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Author Topic: The friendly and polite Europe related terrible jokes thread  (Read 1104660 times)

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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1560 on: April 03, 2016, 11:56:16 am »

Not to mention Germany as it is exists just fine despite the scars of the east-west divide. You can practically feel the air change in Berlin itself as you're walking around. So far as I know they've not come to blows over that sudden cultural diversity.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1561 on: April 03, 2016, 12:47:54 pm »

You can trace Merkel's refugee-accepting anti-wall stance (and her economic stances) straight back to growing up as a child in East Germany, with the Berlin Wall, living under communism with the Stasi spying on everything and everyone, and finally experiencing its economic collapse and the fall of the Wall.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1562 on: April 03, 2016, 01:02:53 pm »

Obviously Jewish article.
It won't just settle on slandering you but wants you to pay to even see the slander!
Hitler did nothing wrong.

I assume you are just shitposting, right?
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1563 on: April 03, 2016, 01:03:39 pm »

And that's a prime exemple of why I don't like the open shitposting in this thread.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1564 on: April 03, 2016, 01:05:12 pm »

No, he's been brainjacked by Tay.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1565 on: April 03, 2016, 01:56:43 pm »

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You can trace Merkel's refugee-accepting anti-wall stance (and her economic stances) straight back to growing up as a child in East Germany, with the Berlin Wall, living under communism with the Stasi spying on everything and everyone, and finally experiencing its economic collapse and the fall of the Wall.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1566 on: April 03, 2016, 01:58:47 pm »

I assume you are just shitposting, right?
Ye.
Though the question "why Yiddysh" was legitimate.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1567 on: April 03, 2016, 02:25:29 pm »

@LW: As you imply, theres still the problem of the replacement rate being below the replacement level, which is mainly due to the aging population (baby boomers) and other factors. So, really, you guys DO need some immigration, just not in that amount.

As for the whole cultural thing, yeah it would be assimilation, but it sort of looks more like a battle of attrition at this early point because the migrants in general aren't assimilating into the cultures of the various countries for various reasons. It's also possible for elements of the other culture to seep into the main (NOT talking about sharia here), but that takes time and generations.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1568 on: April 03, 2016, 02:52:30 pm »

@LW: As you imply, theres still the problem of the replacement rate being below the replacement level, which is mainly due to the aging population (baby boomers) and other factors. So, really, you guys DO need some immigration, just not in that amount.

The hit from having an aged population is temporary, but it's not something any country on Earth is going to be able to prevent. Only postpone. It's the inevitable result of the demographic transition. Flinching away from the blow now will only make it worse in the future, but it's already well established that very few people actually care about the future.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1569 on: April 03, 2016, 05:41:22 pm »

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un equipo de más de 370 periodistas de un centenar de medios de 76 países ha estado analizando más de 11,5 millones de documentos internos del despacho de abogados panameño Mossack Fonseca, considerado uno de los cinco mayores registradores mundiales de sociedades 'offshore', especializadas en la evasión de impuestos.

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"A team of 370 journalists from more than a hundred media enterprises has been analyzing more than 11,5 millions of confidential documents from the firm of the Panameñan lawyer Mossack Fonseca, regarded as one of the five biggest offshore society registerers, specialized in tax evasion



Brand news: it will likely take some time for this to get out to other countrie's media, but in Spain, a group of journalists has ended up uncovering a group of highly dubious "offshore companies" (you know the sort) that involves people from ALL OVER THE WORLD, including

- The King of Arabia and the crown prince.
- The sister of the King of Spain (senior)
- Both Vladimir Putin and the current president of Ukraine  (???)
- Leo Messi
- Jackie Chan
- The president of Iceland, as well as several ministers
- the son of Kofi Annan
- Several British MP


http://www.elmundo.es/economia/2016/04/03/57015f96e2704e830c8b45ad.html
http://www.eldiario.es/economia/implicada-trama-sociedades-fiscales-Panama_0_501500186.html
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1570 on: April 03, 2016, 05:43:21 pm »

- Jackie Chan
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1571 on: April 03, 2016, 07:14:38 pm »

English language source.

The Unaoil thing, now this. Corruption seems to be running out of places to hide.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1572 on: April 03, 2016, 07:17:26 pm »

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/03/472889872/massive-document-leak-reveals-offshore-accounts-of-world-leaders

NPR  article on it. Soooo many people are in for a shit storm.

Only 2 billion Putin?
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1574 on: April 03, 2016, 07:39:44 pm »

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/03/472889872/massive-document-leak-reveals-offshore-accounts-of-world-leaders

NPR  article on it. Soooo many people are in for a shit storm.

Only 2 billion Putin?
No one as rich as he is would be dumb enough to put all of his ill-gotten money in one account.
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