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Mikl posted:I am 100% sure that the all olympic teams are drugged up to their eyelids on performance enhancing drugs, and there's no way you can convince me otherwise. Not after what happened in the Sochi Winter Olympics and what's still happening with their national athletics team. ftfy some are better at masking it than others
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Tesseraction posted:I'm just glad they haven't novichoked anyone yet Maybe hold off on that thought for a bit.
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I have no idea why you'd call in counter-terrorism units before you rule out that this case is one of the thousands of incidents of drug contamination that the UK is swamped by it's not as if the results will simply evaporate inside porton down when it isn't a hot batch of heroin/md/frankly anything these days, but it's a pleasant distraction from blatantly lying to parliament so you can continue to kill poor people
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Just for the record: the court of cassation (Italy's highest court) has ruled that Lega must pay back 49 million euros that they stole from government funds some years ago through fraud; further, they also ruled that all Lega assets must be frozen and seized until they've paid back what they owe. Quoth Salvini: communist judges!  Trying to overthrow democracy! We demand the president of the republic stop them!
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how did they do that again? 49 million euros is p impressive as fraud
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Mikl posted:Just for the record: the court of cassation (Italy's highest court) has ruled that Lega must pay back 49 million euros that they stole from government funds some years ago through fraud; further, they also ruled that all Lega assets must be frozen and seized until they've paid back what they owe. looking forward to my Italian acquaintance assuring me the KGB did this
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lollontee posted:how did they do that again? 49 million euros is p impressive as fraud Italian law has public financing of political parties in the books. Effectively, after an election and until the following election, parties get public funding of about one euro per year per vote they got. By law, this money can only be used to fund the functioning of the party (paying staff, buying leaflets and ads, and so on). About ten years ago, then-Lega leader Bossi and then-treasurer Belsito moved this public funding money abroad and used it for other things (like for example Bossi buying his son a college degree from a university in Albania). They were found guilty of this (along with other people) and sentenced to some years in jail, and also they had to pay back the money plus all the profits they got from using it, totalling about 49 million euros. When the state seized Lega's bank account, they only found three and something million euros there, so they asked the court to allow them to seize all current and future Lega assets until they've paid the money back, and the court agreed.
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To be more precise, we had public financing of political parties in the interest of preserving a measure of pluralism. It was abolished quite recently by the PD, a party that relied on it extensively (maybe they wanted to ensure they would be forever irrelevant after their neoliberal turn?), due to popular clamour raised by the 5 stars movement.
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O Cinque Stelle, Cinque Stelle aspettiamo cose belle se senti puzza non me ne frega ci rimane sempre Lega
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Good news for once: https://twitter.com/verge/status/1014827123452805120
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AceOfFlames posted:Good news for once: quote:asdfaeradsfasd Imagine being the kind of person who would write this Corbyn visits Holland, Volkskrant writes character assassination piece: https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/jeremy-corbyn-in-den-haag-een-lichtend-voorbeeld-voor-worstelende-sociaal-democraten~b3e87e28/ (the VK's paywall is hilarious, just press escape when the text loads). This is not supposed to be an opinion piece but it immediately goes on about how socialism is ungovernable and the usual horseshit about antisemitism Shibawanko fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Jul 5, 2018 |
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Mikl posted:Italian law has public financing of political parties in the books. Effectively, after an election and until the following election, parties get public funding of about one euro per year per vote they got. By law, this money can only be used to fund the functioning of the party (paying staff, buying leaflets and ads, and so on). Noice
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Cross-posting this from another thread, since I feel it's relevant to this thread too. The Italian Rolling Stone magazine cover for the July issue is Very Good, as is the accompanying editorial article. I'm going to translate it right here, since while Google Translate would make it comprehensible I don't think it would do it justice. Note, for those who don't know: Matteo Salvini is Italy's current Minister for the Interior and vice-Prime Minister, and also a known racist homophobic transphobic fascist piece of poo poo. quote:We are not with Salvini. Starting now, those who don't speak up are accomplices. Signed, a whole lot of famous people. I'm not going to lie, this moved me a little bit. Ok, a lot. Salvini, as he and people like him are wont to do, responded in a Facebook post: quote:It's so sad to see personal attacks on part of artists who often are millionaires and are completely divorced from reality, and can't seem to understand that immigration is out of control and this is a problem for everyone! #singandyoullbehappy music is for everyone! Which demonstrates that he has embraced trumpism at its worst. When faced with criticism he replies  while completely missing the point (and/or deliberately ignoring it).
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I'm not saying this in bad faith but I think celebs and artists do more harm than good even in the rare case where they're on the side of socialism (as opposed to, say, Bono or Beyonce). Salvini sucks but he has a point that they're all millionaires and can't speak for ordinary people really. I mean, the people who voted for Lega aren't going to be convinced by something like this, just like Lady Gaga or whoever didn't convince a soul not to vote T
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Mikl posted:I'm going to translate it right here, since while Google Translate would make it comprehensible You can try DeepL, it tends to give better results. https://www.deepl.com/translator
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Shibawanko posted:I'm not saying this in bad faith but I think celebs and artists do more harm than good even in the rare case where they're on the side of socialism (as opposed to, say, Bono or Beyonce). Salvini sucks but he has a point that they're all millionaires and can't speak for ordinary people really. And exactly how well off is Salvini? But he can speak for ordinary people?
