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Good News: Populist defeats left wing communist in Slovakia
Posted on 10/2/23 at 7:49 am
Posted on 10/2/23 at 7:49 am
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As you can imagine, the media is labeling the winner a "Putin puppet" because he doesn't want WW3 with Russia
As you can imagine, the media is labeling the winner a "Putin puppet" because he doesn't want WW3 with Russia
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Former Prime Minister Robert Fico’s leftist-populist Smer party won Saturday’s election in Slovakia after promising to stop sending weapons to Ukraine, to block Kyiv’s potential NATO membership and to oppose sanctions on Russia.
With 98 percent of ballots counted in the country of 5.5 million people, Smer had 23.4 percent of the vote, ahead of the liberal, Western-oriented Progressive Slovakia by nearly seven percentage points and almost 200,000 votes. The election winner gets the first chance to form a majority in the 150-seat parliament.
Fico’s campaign has raised alarm across the Continent amid fears that he will shift Slovakia to the anti-Ukraine camp alongside Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Fico has taken a very pro-Moscow stance, vowing to end arms deliveries to Kyiv and opposing sanctions even as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine continues after a year and a half.
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Posted on 10/2/23 at 7:52 am to burger bearcat
Adding Slovakia to the list of places to escape this hell to.
On the list now with Poland
On the list now with Poland
This post was edited on 10/2/23 at 8:05 am
Posted on 10/2/23 at 7:53 am to burger bearcat
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leftist-populist Smer party
Populism is leftist.
Posted on 10/2/23 at 8:09 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Populism is leftist.
A leftist party beat out a more leftist party? I don't think the writer knew what they were talking about or we just really don't understand the titles used over there.
Sorta like "Republican Guard" with Saddam's goons. Or other attacks the media used to try to associate various murderous regimes around the world with "right wing".
Regardless, if this group is against WWIII, I am good with that.
Posted on 10/2/23 at 8:12 am to burger bearcat
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As you can imagine, the media is labeling the winner a "Putin puppet" because he doesn't want WW3 with Russia
"Anyone who doesn't want to see more dead Ukrainians is LITERALLY sucking Putin's dick."
-A NeoCon's guide to arguing about the Ukraine war
Posted on 10/2/23 at 8:20 am to burger bearcat
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the media is labeling the winner a "Putin puppet" because he doesn't want WW3 with Russia
The media loves muh democracy until it doesn’t go their way.
Posted on 10/2/23 at 8:21 am to burger bearcat
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Slovakia
Has gorgeous women
Posted on 10/2/23 at 8:24 am to GhostOfFreedom
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A leftist party beat out a more leftist party? I don't think the writer knew what they were talking about or we just really don't understand the titles used over there.
“Populist” normally means leftist.
In the US, “populist” means “Orange Man Bad” and they are writing this through that lens IMHO.
Posted on 10/2/23 at 8:32 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Populism is leftist.
Thr main 2 forces in the world right now are globalists and nationalists. There is some crossover within the right/left spectrum on both of these positions.
But most importantly, globalism must be defeated. From there, each country can sort out how they want their governments to be setup, some may want to be more free-market conservative, and some may want to have bigger welfare nets and be more socially liberal. For now, the most important thing is for countries to start to become untethered from the UN, EU, WEF, and NATO globalists,
Posted on 10/2/23 at 9:45 am to burger bearcat
So this is where we go to dodge the camps?
Posted on 10/2/23 at 9:46 am to burger bearcat
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With 98 percent of ballots counted in the country of 5.5 million people, Smer had 23.4 percent of the vote, ahead of the liberal, Western-oriented Progressive Slovakia by nearly seven percentage points and almost 200,000 votes. The election winner gets the first chance to form a majority in the 150-seat parliament.
Lololololololol
You don't think that remains 2% is going to tilt this?
Posted on 10/2/23 at 11:12 am to RogerTheShrubber
lmao. Populism is not a political ideology, it's rhetoric. You can be a populist and have a political ideology, but populism is not exclusive to anyone. Donald Trump ran a populist campaign in 2016. So did Bernie. They both spoke nearly the same way, just with different targets.
Posted on 10/2/23 at 11:13 am to udtiger
Slovakia isn’t a third world country like Zimbabwe or Detroit.
Posted on 10/2/23 at 11:22 am to teke184
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Slovakia isn’t a third world country like Zimbabwe or Detroit
True...but neither is the USA
Posted on 10/2/23 at 11:24 am to udtiger
The USA has some third world countries within its borders, like Detroit, Atlanta, Phoenix…
Posted on 10/2/23 at 11:25 am to teke184
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The USA has some third world countries within its borders, like Detroit, Atlanta, Phoenix…
Also true
Posted on 10/2/23 at 11:28 am to Rule 303
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Populism is not a political ideology, it's rhetoric.
Populism is where a bunch of failed individuals blame those more successful for their own failures.
Looking for government to improve your life is a shitty way to traverse this world.
Posted on 10/2/23 at 12:46 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Populism is leftist.
Here’s a gif that ought to cheer you up.
Posted on 10/2/23 at 1:30 pm to burger bearcat
Slovaks are nothing more than canceled Czechs.
Posted on 10/2/23 at 1:35 pm to deltaland
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Has gorgeous women
My assistant for a while was Slovakian. She was a true 10. She always turned heads.
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