[-] PortugueseDragon@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I had no idea Anglos didn't write in cursive. It's the way everyone I know writes here in Portugal, even if some letters are changed (I write straight capital "F"s instead of cursive capital "F"s for example). Is it taught in schools but just never used?

[-] PortugueseDragon@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

I thought of the exact same thing. Deadlock has broken my brain.

[-] PortugueseDragon@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

PCP didn't "do reformism". Their "support" of the Geringonça was also never "official", as in they weren't part of the government, it was a minority government that had to compromise to make whatever they wanted pass parliament, and since it was a center-left party in power, they preferred compromise with the left. It was also only done to avoid another mandate by the center-right party (PSD who had the most votes in the election) and their austerity in the prior years. They're one of the most principled communist parties not in power and the major reason for their underperformance is precisely because unlike other reformist parties they've maintained their anti-EU stance and their opposition to Ukraine and support of countries like the DPRK and Cuba. Even the word Geringonça itself means something like "contraption", as in something that could break at any time.

[-] PortugueseDragon@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It looks to be grey like most of Africa (a darker grey than Brazil or Argentina, for example), so it might just be "no data".

[-] PortugueseDragon@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

It was also the capital of Oman for some time in the 19th century

[-] PortugueseDragon@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't know who made the map, but at least where I'm from in Portugal, growing up I was always told to take my shoes off when entering the house and I rarely see other people not take them off when entering.

[-] PortugueseDragon@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

I only got it after reading the comments here, it's Germany's flag but the black blends with the background.

[-] PortugueseDragon@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

The chorus of that song is not good with the reference to banishing Ukrainians and marrying Ukrainian women but the rest of it is a pretty good geopolitical song from the perspective of Palestine.

[-] PortugueseDragon@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

I was incredibly confused about why they were using a 19th century flag of Andorra here between France and the UK.

[-] PortugueseDragon@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

One of the founding countries of NATO was Portugal, which was under a FASCIST dictatorship under Salazar. It's always been clear what NATO is.

[-] PortugueseDragon@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

To be a real hipster, he'd support St.Pauli.

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