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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6300 on: May 23, 2019, 01:27:33 PM »
Yes, but only if it's just like his military career, where he does nothing.


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Hundreds of EU citizens living in Britain have been turned away at polling stations as they attempted to vote in the European elections on Thursday, campaigners say.

Voters reported confusion with the process for participation in the elections, failings by local councils, and names being crossed off voting lists at polling stations.
Raist, how mad are you? :lol
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« Reply #6301 on: May 23, 2019, 02:11:20 PM »
That's what you get Yurop for not giving the UK points at Eurovision  :hmph

Meanwhile in the Netherlands
[https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1131528232841486336
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« Reply #6302 on: May 23, 2019, 03:53:33 PM »
Exit polls show the Social Democrats winning for the first time in years. Because people voted for the 'Spitzenkandidat' at the expense of other pro-European parties.

We've dubbed it: "The Frans Timmermans Effect"



VVD(our PM's party) ends in second place.
FvD a shared 3rd or 4th place with the Christian Democrats.
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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6303 on: May 23, 2019, 05:41:41 PM »
German voters will get a chance to elect Hess, Goebbels, Goering, Eichmann etc. on Sunday:



https://sputniknews.com/europe/201905221075226500-die-partei-germany-nazis/
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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6304 on: May 23, 2019, 05:43:36 PM »
I voted for the 50+ party

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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6305 on: May 24, 2019, 05:43:12 AM »
May to step down... But not immediately. It's a whole matriochka of exits !
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« Reply #6306 on: May 24, 2019, 06:09:39 AM »
Aww. Lookit this poor mad old lady.




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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6307 on: May 24, 2019, 06:58:46 AM »
Boris' turn, now? :heh

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« Reply #6308 on: May 24, 2019, 07:45:16 AM »
Boris's sex face this morning


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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6309 on: May 24, 2019, 11:06:37 AM »
GG England, you had a nice run


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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6311 on: May 24, 2019, 11:18:47 AM »
Does Boris Johnson actually have a strong chance of being next PM or are people just kidding? I've seen it come up alot since May's announcment.
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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6312 on: May 24, 2019, 11:58:34 AM »
Yes, apparently. He has the backing of a good chunk of the party although not any of the "establishment" really, and more importantly (this is partly why May became PM) there are not a huge number of competitors willing to get in. Labour has essentially the same thing going on. It's a period of no glamour in being PM.

Last thing I saw is that Boris has a good shot if the number of ballots is low, but if it's a long race he'll have to endorse someone else to break a deadlock.

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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6313 on: May 24, 2019, 12:06:25 PM »
I guess it's also the best (only, really) time to ride in and "succeed" at Brexit.
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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6314 on: May 24, 2019, 01:09:44 PM »
Let the real Game of Thrones begin


And yes, Boris is the front runner

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« Reply #6315 on: May 24, 2019, 02:04:57 PM »
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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6316 on: May 24, 2019, 02:07:47 PM »
May was dealt a shitty hand by Cameron‘s stupid power play. I don’t know what her resignation will solve other than further mark the decline of Britain on the international stage.

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« Reply #6317 on: May 24, 2019, 02:26:45 PM »

This poor lady visibly aged 10 years in 6 months and then had to leave in tears.

Tories don't play
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« Reply #6318 on: May 24, 2019, 02:31:38 PM »
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President Donald Trump is sending an additional 1,500 US troops to the Middle East as part of a "mostly protective" effort to deter Iranian threats, he said.
Many of the new forces will be are engineers to support Patriot missile batteries and reconnaissance aircraft that are being deployed, a US official and a source familiar with the plan tells CNN.
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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6319 on: May 24, 2019, 03:02:05 PM »
Does Boris Johnson actually have a strong chance of being next PM or are people just kidding? I've seen it come up alot since May's announcment.

He does have a strong chance. Mostly because he looks like an old labrador and is less of a pedo than the other Torys

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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6320 on: May 25, 2019, 02:18:34 AM »
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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6321 on: May 25, 2019, 02:22:14 AM »
I just realized how this has all gone wrong.

They gave up the Tory Power Stance.


