International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/camilapress/status/1213916299069394944

 

[OnlyRegret]

https://twitter.com/RaniaKhalek/status/1213426190523994112

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/anyaparampil/status/1213929209988554756

it really was a sketch 

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/RudawEnglish/status/1214170432603086853

What the MSM thinks: "OH NOES, China will fight the US Troops!!"

What China thinks: "Hmmm yes, we'll shoot your protesters for you, we are experts you see"

[Cerveza mas fina]

Lmao imagine if china will send troops to Iraq what a win for the US to get out of that mess 

4D chess

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/ReutersIran/status/1214087965380620290

Why don't we all deploy some forces to the Middle East. 

[Nintex]

Libya is also turning bloodier by the day but it seems unlikely that Erdogan can turn the tide for the government at this point.
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1214215107246526468

https://twitter.com/Lyobserver/status/1213850537311064067

For those tuning in to this conflict, this is a proxy war between:
Turkey & Qatar(UN backed government) vs. Russia, Saudi's, Egypt & UAE(Haftar)

Turkey is sending troops, while Russia is supplying Haftar from its bases in Syria.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/business/status/1214752566208270337

[shosta]

https://twitter.com/Ahmadinejad1956/status/1072468813667540994

[OnlyRegret]

good vibes up in here 

https://twitter.com/Ahmadinejad1956/status/1193924287293513728

https://twitter.com/Ahmadinejad1956/status/1190972324809465858

https://twitter.com/Ahmadinejad1956/status/1184878996070244352

https://twitter.com/Ahmadinejad1956/status/1180447038435217409

[OnlyRegret]

 

https://twitter.com/Ahmadinejad1956/status/1121450975145943040

https://twitter.com/Ahmadinejad1956/status/1158452231001247744

https://twitter.com/Ahmadinejad1956/status/1130118642157404160

[VomKriege]

Macron's MP are now making noise for the Prime Minister to compromise with one of the French unions, the CFDT, which is the most moderate of the major ones. The CFDT only major grievance with the reform is the "âge pivot" : In short while the legal minimum age to claim pension rights would stay at 62 years old, 64 years would ultimately be the real floating line, with a penalising decrease for claiming it between 62 and 64. The decrease in the current reform would be permanent. The carrot to that stick is that the decrease in your pension rights resulting from partial dues (if you didn't work enough trimesters to pay the pension fees throughout your career) would be lowered from applying up to 67 years old (at most) to 64. But in effect it's a not so stealth way to up the retirement age.

Protest tomorrow, I may march.

[kingv]

I get the feeling Macron pretty much sucks, but just got the benefit of the lesser of two evils vote.

[Raist]

Let's be real. The people who through their shit out of the pram about all this are (once again) the ones with insane advantages when it comes to retirement, benefits etc.

A lot of it isn't justified anymore. Someone driving a TGV is having it just a little bit easier than someone who was shoveling coal into a roaring engine.

[shosta]

So whenever work gets easier, we should raise the age of retirement? How about lengthen the workday?

Why has France able to afford the pension that it has for all these years and suddenly it needs to make cuts?

[Raist]

So whenever work gets easier, we should raise the age of retirement? How about lengthen the workday?

Why has France able to afford the pension that it has for all these years and suddenly it needs to make cuts?

The point is that there's a huge gap between a few professions (that are mostly government employees), and everyone else. So it's already difficult to justify, and especially moreso when a lot of it is based on factors that aren't present anymore.


France hasn't been able to afford it for a very, very long time. The strikes in 1995 were (in part) because of similar plans to reform retirement plans. Until the government folded, because transports were likewise fucked.

[shosta]

So... they've been able to afford it for... 25 years?

[Raist]

No. Are you familiar with the term deficit? Or debt?

[shosta]

Deficit looks stable to me, sir.

[Raist]

 

[shosta]

Checked French interest payments - looks like you guys have been improving your fiscal stance since 1995.

[VomKriege]

People don't like regression, in the particular or the general.

[Tripon]

MADRID – Spanish national court judge Jose de la Mata has ordered the police and the civil guard to notify him if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and six former Israeli officials step foot on Spanish soil, since their visit could reopen a case filed against them in Spain for the attack on the Freedom Flotilla in 2010.

The judge put the case on hold last June after Spain reformed its Universal Justice doctrine.

The list of Israeli officials includes Netanyahu, former defense minister Ehud Barak, former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, former minister of strategic affairs Moshe Yaalon, former interior minister Eli Yishai, minister without portfolio Benny Begin and vice admiral in charge of the operation, Maron Eliezer.

