World politics

Right now, we need to win against Poilievre, and Carney has a fighting chance. I think Freeland would make a pretty damn good PM, but likely won’t win against Poilievre.

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Doug Ford has won the Ontario provincial election, with a tidy majority as expected. He is free to pillage for another 4 years. At least my incumbent, from the left-leaning NDP party got re-elected, and the NDP will be the Opposition party.

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This is… kind of weird? All of a sudden, a ceasefire? From the Kurdish side? :thinking:

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[ETA] Also… this is not an unfamiliar tactic in the region when the ruling party refuses to work with the opposition… the current Kosovar PM employed them himself a while back.

From a regional, english language outlet…

https://balkaninsight.com/2025/03/04/smoke-bombs-thrown-mps-brawl-in-serbian-parliament-amid-protest-crisis/

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They reallly get into carnival around Düsseldorf… (more float fotos here)

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PROJECT THIS IMAGE OPPOSITE THE WHITE HOUSE AND MAR-A-LAGO. (this is my new motto)

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This has to be intentional, I can’t believe that no-one at the European Commission knows what goatse is.

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Yeah. My thought too. Strange context for that joke. :thinking:

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I am not sure the people who chose the war paint thing can be expected to have kept up with the past 40 years of memes.

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You’d think they’d have learned their lesson by now

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NGL, i had to look that up. Kinda wish i hadn’t. Not only because… gross, but also because it seems i am old.

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I’m surprised, I only expect old people to get it. The original was purged quite a while ago IIRC.

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I guess I’m older than that. Le sigh…

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