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AceOfFlames posted:Good news for once: it's pretty bad news that "don't pass obvious dumb poo poo" only had an 8 point lead
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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suck my woke dick posted:it's pretty bad news that "don't pass obvious dumb poo poo" only had an 8 point lead tbh it had a multi-million point lead in the US and they still have the dumbest man alive as president
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Tesseraction posted:tbh it had a multi-million point lead in the US and they still have the dumbest man alive as president Dumbest unlike the curent PM of britain who committed suicide in an election gamble then aligned herself with the orchestrators of Warren Point.
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LeoMarr posted:Dumbest unlike the curent PM of britain who committed suicide in an election gamble then aligned herself with the orchestrators of Warren Point. Can there be such a thing as an undead career?
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suck my woke dick posted:it's pretty bad news that "don't pass obvious dumb poo poo" only had an 8 point lead Copyright law is dumb as hell because Disney & co as an industry have so much money at stake and so much money in the bank they can blow up every MEP's phone for weeks and organize weekly events to "persuade" them of whatever their viewpoint is. I'm amazed so many voted against it at all.
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Deltasquid posted:Copyright law is dumb as hell because Disney & co as an industry have so much money at stake and so much money in the bank they can blow up every MEP's phone for weeks and organize weekly events to "persuade" them of whatever their viewpoint is. I'm amazed so many voted against it at all. It's funny, because in spite of that evidence, here in Italy at least one major newspaper basically had a shitfit after it didn't pass, and started whining about how Google and Facebook were coming up with propaganda and tricking people into contacting MEPs. They even claimed that those who are against the reform are harassers. The reason they decided to take that stand? Google and Facebook "profit" from their articles.
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forkboy84 posted:And exactly how well off is Salvini? But he can speak for ordinary people? Sure he can't, I'm just saying that using celebs is a failed strategy, it was in the US and it's not hard to see why.
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So what was so bad about that proposal? Do we have a thread about it? I'm all for megacorps paying the publishers.
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Doctor Malaver posted:So what was so bad about that proposal? Do we have a thread about it? I'm all for megacorps paying the publishers. For one thing, the planned upload filter would basically eliminate private persons (like you) from being able to upload stuff. You'd have to find ways to trick the filter first. Stuff like YouTube would be dead over night. Also no-one is saying in that proposal that megacorps will pay publishers, just that they have to if they link their stuff. There's a very easy and cheap workaround for megacorps build-in for that.
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LeoMarr posted:Dumbest unlike the curent PM of britain who committed suicide in an election gamble then aligned herself with the orchestrators of Warren Point. Nothing there contradicts what I said. She's the dumbest woman alive. 
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Can there be such a thing as an undead career? Current uk administration is undead as far as im converned
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Shibawanko posted:Imagine being the kind of person who would write this The title seems postive, which is the only thing most people read, anyway. Unless I'm missing some subtlety here. The only way I can read Dutch is by replacing words with the closest sounding German one. BTW, what is the etymology of "worstelende"? The internet tells me it translates to "struggling", but the only way I can read it is as "worst elende". Now, "worst" I'm pretty sure is "sausage". and "elende" my German eyes can only read as "miserable". So, how do you go from "miserable as a sausage" to "struggling"?
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LeoMarr posted:Current uk administration is undead as far as im converned This raises an important question, actually. Given I tended to refer to May as Skeletor prior to her becoming PM... was Skeletor undead or something beyond life?
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Dommolus Magnus posted:So, how do you go from "miserable as a sausage" to "struggling"? From the Middle German 'wrostelen' meaning 'to wrestle'
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Tesseraction posted:This raises an important question, actually. Given I tended to refer to May as Skeletor prior to her becoming PM... was Skeletor undead or something beyond life? Only the dude's head was a skull, according to expanded media he used to look fairly human before he got hit by acid in the face or something, so he's just really disfigured. I mean, everyone forgets the guy is as ripped as He-Man below the neck.
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Dommolus Magnus posted:The title seems postive, which is the only thing most people read, anyway. Unless I'm missing some subtlety here. The only way I can read Dutch is by replacing words with the closest sounding German one. It means struggling, same root as "wrestling"
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Tesseraction posted:This raises an important question, actually. Given I tended to refer to May as Skeletor prior to her becoming PM... was Skeletor undead or something beyond life? Way more important question: Who is Hordak in this analogy?
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Dawncloack posted:Way more important question: Who is Hordak in this analogy? Depending on how deep-lore you want to dive... Thatcher or Cameron.
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Dommolus Magnus posted:The title seems postive, which is the only thing most people read, anyway. Unless I'm missing some subtlety here. The only way I can read Dutch is by replacing words with the closest sounding German one. As said, "worstelen" is the verb for wrestling. Dutch uses it also for struggling in general.
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Brexit Secretary David Davis just got the gently caress out.
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