What happened to Europe?

[BvBPL]

Europe is into The Final Countdown, whereas America is ridding A Horse with No Name.

 

[warpus]

What happened to America?

The English, French, and Spanish came over and built a bunch of towns, displacing the local population in the process

 

[Oerdin]

Fruit aisle logic, much?
You do get that... how do i best put it?
Your degrees are junk.

That may hold up for Greece, Cyprus and southern Italy.
Spain and Portugal though have real disadvantages that are not a matter of culture (you know, geography, Spain's population distribution for starters).

Let me be lazy and file this here:

Spoiler :

Sidenote:
I happen to have a new Federal President by chance who is outright refusing to congratulate your President. He's calling him a "hate preacher" instead.
That's a very specific term in our political culture, previously used virtually exclusively to label islamist preachers who condone violent jihad and terrorism.
This class has now been extended, by the weight of the Federal Presidency to include 1. islamist preachers who condone violent jihad and terrorism and 2. The President of the United States.

Any questions?
No? Ok, i think we're done here.

Well, your new President also is a denialist about the Armenian genocide because he is an unethical man whore for the Turkish dictator. So I think I know exactly how much weight his opinion is worth.

 

[metatron]

Well, your new President also is a denialist about the Armenian genocide because he is an unethical man whore for the Turkish dictator. So I think I know exactly how much weight his opinion is worth.

Well, he felt that the vote you are refering to was basically a censure, arguably one of Turkey today, rather than a mere aknowledgement.
Not "offending" people is sort of his thing. Which makes his repudiation of Trump all the more stunning.

 

[Farm Boy]

It's kind of one of the trendy things to do. Which isn't surprising, seeing as how his base is regarded. And you know, it being Trump. Whoopie Goldberg, btw, is still really ridiculously sexy. Rwar.

 

[aelf]

It's kind of one of the trendy things to do. Which isn't surprising, seeing as how his base is regarded. And you know, it being Trump. Whoopie Goldberg, btw, is still really ridiculously sexy. Rwar.

Ah, the dillemma of being a champion for Trump's support base and disliking Trump at the same time.

 

[Mise]

Life comes at you fast.

 

[Farm Boy]

Sort of how it goes with most the Democratic politicans too, Aelf.

 

[Kyriakos]

Unified Germany happened. Proving again that following ww2 it should have been fully annexed to neighboring countries + part of it used to set up Israel there.

 

[Oerdin]

Well, he felt that the vote you are refering to was basically a censure, arguably one of Turkey today, rather than a mere aknowledgement.
Not "offending" people is sort of his thing. Which makes his repudiation of Trump all the more stunning.

Bah, that is his excuse after the fact but he shilled every which way to help his Turkish authoritarian pal. All he is doing now is trying to ride the public opinion wave against Trump. I don't think a single thing he has said is genuine and that he is just another cynical politician doing what cynical politicians do.

 

[innonimatu]

In only Roosevelt had lived out his last term...

 

[Kyriakos]

That may hold up for Greece, Cyprus and southern Italy.
Spain and Portugal though have real disadvantages that are not a matter of culture (you know, geography, Spain's population distribution for starters).

Ehm, there was a grand total of one coup here, lasted for 7 years. Not sure how that makes Greece "less democratic as a culture" than... Germany of all places. Those in glass-roofed Reichstags shouldn't throw stones.

 

[Lexicus]

In only Roosevelt had lived out his last term...

Elaborate?

 

[innonimatu]

I liked his plans for dealing with post-war Europe. Not going to elaborate further.

 

[Lexicus]

Oh ok. That says enough, I wasn't sure you were being sarcastic or not...

 

[innonimatu]

We might even have avoided the worst of the cold war. But the past is the past.

 

[REDY]

What do you think about Schulz? Hes becoming very popular in Germany, main perspective chancellor candidate against Merkel. I am really worried, hes the worst of worst.

 

[CavLancer]

Any plan for Europe that left Stalin in Poland and Czechoslovakia was a bad plan.

 

[EnglishEdward]

What do you think about Schulz? Hes becoming very popular in Germany, main perspective chancellor candidate against Merkel. I am really worried, hes the worst of worst.

That question inspired me to take a trip to wikipedia:

Schulz is widely considered an ardent EU supporter. He has hailed European unification as being civilization's greatest achievement over the past century. In 2014, however, he argued it was also essential that responsibility was delegated away from Brussels and down to national, regional and local authorities, allowing the EU to focus on the big issues.

The latter sentence makes sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Schulz#cite_note-27

As a result of Schulz's pro-Europeanism, both supporters and detractors have linked him with the slogan "MEGA" – "Make Europe Great Again" – as a parody of Donald Trump's
"Make America Great Again".

This is hysterically funny.

 

[Kyriakos]

What do you think about Schulz? Hes becoming very popular in Germany, main perspective chancellor candidate against Merkel. I am really worried, hes the worst of worst.

He is almost literally a vermin.