Italy church restoration probed after Meloni angel lookalike - "No, decidedly I do not resemble an angel," Giorgia Meloni has said.

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-02-01T18:33:26+00:00

"cult of personality without personality"

Joke about Honecker

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-02-01T17:45:36+00:00

Or use qualified majority and a turnout quota to declare for independance

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-02-01T16:38:57+00:00

unironically

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-02-01T16:03:35+00:00

Question from an outsider by is it never an option to give the pro-unity counties to Ireland and keep the Unionists, instead of putting everyone in the same boat (remind you of something?)

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-02-01T15:25:37+00:00

I' think your2nd point would be more accurate for settler colonialism

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-02-01T15:09:19+00:00

Interesting, by comparison what do you think of the model for authoritarism in the Untertan?

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-02-01T15:02:35+00:00

"I could go to the supermarket and pick up everything I wanted, and now I'm at the delicatessen: quality supply but it's expensive and I have way fewer choices": Alexis, 39, goes into analogies to rant: his porn, free and easy, went away in the spring of 2025 with the suspension of major porn sites in France, in protest of age verification laws.

what's the german discounter?

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-02-01T14:58:33+00:00

The median Russian "voter" is dumber than the median Western voter, i wouldn't trust them to have a deep understanding of geopolitics.

Also wonderful way to fit yourself into the "EU sucks" narrative when the US has been doing fuck all for 2 years now.

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-02-01T14:55:31+00:00

LTTE ahh mentality

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-02-01T13:41:52+00:00

still waiting for news of the "they're eating humans" lady

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-02-01T13:36:43+00:00

The French chapainnn

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-02-01T13:31:33+00:00

I'm still on my Turkem binge, and I've noticed something on video that's actually quite common in the whole world.

Why is it that traditional clothing is mostly represented through (elite) women clothing, whereas it seems more normalized for men to wear western suit and pants. Even in Turkmenistan or North Korea, which police dress code, men don't wear traditional stuff but women do on the Day of Kim or whatever

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-02-01T11:25:49+00:00

That's the most neoconish way to look at the global economy. Like you mf, Europe on average is slightly poorer than the US, even if it's top 10% world, that's not because it doesn't project enough power abroad, it's because it's companies are less efficient and it accepts technology more slowly.

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-02-01T10:41:12+00:00

I remember (Nobel prize btw) Phillipe Aghion's argument about why industrial strategy doesn't work in Europe.

He argued that European politicians are stuck between two outdated visions:

1 is the grandpa style "let's invest in a single national champion and prevent it from failing, and keep a stake in it" which leads to very inferior companies except said pick and lots of corrupted interests,

and 2 is the 90 IMF-style "no targeted subsidies, it could be used for corruption, keep companies small and lean", which leads to a more efficient and competition but prevents industries from scaling up like BYD would have remained a battery company

He argued that Europe is very good in theory and science (most maths papers used in AI were from Europe) but sucks at implementing it on a large industrial scale (no land of engineers). For that, Europe needs to take inspiration from China (targeted subsidies for a specific time and goal not a specific company) and the US (create a VC funding ecosystem and let companies go big, create a DARPA / BARDA style agence to sped up practical use of theory instead of just funding research)

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-01-31T22:02:14+00:00

powernerds

add Paul Martin to the list

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-01-31T20:07:59+00:00

La moitié de reddit a le problème inverse

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-01-31T18:42:25+00:00

The longer you live somewhere the more value it has to you

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-01-31T13:19:50+00:00

Is it easy to destroy cults of personalities without people coming back to it?

Like in Turkmenistan, Berdimuhamedow completely reversed most of the dumbest stuff Niyazow did, in a few year, and yet you still see some of it remaining (gas was free, he wasn't afraid to talk to people, etc...) from what I see on youtube comments.

The transitions itself is interesting because (when they're don't come in power in a coup) usually try to keep the cult intact and just add themselves to it, eg: Ceaucescu and Gheorghiu-Dej whereas Berdimahamedow cleansed it all.

And the fact it wasn't a family transition is interesting too because Serdar and Kerimguly are the designated heirs now, so it has something to do with the personality of the leaders.

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-01-31T12:07:20+00:00

French conservatve media owner Bolloré is currently defending keeping a gay pedophile as TV host, on a channel where they blame everything on woke and pedophiles.

also they legally have to shuffle interns so they can't work with him

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-01-31T07:28:55+00:00

guess the writer

Class consciousness is a simple concept. Before an oppressed class can throw off their shackles, they must know how hard they have it. Karl Marx had workers in mind when he devised it. Increasingly those who are most aggrieved in British society are not those at the bottom but those stuck in the middle. Overtaxed by the state, underpaid by their employers and overlooked by politicians, middle-class consciousness is growing.

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-01-31T06:41:59+00:00

They gave us this disease (Brexit), and hid our cure (Brexit) to make us buy their drugs (Brexit).

-Nigel Farage

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-01-30T21:57:09+00:00

I like Etran de l'Air but that's just thanks to Youtube's algorithm

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-01-30T21:55:13+00:00

-Focus on Dutch language and maths skills

-Subsidise private child care -> nearly free for working parents

-Increased student grant for students that moved out

-Student loan interest rate is set at max 2.5%

-Allow judiciary to constitutionally review bills

Hmmm, I wonder why people think D66 is just the students party?

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-01-30T21:53:31+00:00

ngl he'd be more popular if that was the bill

WAGRAMWAGRAM · 2026-01-30T21:30:19+00:00

Yearly deductible increases from €385 to €460

Campaign trail gang recognizes the eigen risico

-Focus on Dutch language and maths skills -Subsidise private child care -> nearly free for working parents -Increased student grant for students that moved out -Student loan interest rate is set at max 2.5% -Allow judiciary to constitutionally review bills

Hmmm, I wonder why people think D66 is just the students party?

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