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Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/ColeStangler/status/1036902646693748736

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Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010


lmao

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

Jupiter doing worse than the président normal is very funny to me

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
69 % disapproval

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

Kurtofan posted:

69 % disapproval

He some affairs to get it back up

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author
https://twitter.com/CyprusToday/status/1036878599142481921?s=20

I guess in the new technocracy you will have to bribe programmers instead of officials

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

Kurtofan posted:

69 % disapproval
chouette!

Kurnugia
Sep 2, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo

Kurtofan posted:

69 % disapproval

Antifa Poltergeist
Jun 3, 2004

"We're not laughing with you, we're laughing at you"



Kurtofan posted:

69 % disapproval

Nice.

Well, except for macron.

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

twoday posted:

https://twitter.com/CyprusToday/status/1036878599142481921?s=20

I guess in the new technocracy you will have to bribe programmers instead of officials
this is austerity pusher's wet dream

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/1039947844373934081?s=19

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Macron continuing to impress

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45541697

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



lol what an rear end in a top hat

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
Let them cross the road

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

62% of italians approve of the Conte/Salvini/Di Maio government. meanwhile the Lega is more popular than the M5S and the PD keeps bleeding support. incredibly good poo poo down there

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
whats the government's economic policies like?

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

mila kunis posted:

whats the government's economic policies like?
it's unclear, given that their economic promises are going to crash headfirst into the EU's neoliberal budget regulations. but i'd wager they'll jettison a lot of them very quickly when push comes to shove

Dawncloack
Nov 26, 2007
ECKS DEE!
Nap Ghost
This is old, but... holy poo poo, sb reads my screeds!

Antifa Poltergeist posted:

Serious aswer: we dont, not really. The d&d thread has some people more in the know about the inner workings of the eu bureoucracy, i think plusket or dawncloack work in brussels even.although they have a much rosier view of the eu, they can tell you how incredibly hard it is to move the needle.

Very serious answer: we dont get out of this mess, because europe sliding into a pastoral technocratic plutocacry, while the perifery countries turn into nationalist dictatorships that we still do bussiness with IS the end game. when climate change goes into overdrive all the " fortress europe" bullshit is going to look like rainbows and unicorns. This is the most likelly outcome.

The serioust answer: we dont. Unless the elites recognise that the single market is a scam used to milk the poorest countries from their resources and workforce, paying cents on the euro for it.
That its being used to keep germany and france competitive in the global market by artificially deflating their currency.
That the financialization of the economy as been a mistake, and bretton woods has killed more people than any single world war.
That we need to kill all ofshores dead, institute fiscal transfer, stop every single corporation from dodging taxes by registering in the netherlands and ireland, that its vital we have a trans national program in the order of the tens of trillions of euros for green energy and infrastructure to fight climate change aplied through decades, that its vital to have a citizens and workers bill of rights and recognise that the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
We wont do even one of those things.

But thats ok.When our time comes, we wont make excuses for the terror.

For the record, I chose specifically not to work in Brussels. My profession is very EU, but no.

The person with a rosy(ier) view of the EU is Pluskut. We disagree sometimes but he knows his poo poo. There are other posters but I'll let them identify themselves.

Personally I think your post is spot on.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

I haven't been keeping up with Macron as much as I'd like, having failed French in school, but he really seems like a peek into the universe where Hillary won.

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I haven't been keeping up with Macron as much as I'd like, having failed French in school, but he really seems like a peek into the universe where Hillary won.
so is canada

Dawncloack
Nov 26, 2007
ECKS DEE!
Nap Ghost
There was a German politician who told someone "get shaven and you will find a job".

"There's always jobs" is a the worst of the stupid neoliberal mantras. They never say the second part: "you just have to accept working 16h a day for ten cents an hour".

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
It's because they've grown up exclusively in networks of patronage where even the most completely useless scion is guaranteed a do-nothing job if they can show up every now and again.

Communist Bear
Oct 7, 2008


Looking forward to France going fascist because of this loving prick.

Kunster
Dec 24, 2006

Over here the PSD owned SIC has taken to call Tony Blair a socialist over the Heathrow road that prioritizes emergency and public transportation just to slam the mayor of Lisbon considering that between Lisbon and a few other municipalities and to start using the argument that if you worry about property speculation and rent hiking then you are not a normal everyday person that doesn't understand real person concerns. I guess that's one way to adapt to the modern landscape?

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

i completely forgot that Sweden had an election, i thought it was in early October. the good news is that the Sweden Democrats didn't make gains as big as expected. the bad news is that they still got more seats while the two parties ahead of them lost a few. the status quo is still in effect, for now

get that OUT of my face has issued a correction as of 19:32 on Sep 17, 2018

Kurnugia
Sep 2, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45546012

Chemnitz unrest: German top spy Maassen forced out posted:

The government's decision came amid a furore over Mr Maassen's response to recent far-right unrest in Chemnitz.
Anti-migrant "hunts" were reported there on 26 August after a German man was killed in a brawl with migrants.
Mr Maassen doubted that foreign-looking people had been hounded. Chancellor Angela Merkel was urged to sack him.
Mr Maassen will leave the BfV spy service and become a state secretary in the interior ministry.
His move was a compromise between Mrs Merkel and her coalition partners - Interior Minister Horst Seehofer,
of the right-wing Bavarian CSU, and centre-left Social Democrat (SPD) leader Andrea Nahles.
Mr Seehofer defended Mr Maassen's actions over Chemnitz, but Ms Nahles wanted him to quit.
Several xenophobic assaults were reported in the eastern German city after the fatal stabbing of Daniel H.
They were described as racist "hunts", and images emerged showing demonstrators chasing people and flinging bottles and fireworks.
Spy chief Mr Maassen said his Federal Office for Constitutional Protection (BfV) had "no reliable information about such hunts taking place".
He also questioned whether a video posted by "Antifa Zeckenbiss" really showed, as claimed, a "hunt in Chemnitz" on 26 August.