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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6323 on: May 26, 2019, 08:39:35 AM »
Voter's participation is slightly up compared to last Euro election in France at noon, so maybe we'll just end up in high rather than low 40%.

Democracy  :gbcry

Edit : Participation up by 8 points from last election at 17h (approx. 43%). Will we breach back the 50% line.

That's probably the only happy number to come out this evening from Baguette Town so...
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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6324 on: May 26, 2019, 12:50:43 PM »
Voter's participation is slightly up compared to last Euro election in France at noon, so maybe we'll just end up in high rather than low 40%.

Democracy  :gbcry

Edit : Participation up by 8 points from last election at 17h (approx. 43%). Will we breach back the 50% line.

That's probably the only happy number to come out this evening from Baguette Town so...

The French left is in disarray. Voting strategically, I could only see the Greens as a viable, non-offensive option for me. :/

 

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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6325 on: May 26, 2019, 01:38:11 PM »
Democracy  :gbcry
Here you go, mang:

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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6326 on: May 26, 2019, 01:59:33 PM »


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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6327 on: May 26, 2019, 03:13:05 PM »
Voter's participation is slightly up compared to last Euro election in France at noon, so maybe we'll just end up in high rather than low 40%.

Democracy  :gbcry

Edit : Participation up by 8 points from last election at 17h (approx. 43%). Will we breach back the 50% line.

That's probably the only happy number to come out this evening from Baguette Town so...

The French left is in disarray.

You're, like, 20 years late bruv.

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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6328 on: May 26, 2019, 03:19:10 PM »
The French left is in disarray.

You're, like, 200 years late bruv.
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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6329 on: May 26, 2019, 03:37:31 PM »
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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6330 on: May 26, 2019, 03:37:41 PM »
The French Right got wrecked  :lol they were polling at 12-13% but only got 8. LFI did the same as the PS and they're pissed about it. Greens dis OK.
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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6332 on: May 26, 2019, 04:22:26 PM »
GREENSEFA is a terrible acronym

especially since it's only an acronym for one part just with GREENS in front of it :doge

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« Reply #6333 on: May 26, 2019, 04:24:14 PM »
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« Reply #6334 on: May 26, 2019, 04:41:47 PM »
Unironically calling a weakling and buffoon like Farage "alpha".
Dotard supporters really are mental bonsai trees, just like their fearless President Bonespur.
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« Reply #6335 on: May 26, 2019, 05:56:50 PM »

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« Reply #6336 on: May 26, 2019, 05:57:49 PM »
https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1132766376928661507

Lawl, Farage is going to tear the new EU Parliament a new asshole just before the UK crashes out under the the stable leadership of Michael Gove Boris Johsnon..
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« Reply #6338 on: May 26, 2019, 06:08:41 PM »
The far right party here got absolutely rekt. Went from 4 to 1 seat in the eu parliament. On top of that, the cross-party red/green people's movement against the EU, for the first time, has not gotten any seats at all.

I voted for the danish social liberal party, they went from one to two seats, because the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. It's a nice place to be. :boogie:

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« Reply #6339 on: May 26, 2019, 06:26:02 PM »
(Image removed from quote.)

It's actually a direct reference to when Alexander II of Russia was hit in the face with a milkshake and died due to severe brain freeze.
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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6340 on: May 26, 2019, 06:37:50 PM »
Sargon did not get elected  :fbm
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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6342 on: May 26, 2019, 10:33:17 PM »
https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1132766376928661507

Lawl, Farage is going to tear the new EU Parliament a new asshole just before the UK crashes out under the the stable leadership of Michael Gove Boris Johsnon..

So individual countries actually do have huge influence on the EU?

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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6343 on: May 27, 2019, 04:44:37 AM »
It's almost as if infantile fan-fiction and observable reality (which adults use as foundation of their outlook) are at odds.
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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6344 on: May 27, 2019, 06:51:52 AM »
Sargon did not get elected  :fbm

Voters are in general pretty clueless, especially in the UK, ESPECIALLY about EU elections, but they're not THAT distinguished mentally-challenged :lol

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« Reply #6345 on: May 27, 2019, 07:08:46 AM »
So the general impression is "bad but less bad than possible" for the Euro election.

