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Osmosisch
Sep 9, 2007

I shall make everyone look like me! Then when they trick each other, they will say "oh that Coyote, he is the smartest one, he can even trick the great Coyote."



Grimey Drawer

Lawman 0 posted:

What the gently caress? :stare:

Dutch politics has been "fun" for quite some time.

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The Puppet Master
Apr 9, 2005

Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard.



Lawman 0 posted:

What the gently caress? :stare:


Oh this is just an example of "Dutch Directness!" Many buitenlanders have trouble understanding this little quirk of the Dutch. It is simply them just speaking their minds and not having to hide behind politeness. Now, let me tell you next about the famous "Dutch Tolerance."

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

if you want to read up on the incident and fun attitudes of the dutch, there's only a dutch wiki page of the fire.

here's google translate of the thing: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schipholbrand

quote:

In response to the fire, an emergency debate was requested in the Lower House . Minister Verdonk stated that the authorities concerned had acted "adequately", but Minister Donner stated that mistakes may have been made. An independent investigation concluded that there would have been no or fewer fatalities had the building decree not been ignored. [8]

it's machine translated but it gets the point across. Verdonk's a cold lizard.

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Orange Devil posted:

Was this minister a prison warden before becoming a minister by any chance?

No, she was editor of a small, local newspaper for short while, then climbed the party ladder to Minister of Employment and was almost immediately outed for lying about her education. She got her second ministerial gig by race baiting relentlessly and continued those efforts as minister, for example installing an immigration clamp-down counter on the official ministry website and celebrating with cake when it reached 50 (a move that earned her the moniker "Trumpine" in Bild). She was also the single most popular minister in recent history by a wide margin and will no doubt continue her shtick in some other party regardless of impeachment.

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

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



lmao i forgot she lied about her education

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






But she is straight through sea!

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Carthag Tuek posted:

lmao i forgot she lied about her education

Not even a real degree, she claimed to have a journalism diploma from a school that never offered them.

Even better was when she marched to Blågårds Plads surrounded by cops and scolded an immigrant kid for taking a year off from school to work. She herself was 40 before finishing some bullshit business degree to pad her otherwise lacklustre résumé.

She also tried to have some teenage girls arrested for calling her a fascist during the same photo op. :lol:

Take the plunge! Okay!
Feb 24, 2007



So Italy is handing the PM position to everyone’s favorite Goldman Sachs and Opus Dei alumnus Mario Draghi. I guess he deserves to be punished for his role in the ECB, but making him run the Italian government seems a bit harsh IMO

Mikl
Nov 8, 2009

Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!
I am praying to all the gods that he will put aside his bean-counting for a moment, and realise that he doesn't need to balance a budget when actual lives are at stake.

I'm not optimistic.

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

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



tired: Black Lives Matter, defund the police

wired: no lives matter, defund healthcare

mortons stork
Oct 13, 2012
you guys cannot believe the amount of embarassingly bad propaganda being spewed 24/7 by our media, all stories of the same caliber of that NYT article about Kamala's jacket on vogue, and it is being pumped to the rhythm of like 5-6 articles a day on each of our major newspapers. oh he was such a rebel in school and popular with the girls! here's a story about how he flew economy one time! i fondly remember those times when we shared our bench at x company early in our careers! etc etc, all day long. if this is the sort of effort they do to push that guy i can only imagine the devastation that is about to come to us. keep us in your prayers just in case.
also, lol at how italy keeps exposing democracy for the farce it is whenever they feel like it. this is like the 4th time in our history they just up and went 'no what we actually need is a technocrat to do this bit' and inevitably it ends in blood and tears

mortons stork has issued a correction as of 16:29 on Feb 5, 2021

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

Italy has been screwed since they murked Moro.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

genericnick posted:

Italy has been screwed since they murked Moro.
Since they xenophobically destroyed the Borgias you mean.

Take the plunge! Okay!
Feb 24, 2007



A Buttery Pastry posted:

Since they xenophobically destroyed the Borgias you mean.

Weird way to spell "since Rome absorbed the Etruscan polities"

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Take the plunge! Okay! posted:

Weird way to spell "since Rome absorbed the Etruscan polities"

weird way to say "wolf mom should stick to wolves"

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

Take the plunge! Okay! posted:

Weird way to spell "since Rome absorbed the Etruscan polities"
That’s pre-Italian!

