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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4560 on: September 07, 2018, 06:07:40 AM »
It's his tough stance on crime and the fact that he's not corrupt like 99% of politicians.
Let's wait a bit on that one. :doge

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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4561 on: September 07, 2018, 01:29:59 PM »
Shame it was just a poke :dislike
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« Reply #4562 on: September 07, 2018, 01:33:01 PM »
Bolsonaro is rising because the left is utter shit here, and his firm stance against criminality makes him an interesting candidate for the people. Of course he's sexist, homophobe and all that, but people are more worried about 70 thousand murders every year than the stupid things he says.

And yeah, Brazil is not the most progressive place in the world. But it's expected from fucked up third world countries.

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« Reply #4563 on: September 07, 2018, 10:31:05 PM »
or maybe his supporters like the racism/homophobia/sexism/"let's shoot pt supporters!"

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« Reply #4564 on: September 07, 2018, 10:38:48 PM »
People think the guy is racist and homophobic because of some jabs he's thrown? Give me a break. Seriously, i didn't even know who the guy was until people started saying he's Latin Americas "TRUMP"

So i went and investigated. Half the shit people say about it is overblown. The left is always so worried about being offended that they rather vote in another corrupt marxist socialist than actually vote someone in that will try to fix the main issues facing the fucking country.

But oh nooo he offended gays!!!! It's so fucking dumb.

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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4565 on: September 08, 2018, 01:01:24 AM »
What are his proposals to "fix the main issues"? I'd like to hear your outsider-insider version first before I consult the lamestream media. Or Glenn Greenwald who hates the guy.

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« Reply #4566 on: September 08, 2018, 01:40:35 AM »
You can't find bold policies like this anywhere else in Brazil:

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Bolsonaro has spent his entire political career advocating violence against his political opponents and people he deems unworthy of the country he claims to love. In 1999, he said that the dictatorship “should have shot some 30,000 corrupt people, starting with President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.” He has repeatedly suggested that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, whose regime was accused of murdering 3,000 people and torturing 40,000 others, should have killed even more. He has denied that Brazil’s dictatorship tortured people.

Bolsonaro’s most ardent and direct calls for violence, though, are aimed at the leftist Workers’ Party, which under da Silva and his hand-picked successor, former President Rousseff, ruled Brazil from 2003 to 2016. During a campaign stop last week, he called for gunning down members of the PT, as the Workers’ Party is known.

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« Reply #4567 on: September 08, 2018, 12:58:22 PM »
Didn't Brazil have all those scandals with oil companies and politicians doing their bidding?
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« Reply #4568 on: September 08, 2018, 01:36:39 PM »
or maybe his supporters like the racism/homophobia/sexism/"let's shoot pt supporters!"

And making everything a simple situation like that is why we have Trump and Bolsonaro.

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« Reply #4569 on: September 08, 2018, 01:44:07 PM »
What are his proposals to "fix the main issues"? I'd like to hear your outsider-insider version first before I consult the lamestream media. Or Glenn Greenwald who hates the guy.

There's no solid proposal. He's just not involved in any of the corruption scandals here, is promising to have liberal economy stances (his economy ministry is very good at least and doesn't have the stupid/insane ideas that Bolsonaro have) and has firm stances agains criminality. Then you'll have people that likes his overly conservative stances voting for him and people that aknowledges he's all those bad things but is turning a blind eye to that due to him being the only right wing/economic liberal candidate with chances to win.

And just to clarify, I'm not voting for him (at least not in the first phase. I'll gladly vote for him in the second phase if he's running against Lula's puppet).