In France, while Le Pen party is leading, it actually did a little less in % than last time. And if the UK leaves the EU and their seats are indeed redistributed as planned, Macron's party will field as many MEP as them.

The whole Yellow Vest movement didn't really have any apparent and dramatic effect. The Yellow Alliance which was the only list explicitly catering to it, led by C-list singer and notorious goofball Francis Lalanne, only managed 0,6% of the vote.

The Greens once again do very well in Euros (16% in 2009 IIRC) but in the past it never really transferred well to domestic elections. But with the neverending agony of the Socialists, it's possible that they might have a chance at filling the vacuum at the prominent moderate left party.

It's hard to know what to make of Macron's list results. For a party with only a couple of years of existence under its belt, and within the pretty belligerent national mood of last 6 months... It's not exactly a defeat. His base has not eroded and he's by a wide margin the strongest "respectable" / non far right candidate.

The left really need to sort out a coalition of sorts (Green + Socialists + Hamon + Communists could work, they managed it in the past) because it's a consistent 20-25% bloc (30+% with FI) that get squandered away each time now.
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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6346 on: May 27, 2019, 09:49:49 AM »
I can understand 'politics is football' Ree methheads but journalists claiming assange should be procecuted for publishing national secrets are fucking A grade galaxy brains

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« Reply #6347 on: May 27, 2019, 12:43:49 PM »
Making the headlines here today : four French citizens condemned to death in Irak for being part of ISIS.  Claims by at least one suspect of being beaten and apparently very speedy trials.

I mean... What did people think would happen by refusing to extradite them back to France ?
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« Reply #6348 on: May 27, 2019, 01:12:56 PM »
Also 5 Stelle are really getting hustled all ways to sunday by Lega and Salvini who even won votes down south (when the Lega was until a few years ago a movement supporting the secession of Northern Italy from the so called Southern lazy bumfucks :mindblown ). Deal with the devil...
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« Reply #6349 on: May 27, 2019, 02:07:45 PM »
Just yesterday I watched a bit on Dutch television where they claimed the policies of the new Italian government had reduced illegal migration by 90%.
The budget proposed by 5-S and Lega at first not accepted by the Eurozone pretty much passed with only a few changes.

If Salvini continues to get these results he'll only get more popular.
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« Reply #6350 on: May 27, 2019, 06:12:21 PM »
https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1133132018030661637

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With just two days left before the deadline to form a new government, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put the onus on a last holdout of his potential coalition, his own former defense minister.

In a televised address Monday, Netanyahu decried his predicament as a “semantic, cosmetic” crisis created by Avigdor Lieberman, and the premier threatened a call to disperse parliament and trigger new elections. It would be the first time in Israel’s history that a winning candidate selected by the president to form a government has failed in the task.

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Two weeks ago, Netanyahu attempted to lock future coalition members into binding agreements that included a bill granting him retroactive legal immunity as long as he remains in office. The effort backfired, unleashing massive public opposition.

On Saturday night, more than 50,000 people demonstrated in Tel Aviv against his effort to gain immunity and other legislation that would allow the Knesset to override Supreme Court decisions.

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Netanyahu said he had been unable to convince Lieberman “to prevent an unnecessary, costly election” in the latest standoff between the two men. Lieberman’s resignation in November following a dispute over Israel’s policies toward Gaza had precipitated the 2019 elections.

Lieberman, leader of the secular nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party, is refusing to budge regarding a law on military service for ultra-Orthodox Jewish young men, who are currently exempt from Israel’s otherwise universal draft.

Jewish religious parties had demanded Netanyahu soften the bill before agreeing to enter his next coalition government.

So basically personal corruption (Netanyahu), and systemic corruption (Protection of Ultra Orthodox Jews from service in the military) causing Israel to not form a government.

