Author Topic: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster (Read 1654918 times)

benjipwns · « **Reply #8220 on:** February 12, 2020, 08:58:24 PM »

Going to offer the Amazon and the Falklands as collateral.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #8221 on:** February 12, 2020, 09:20:21 PM »

offering the Falklands, an island group which has never belonged to Argentia except for a few years no one cares about, would be an equally equally bold strategy

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #8222 on:** February 12, 2020, 09:37:12 PM »

LAS MALVINAS SON ARGENTINAS

BisMarckie · « **Reply #8223 on:** February 13, 2020, 10:24:55 AM »

Italian campanilismo is truly crazy, but Greek nationalism is missing in that list. The Macedonia issue, still claiming Illyria after over 2000 years, the Greeks still try to revive ancient Greece.

nachobro · « **Reply #8224 on:** February 13, 2020, 10:32:01 AM »

EchoRin · « **Reply #8225 on:** February 13, 2020, 04:40:29 PM »

https://twitter.com/Dennes/status/1227861495381446656

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #8226 on:** February 13, 2020, 07:43:11 PM »

belgium is also not a real country

VomKriege · « **Reply #8227 on:** February 14, 2020, 03:30:53 AM »

Don't forget college intellectual truck drivers.

Edit : That's some word filter.

Occam · « **Reply #8228 on:** February 14, 2020, 03:37:32 AM »

By the way, shouldn't the topic be updated? Brexit wasn't just ratified, it happened two weeks ago. Britain has left the European Union.

Occam · « **Reply #8229 on:** February 14, 2020, 09:47:57 AM »

That's better.

team filler · « **Reply #8230 on:** February 14, 2020, 01:04:25 PM »

https://twitter.com/OVargas52/status/1228309941175320577

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #8231 on:** February 14, 2020, 01:50:42 PM »

Fade into Bolivian

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #8232 on:** February 14, 2020, 07:51:17 PM »

https://twitter.com/VictoriaLIVE/status/1227899028391763968

Raist · « **Reply #8233 on:** February 15, 2020, 04:25:58 AM »

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brexit-eu-airport-queue-immigration-brexiteer-amsterdam-airport-schiphol-a9335281.html

Quote

“Absolutely disgusting service at Schiphol airport. 55 minutes we have been stood in the immigration queue. This isn’t the Brexit I voted for,” he wrote on Twitter.

Occam · « **Reply #8234 on:** February 15, 2020, 07:29:42 AM »

Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #8235 on:** February 15, 2020, 09:31:34 AM »

Quote from: OnlyRegret on February 14, 2020, 07:51:17 PM

https://twitter.com/VictoriaLIVE/status/1227899028391763968

and people say the people who believe in the development and protection of a Jewish nation have no control over anything

team filler · « **Reply #8236 on:** February 15, 2020, 01:42:30 PM »

VomKriege · « **Reply #8237 on:** February 15, 2020, 02:29:22 PM »

Benjamin Griveaux, who served in Macron's cabinets and ran as the presidential party candidate in Paris for the mayor office (currently held by Socialists), rescinded his candidature after a masturbation video surfaced some days ago. The details are a bit murky, we don't know it's his dick (the media has decided on using "video of a sexual nature" without more details) but just leaving the race without a fight would suggest it is, that's something he sent to a woman he was consensually exchanging with reportedly (he's married), apparently it was leaked by a Russian "artist and activist" (he was arrested today for an alleged fight in a bar, he also tried to torch the facade of a bank to make a point some time ago) because he loathed the hypocrisy of the candidate. AFAIK it's not clear how he got ahold of the video.

Macron's party already had to contend with a dissident candidate (eccentric mathematician Villani) and polling indicates Griveaux was trailing behind incumbent Anne Hidalgo and the right-wing candidate Rachida Dati before the whole hubbub.

Punditry and media seem to fall squarely on the "unbecoming in a democracy, breach of privacy, mobs 2.0 are frightening" side of the argument.

Occam · « **Reply #8238 on:** February 15, 2020, 02:34:51 PM »

Is the word "Jews" changed to "fillers" now?

Edit: nope.