The Israeli officials face charges in the case, opened by the National Court, following the attack by Israeli security forces in 2010 on the Freedom Flotilla ship bound for Gaza on a humanitarian mission.

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2399976&CategoryId=12395

[shosta]

[Nintex]

Our government has a surplus but we have an entirely different set of problems.
They said everyone would be better off for the past three years and the economy kept improving. So vendors upped their prices but those tax cuts were delayed and some other taxes were actually increased.

The numbers are in and...
- Prices of food and other necessities have gone up (lower tax rate for food(6%) was abolished, VAT is now 21% for everything)
- Energy/Water costs have gone up
- We now have the most expensive gas in all of Europe (~1.82 Euro for a Liter of Petrol (~$7.50 a gallon), mixed with Ethanol so engines will brake down faster too)
- Housing shortage turned into a housing crisis (yes, we've ran out of affordable housing because we need to house refugees somewhere but our government also had the policy to artificially inflate real-estate capital by not building any new affordable housing, oops)
- Unattainable climate goals (max speed is going down to 100 km/h next month (just 60 mph LMAO) and we can't solve the housing crisis because we're unable to build any affordable housing because of the climate regulations)

So now the two main ruling parties are trying to deflect with a pissing contest of new migration policies and a ban on fireworks

[Brehvolution]

Want to trade?

[BisMarckie]

max speed is going down to 100 km/h next month (just 60 mph LMAO)

YOu were pansy ass cowards before with your 120 km/h limit.

[Nintex]

max speed is going down to 100 km/h next month (just 60 mph LMAO)

YOu were pansy ass cowards before with your 120 km/h limit.

It sucks, and all those tiny A-class cars that barely accelerate just make it worse.
Big parts of the country are already a traffic jam most of the time. You can't even drive 120 km/h in most places.

Want to trade?

I'm glad I live in this rich coastal town which scores above average in nearly every metric including alcohol consumption 

[Brehvolution]

[Raist]

- Unattainable climate goals (max speed is going down to 100 km/h next month (just 60 mph LMAO) and we can't solve the housing crisis because we're unable to build any affordable housing because of the climate regulations)

You could start by getting rid of coal plants and not having half your puny country covered with goddamn greenhouses that are running 24/7.

That might help reducing your CO2 per capita emissions to something a bit more reasonable than 2X that of France and other Western EU countries with equivalent development levels

[jorma]

- Unattainable climate goals (max speed is going down to 100 km/h next month (just 60 mph LMAO) and we can't solve the housing crisis because we're unable to build any affordable housing because of the climate regulations)

You could start by getting rid of coal plants and not having half your puny country covered with goddamn greenhouses that are running 24/7.

That might help reducing your CO2 per capita emissions to something a bit more reasonable than 2X that of France and other Western EU countries with equivalent development levels

french bell peppers 

dutch bell peppers 

[Nintex]

- Unattainable climate goals (max speed is going down to 100 km/h next month (just 60 mph LMAO) and we can't solve the housing crisis because we're unable to build any affordable housing because of the climate regulations)

You could start by getting rid of coal plants and not having half your puny country covered with goddamn greenhouses that are running 24/7.

That might help reducing your CO2 per capita emissions to something a bit more reasonable than 2X that of France and other Western EU countries with equivalent development levels

Well someone has to feed the planet while the French go on strike every week

Unless you really want to import more unregulated chlorinated chicken and Trump steaks from the United States
 

[Raist]

Still going on with this bullshit?

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-american-food-giant-the-largest-exporter-of-food-in-the-world.html

Rank   Country   Value of Food Exports (US Dollars, Thousands)
1   United States   72,682,349.79
2   Germany   34,628,800.73
3   United Kingdom   29,540,218.71
4   China   25,152,286.27
5   France   24,114,557.76
6   Netherlands   23,271,570.93


GTFO with your "we feed the planet  :'(" tirade while using figures including flowers and shit

[Cerveza mas fina]

Raist the dutch are already being punished with the 100 kmh speed limit 

[shosta]

we can't solve the housing crisis because we're unable to build any affordable housing because of the climate regulations

defending property owners getting rich on Amsterdam's housing bubble and poopooing climate regulations while you live under sea level.

Ladies and gentlemen: the perfect shmuck

[Nintex]

Still going on with this bullshit?