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1357741754875744256
https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1357743130527735809
https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1357744579215167488

What was Conte about anyway, he didn't seem like a reactionary like the worst aspects of 5 Star

Take the plunge! Okay!
Feb 24, 2007



Isn’t 5s basically just antivax fascism?

mortons stork
Oct 13, 2012
conte is the best example of chameleon-like italian politicians like we've had for over a hundred years. in 2018 he headed a para-fascist coalition of lega and m5s and signed on some poo poo that took us a peg or two into the sliding-scale of authoritarianism w/o even blinking.
then in 2019 formed a pd-m5s government and like reversed half the poo poo he personally signed and promoted as good in the previous year
initially also did astonishingly well containing the pandemic, then around september october decided to just like throw in the towel, and just contented himself with the rally-round-the-flag popularity boost leaders get for handling a crisis.
still, he was miles better than he couldve been given the circumstances. he was also a lot worse than what was needed, so in short a land of contrasts

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

is he or draghi gonna form a govt tho

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

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



my italian comrades, can i get some more explanation on this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-l-oDG6erU

i liked it when it first came out cause he talks about respecting africans as much as romans etc, but i just now belatedly noticed that there are 3 older journalist-types taking notes while he talks which appears super staged. also the video is from the guardian so lmao at that

is it from a satire show or something?

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

lol is this an act of opportunistic centrism or is this a proof that the center is fascist a la Macron

https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1359278070004289536

Doktor Avalanche
Dec 30, 2008

lmao

https://twitter.com/Nikopol5/status/1359235464402776067

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy
lmafo it's true op

mortons stork
Oct 13, 2012

Maximo Roboto posted:

lol is this an act of opportunistic centrism or is this a proof that the center is fascist a la Macron

https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1359278070004289536

All the liberals are jumping at the chance to call him a responsible statesman so both options, op

Mikl
Nov 8, 2009

Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!
This is extremely amusing and extremely depressing at the same time.

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Due to its rotation principle, the socialist-identifying Unity List has chosen yet another (young, white, conventionally attractive) spokeswoman and she's extremely into Harry Potter.

As of this year the party gave up its otherwise staunch opposition to immigration restrictions, leaving exactly nobody in the Danish parliament on the side of immigrant rights.

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Crosspost, France is worrying about "Cancel culture" and "woke leftism" for some unclear reason :thunk:

:thunk::thunk:

pentyne posted:

French government seeks to set age for sexual consent at 15

quote:

PARIS -- France’s government wants to set the age of sexual consent at 15 and make it easier to punish long-ago child sexual abuse, amid growing public pressure and a wave of online testimonies about rape and other sexual violence by parents and authority figures.

Calling such treatment of children “intolerable,” the justice ministry said in a statement that “the government is determined to act quickly to implement the changes that our society expects.”

“An act of sexual penetration by an adult on a minor under 15 will be considered a rape,” Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti said Tuesday on France-2 television. Consent would no longer be able to be cited to diminish the charges, but exceptions would be made for teenagers having consensual sex, he said.

yeah, France has quite a lot to worry about if the "cancel culture" is suddenly able to gain ground and hold members of society responsible for their actions.

Same country that when it started getting heat for workplace sexual harassment, a ton of corporate men complained they were killing the "romance" of the office culture.

:thunk::thunk::thunk:

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

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



god im so loving tired

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

ekuNNN posted:

Crosspost, France is worrying about "Cancel culture" and "woke leftism" for some unclear reason :thunk:


:thunk::thunk:


yeah, France has quite a lot to worry about if the "cancel culture" is suddenly able to gain ground and hold members of society responsible for their actions.

Same country that when it started getting heat for workplace sexual harassment, a ton of corporate men complained they were killing the "romance" of the office culture.

:thunk::thunk::thunk:
[/quote]

So what I'm reading is that the president's wife is still in the green?

Take the plunge! Okay!
Feb 24, 2007



mistermojo
Jul 3, 2004

French intellectuals are so hideous that its no wonder theyre pedophiles

Red and Black
Sep 5, 2011

https://twitter.com/DanielZamoraV/status/1360203303557226500

...is this an accurate representation of what's said in the video?

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

lol she's definitely confused

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

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



holy loly

:confused: but that was gonna be my line, i guess ill take the opposite stance

mortons stork
Oct 13, 2012

Chomskyan posted:

https://twitter.com/DanielZamoraV/status/1360203303557226500

...is this an accurate representation of what's said in the video?

holy poo poo lmao

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

what was le penn's stance on macron trying to make it illegal to take pictures or video of cops

Mikl
Nov 8, 2009

Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!

Chomskyan posted:

https://twitter.com/DanielZamoraV/status/1360203303557226500

...is this an accurate representation of what's said in the video?

lmao what the hell, her face is priceless

"Is this a prank? Am I being pranked?"

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

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



nous necesser un parleur de francois en ici thread sil vous plait

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frankenfreak
Feb 16, 2007

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

#bastionboogerbrigade

Carthag Tuek posted:

nous necesser un parleur de francois en ici thread sil vous plait
Nein! Das ist der Europafaden!

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