Politics & Stuff

[cosmicway 1,333]

In Greece the MAGA, brexit equivalents were dead for some 25-30 years.
We exclude the commies who of course wanted a Greek "brexit" after their own style.
Whatever remained was in the sphere of romance and the late king Constantine never accepted to have any relations with them, so the old junta fanciers died.

The circus started life again in 1999 when an Albanian student, Odysseus Cenai, was allowed to carry the Greek flag in a national parade as he was the top of the class.
From that moment they started again, now with a purely racist platform - nothing to do with either the communist danger or the trade unions.
Now the Mitsotakis party is the strongest among the political parties and the left are nowhere.
With Mitsotakis we have mean austerity measures again and he is losing some points. But all those points he is losing go to the extreme right who are well on their way to reach 20% all of them added together. No percentage points go to the debunked socialists or the left.
As for the commies they stand at 8%. Sometimes a bit higher because some leftists who think the left wing party of Syriza is not left wing enough make the journey back to the mother ship.
The only ones who are relatively happy now are the blackies.
 

 

Edited September 12, 2024 by cosmicway

[cosmicway 1,333]

Debate effect:

Trump 1.80, Harris 2.00

From 1.72-2.20.

 

 

Edited September 12, 2024 by cosmicway

[robsblubot 3,595]

42 minutes ago, cosmicway said:

Debate effect:

Trump 1.80, Harris 2.00

From 1.72-2.20.

 

 

More serious numbers only by next week, and still irrelevant given that they fight for a small sliver of people in the battleground states. 

"This is one of the tragic things about our political system, that they needed to convince a small sliver of the most checked-out voters in the states that actually matter. I mean, this is no way to run a democracy, but it is what it is." by Michelle Goldberg (NYT podcast)

[Vesper 30,103]

1 hour ago, cosmicway said:

Odysseus

SPEAK, MEMORY—

Of the cunning hero,
The wanderer, blown off course time and again
After he plundered Troy's sacred heights.

Speak

Of all the cities he saw, the minds he grasped,
The suffering deep in his heart at sea
As he struggled to survive and bring his men home
But could not save them, hard as he tried—
The fools—destroyed by their own recklessness
When they ate the oxen of Hyperion the Sun,
And that god snuffed out their day of return.

Of these things,

Speak, Immortal One,

And tell the tale once more in our time.

By now, all the others who had fought at Troy—
At least those who had survived the war and the sea—
Were safely back home. Only Odysseus
Still longed to return to his home and his wife.
The nymph Calypso, a powerful goddess—
And beautiful—was clinging to him
In her caverns and yearned to possess him.

 

[cosmicway 1,333]

33 minutes ago, Vesper said:

SPEAK, MEMORY—

Of the cunning hero,
The wanderer, blown off course time and again
After he plundered Troy's sacred heights.

Speak

Of all the cities he saw, the minds he grasped,
The suffering deep in his heart at sea
As he struggled to survive and bring his men home
But could not save them, hard as he tried—
The fools—destroyed by their own recklessness
When they ate the oxen of Hyperion the Sun,
And that god snuffed out their day of return.

Of these things,

Speak, Immortal One,

And tell the tale once more in our time.

By now, all the others who had fought at Troy—
At least those who had survived the war and the sea—
Were safely back home. Only Odysseus
Still longed to return to his home and his wife.
The nymph Calypso, a powerful goddess—
And beautiful—was clinging to him
In her caverns and yearned to possess him.

 

Cenai got a phd from MIT later. Maybe he is teaching there I think.

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[Vesper 30,103]

should get these for a x-mas prezzie for Cosmic

all the cool kids are wearing them

[Fulham Broadway 17,306]

15 hours ago, cosmicway said:

The only ones who are relatively happy now are the blackies.
 

What ?

[Fulham Broadway 17,306]

Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, on Friday called Australia's centre-left government "fascists" over proposed legislation to slap fines on social media firms for failing to prevent the spread of misinformation online.

 

 

[Fulham Broadway 17,306]

 

[IMissEden 21]

7 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, on Friday called Australia's centre-left government "fascists" over proposed legislation to slap fines on social media firms for failing to prevent the spread of misinformation online.

 

 

Like people with immigration concerns are called racist. Quite stupid isn’t it 

[Fulham Broadway 17,306]

1 hour ago, IMissEden said:

Like people with immigration concerns are called racist. Quite stupid isn’t it 

Whats that to do with slapping fines on Social Media liars ? 

[cosmicway 1,333]

2 hours ago, Fulham Broadway said:

What ?

Racist. But reds you use is also racist.

[Fulham Broadway 17,306]

9 minutes ago, cosmicway said:

Racist. But reds you use is also racist.

Not sure what that sentence means -care to elaborate ?

[Fulham Broadway 17,306]

Its like One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest here sometimes