:geno:

frankenfreak
Feb 16, 2007

I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade
SPD: we want him gone from the BfV *finger on monkey paw curls*

frankenfreak
Feb 16, 2007

I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade
Still have whiplash from SPD politicians acting like they got a big win here.

frankenfreak
Feb 16, 2007

I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade
Let's not forget that to make room for Maaßen, Seehofer fired another state secretary from the SPD.

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

this guy sounds like a winner

quote:

The board of the Italian state broadcaster, Rai, has for a second time nominated Marcello Foa, a Eurosceptic journalist who has often shared stories proved to be fake, to be its president.

The nomination will now be put to the parliamentary committee that oversees Rai on Tuesday, where support for Foa’s candidacy is believed to be building.

Foa, who also holds anti-gay, anti-immigration, anti-vaccine and pro-Russia views, has been pushed for the role by the governing coalition of the far-right League and the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S).

The M5S leader, Luigi Di Maio, said Foa would help purge the “parasites” installed by mainstream parties who had led Rai for decades.

...

There is speculation that Berlusconi’s new stance is linked to his business interests. He owns the rival media company Mediaset, and Foa was a journalist at his newspaper, Il Giornale.

“Foa is a Berlusconi man, he worked for him … and now that Berlusconi is reviving Forza Italia [within the centre-right alliance] it works for him,” said a media industry source. “It will be like an extension of his other media interests – with Foa, Berlusconi can try to influence Rai.”

The source said Foa’s appointment was likely to be detrimental for journalism in Italy. “Foa is a guy who is really in love with the Catholic religion, he hates the EU and loves Russia and Putin, so all of these are red signals that it will be bad for information.”

Foa has also repeatedly criticised the Italian president, Sergio Mattarella. When Foa was first mooted for the Rai role, the journalists’ unions FNSI and Usigrai described the potential appointment as “a fatal blow to the autonomy and independence of the public service”.

Fake stories shared by Foa on social media have included one during the 2016 US presidential election campaign about Hillary Clinton participating in satanic dinners and another about a supposed plan to overthrow Donald Trump.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1044225183001849857

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014



even greenwald is falling into the trap where its macron vs the far right. melenchon is the most popular pol in france atm

Reclines Obesily
Jul 24, 2000



Hey Moona!
Slippery Tilde
the polling ive seen of the euro parliament shows national rally picking up the same amount of seats

no mention of melenchon picking up a possible 13 seats :thunk:

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

even greenwald is falling into the trap where its macron vs the far right. melenchon is the most popular pol in france atm

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1044226049054306304?s=19

Reclines Obesily
Jul 24, 2000



Hey Moona!
Slippery Tilde

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

even greenwald is falling into the trap where its macron vs the far right. melenchon is the most popular pol in france atm

foreign press never mention him, cant wait to see all the panic articles 1 month out of the next french election




oh nice!

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

even greenwald is falling into the trap where its macron vs the far right. melenchon is the most popular pol in france atm
and bernie sanders is the most popular pol in the US right now, but both countries have political systems that were designed to keep the left out of elite politics

Antifa Poltergeist
Jun 3, 2004

"We're not laughing with you, we're laughing at you"



Dawncloack posted:

This is old, but... holy poo poo, sb reads my screeds!


For the record, I chose specifically not to work in Brussels. My profession is very EU, but no.

The person with a rosy(ier) view of the EU is Pluskut. We disagree sometimes but he knows his poo poo. There are other posters but I'll let them identify themselves.

Personally I think your post is spot on.

I do read then my man, you're a good poster and you know your poo poo,even if it takes me a half an hour to read your posts and 2 hours to think about them,its the good kind of thinking.Pluskut too,although half of time i disagree with him.


Kunster posted:

Over here the PSD owned SIC has taken to call Tony Blair a socialist over the Heathrow road that prioritizes emergency and public transportation just to slam the mayor of Lisbon considering that between Lisbon and a few other municipalities and to start using the argument that if you worry about property speculation and rent hiking then you are not a normal everyday person that doesn't understand real person concerns. I guess that's one way to adapt to the modern landscape?

Yeah, things have been running too smoothly in Portugal, the capitalist assholes are putting on airs again. The loving economy secretary and the governor of the central bank come out with warnings about too much easy credit being given and the real estate bubble and all the big banks ceo's tripped over themselves saying that everything is fine, this is fine. Time for another general strike + passing the real estate speculation tax.

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

why are portugal and spain non-participants in the western march to the populist right? did they get all the white ethnostate nationalism out of their systems five hundred years ago?

get that OUT of my face has issued a correction as of 00:25 on Sep 26, 2018

Prav
Oct 29, 2011

get that OUT of my face posted:

why are portugal and spain non-participants in the western march to the populist right? did they get all the white ethnostate nationalism out of their systems five hundred years ago?

because the fascists never really left office there

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Electronico6
Feb 25, 2011

get that OUT of my face posted:

why are portugal and spain non-participants in the western march to the populist right? did they get all the white ethnostate nationalism out of their systems five hundred years ago?

In Portugal parties that are outside of parliament struggle to get any real airtime or chance to campaign at the same level. There is an actual concerted effort by the media, national and local political power to keep "outsider" parties out, regardless of their ideology.

It may also help that the nationalist, eurosceptic, and anti-globalist party, the Portuguese Communist Party, has always been in Parliament.

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