World Politics

[Your Pretty Brains]

So Ireland is going through another parliamentary shitshow it looks like? :/

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics...unprecedented-and-chaotic-scenes-in-the-dail/

 

[Ashling92]

So Ireland is going through another parliamentary shitshow it looks like? :/

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics...unprecedented-and-chaotic-scenes-in-the-dail/

This is probably a bit overblown, in my opinion.

Basically, in a nutshell:
- After our election last year, the government is going to be another coalition government, with the same two main centre-right parties, plus some independents to make up a majority.
- There is a rule that independents can form a 'technical group' in the Dáil (parliament) and get speaking time in opposition.
- However, some of the government-supporting independents want to both support the government and also be in a technical group with speaking time as the opposition. Which is a joke, because you're either in the government or not.
- Sinn Féin, the biggest opposition party, as well as other opposition parties, decided to cause chaos in the Dáil yesterday and delay the proceedings to nominate a new Taoiseach (prime minister). Which I think they were right to do, because that was the only way the government were actually going to pay attention to the issue.

It seems like the issue is being resolved today and the Ceann Comhairle (basically like the speaker of the house?) has finally come to her senses and said that the government-supporting TDs should not be given opposition speaking time. At least that's the latest news.

If that goes ahead as planned, the Taoiseach will be nominated, and we'll go back to having the same centre-right government before. And nothing will fundamentally change, yay! (That's sarcasm)

 

[michaelhird]

How this cretin is now just casually popping up everywhere is terrifying.

 

[cleggar]

At what point are governments going to step in and class him as a national security threat? He’s not even elected for anything!

 

[New Flame]

So Belgium finally got a new federal government. It took them more 239 days. Surprisingly, the most racist party didn't win as much as everybody thought they would last year and they unexpectedly weren't the biggest party. I guess I should be happy about that. Although the party I voted for isn't part of the coalition, I hope this new government won't mess up. Belgium as a country is quite complicating, but weirdly I found some comfort in that.

 

[beautifulmorning]

At what point are governments going to step in and class him as a national security threat? He’s not even elected for anything!

At what point does he have that conversation with Trump where he tells him that he got him into office and he can take him out of it? Elon has pissed off the big wigs including Steve Bannon. With all the deporting, can’t they deport Elon… like deport him to outer space or something?

 

[Hyrulian]

AfD (Nazi party) completely romped German elections, nearly doubling their support and becoming the second biggest party in the Bundestag. Yikes.

 

[UncleDeSeanAli]

AfD (Nazi party) completely romped German elections, nearly doubling their support and becoming the second biggest party in the Bundestag. Yikes.

They are very close to the conservatives (28,5% conservative, 20,6% Nazi). But the Left party also jumped to an impressive 8,6% after a big internal conflict just last year.

Young people voted 25% Left, 20% Nazi. Which coincidentally also reflects what the strongest parties are on TikTok.

 

[Square]

We need to kill them

 

[Conan]

We need to kill them

That Romeo-survey was total bollocks. It was public, so anyone could have voted and it's widely suspected that it was misused by AfDlers. There was a much more reliabe study done by a university according to which less than 3% would vote AfD. That's obviously still 3% too much, but at least way below the GP-average (20%).

 

[Hudvar]

These gays that somehow don't think the leopards will eat their faces next.

 

[Square]

That Romeo-survey was total bollocks. It was public, so anyone could have voted and it's widely suspected that it was misused by AfDlers. There was a much more reliabe study done by a university according to which less than 3% would vote AfD. That's obviously still 3% too much, but at least way below the GP-average (20%).

Yes god

 

[Your Pretty Brains]

"Homo-nativist" is such a scream of a descriptor, and God forbid that contingent grabs onto it and starts using it dghfghfksl

 

[craiggci]

It really is going from bad to worse everywhere. As the world is verging on WWIII, we're not safe in New Zealand either.

The Government are feeding literal melted plastic to school kids, though that won't last long as today the company providing these vital (if disgusting) school dinners to children living in poverty went bust.

Destiny's Church, a registered charity, that is actually a hate gang have been becoming more and more vocal and violent at pride events and drag story times. Assaulting a 12 year old at a library and performing a haka at Wellington Pride. The leader calling for pride protesters to be arrested for indecent exposure to 'protect the children'. This week we learned that the New Zealand Police were sending young offenders to this group for therapy. In what I can only assume is the indoctrination of the next generation of terrorists.

Our PM is looking into the 'the woke' thanks to the coalition partner Winston Peters, who is campaigning on anti-trans rhetoric we've seen in the USA and elsewhere.

Sex education is now removed from school programmes.



Our conservation land and oceans and sensitive ecosystems have been approved for drilling, mining and pillaging. I don't know why. Most of our energy in NZ is renewable. Well I do know, becasuse profit.

Our PM just announced a way for investors to buy in to NZ with remarkably similar premise to Trumps 'gold cards'.

It's all going to hell everywhere and I just don't know what to do anymore. I feel so stressed about it all and totally helpless.

 

[Your Pretty Brains]

Oh shit, former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has been arrested for crimes against humanity.

...

The ICC has been investigating mass killings in crackdowns overseen by Duterte when he served as mayor of the southern Philippine city of Davao and later as president. Estimates of the death toll of the crackdown during Duterte’s presidential term vary, from the more than 6,000 that the national police have reported up to 30,000 claimed by human rights groups.

The ICC arrest warrant, seen by The Associated Press, said “there are reasonable grounds to believe that” the attack on victims “was both widespread and systematic: the attack took place over a period of several years and thousands people appear to have been killed.”

...

 

[devilpray]

It's crazy how obvious it is that Uruguay now has a center-left government. Ever since this government took office, X has only been recommending me tweets from people saying this government is going to be a disaster. Several politicians and ministries are being hacked by far-right groups, and in general, any content on social media that isn’t aligned with a fascist view is being heavily limited. Hmmm.

 

[Ashling92]

Suddenly Israel’s timing makes more sense.


This world is so FUCKED. Imagine carpet bombing children to postpone your trial. (And also because they want to continue their genocide and had no issue breaking the ceasefire to do so)

 

[Lander]

Suddenly Israel’s timing makes more sense.


This world is so FUCKED. Imagine carpet bombing children to postpone your trial. (And also because they want to continue their genocide and had no issue breaking the ceasefire to do so)

I hope this evil cretin has a slow, miserable death.

 

[Trinu 3.0]

What in the dystopia

 

[Catalyst1]

Yeah, I'd feel safer with a Glock, an AR-15 and a ton of ammo to be honest.