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-american-food-giant-the-largest-exporter-of-food-in-the-world.html

Rank   Country   Value of Food Exports (US Dollars, Thousands)
1   United States   72,682,349.79
2   Germany   34,628,800.73
3   United Kingdom   29,540,218.71
4   China   25,152,286.27
5   France   24,114,557.76
6   Netherlands   23,271,570.93


GTFO with your "we feed the planet  :'(" tirade while using figures including flowers and shit

[Raist]

Data:

As of 2017, fruit was the top agri-food import products in the Netherlands, with fruit imports worth roughly six billion euros. Meat, dairy and egg imports combined accounted for just under eight billion euros in 2017, with meat imports ranked last in the top five agricultural and food imports to the Netherlands.

Nintex: We feed the planet

[Raist]

Data:

Country - CO2 Emission per capita in 2018 (metric tons)
Netherlands - 9.5
Germany - 9.1
Spain -6.0
Italy - 5.8
UK - 5.6
France - 5.0


Nintex: We're super efficient

[Cerveza mas fina]

Is there a more wasteful industry then growing fucking flowers in greenhouses? Even meat and coal have merits

And yeah I grew up in the bollenstreek

[BisMarckie]

Growing flowers in greenhouses and not even thinking of raising the ROI by growing opium poppies.

The Netherlands

[Nintex]

Growing flowers in greenhouses and not even thinking of raising the ROI by growing opium poppies.

The Netherlands

Where do you think the weed is grown 

[Cerveza mas fina]

Tegrity farms

[Great Rumbler]

Flowers

[shosta]

https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1215335543464235008

Launch an attack on your sworn enemy, end up only killing a whole plane full of your own people.

What a dumb tragedy. War is stupid.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Us really has a lot to fear of a country this capable.

[VomKriege]

Went to the protest but we never got out of the start area. Everything was jammed on the avenue. Police apparently filtered the protesters in small groups. We left before the whole second half (?) of the column could ever move a couple inches forward in 2 hours, apparently they managed to get through under rain and as night already was underway, the latter is kinda weird. Can't help but think that the police deliberately is not putting a lot of good will in helping the protest along. For instance the "independent" counting paid for by some major media outlets was concluded before the last groups even passed their observation post. Tensions always flare up at night. Tear gas and charges were made as soon as the head of the column (where all the union heads are) reached the dispersion point. Feels like things are being pushed to give the impression of a sparser protest and of course some dramatic "if it bleeds it leads" images of a garbage bin burning.

We got to sing the International which is always a hoot though.

[Raist]

Trying to find the NL from the ISS at night?

No problem!




All thanks to these:




Nintex: Max speed lowered to 100kph plsnowhy  :'(

[BisMarckie]

Trying to find the NL from the ISS at night?

The Rhine/Ruhr area, Belgium and the Netherlands are also the most densely populated area in all of Europe though.

It's not all greenhouses 

[Nintex]

Are you kidding, I tripped over greenhouses on my way own.

Let's just forget the fact that tulips and most other flowers are not grown in greenhouses like vegetables but primarely in fields along with potato's

[Raist]

Trying to find the NL from the ISS at night?

The Rhine/Ruhr area, Belgium and the Netherlands are also the most densely populated area in all of Europe though.

It's not all greenhouses 

No shit it isn't all greenhouses.

But having dozens of those that are the size of multiple football fields, peppered all over, and lit up like fucking christmas trees ain't going to help now is it.

[Raist]

Let's just forget the fact that tulips and most other flowers are not grown in greenhouses like vegetables but primarely in fields along with potato's

Oh yeah?

I suppose these must be some sort of bizarro strawberries.




These are melons or something.




And how about them apples.

[BisMarckie]

BDS The Netherlands!

[Raist]

BDS The Netherlands!

Let's just blow up the Afsluitdijk.

[shosta]

I thought that keyboard spam for a second. Frickin made up languages

[BisMarckie]

Let's just blow up the Afsluitdijk.

Owning beachfront property

[Nintex]

BDS The Netherlands!

Let's just blow up the Afsluitdijk.

Let's, you'd actually do us a favor by flooding Almere  and their ugly Vinex wijken

[nachobro]

Let's, you'd actually do us a favor by flooding Almere  and their ugly Vinex wijken

bro wtf kind of weird ass alien language do you people have over there

[Mandark]

Well someone has to feed the planet

you import billions in grain to raise livestock which is literally a net negative for available food

what's the point of repeating a dishonest fantasy in a new thread that nobody believed in a previous one?

[Kara]

The two genders of Nintex posting are drivel and disinformation.

[Mandark]

I find it so weird how he keeps writing careposts about geopolitics and shit on this forum. Everyone already knows he makes shit up constantly and is stupid as hell. Why not at least find a new audience that might make the mistake of taking you seriously?

(the answer here is obviously "don't try to rationalize the behavior of a compulsive liar" but still!)