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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4570 on: September 08, 2018, 02:22:10 PM »
Old, but I only learned of this recently:

"At the beginning of the Lybian conflict, authorities discovered and seized roughly $67 billion of Gaddafi's wealth hidden in bank accounts around the globe. England, France, Italy and Germany seized another $30 billion and the Obama administration found a staggering $37 billion in the United States. Investigators suspect that Gaddafi hid an additional $30 billion around the world."

fucking murder people so you can steal their money, brehs
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« Reply #4571 on: September 08, 2018, 02:25:01 PM »
Do they plan on returning that money to Libya once this shit settles?  :-*

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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4572 on: September 08, 2018, 02:26:16 PM »
yeah don't worry it's just in safe keeping for now

like your social security contributions
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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4573 on: September 08, 2018, 03:32:21 PM »
or maybe his supporters like the racism/homophobia/sexism/"let's shoot pt supporters!"

And making everything a simple situation like that is why we have Trump and Bolsonaro.

Trump led with Mexicans are rapists, my dude. It takes some really tortured logic not to see that the racism is a plus for his base.

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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4574 on: September 08, 2018, 04:21:38 PM »
What are his proposals to "fix the main issues"? I'd like to hear your outsider-insider version first before I consult the lamestream media. Or Glenn Greenwald who hates the guy.

There's no solid proposal. He's just not involved in any of the corruption scandals here, is promising to have liberal economy stances (his economy ministry is very good at least and doesn't have the stupid/insane ideas that Bolsonaro have) and has firm stances agains criminality. Then you'll have people that likes his overly conservative stances voting for him and people that aknowledges he's all those bad things but is turning a blind eye to that due to him being the only right wing/economic liberal candidate with chances to win.

And just to clarify, I'm not voting for him (at least not in the first phase. I'll gladly vote for him in the second phase if he's running against Lula's puppet).
Exactly my dude. I'm with you.

or maybe his supporters like the racism/homophobia/sexism/"let's shoot pt supporters!"

And making everything a simple situation like that is why we have Trump and Bolsonaro.

Trump led with Mexicans are rapists, my dude. It takes some really tortured logic not to see that the racism is a plus for his base.
curly don't be a fucking moron. You can't win an election with only crazies. Trump didn't win just with racists bigots.

Bolsonaro will win because people are sick and tired of corruption, sick and tired of the immense violence. All that other dumb shit about LGBTQ and whatever else is to rally his base enough to support him, and then he takes a more moderate stance like he's already doing. There's 3 main issues: Violence/Crime, Corruption, and Economy.

Everything else at this moment is trivial. Putting another left wing socialist cunt in power is the worst thing that could happen to this country and so voting for someone like Bolsonaro might be the only option- this is why he has the support of virtually all educated males in the country.

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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4575 on: September 08, 2018, 07:18:26 PM »
Old, but I only learned of this recently:

"At the beginning of the Lybian conflict, authorities discovered and seized roughly $67 billion of Gaddafi's wealth hidden in bank accounts around the globe. England, France, Italy and Germany seized another $30 billion and the Obama administration found a staggering $37 billion in the United States. Investigators suspect that Gaddafi hid an additional $30 billion around the world."

fucking murder people so you can steal their money, brehs
They murdered Gadaffi to get elected (Sarkozy and Clinton did). Sid Blumenthal was frothing at the mouth at the thought of being her secretary of state after he made her 'own' Libya.

It basically went like this:
- The Europeans led by Sarkozy wanted to attack Gadaffi because oil, him trying to create a new African currency backed by his vast gold reserves and reasons
- The Europeans didn't have the firepower to sustain a bombing campaign for more than 2 days.
- Obama was opposed to acting in Libya as he feared another Iraq or worse, Afghanistan
- Sid Blumenthal told Clinton it was a great idea to tie her wagon to the Libyan cause. After all it would improve Obama's poll numbers and her stature
- Clinton convinced Obama into taking action in Libya. Military assured Obama it would be an easy victory
- Watered down UN resolution condemning Gadaffi and calling for a no fly zone passes with Russian and Chinese support
- US and EU (basically NATO) used the ambigious UN resolution to bomb Libya
- Russia protests
- Gadaffi flees, is spotted by NATO and bombed
- Rebels catch up with his bombed convoy and rape him on live TV and then murder him and throw him in a ditch
- "We came we saw he died" - Hillary Rodham Clinton

Also the western powers armed the 'popular uprising' much like they would in Syria.
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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4576 on: September 08, 2018, 08:01:47 PM »
I'm starting to believe he gets all his news from Twitter dweebs.

