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21 minutes ago, Corvinus said:

Well looks like Spain had good fortune. Hopefully Italy can recover. Not the end of the world just yet.

I’m just saying, Italians love their olive oil, and given how they’ve been flirting with extreme right wing politics, a lack of it might lead the sheep to elect a lion one day.

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On 3/26/2019 at 5:57 AM, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

Maduro is bad news.  I absolutely do not want the US to intervene militarily but I really hope Maduro goes soon:

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/25/706635580/venezuelas-maduro-faces-pressure-from-much-of-the-world-yet-he-persists

 

Meh, I think if you’re view of Maduro is accurate,  we’re looking at a Caesar v Pompey situation. Whoever loses a dictator still is still going to be in control of the country. Guido has shown he has no problem in manufacturing evidence against his political opponents, or the US’ attempts to cull those who’d run on a platform that’s not the most beneficial to the US. I just don’t see a good realistic  scenario here.

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39 minutes ago, larrytheimp said:

It's 'funny' how Venezuela is such a big conversation piece, but anytime a right wing coup takes place, or there's a threat of non-democratic power transition from the right somewhere in the world, it's crickets all the way down.  

Communism + Oil = lots to talk about.

Edit... I should say Socialism.

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This is already creating disaster throughout the Caribbean and Latin America, because so much of it is dependent on Venezuelan oil.  Haiti, already in a fuel crisis that was initially precipitated by the mia president, is now having blackouts several times a day.  Other Caribbean islands are soon to be in the same situation.  This has nothing to do with either 'communism' or 'socialism.'  This has to do with embargo.

Not to mention the crises spurred in nations like Peru and Colombia by the Venezuelans desperate to flee where they might find food, medicine and work. 

Not to mention the real potential to fire armed insurrection in other countries if a buncha Venezuelan clowns outside of Venezuela get the arms from the US they are begging the corrupt oval office corporate overt occupation (COOCOO) to give them: guns, bombs, planes and tanks.  And money, of course. LOTS OF MONEY.  They get it and the entire Caribbean coastal and amzonian regions are going to be destabilized., which has only recently settled down, to a degree.  It will certainly set up new areas of drug cartel firestorms.

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As much as the European Union has bared its dire need for reforms over the course of the last years, this is absolutely amazing:

It might be from a German satire show, but bloody hell is this good! XD I actually paused to look at the superheroes of the countries. But so many are missing yet...

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42 minutes ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

What was the Belgian superhero?

I was actually confused about that one as well. His best depiction is at 0:38 (and I just noticed that there are even some in there that didn't get a name card, Switzerland for example). Is that a lollypop Belgique is carrying? I would have understood a bag of fries, but that?

I'm also not quite sure whom he is based on (given how France is blatantly Deadpool, Finland is Green Lantern, Latvia is Lex Luthor [huh?!] and Slovakia is Thor). His odd running pose might hint Flash... but if he is, then certainly a goofy Jay Garrick. Then again, a hero with a severe identity crisis might be a fitting choice instead...

I honestly also don't know on whom "Black Bird", the German dude with the sausage chain whips was supposed to be.

Edit: Ah, just found that they uploaded the heroes: https://giphy.com/search/UNITEDSTATESOFEUROPE

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1 hour ago, Toth said:

As much as the European Union has bared its dire need for reforms over the course of the last years, this is absolutely amazing:

It might be from a German satire show, but bloody hell is this good! XD I actually paused to look at the superheroes of the countries. But so many are missing yet...

I like this.. ahem "parody"

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6 hours ago, Toth said:

(given how France is blatantly Deadpool, Finland is Green Lantern, Latvia is Lex Luthor [huh?!] and Slovakia is Thor).

I didn't watch the video but if you're gonna use a supervillain for Latvia shouldn't it be Dr. Doom?

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38 minutes ago, DMC said:

I didn't watch the video but if you're gonna use a supervillain for Latvia shouldn't it be Dr. Doom?

I don't know about that. Has Doom's country been vaguely Eastern European? Seriously, I have no idea there...

My surprise was more that they chose a villain in the first place. Though I just noticed that Lithuania seems to also have gotten Magneto's stupid helmet. It would be surprisingly clever if former Soviet republics are portrayed as reformed villains, but Croatia, Slovakia and Estonia don't seem to follow that pattern. Romania is even flat-out Vampire Batman because that joke was low-hanging fruit I guess.

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2 minutes ago, Toth said:

Has Doom's country been vaguely Eastern European? Seriously, I have no idea there...

Well, my joke was Doom rules "Latveria," which is pretty damn close to Latvia.  I'm very much not an expert on the comics and such, but wikipedia says Latveria is a fictional place imagined to be around Serbia.

