Germany's Merz secured enough votes to become chancelor

As the ballot was secret nobody knows who the SPD members who dissented in yesterday's vote were, regardless enough of them buckled and voted for him anyway.

They're probably trying to articulate a way to say that this is bad for china

The portuguese Liberal Initiative party just had a congress, apparently there's a "Mileist" faction in the party vying for power by explicitly upholding dead dog thought

So corny, "afuera" isn't even a word in portuguese

Hog is very common

Pretty weird but apparently someone polled german journalists on which party they support and here is the breakdown by party

Nazi party of german nazis and fascists (Green Party): 41%

No party: 23%

SPD: 16%

CDU: 8%

Linke: 6%

FDP: 3%

Other parties (I guess this includes the AfD): 2%

BSW: 1%

There's been a perfect example of Pre-Privatization and liberal hypocrisy in Portugal this week.

So we got a new center-right PSD government earlier this year, this week during a "Future of Media" conference the prime minister announced that RTP, the national public broadcaster, will gradually no longer have advertising on it until the total removal of ads in 2027, which would mean it would lose 6.6 million euros in revenue in the next 3 years.

Now, in theory, this could free up the channel from commercial influence and market shit, in practice all this means is that in a few years there are gonna be EVEN MORE calls to fully privatize RTP because it's not making any money.

This is functionally the same as when Orban takes over the public broadcaster or some shit, because once RTP is sold to some media conglomerate, it's obviously going to shift right, and serve its funders' interests, but of course there's not a peep from EU institutions about this.

And it's not like RTP today is some leftist or even center-leftist institution, for example in the news segments (the "telejornal") there's been plenty of "Passive Voice" shit when reporting about Palestine, and they have some pretty shitty anchors and guests too. But at the same time there's a lot of series, documentaries (both left and right) and cultural products that just would not get funded on other channels, if RTP gets privatized we'd see even less portuguese cultural production.

Funnily enough at the same conference, the PM also asked for journalists to be "more tranquil" and then complained that journalists ask him questions that they hear in their earpieces instead of asking what they want, which he's being made fun of for (not by me though, because I genuinely hate journalists)

Should mention that on the whole the RTP has like a bunch of channels and radio stations, and also turned a profit last year while the big private media channels didn't

Here's a clip of the portuguese communist party's Avante Festival that took place over the weekend.

And some photos

Holy shit they are so fucking stupid, holy fuck I can't believe this is real news

Yeah fuck the communist party of venezuela I'm convinced there's something very very wrong with its central committee.

So in Portugal a journalist from "Radio Observador", the radio branch of the online right wing publication Observador, an outlet known for never having turned a profit but still getting funding due to its role in promoting right wing ideas in the country's discourse, said that someone from the PCV left THEM OF ALL PEOPLE a note saying, and they quote, "the portuguese communist party are our brothers, but you think you know venezuela better than us?", due to the party having congratulated maduro instead of appealing for intervention.

The journalist could be speaking figuratively or just lying, but then it would be pretty weird to put that note part in quotes making it look like a citation.

Also ironic that this outlet, who never invites the communist party to anything finally found space in its website for communist ideas, they just had to be ideas that align with impearealism.

In fact a whole lot of people from the far-left especially and to the far-right, who don't give a flying fuck about the IMCWP communist parties like the PCV (and just call them stalinists or whatever) suddently love this party and use it to legitimate their own pro-interference position. Really shows how fucked of a statement the PCV put out if ANYONE can quote it to be like "see see, we should keep sanctioning this country".

Obama telling Joe to quit will either be the final nail in the coffin or motivate biden to play the spite card and stay in the run

This is unironically what should happen to some of these war watchers

Fethishizing violence is the easiest way to identify a childish leftist