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Here hare here?Are you taking the piss or do you really not know it is “hear, hear”?
Ooh, I do love a good quote from Withnail...
Here hare here?Are you taking the piss or do you really not know it is “hear, hear”?
Ooh, I do love a good quote from Withnail...
Are you taking the piss or do you really not know it is “hear, hear”?
That is a recurring problem, seen in the US Democrats and the British Labour. "The center cannot hold; the best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity." Apparently center parties, in a period of normalcy, promote and encourage uncharismatic wonks, who are then ill-equipped to battle a corrupt fascist movement.From here in Italy, following the brief election campaign, it seemed that the Democratic Party was convinced they would lose, could not be bothered to do much about it. They completely lack the ideas and the personalities to capture the imagination of the voters. You got the feeling that winning or losing was all the same to them. On the other hand Meloni has intelligence, energy and "balls," knows how to talk to a crowd and make an impression. She is also "new" and a woman. The great problem will be the clowns she will have to put into her government, a few fascist nostalgics, certainly, but also the incompetent and the corrupt.
So the problem is not Meloni, but the others who should have been there and were not.
Are you taking the piss or do you really not know it is “hear, hear”?
History is slowly and surreptitiously revised to suit the purpose of the fanatic fringes. Think BrExit or Trump. And educate people as little as possible so that they can be more easily manipulated…I’m not sure what’s happening any more, I cannot understand why there is such support for these parties and their polices given what history has taught us , are we doomed to repeat previous failures every few generations?.
Drood is taking the wiz. His brain is almost Talosian-like in its power.
Joe
To which another tutor replied:In 1930 Hitler and the Nazis got 18% of the vote.
In 2022 in Sweden the Sweden Democrats got 20.5% and in Skane 30%
In 2022 in Italy (if exit polls are accurate) the Brothers of Italy party got 27%
Seriously scary times
Have to say that being part of that tutors forum has completely disabused me of the idea that the OU is overrun with radical lefties, but that post is as blatant a defence of the far-right as I have seen.Well I am delighted that Europe is starting to grow up and stand up against left wing liberalism and looking to protect some of its heritage.
This is nothing to do with imperialism, or expansionism just simply providing security for its children
Nice exchange on the OU tutor forum today:
To which another tutor replied:
Have to say that being part of that tutors forum has completely disabused me of the idea that the OU is overrun with radical lefties, but that post is as blatant a defence of the far-right as I have seen.
And it comes from a comfortably off, well-educated man, who faces precisely zero threat to his way of life.
Scary times indeed.
Then they came for OU tutors
And there was no one left
To speak out for them
Nice exchange on the OU tutor forum today:
To which another tutor replied:
Have to say that being part of that tutors forum has completely disabused me of the idea that the OU is overrun with radical lefties, but that post is as blatant a defence of the far-right as I have seen.
And it comes from a comfortably off, well-educated man, who faces precisely zero threat to his way of life.
Scary times indeed.
Italy seem to have an election every year so at least the current situation can change.
As always, you cannot really understand a country until you live there. Holidays & work visits never give the full picture.
Wow you must be really old.Looking like Meloni is going to win well in Italy. Restoring national pride - I remember somebody saying that before in the 30s
Neither did Mussolini.I m predicting Meloni will not march through Europe. But I guess thats not breaking news