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Finally, in neighboring Slovakia, the presidential elections that concluded last weekend showed that liberals can also play the outsider politics game. Slovakia’s first female president will be Zuzana Caputova, an environmental lawyer and political newcomer who ran on a pro-EU, anti-corruption platform. Her rapid rise was fueled by public anger and mass protests over last year’s killing of an investigative journalist and his fiancée. The far-right’s candidate was defeated in the first round of voting two weeks ago. In the runoff, Caputova defeated a veteran diplomat who made a last-ditch attempt to appeal to far right voters and paint her as an “ultra-liberal” for her support of gay rights. It didn’t work, and her election bucks a trend in the region after recent right-wing victories in Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Poland.

With closely watched elections coming up this year in Ukraine, Israel, and India, not to mention next year in the United States, these examples are worth keeping in mind. Would-be authoritarians often stumble not because they are overthrown in a mass uprising, or are impeached, but because they’re not very good at the normal tasks of governance, fail to deliver to the people who put them in power, or lose to opponents who simply have better arguments to make about the future of their countries.

 

Liberalism Shows Some Signs of Life

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/turkey-brazil-hungary-and-slovakia-authoritarian-populists-setbacks.html

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Algeria’s longtime dictator just resigned amid massive protests
Abdelaziz Bouteflika is the fifth Arab leader removed from office by public demand since 2011.

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, a dictator who has been in power for two decades, has stepped down.

https://www.vox.com/2019/4/2/18292586/algeria-resign-bouteflika-protests-election

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The monumental announcement, reported by Algeria’s state-run media on Tuesday, comes just one day after he vowed to abdicate by the end of April.

It’s a massive victory for the many Algerians who have spent weeks protesting his rule — and they had every reason to want him gone.

 

 

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3 hours ago, Martell Spy said:

Algeria’s longtime dictator just resigned amid massive protests
Abdelaziz Bouteflika is the fifth Arab leader removed from office by public demand since 2011.

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, a dictator who has been in power for two decades, has stepped down.

https://www.vox.com/2019/4/2/18292586/algeria-resign-bouteflika-protests-election

 

It's so immature, but the spelling of his last name just makes me think Booty-flicker. Though his capacity for inappropriate behaviour is severely limited.

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suffering a stroke in 2013 that left him paralyzed and basically mute. He’s in such bad shape that he hasn’t made a public speech in seven years.

 

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More of this please, Universe.

Rhino poacher killed by an elephant and then 'devoured' by lions

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A rhino poacher is believed to have been attacked by an elephant and then eaten by a pride of lions during an incident in South Africa’s Kruger national park.

Police brigadier Leonard Hlathi said police received information that a group of men had gone into the park on 1 April in order to hunt rhino, “when suddenly an elephant attacked and killed one of them”.

“His accomplices claimed to have carried his body to the road so that passersby could find it in the morning. They then vanished from the park.”

Hlathi said the group of men left the park and informed a family member of the deceased what had happened, who contacted police. Park rangers began a search for the man, on foot and by air, but could not locate the man at first due to failing light.

Rangers and police returned on 4 April and were able to find the man’s remains in the Crocodile Bridge section of the park.

“Indications found at the scene suggested that a pride of lions had devoured the remains leaving only a human skull and a pair of pants,” 

 

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On 3/29/2019 at 3:51 AM, larrytheimp said:

It's 'funny' how Venezuela is such a big conversation piece, but anytime a right wing coup takes place, or there's a threat of non-democratic power transition from the right somewhere in the world, it's crickets all the way down.  

Huh I could have sworn I responded to this. It is sickening to read articles from people pushing the US to get more involved or lambasting those who say the US military shouldn’t get involved in Venezuela because they tend to act like they’re so concerned about human suffering. Most from I seen list various crimes Maduro has done, but almost always only slip in that Venezuela is largely  important because of it’s oil reserves, and perhaps other economic and political factors that don’t sound really humanitarian-well after they’ve showcased Maduro to be a monster and why people are wrong to suggest the US shouldn’t get involved. 

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On 3/10/2019 at 5:37 PM, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

Was Maduro blocking aid, or not?

I have to ask, why do you think that would be unreasonable? The US has been openly hostile to his regime, and didn't actually try to work with the Venezuelan government in this venture. If they were truly serious about only distributing aid they would've allowed the Venezuelan government to at least check the convoys for weapons.  There was no show of actual good faith here. Theres a reason why the red cross and UN and other relief organizations were opposed to this. It's little more than political theatre at best.   It's not just as if Maduro hasn't allowed  any foreighn aid into the country, Maduro has allowed the Red cross to operate in Venezuela in helping give aid to Venezuelans. The difference between the RC and the US is that the former was clearly working in good faith.  While the latter never attempted to co-operate even a little and has a history of using the pretense of delivering aid to a country to smuggle weapons to those they want to be in charge of said country. 

Seriously, the entire operation was spearheaded by Henry Abrams who literally has used the guise giving aid to a country to smuggle in weapons to right-wing dissidents in it before. 

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So it looks like Bibi got reelected.  With 96% of the vote in, the major opposition party Blue and White got the same amount of seats (35) but right parties outperformed left leaning parties.

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These results give the right and religious bloc 65 seats, while the center, left and Arab parties have 55.

Jeebus.  Er, Holy Moses.

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