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You're talking as if the US didn't just have 4 years of Joe Biden.
The game actually is Eastern European. The devs are from Eastern Slovakia.
There are farmer protests across Europe - notably strongest in the Netherlands. They're usually for political causes like protesting against low food prices and against environmental laws like manure regulations, stuff that limits the amount of livestock per farm, etc.
They're also hostile to causes like veganism and see themselves threatened into bankruptcy... which is why they support right and far-right parties, since they don't care about the environment and place "the economy" as its priority.
Like old fascism, these people are the less well-off among the bourgeois (owning the firm) and ally themselves with the force they perceive to make them competitive again.
genocide is not just something that happens in the past
It happened like last week too. The entire population of Nagorno-Karabakh fled the region out of fear of massacres.
[Poland/Ukraine]
Poland stopped sending weapons to Ukraine over the dispute over the Ukrainian state forcing the lifting of the agricultural import ban for Eastern European countries. Transit of goods will still be maintained, but the weapons are set to be used for domestic buildup purposes from now.
It's currently election season in Poland and Slovakia, and the local agrarian petty/bourgeois doesn't exactly want competition.
Is this the Ukrainian government's most foolish mistake since the start of the war? Pissing off their staunchest supporters?
I knew the counteroffensive was flopping, but this is some sad shit. Ignoring the various neo-nazis, I feel bad for the many conscripts sent to the meat-grinder by both armies.
[GERMANY] According to a left party parliamentarian, the socdem government is planning a new spicy budget for 2024:
Budget for :
Volountary work -26% and -21%
Prevention of ~~sexual~~ abuse of children -56% [correction - abuse in general]
Ratification of the UN Convention on disabilities -13%
Federal Agency for Technical Relief THW -10%
Federal ministry for civil protection and disaster relief -23%
Federal Centre for Political Education -21%
Humanitarian aid and crisis prevention -34%
Migration related workforce -20%
Consumer protection -26%
Federal nature protection fund -9%
Mother wellbeing centres -93%
Family recreation areas -93%
Youth centres -77%
Youth social workers -19%
Housing subsidy -16%
Educational subsidy -24%
It's hilarious how each time the socdems end up in power, they end up more neoliberal than the conservatives.
Day 1 of the electoral campaign in Bavaria, and I thought to help out the local Left Party chapter because ~~I haven't touched grass in a while~~ the local chapter is okay.
I've been called a murderer and commie swine by a big bald dude in an area with a fash problem. He just yelled and went away
I've also been approached by a very aggressive guy who was threatening me and the person I went with and kept yapping about how were paid by Russia and working for him. He made three approaches to us, but just going "uh huh" and "don't you have anything better to do?" eventually made him go away.
Also the libertarians were doing their own stuff near us, but just ignored us.
Actually, it's a result of dissatisfaction with that Government. Zelensky got popular for his reformist Plattform after all, promising among other things improved relations with Russia.
He didn't deliver, and before the war as I understand it, the popularity of "Servant of the People" was declining, as I understand it.
Polish TV said a few minutes ago the government will be deploying 10k troops on the border with Belarus. This is paired with accusations that there's Wagner camps massing on the Polish border there and that Germany is doing Putler's bidding and attempting to rig the Polish election because a CSU politician said some unflattering stuff about PiS.
Also it showed racist propaganda about how western europe has fallen to roaming gangs of black people, attacking events and doing all kinds of evil.
Meanwhile, the libs are doing their usual Poland is bankrupt and literally 1984 shtick, while calling for stuff like abolishing or massively scaling back all welfare state things the fash government created (which is keeping them popular).
This place is a fever dream and it drives me mad. It's like it's specifically designed to torture all my political sensitivities.
The Front 242 concert in München was good.... though it's their last tour.