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Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

Kurtofan posted:

this is why you finish the job

it's foibe time

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Truga
May 4, 2014
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euro election debates own lmao
https://i.imgur.com/aFhj3lo.gifv

Truga
May 4, 2014
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the far centre has been pretty radical lately, they've been pushing their agenda of moving absolutely nothing and enforcing the status quo since the last recession.

Truga
May 4, 2014
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Southpaugh posted:

When the next financial crash comes along italy is going back to being city states.

i wish

Truga
May 4, 2014
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slovenia is a bit big, but it looks like we get trieste back so i guess it's ok

Truga
May 4, 2014
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slovenian constitutional court decided a couple days ago that auto-recognition of license plates is unconstitutional for privacy reasons and thus verboten :hellyeah:

now they just have to do the same for face recog

Truga
May 4, 2014
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twoday posted:

Now a giant mob of farmers is roaming around the city setting off fireworks and blocking tram lines and making lots of noise
perfect place to start some agitprop about the big monsanto bosses stealing all their profits and govt not being socialist generous enough with subsidies, imo

Truga
May 4, 2014
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it's incredible how hard centrists work at accelerationism these days yeah

Truga
May 4, 2014
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i say swears online posted:

in c-spam arguing whether the eu or nato is responsible for world peace

not world, just the european union proper.

i mean, why go to war when you can just do some communal neocolonialism in your back yard (eastern europ) instead right?

Truga
May 4, 2014
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quote:

Members of the European Parliament voted by 582-40 for a resolution urging the European Commission,
which drafts EU laws, to ensure that EU consumers are no longer obliged to buy new chargers with each new device.
The resolution said voluntary agreements in the industry had significantly reduced the number of
charger types, but had not resulted in one common standard.
eu is gonna force apple to use usbc lmao

Truga
May 4, 2014
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Pajser posted:

he did in the 90s, then changed the name, so he didn't anymore
yeah, they went from social democratic party to slovenian democratic party.

also, listening to this again in the last couple weeks
https://udba.org/mp3/domovina/04%20-%20Imam%20se%20pod%20kontrolo.mp3

it's incredible how a 1995 song keeps being 100% relevant into the 20s lmao

call center manager posted:

idk, there were wars in Europe as recent as 25 years ago, that's a tad bit less folkloresque than ignorant prejudice

said wars are over ignorant prejudices, op

Truga has issued a correction as of 21:17 on Mar 4, 2020

Truga
May 4, 2014
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EU is dead
killed by a minor plague
https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1241717551819902977
https://twitter.com/BlackHammerOrg/status/1242151401465266182

Truga
May 4, 2014
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anyone say austerity with corona characteristics yet?

Truga
May 4, 2014
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oh boy
so we had a "yellow jacket" protest for our "country day" holiday last thursday. i guess independence day is a would be a less literal translation?

except, these people were "anti-protesters", protesting *for* the current far right govt in power, which was bizarre as gently caress, so some guys went digging: https://medium.com/@vladozlom/razkrivamo-rumeni-jopiči-so-neonacisti-ede5ac9cd63f

oops! all neo-nazis.

these guys are often seen around right winger shitheads so this isn't exactly news but lmao at trying to do the yellow jacket thing in supprot of the govt

Truga
May 4, 2014
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dutch still have an empire, they just don't do straight up slavery anymore, they just import wageslave taxes now.

spain, not so much these days

Truga
May 4, 2014
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https://twitter.com/JJansaSDS/status/1319567043218296833

if anyone hasn't known how much of a shitheap our current PM is lmao

Truga
May 4, 2014
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:laffo:
https://twitter.com/wilderko/status/1318533705753874432

Truga
May 4, 2014
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drain
the
swamp
https://twitter.com/JJansaSDS/status/1320030919990837249
https://twitter.com/JJansaSDS/status/1320030923614806018

Truga
May 4, 2014
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i find your lack of accuracy disturbing

https://twitter.com/warren_bass/status/1331043461458518021

(the guy in the pic is orban tho)

Truga
May 4, 2014
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https://twitter.com/vanfranco/status/1352319385919221761

