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[MetalSlimeHunt]

British PMs: Resign because the toast was soggy.

German Chancellors: No reason to resign, the Prophecy of Fire is yet unfulfilled.

[Loud Whispers]

British PMs: Resign because the toast was soggy.

German Chancellors: No reason to resign, the Prophecy of Fire is yet unfulfilled.

American Presidents: Don't resign because soggy toast

[smjjames]

In a combination of EuroPol and wtf, the Thuringia branch of Germany's AfD apparently has a Chief Escalation Officer? O.o https://www.politico.eu/article/german-artists-build-holocaust-memorial-outside-far-right-politicians-house/ last paragraph in the article. Don't know if that's a real thing or the author inserting their views or being sarcastic. Edit: I misread it, it's the other side that has the chief escalation officer.

Meanwhile, the German government still can't come up with a compromise and with elections likely not happening until summer, Merkel is doing a caretaker government with her party and the socialists.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

There's still time for the Die PARTEI majority government, Germany! See the light!

[smjjames]

A majority with the pirate party?

Anyways, it certainly seems like it might be an end of an era for Germany (and the beginning of another one). Wonder who'd become Chancellor, that Sigmar Gabriel guy maybe?

[Loud Whispers]

Höcke’s regional branch of the AfD in Thuringia slammed the group’s actions as “an outrageous intrusion on the privacy of the Höcke family,” with a party spokesman accusing them of “stalking” Höcke’s wife and children. The activist group claims to have been staying on the neighboring property for 10 months and to have set up their own “civil” intelligence service to monitor “Germany’s biggest agitator.”
The group’s CEO (Chief Escalation Officer), Stefan Pelzer, said in a statement that if Höcke were to “take a knee before the memorial and sincerely ask for forgiveness for the German crimes during World War II, we will do what other intelligence services do: shred the documents altogether.”

Wat
y you gotta seek forgiveness for something you've not done to get information collected about your wife and daughter deleted. No john you are the agitators
smhtbqhfamalam turn 360* and vote pirates

[scriver]

But we need our secret police to monitor the fascist, LW

[ChairmanPoo]

But we need our secret police to monitor the fascist LW

Scriver confirmed as zampolit in charge of spying on LW

[Loud Whispers]

I sure hope secret police sempai notices me

[Helgoland]

Wonder who'd become Chancellor, that Sigmar Gabriel guy maybe?

*chokes partly out of laughter, partly out of fear*

[Radio Controlled]

The Age of Sigmar is coming.

[smjjames]

It was more 'first German politician not named Merkel' than an actual suggestion that he'd be the next Chancellor.

Puidgemont somehow equated Catalonia as being like Massachosetts when he said that his future hope is that Europe would evolve towards a United States of Europe with Catalonia like Massachusetts. I suppose he might be referring to the spark of the Revolution starting in Massachusetts or something, but I have no clue what he's trying to refer to or means by that. https://www.politico.eu/article/ex-catalan-leader-we-need-international-support-for-independence/

Besides, a correctly scaled analogy would be that Catalonia would be like a county in Massachosetts because Spain would be the state, not Catalonia.

A United (States of) Europe with the same level of federalization as the US or Russia would have a different structure anyway because it started out in a completely different way from the US or Russia.

Any thoughts on his comparing Catalonia with Massachosetts? Probably gonna be something along the lines of "what even is he talking about?" 

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I'd like to say that he was referencing Massachusetts' relation to the revolution, but his statement seems to suggest he just picked a US state, as in "we don't need independence, we could be just like some random American state, idk, Massachusetts".

Doubly so because that simile doesn't work. Catalonia is partly represented within a state that's part of a confederation, and Puigdemont is saying the EU can instead be a federation of which Catalonia is a member (and Spain can get fucked, I guess). Massachusetts became an independent state through war, then a confederation with the other colonies, then a federation after that didn't work out. It doesn't really work unless there's a war and then an agreement to go under a federal government and this has gotten way out of hand

It's just not a good comparison is my point.

[smjjames]

Yeah, even the scale doesn't work, Massachusetts didn't become independent from within another state and scaling the current members of the EU confederation to those of states would make Catalonia a county (or equivalent administrative subdivision) scale is the same) within Massachusetts. Same if he tried to use a province of Canada since the scale would still make it a county (or whatever the administrative subdivision is called) within said province.

[Sheb]

Not sure what you mean by scale, Catalonia with its 7.2 millions people is as large as Washington, so a bigger-than average US state.