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« Reply #4577 on: September 08, 2018, 09:02:17 PM »
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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4578 on: September 08, 2018, 11:12:44 PM »
I'm starting to believe that Filler's likes are not done in good faith

Are you insinuating that my posts aren't of the highest quality? Because I assumed filler likes meant that.

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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4579 on: September 09, 2018, 08:38:27 AM »
https://twitter.com/JoN_TM/status/1038696064537309184

The car of the Moldovan president has been **accidentally** hit by a Kamaz truck

President is hospitalized
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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4580 on: September 09, 2018, 09:13:11 AM »
The car of the Moldovan president has been **accidentally** hit by a Kamaz truck

President is hospitalized
What did he do to piss off Putin?

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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4581 on: September 09, 2018, 03:12:02 PM »
https://twitter.com/Nordic_News/status/1038865889024716801

Good thing they mention that the results are not in danger.
spoiler (click to show/hide)
That would be a shame
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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4582 on: September 09, 2018, 04:42:07 PM »
sweden predominantly uses paper votes counted by hand

hack that with a computer

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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4583 on: September 09, 2018, 05:13:43 PM »
sweden predominantly uses paper votes counted by hand

hack that with a computer
But that's the sort of election rigging he got to practice for years.

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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4584 on: September 10, 2018, 12:54:55 AM »
Riksdag with the two alliances and the Swedish Democrats (yellow) in the middle:


Swedish Democrats: +13 seats (+4.7 points)
Centre: +9 (+2.3)
Left: +7 (+2.2)
Christian Democrats: +7 (+1.8)

Green Party: -10 (-2.6)
Social Democrats: -12 (-2.6)
Moderates: -13 (-3.5)

The two alliances:
The Alliance (Right leaners): +2 seats (+0.9 points)
Red-Greens (Left leaners): -15 seats (-2.9 points)

So, should be pretty fun...

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« Reply #4585 on: September 10, 2018, 11:57:03 AM »


MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4587 on: September 12, 2018, 01:54:36 PM »
https://twitter.com/Europarl_EN/status/1039902067513597955

This looks fucking depressing and creepy.
The EU government in Brussels is basically ResetEra in parliamentary form now.
They don't show up to vote and they REEEEE all day.



Today, apart from giving Juncker rhetorical blowjobs they could vent at Viktor Orban who was the main attraction.
As the entire parliament had a chance to vote on a motion to PUNISH Hungary for not doing what the crazy REEEEing Greens want.
The woman who filed the motion cried when it was adopted and someone filmed it with a fucking iPad.


https://twitter.com/lukeming/status/1039570616746168321
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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4588 on: September 12, 2018, 02:08:14 PM »
nintex butthurt

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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4589 on: September 12, 2018, 02:13:33 PM »
Windex's triggers are so predictable
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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4590 on: September 12, 2018, 02:23:23 PM »
I'm especially pissed at the EU boomers today for approving this shit
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17849868/eu-internet-copyright-reform-article-11-13-approved

Which is the fucking worst idea ever.



What sort of dystopian USSR hell is this.  :doge
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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4591 on: September 12, 2018, 02:44:32 PM »


Consolidating control of the new media through a "link tax" :aah
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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4592 on: September 12, 2018, 02:59:09 PM »
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Good job we didn’t come up against an individual such as Orban.

Good jon.
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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4593 on: September 12, 2018, 03:11:05 PM »
I'm especially pissed at the EU boomers today for approving this shit
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17849868/eu-internet-copyright-reform-article-11-13-approved

Which is the fucking worst idea ever.

