Megamissen posted:

compared to the rest of scandinavia at least
but that doesnt say that much since swedes smoke the least in the world
(which is very good for me, im very sensitive to cigarette smoke)

A Buttery Pastry posted:

smoking is way cooler than snus though

lobster shirt posted:

cigarettes ftw

lobster shirt posted:

cigarettes ftw

lobster shirt posted:

cigarettes ftw

bedpan posted:

during the clinton administration, I was playing an online game called "The Realm." While walking through a burnout town I commented in the public chat that someone must have dropped a cigar, because I was young and didn't know how to spell cigarette. Immediately someone in chat started to flip out thinking I was making a bill clinton reference

bedpan posted:

during the clinton administration, I was playing an online game called "The Realm." While walking through a burnout town I commented in the public chat that someone must have dropped a cigar, because I was young and didn't know how to spell cigarette. Immediately someone in chat started to flip out thinking I was making a bill clinton reference

lobster shirt posted:

cigarettes ftw

Megamissen posted:

maybe, but being able to breathe standing next to someone who snusar beats that out for me

SplitSoul posted:

Oh, so you hate dogs and want to poison them? You're in the right place.

Orange Devil posted:

ban this sick filth

Carthag Tuek posted:

danish queen just abdicated, very important brews

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Was that the one whose son married an Australian

Orange Devil posted:

ban this sick filth

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Was that the one whose son married an Australian

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Yep. Denmark is gonna get an Australian king before England.

Orange Devil posted:

Ever notice that since Brexit there’s been a sharp reduction in Shakespeare quotes whenever Denmark comes up in discussion?

Orange Devil posted:

Ever notice that since Brexit there’s been a sharp reduction in Shakespeare quotes whenever Denmark comes up in discussion?

Carthag Tuek posted:

fwiw it is still rotten here

lobster shirt posted:

cigarettes ftw

webcams for christ posted:

small update on how the BSW is going

https://x.com/fraubalhorn/status/1743184175987880268

"On Monday, Sahra Wagenknecht will present the top staff for the European elections for her planned party. On the podium in Berlin: The former Mayor of the City of Düsseldorf, Thomas Geisel, until now SPD.

It is an invitation that attracts attention in the political Düsseldorf. On Monday, Sahra Wagenknecht will present her top staff for the vote in June at the Federal Press Conference in Berlin. The last of six names is that of Thomas Geisel.

The SPD politician had lost office in the 2020 municipal elections as mayor and had to hand over the chain of office for the administration leadership in the state capital to CDU Stephan Keller.

In an e-mail to friends and SPD members, however, Geisel confirms his transfer. The writing is available to WDR.

He would turn his back on the SPD after 40 years. He accused the party of "Put identity politics in place of a policy of equal opportunities." Thus, the individual achievement for the distribution of state functions and social resources is no longer decisive, "but gender, origin, color or sexual identity and orientation", write hostage.

The Düsseldorf SPD leader Zanda Martens reacted disappointedly to Geisel's decision. It is "a pity that this will destroy your political achievement and biography and sidelines," said the members of the Bundestag to the WDR. As Lord Mayor, he had "done a lot of good," says Martens.

The SPD parliamentary group chairman Jochen Ott, said in the WDR interview that he also regrets the step. "I think he was simply boredom and didn't know what to do this year. Since he thought to himself 'come, I go to another party'", says Ott.

genericnick posted:

Lmao. Did they actually let the dude join?

quote:

Guter Austausch mit CSU im 🇩🇪 Bundestag. Viel Einigkeit. #Seeon24

Europa soll

➡️schneller, wettbewerbsfähiger, stärker werden

➡️Schutz zur Kernaufgabe machen

➡️Illegale Migration wirkungsvoll bekämpfen, dabei Verpflichtungen einhalten

➡️ Ducklo einbetten

Europa gibt Halt & Sicherheit im Wandel.

www.usnews.com posted:

ALCOY, Spain/BARCELONA/MADRID (Reuters) - Anti-racism activists in Spain have called for a ban on the use of blackface seen in many of the country's traditional Epiphany celebrations.

Rita Bosaho, the first Black woman in Spain's parliament, said the practice - part of annual Jan. 5 parades on the eve of Epiphany that depict the biblical Three Kings who brought gifts to Jesus - tarnish the memory of enslaved people and disempower Black children.

In the parades, actors portraying the kings, or Magi, ride past on floats and fling sweets, which are eagerly scooped up by children. Early Christian texts describe one of the kings, Balthazar, as African and Renaissance paintings often depict him as Black.

In the eastern town of Alcoy that has a long tradition of the parades, dozens of people acting the role of pages accompanied the kings in Friday's event, their faces painted black and with exaggerated, red-painted lips. Some ran along the edge of the crowd high-fiving children.

Bosaho, who led the Equality Ministry's racial diversity department from 2020 to 2023, said the use of blackface in the parades persisted because of a lack of debate on racism that she said permeated Spanish society.

"It sends a message that racism, that our skin doesn't matter," Bosaho added.

A spokesperson for the Equality Ministry was unavailable for comment during the holiday period.

A 2021 study commissioned by the Equality Ministry found that although nearly half of people of African descent living in Spain were born in the country, only 12% described themselves as "Afro-Spanish" and 60% said they did not feel Spanish due to discrimination they suffered.

People defending the use of blackface say they mean no harm and are just continuing a tradition.

The northeastern town of Igualada holds the oldest parade in the Catalonia region and most of its around 800 participants wear blackface.

"We don't consider ourselves xenophobic nor racist, nor do we consider racist the fact that some people dress up and apply makeup to act in a role and to bring joy to kids,"said Eduard Creus, who leads the private organisation behind the parade.

In Alcoy, the large gathering of pages with the kings are usually white local youths wearing blackface.

"We have our faces painted black because it's always been done and it's a great way for the local children of Alcoy who know us to be unable to know who we are," said Paula, who did not give her last name.

The local authority in Alcoy declined to be interviewed.

MADRID INCIDENT

A video published on Thursday by authorities in Madrid's Chamartin district showed a white actor playing Balthazar wearing blackface and addressing children in an apparently mock-West African accent, sparking a widespread outcry online and in the media.

"It's incredible that among the 120,000 residents of Madrid who are of African descent, they were unable to find a single one who can play the role of Balthazar," said Eduardo Rubino of the left-wing Mas Madrid party, describing the accent as "pathetic" and "pure racism".

Madrid's deputy mayor told reporters the video was a "regrettable error" by the company that produced it and said the city would seek an explanation.

Antoinette Torres, the founder of Afrofeminas, an online community seeking to boost Black womens' visibility, said there was a "lack of political will to tackle racism" but that nationwide legislation was needed to protect minors and end practices such as blackface.

"Normalising these tendencies leads to things that shouldn't be tolerated in the 21st century are still happening in Spain," she said, mentioning last year's hanging of an effigy depicting Black Real Madrid player Vinicius Jr from a bridge.

She added that many Spaniards do not see blackface as racist because the education system does not teach the country's past links to slavery and colonialism.

Spain once had a protectorate that comprised part of modern-day Morocco and colonies in what are now Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara, and engaged in the slave trade into the 1800s.

mawarannahr posted:

didn't know Spain had its own Dutchlike traditions
Anti-Racists Slam Blackface Use in Spain's Epiphany Parades

genericnick posted:

It's somehow also a catholic thing.

mawarannahr posted:

the Italians do this poo poo too?