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« Reply #6351 on: May 27, 2019, 07:08:43 PM »
Xinhua released commentary this weekend that trade negotiations are running up against "core interests". Per CNBC because my mandarin isn't good enough to read state propaganda yet
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“At the negotiating table, the U.S. government has made many arrogant requests, including restricting the development of state-owned enterprises,” the commentary said, according to a CNBC translation. “Obviously, this is beyond the field and scope of trade negotiations, (and) touches upon China’s fundamental economic system.”

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China’s giant state-owned enterprises control strategic industries such as energy, telecommunications and defense. Since those companies benefit from favorable policies and subsidies, foreign companies complain of an unfair advantage. The escalating trade dispute between the U.S. and China has focused on allegations of the coerced surrender of proprietary technology and the trampling of intellectual property rights.

Critics say China has been able to benefit economically from joining the World Trade Organization in 2001 without following through on commitments to reduce state control. For its part, Beijing has made some effort to increase the role of the market in its economy and allow foreign companies greater access — but many outside observers say it’s too little, too slowly.

Command economies are INEFFICIENT. America's economy is the product of its SUPERIOR IDEOLOGY. Communists DESTROY THEIR COUNTRIES. :lol
:bow Deng shui bringing the west to its knees :bow2
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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6352 on: May 27, 2019, 07:14:01 PM »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48417228

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The Brexit Party was the clear winner in the UK's European elections, while the pro-EU Lib Dems came second.

The Conservatives and Labour suffered heavy losses, with the former getting less than 10% of the vote.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said he was ready to "take on" the main parties in a general election.


Oh Nigel. You sweet summer child. Have you forgotten that you've failed to even be elected to sit in the HoC for, like, 20 years? :lol


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« Reply #6353 on: May 27, 2019, 07:23:04 PM »
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« Reply #6354 on: May 27, 2019, 08:29:30 PM »
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/27/tech/zuckerberg-contempt-canada/
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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg will not attend a hearing in Ottawa later this week, despite receiving summonses from the Canadian parliament, Facebook confirmed on Monday.

The decision could result in the executives being held in contempt of parliament, the senior Canadian politician who sent the summons told CNN.

Both executives received formal requests from the Canadian Parliament earlier this month tied to a gathering of an international committee examining Silicon Valley's impact on privacy and democracy. Zuckerberg and Sandberg have testified before the United States Congress on the subject.

Facebook said is it sending Kevin Chan, its head of public policy for Facebook Canada, and Neil Potts, its director of public policy, to the meeting instead.
lol they think they're a real country

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« Reply #6355 on: May 28, 2019, 11:14:16 AM »
Canada should ban facebook until they show. Then ban it anyway.
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« Reply #6356 on: May 28, 2019, 01:44:02 PM »
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Malaysia will send back some 3,300 tons of non-recyclable plastic waste to countries such as the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia in a move to avoid becoming a dumping ground for rich nations, Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin said Tuesday.

Yeo said Malaysia and many developing countries have become new targets after China banned the import of plastic waste last year. She said 60 containers stacked with contaminated waste were smuggled in en route to illegal processing facilities in the country and will be sent back to their countries of origin.
:lol Philippines started a movement. Take your shit back!
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Re: International Politics Thread - The Hundred Years' Brexit
« Reply #6357 on: May 29, 2019, 01:25:20 AM »
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1133599123616223232

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(CNN)An African man has been found crammed behind the glove box of a car in a bid to get to Europe -- one of four people spotted in vehicles on the same day by authorities in Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla, in north Africa.

An African migrant squeezed inside a compartment built behind a car dashboard.
An African migrant squeezed inside a compartment built behind a car dashboard.
Two hid in special compartments behind the dashboard and a third was under a rear seat, images taken by Spain's Civil Guard show. Two were treated by medics for asphyxia, disorientation and joint pain.
A fourth person was also found on May 24 under a truck in the Melilla port.






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« Reply #6358 on: May 29, 2019, 03:39:55 AM »
Shit should be in the bad vibes thread :juicy
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« Reply #6359 on: May 29, 2019, 02:32:12 PM »
France and Greece voiced their support for Timmermans over Weber. There's a chance we will not act like a German province and also back Timmermans dividing the otherwise strong northern aliance.
We've come at a point where Frans Timmermans could actually become the new leader of the European Union.

 :doge
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