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What sort of dystopian USSR hell is this.  :doge
When venal olds preside over new technologies. :goty2

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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4594 on: September 12, 2018, 03:12:32 PM »
When venal olds preside over new technologies. :goty2
Thinking they won't just be replaced by new authoritarians  :heyman
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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4595 on: September 12, 2018, 07:18:31 PM »
I'm especially pissed at the EU boomers today for approving this shit
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17849868/eu-internet-copyright-reform-article-11-13-approved

Which is the fucking worst idea ever.

(Image removed from quote.)

What sort of dystopian USSR hell is this.  :doge

Wow!

These people are not clueless - they know what they are doing.



Axel Voss - what a twat.

How anyone can be pro EU after this?
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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4596 on: September 12, 2018, 08:16:27 PM »
By not being a petulant child about its downsides.
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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4597 on: September 12, 2018, 08:45:00 PM »
lol no more memes for europe.  :smug

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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4598 on: September 12, 2018, 08:54:05 PM »
Lol and Europeans were all high and mighty about how great GDPR was just a few months ago. I hope they enjoy their neutered internet.

Now I guess I have to stay in the US because I need real internet. I guess I can move to a non-EU country. Like Thailand.
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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4599 on: September 13, 2018, 01:10:59 AM »
:smug
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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4600 on: September 13, 2018, 12:29:51 PM »
By not being a petulant child about its downsides.

Censoring online communication is a pretty BIG downside.





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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4601 on: September 13, 2018, 03:07:36 PM »


Of course it was a german who killed the internet.  :doge
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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4602 on: September 13, 2018, 03:58:36 PM »
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« Reply #4603 on: September 13, 2018, 07:01:50 PM »
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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4604 on: September 13, 2018, 09:43:43 PM »
Thank god, memes are the worst. All reputable forums have already banned memes anyway tho
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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4605 on: September 14, 2018, 02:27:38 AM »
I'm especially pissed at the EU boomers today for approving this shit
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17849868/eu-internet-copyright-reform-article-11-13-approved

Which is the fucking worst idea ever.

(Image removed from quote.)

What sort of dystopian USSR hell is this.  :doge

Wow!

These people are not clueless - they know what they are doing.



Axel Voss - what a twat.

How anyone can be pro EU after this?
I mean, if the type of memes the continent is posting are captioned with dialogue from the worst Lucas Star Wars film...maybe reasonable restrictions on meme usage and ownership should be considered.

benjipwns

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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4606 on: September 14, 2018, 02:29:12 AM »
The woman who filed the motion cried when it was adopted and someone filmed it with a fucking iPad.

this kinda thing makes me laugh though, i approve of more Nintex content like this

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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4607 on: September 14, 2018, 07:52:51 AM »


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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4608 on: September 14, 2018, 02:49:51 PM »

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why hasn't this been converted into a bore emoji yet?

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Re: International Politics Thread - Russia + China = World superpowers
« Reply #4609 on: September 14, 2018, 07:37:44 PM »
Thank god, memes are the worst. All reputable forums have already banned memes anyway tho

Yay censorship!  :comeon







The link tax is downright insane.

It's a calculated attempt by corrupt corporate lobbyists to suppress information, under the guise of copyright laws.



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« Reply #4610 on: September 14, 2018, 07:48:53 PM »
The two word rule is fucking dumb as well.

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I will just remove all the spaces motherfuckers

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Re: International Politics Thread - This thread monitored for Article 13 violations
« Reply #4611 on: September 14, 2018, 08:47:57 PM »
The two word rule is fucking dumb as well.

notax

taxes apply

I will just remove all the spaces motherfuckers

 :putin

Not dumb if the idea is to stifle the spread of information that goes against the status quo.

I wonder how these people will be voting in the future?
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« Reply #4612 on: September 14, 2018, 09:04:21 PM »
hmmm at first it sounded like a bad idea but after the last page I'm coming around


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« Reply #4614 on: September 15, 2018, 08:55:25 PM »
proud nato ally
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