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #8239 on:** February 15, 2020, 02:39:41 PM »

think of something more ziony

team filler · « **Reply #8240 on:** February 15, 2020, 02:41:16 PM »

the cabal

VomKriege · « **Reply #8241 on:** February 15, 2020, 02:59:06 PM »

Quote from: shosta on February 15, 2020, 02:33:30 PM

That's an extremely weird take from the commentariat because if issues of decorum and ethics are still disqualifying, that means your nation is far, far away from the complete unraveling of civil society. Over here our sexual miscreants just keep running, esp. for president!

French press have always (well not always, certainly since post war I guess) been very cautious (some might say slavishly deferential) with regards to the privacy of political figures. And honestly I would say most people here kinda shrug at most of that stuff. The potentially explosive bit of that dick video, IMHO, would be if it turned out the recipient wasn't as comfortable and consensual with it than currently assumed.

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #8242 on:** February 15, 2020, 03:15:03 PM »

brits explain, this isn't even the first tweet or 5 I saw lately complaining about your people

https://twitter.com/Ghanasfinestx/status/1227977206846164992

https://twitter.com/cjtruth/status/1217896621029101568

Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #8243 on:** February 15, 2020, 03:18:48 PM »

Only thing I can think of is a load of our dirty old nonces moving to Thailand but does that count as third world?

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #8244 on:** February 15, 2020, 03:20:33 PM »

Thinking about it, your politicians, royalty, and that BBC hotshot, what predisposes the perfidious albion to abuse children locally and abroad (imperialistically)?

VomKriege · « **Reply #8245 on:** February 15, 2020, 03:22:16 PM »

Quote from: OnlyRegret on February 15, 2020, 03:15:03 PM

brits explain, this isn't even the first tweet or 5 I saw lately complaining about your people

https://twitter.com/Ghanasfinestx/status/1227977206846164992

I suspect that, too, is not part of "Brexit I voted for !"

VomKriege · « **Reply #8246 on:** February 15, 2020, 03:41:20 PM »

Quote from: Stro on February 15, 2020, 03:38:09 PM

eccentric mathematician and Bond Villani

EchoRin · « **Reply #8247 on:** February 15, 2020, 05:53:59 PM »

Amir0x would fit in well with all these other British pedos once he's out of pound me in the ass prison.

Fuck sex tourism. Especially child sex tourism.

edit: I wonder if filler will take away that like now that I added "fuck sex tourism" into my post.

Nintex · « **Reply #8248 on:** February 15, 2020, 08:17:25 PM »

Quote from: OnlyRegret on February 15, 2020, 03:20:33 PM

Thinking about it, your politicians, royalty, and that BBC hotshot, what predisposes the perfidious albion to abuse children locally and abroad (imperialistically)?

Just be glad we don't understand any of this and hope that all these fuckers die in a fire somehow

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #8249 on:** February 15, 2020, 08:57:28 PM »

Quote from: Nintex on February 15, 2020, 08:17:25 PM

Quote from: OnlyRegret on February 15, 2020, 03:20:33 PM
Thinking about it, your politicians, royalty, and that BBC hotshot, what predisposes the perfidious albion to abuse children locally and abroad (imperialistically)?
Just be glad we don't understand any of this and hope that all these fuckers die in a fire somehow

your kind is a different, digital blight

team filler · « **Reply #8250 on:** February 16, 2020, 04:12:54 PM »

https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1229135314746331136

Nintex · « **Reply #8251 on:** February 16, 2020, 04:23:21 PM »

Assad cheated though, Turkish convoys got bombed by Russia.
The match was very unbalanced because of those Russian spawn killers.

VomKriege · « **Reply #8252 on:** February 17, 2020, 06:13:51 AM »

So apparently the dick video was sent to the current partner of the Russian artist who leaked it. The timeline is a bit confusing, the videos may date back from 2018, before the recepient was in a relationship with Pavlenski. Griveaux filed a complaint for "breach of privacy". Media seem to implicate a lawyer too in some sort of activist cabal run amok (which seems a bit grandiose a description, honestly). The Paris prosecution office is refusing that he represents Pavlenski (the bar must examine this).

