Arguably it bought Europe a half a year.

Not American, so feel free to stop reading.

It’s ridiculous to me how you yanks go from zero to a hundred like this. Either normality or civil war. Like there is no in between? You have an authoritarianism problem. So resist authoritarianism. What makes you think that the only way to resist is shooting people? Resistance is a spectrum, and you have barely started using democratic means to fight back (you just started electing democratic socialists), much less active procedural and institutional warfare (is Bernie demanding a vote for every procedural point requiring a vote? Are the Dems actually using any rat fucking tactic to make the state ungovernable? Are your local and state governments really resisting beyond making angry noises?). You have barely tried non violent resistance (not the same as peaceful!) but you’re such a violent culture that you jump straight to military solutions. Wtf. Those come at the very end, if everything else has failed. Has it? Nowhere near. So this talk about civil war, is that really useful?

If the media does not specifically ask every conservative spokesperson that goes in front of a mike whether they consider this message to be incompatible with CPC policies, then I don’t know what the media is for frankly. The CPC made a statement here. Hold them to it.

Cancel the Von Der Leyen deal.

Elect conservatives get stupid policies.

Stoxos is literally a bunch of Nazis.

Not confusing anything. In between Lausanne and the decolonization of Cyprus, there is zero tension between Greece and Turkey. Once decolonization from the British started, the rest was a deteriorating cascade, and yes, the history is basically as you describe it. But at the time of NATO accession (1952), the countries had enjoyed 30 years of basically the best calm they’ve ever had.

Excellent :D

Don’t pretend this is the opinion of the average Canadian.

Nobody said that. Don’t get defensive here, buddy. The point is exactly that our elite is pretending to be virtuous, while balls deep in the situation. Pitfalls of liberal nationalism and all that.

Unions are a tool of the working class in the class struggle. Not sufficient for socialism, but kinda necessary.

You know what that’s called, right? It’s class consciousness. When people’s power fantasies are union organizing, that implies there is a degree of cultural hegemony going on and that’s pretty neat.

Sure but the Right feeeeels like it hasn’t and the vibes of the Right are always more important than reality, so take that leftoids.

Not pork though 😏

No souvlaki for you.

Turkey has a standing, legislated Casus Belli threat against Greece excercising its rights under UNCLOS. It claims “grey zones” in the Aegean and wants to revise the sovereignty of Greek islands, including inhabited ones.

The two countries haven’t been at war but the threats of war have been a staple for decades

No, they weren’t? It was 1952, 3 years before even the Cyprus conflict started.

David Bowie - I’m Afraid of Americans

OK edgelord.

People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

As we now live in the era of actual fascists, it’s inadvisable to throw around the world as a term of disparagement. The Carney Liberals are conservative but they are not fascist.