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[OFF TOPIC] Politics Thread


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1 hour ago, NearPup said:

What kind of cheap ass solar panels does the UK use? Texas routinely gets over 40° in the summer and it’s the biggest solar power producer in the US.

Right? My town is a huge hub for solar and wind energy, and it too routinely has temperatures over 40 Celsius in the summer.

“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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8 hours ago, NearPup said:

What kind of cheap ass solar panels does the UK use? Texas routinely gets over 40° in the summer and it’s the biggest solar power producer in the US.

The ones that keep off the rain & fog.  :d

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On 6/9/2023 at 9:43 PM, Monzanator said:

@GrassmarketA globallist loser? Need some details here. I lost track of the clown show known as the UK politics :p  The Labour still can't screw this up at the next elections? :coffee:

We shouldn't but Keir Starmer is so shit I wouldn't be surprised if we did. If someone like the mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham was leader then I wouldn't be so worried. Also, people in our country have short term memory so if Rishi has a good 2 months before the election then he'll be lorded as a God.  

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“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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  • 4 weeks later...

The extrem right is growing more and more in france , they created xenophobic groups in social media ,already killed someone ...they are under the police protection like in this  video 

 

 

 

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The Dutch cabinet has fallen last week, and now in the past minutes Mark Rutte has announced he will not be his party's leader at the next elections (probably in November or so), meaning he will leave politics. In favour or against him, it is absolutely the end of an era after almost one and a half decade.

 

Interesting to see even someone like far-right populist Geert Wilders talk about him with a degree of respect. Not so much for his political views obviously, but for his overall authority and demeanor, specifically mentioning his handling of Russia's crime of shooting down the MH17 plane.

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4 hours ago, heywoodu said:

The Dutch cabinet has fallen last week, and now in the past minutes Mark Rutte has announced he will not be his party's leader at the next elections (probably in November or so), meaning he will leave politics. In favour or against him, it is absolutely the end of an era after almost one and a half decade.

 

Interesting to see even someone like far-right populist Geert Wilders talk about him with a degree of respect. Not so much for his political views obviously, but for his overall authority and demeanor, specifically mentioning his handling of Russia's crime of shooting down the MH17 plane.

So, after XX number of years Bulgaria can finally join the Schengen zone :d Just maybe

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27 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

So, after XX number of years Bulgaria can finally join the Schengen zone :d Just maybe

Do they want that though? :p I always feel like especially in the east of Europe there's a ton of countries who like to criticize everything about the EU, but then do want to end up becoming a member (for the money, one would assume) :p 

 

And about NED - BUL in this case it's at least not because of nothing, Netherlands still has a bit of an issue with the tons and tons of insurance money that a group of Bulgarians frauded us out of :d 

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Turkey say yes to Sweden to be member of NATO 

 

Expected to do an agreement in Vilnius, Lithuania. 

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66160319

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