Agnès Buzyn has been chosen as the new candidate for the mayor election in Paris, leaving her position as Minister of Health in the government. She's replaced by a Macronist MP with a neurology background.

I guess it means all front runners for Paris city hall are women now, so... Trust the progress ?

Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #8253 on:** February 17, 2020, 09:16:20 AM »

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/17/no-10-refuses-to-comment-on-pms-views-of-racial-iq

This shit is fucking wild

kingv · « **Reply #8254 on:** February 17, 2020, 11:16:53 AM »

But Corbyn is anti-Semitic!

This guy is like the edgiest fucking conservative in your college classes.

Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #8255 on:** February 17, 2020, 11:40:49 AM »

That yer man hasn’t been sacked and hung out to dry by now is fucking mental

Nintex · « **Reply #8256 on:** February 17, 2020, 02:12:08 PM »

https://twitter.com/MattZeitlin/status/1229461880080674819

It took the media over 4 years but they finally figured it out.

Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #8257 on:** February 17, 2020, 05:11:51 PM »

Nintex is my political pundit of choice tbf

BisMarckie · « **Reply #8258 on:** February 17, 2020, 08:56:42 PM »

First reply

https://twitter.com/TheOzean/status/1229400129456746499

*serbianeaglecry.png*

team filler · « **Reply #8259 on:** February 18, 2020, 05:59:33 AM »

Quote from: Nintex on February 16, 2020, 04:23:21 PM

Assad cheated though, Turkish convoys got bombed by Russia.
The match was very unbalanced because of those Russian spawn killers.

https://twitter.com/AWAKEALERT/status/1229721659189297152

Occam · « **Reply #8260 on:** February 18, 2020, 08:54:39 AM »

As expected, the EU has added the first British territory to its tax haven blacklist today (Cayman Islands). Seychelles and Panama were added, too. They will now face sanctions. Turkey was given one more year to fully comply (=share data with all 27 EU member states).

VomKriege · « **Reply #8261 on:** February 19, 2020, 05:30:29 AM »

It's that moment again, that seems to happen for every French President since Sarkozy : Macron wants to fight "Islamist separatism" which is a new, pretty alarmist, way to put it. Apparently will involve, among other things, cracking down on foreign-sponsored imams and teachers (the latter was part of a bunch of deals done in the 70's with some countries to facilitate school attendance and education for migrant workers).

The pension reform that spawned sustained strikes has started being discussed at the Assembly. The left is trying to delay it by flooding amendments in.

Nintex · « **Reply #8262 on:** February 19, 2020, 06:17:19 PM »

https://twitter.com/jenanmoussa/status/1230248300043001857

Russian air force dropping more bombs on the Turk'men' just after Erdogan says he's seriously going go send in his 'real' army to Idlib this time.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #8263 on:** February 20, 2020, 12:32:19 AM »

Why does the UK think it will get a good deal with the EU?

EU has 8x the population and 7x the gdp

It's very much a paperweight vs a heavyweight

I don't see their leverage, not to mention the City, which is where the UK makes money is completely dependent on access to the EU.

Tripon · « **Reply #8264 on:** February 20, 2020, 01:20:31 AM »

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1230375784575045635

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #8265 on:** February 20, 2020, 01:25:27 AM »

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/feb/20/hanau-shootings-dead-after-attack-german-town-shisha-frankfurt-updates

Occam · « **Reply #8266 on:** February 20, 2020, 10:38:13 AM »

Merkel: "Racism is a poison."
Trump: "There are fine people on both sides."

What a contrast.

team filler · « **Reply #8267 on:** February 20, 2020, 03:12:20 PM »

https://twitter.com/MaxAbrahms/status/1230583324986531840

aloha queen tried to tell y'all

"bu bu bu... the kurds and moderate rebels!"

Occam · « **Reply #8268 on:** February 21, 2020, 06:04:17 AM »

The rest of the world is preparing for four more years of Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-the-rest-of-the-world-is-reacting-to-the-democratic-primary/2020/02/20/ef63f916-5420-11ea-929a-64efa7482a77_story.html

Some nonsense about Sanders in the article, but some interesting facts, too.

