by our conservative racist party in the past for "dismantling the nation state, promoting lgbt agenda with taxpayer's money" and the usual alt-right mumbo-jumbo. But somebody did take offense to that choice. Some actors, actresses, artists and a few other public figures, 104 in total, signed a public letter to the president decrying one of the producers of that theater group, who was convicted for punching a woman a few years back. Saying that they have nothing against the guy but he is the symbol of violence against women, and in the spirit of #MeToo, he should be left out from directing, yadda-yadda-yadda. Then the leader of IRL party, who happens to be the minister of justice, dismissed those petitioners at a press conference as "a flock of hens", or something in that vein. And he is now facing a no confidence vote in the parliament. Since some social democrats said that they will go along with it, there is a chance that we will be without a government soon. Not the shortage of planned tax revenues, not the lovely new tax law, not the vote of no confidence towards the minister of economy with her lovely free public transport would have broken this government. But this might.
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jonnypeh posted:Oh boy, the things that happen in Estonia. IRL party?
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cinci zoo sniper posted:IRL party? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Patria_and_Res_Publica_Union
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cinci zoo sniper posted:IRL party? They are extremely IRL all the time. Insufferable
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https://apostrophe.ua/article/socie...kazanskiy/16548 This article and video is about the conditions in Donbass. Link above has a transcript of the interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X_frvqVjjY
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This Albanian kid from my work was positive that the Serbs did this themselves. I always try to nudge him towards a chill attitude and stuff so I pointed out that war bad.
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aphid_licker posted:This Albanian kid from my work was positive that the Serbs did this themselves. I always try to nudge him towards a chill attitude and stuff so I pointed out that war bad. lol the Kosovo albanians on all political levels (mayor, head of parliament) have been saying they won't stop before they reach Niš and, in one notable case, that Niš is a necessary part of Greater Albania this isn't what our state propaganda is relaying, it's pretty much a direct quote of what some of them have been saying recently SaltyJesus fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Jan 21, 2018 |
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