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[OFF TOPIC] Politics Thread


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16 minutes ago, dcro said:

Why would president call people to boycott yes/no question? If anything sounds anti-democratic, then that would be president doing that.

Because the referendum had a clause that said there had to be a 50% turnout for the vote to be valid! Ultimately they ignored that rule anyway!

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So basically:

 

Macedonia changes it's name --> people lose their shit because sensitive etc

Macedonia doesn't change it's name --> people lose their shit because sensitive etc

 

What a wonderful situation they've got for themselves once again there.

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2 hours ago, dcro said:

Why would president call people to boycott yes/no question? If anything sounds anti-democratic, then that would be president doing that.

not to give legitimacy to referendum

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1 hour ago, bestmen said:

after the politic crizis :ITA / :FRA

 

another starts :ITA / :SLO  

Salvini  :mumble:

 

Oh my god! A nationalism based government having problems with governments of other nationality’s! :yikes:.

What are the odds!

“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela

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the italian government is extrem right means agressive/provokative  , they tried to help 'les gilets jaunes' in France 

and 

Slovenia accused European Parliament president Antonio Tajani and Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini of historical revisionism Monday over statements they made at a ceremony commemorating Italian victims of World War II massacre

 

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12 hours ago, bestmen said:

after the politic crizis :ITA / :FRA

 

another starts :ITA / :SLO  

Salvini  :mumble:

 

Really disappointed no one has tagged @hckosice in this post till now. :rolleyes:

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remember: Europeans escaping to africa and Egypt and Algeria and Tunis during the WW1

 

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the rest here

 

 

 

 

 

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