Quote

This concern about a United States adrift from its traditional leadership role was evident last weekend at the Munich Security Conference. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier spoke for many at the conference when he complained: “Our closest ally, the United States of America, under the current administration, rejects the very concept of the international community.”

Europeans are realizing, too, that the United States’ turn inward goes much deeper than Trump. Steinmeier bemoaned Trump’s retreat from transatlantic ties, but he recognized, “We know that this shift began a while ago, and it will continue even after this administration.”

A former top national security official in Republican and Democratic administrations summed up the implications of the U.S. political morass for foreign allies: “They understand now that waiting it out is not a good strategy. They know that the backstop is no longer there.”

Europeans feel a nostalgia for the old order, summed up in the “Westlessness” theme of the Munich conference. But there’s opportunism, too — a desire to expand influence as America’s contracts. You could see the gleam in the eye of French President Emmanuel Macron as he discussed onstage with Wolfgang Ischinger, the conference’s chairman, the possibility that Germany might soon look to France’s nuclear deterrent, rather than depending solely on U.S. pledges.

Ghoul · « **Reply #8269 on:** February 21, 2020, 09:25:13 AM »

google revoking GDPR on the UK and they'll fall into US data protection rape laws

:|

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-privacy-eu-exclusive/exclusive-google-users-in-uk-to-lose-eu-data-protection-sources-idUSKBN20D2M3

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #8270 on:** February 21, 2020, 09:35:53 AM »

FREEDOM FROM EU PRIVACY TYRANNY

Ghoul · « **Reply #8271 on:** February 21, 2020, 10:52:44 AM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on February 21, 2020, 09:35:53 AM

FREEDOM FROM EU PRIVACY TYRANNY

Nintex · « **Reply #8272 on:** February 21, 2020, 02:07:15 PM »

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/20/us-may-be-close-peace-deal-afghanistan-here-are-3-big-takeaways/

I hope the Talibanana's get to suffer having to be present at the Trump ~~press conference~~ victory speech.

Momo · « **Reply #8273 on:** February 23, 2020, 01:48:32 PM »

Quote from: BlueLithium on February 15, 2020, 03:18:48 PM

Only thing I can think of is a load of our dirty old nonces moving to Thailand but does that count as third world?

Things are fucked man, in both Thailand and Bali pimps came up to me to offer their catalogue, and the more I would say no they younger they would go, I felt sick man.

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #8274 on:** February 23, 2020, 03:00:07 PM »

Quote from: Momo on February 23, 2020, 01:48:32 PM

Quote from: BlueLithium on February 15, 2020, 03:18:48 PM
Only thing I can think of is a load of our dirty old nonces moving to Thailand but does that count as third world?
Things are fucked man, in both Thailand and Bali pimps came up to me to offer their catalogue, and the more I would say no they younger they would go, I felt sick man.

That insistent? Lmao, you giving off bad vibes in SEA or something

team filler · « **Reply #8275 on:** February 24, 2020, 02:16:23 AM »

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1231664046954467333

Momo · « **Reply #8276 on:** February 24, 2020, 08:08:02 AM »

Quote from: OnlyRegret on February 23, 2020, 03:00:07 PM

Quote from: Momo on February 23, 2020, 01:48:32 PM
Quote from: BlueLithium on February 15, 2020, 03:18:48 PM
Only thing I can think of is a load of our dirty old nonces moving to Thailand but does that count as third world?
Things are fucked man, in both Thailand and Bali pimps came up to me to offer their catalogue, and the more I would say no they younger they would go, I felt sick man.

That insistent? Lmao, you giving off bad vibes in SEA or something

I probably look like a fuckboi to them, the drug dealers wouldnt leave me alone neither

team filler · « **Reply #8277 on:** February 24, 2020, 12:24:57 PM »

https://twitter.com/TwinklingTania/status/1231971573902430208

Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #8278 on:** February 24, 2020, 12:46:01 PM »

Trumps visit is so lit Delhi has burst into flames

Nintex · « **Reply #8279 on:** February 24, 2020, 12:58:29 PM »

https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/1231919097073422336

Trump still working hard trying to impeach himself.

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