Truga
May 4, 2014
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lmao @ thread title

Truga
May 4, 2014
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lmafo it's true op

Truga
May 4, 2014
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replying to thread title:
https://twitter.com/meme_ec/status/1361978173815197696

Truga
May 4, 2014
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i'm definitely guilty of voting for "least bad" option here in slovenia until an actual left party popped up. since they did tho, i've been voting for the socialist party every time and it owns. has 8/90 seats in the natl assembly now

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

twoday posted:

Do ballots in other EU countries also look like this?

https://twitter.com/bencoates1/status/1372167535605518338?s=20

jesus.

we get like 15-20 numbers and circle one of them and that's that. could be missing one of two numbers even if you live in bumfuck where not every party serious enough to run bothered to have a candidate

sometimes (very rarely) there's two ballots(!) if there's also a referendum or something at the same time to save some monies by combining things, but those are generally yes/no things

Truga
May 4, 2014
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twoday posted:

the reason there are so many boxes is because you can directly pick a candidate you want to be in office, not sure if it works that way elsewhere, probably not

So, say I like party #8. They have 20 candidates listed. I am allowed to fill in one spot on the paper. I vote for candidate #13 of party #8. My vote counts for party #8 in any case. But then, even though they ran 20 candidates, they only won 3 seats. When they are figuring out who to put in those seats, they look at the 3 candidates with the highest votes.

This time was the most parties ever running (38, I think?), and 17 parties ended up with some of the 150 seats in parliament (also a record).

ok yeah that makes sense, over here we just vote for party and there's only one candidate per party per district

Truga
May 4, 2014
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oliwan posted:

Give me your top 10 contemporary bands/ musical acts, and your top ten films of the last 3 years op
it's all anime, op

Carthag Tuek posted:

there's amazing music and film and literature in all countries but they don't always have a marketing juggernaut behind them

a giant thing about it is also how a lot of people know/like english now because it's on tv/radio constantly

i live in a tiny eu country, and daily radio/tv broadcast is probably 60-80% of the music/film content is some form of english, american or otherwise

otoh, the local artists that do get on tv/radio are miles better than the pop trash that arrives from overseas :shrug:

Truga
May 4, 2014
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Venomous posted:

only by white people, because Black Americans in particular are actually killing it

for example, Yaa Gyasi released two kickass novels in the past five years

similarly, N.K. Jemisin is pretty much the best science fiction writer of the past decade

there is tons of good art coming out of the US, but it sure as poo poo isn't by white people

lol wtf is this

what's true is most poo poo that goes overseas is mainstream pop culture, filed down to the bones to sell better, and that's mostly white

it's 2021 tho, you don't need to rely on broadcast media to get content. some of it is loving amazing can but rarely go mainstream for any number of reasons

there's enough music i like coming out of america, and a ton of it is still by white people, because america is a majority white country, it's just not nearly as obvious as mainstream crap

Truga
May 4, 2014
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doesn't matter

quote:

After the events of Euromaidan, the referendum was held during and after Russia's implementation of a military presence in Crimea.[2][3] The referendum is not internationally recognized by most countries.[4]
it's the old guaido playbook

Truga
May 4, 2014
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insanely funny to me how "<nation> democrat party" appears to be literally the same right wing people in any state now

in slovenia we also have "slovenian democrats" and they're orban wannabes lol

Truga
May 4, 2014
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posting from slovenia, our dumbass orban wannabes govt is trying to make it possible to privatize water (despite that being strictly forbidden by the constitution), looks like there'll be a referendum about it, which they can then ignore lmao

Truga
May 4, 2014
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lmao guy has a custom tie

Truga
May 4, 2014
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https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2021/07/11/2536461/slovenia-s-envoy-to-iran-summoned-over-pm-s-participation-in-mko-arranged-event posted:

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran said on Sunday that Slovenian Ambassador Christina Radi has been summoned to the ministry to receive an official letter of protest in response to the Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa’s “unacceptable and undiplomatic” move to take part in a virtual gathering arranged by the MKO terrorist group.

In the meeting with the Slovenian envoy, the Iranian foreign minister’s assistant and director-general of the Foreign Ministry’s department of the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe expressed the Islamic Republic’s “strong protest at the baseless allegations raised against Iran” by handing the letter of protest to the ambassador, it said.

The envoy was notified that the Slovenian premier’s participation in an event organized by a terrorist group that is abhorred by the great Iranian nation as well as his wrong and groundless remarks run counter to the diplomatic norms and to the spirit of the bilateral relations and are totally condemned, the statement added.

The ambassador of Slovenia has been also reminded that supporting a terrorist group is in violation of the UN Charter, the internationally-recognized principles, and the human rights values, and are not acceptable by any means.

The government of Slovenia has been asked to provide an explanation for the anti-Iranian move, the statement added, noting that the envoy has pledged that she would convey Tehran’s protest to Ljubljana.

Slovenian Prime Minister Jansa and former US state secretary Mike Pompeo were among speakers at a gathering of the MKO terrorist group, held in Berlin on Saturday.

lmfao

Truga
May 4, 2014
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Truga posted:

posting from slovenia, our dumbass orban wannabes govt is trying to make it possible to privatize water (despite that being strictly forbidden by the constitution), looks like there'll be a referendum about it, which they can then ignore lmao

well, the referendum ended about 2h ago, with 90% counted it's 86% against

this weekend was p. bad for turnout because a ton of people gently caress off to vacation right about now, which is probably why it was chosen specifically since at least 20% people need to vote against it for the referendum to count. turnout was still ~50% apparently so they can't ignore it lol

Truga
May 4, 2014
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the country has 2 "levels" of health insurance, "basic" that everyone has access to (either through income tax, or state sponsored if unemployed), and extra which covers "optional" poo poo like free nasal spray when you get a bad cold. not at all needed but helps a lot in getting better faster/with less pain. generally not a problem but there's edge cases like getting hospitalized and then not having access to or having to pay for expensive pain killers or some poo poo, so the extra insurance is considered mandatory anyway, and it's only 35e/month

last week of january 2020, as the corona was about to start stirring poo poo, the centrist prime minister led govt fell apart with the excuse of "i can't work like this" because iirc the left and socdems demanded termination of extra health insurance and rolling it into baseline coverage and this was somehow going to break the entire state budget.


everyone expected new elections but somehow the far right managed to form a coalition with the other right, a center, and a retiree party.

they've been trying to hang onto power but at least they're not acomplishing much because they waste too much time whining about communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.


these same jokers were in power before. they helped gently caress poo poo up royally in 2004-2008, and then again tried to govern briefly in the 2010s but it never worked out for more than a couple months because their leader is a psycho.

since then most people avoid them like a leaky nuclear reactor, but every now and then they still somehow manage to gently caress poo poo up for short periods of time. this one's lasted longer mainly because of corona lockdowns i think, not as many people on the street while there's a literal plague about. with people getting vaxxed tho, wind seems to be turning

Truga
May 4, 2014
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https://insajder.com/slovenija/blamaza-s-cestitko-trumpu-za-zmago-mu-ni-bila-dovolj-jansa-za-zmago-na-volitvah-v-nemciji

re: thread title, jansa, after congratulating trump on his un-victory, is now doing it again with the germans


lmao

Truga
May 4, 2014
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didn't the queen learn to drive and fix lorries in the army, maybe they should ask her

Truga
May 4, 2014
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germans like to play euro truck simulator, duh

Truga
May 4, 2014
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spankmeister posted:

due to some technicality, German driving licenses issued before 1999 allow them to drive light trucks

I have the same on mine where I'm allowed to drive tractors despite never having driven one, ever.

i drove tractors as a kid while visiting family a couple times, if you can drive a car, tractor is almost exactly like that, but you have the visibility of a guard tower instead of an armored car like in modern cars. also way slow

i got my license too late to get free moped and tractor licenses, but everyone who did it early enough was grandfathered in, and even now if you have a car license you only need to do the "safety at work" course to get the tractor category. mopeds were made stricted tho because people did their car license, bought a moped, and fell over in the middle of crossroads too much lol

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Truga
May 4, 2014
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:

gently caress, I have investments in eastern poland

lmao

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