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[smjjames]

Just wondering out of curiosity whether it's mostly an American thing or it happens elsewhere, is it common for your politicians (especially those running for top office) to release their taxes before election?

[scriver]

Nope. Here in Sweden, because of the Publicity Principle, almost all state information is public, including taxes. So it's already available.

[hector13]

AFAIK a number of central/eastern European countries criminalise the whole nazi thing because nazi war crimes were kind of a big deal around there. Elsewhere the impact is less direct so there's not really any point in cracking down on it.

Scotland is far enough away that the only reason for the dude to be arrested is some moral busybodies getting offended.

Police Scotland have certainly got form for looking like Orwellian ratbags.

Police Scotland also took 3 days to investigate a fatal car crash. Either this is because they're entirely incompetent - in which case the tweeters have nothing to worry about - or the tweets take precedence.

[Orange Wizard]

Just wondering out of curiosity whether it's mostly an American thing or it happens elsewhere, is it common for your politicians (especially those running for top office) to release their taxes before election?

In NZ (which isn't Europe, but we're close to Australia, which is close enough) politicians don't release tax information because nobody cares.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Don't want to pollute the eurovision thread with too much politics.

It is funny how something as minor as some song contest can be a very major event for a small nation. Crimean Tatars needed it. Eurovision winner fame is short but it still results in media attention.

[miljan]

Eurovision Song Contest 2016 - Recap of ALL Songs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATrI8ES0tRg
Rant on:
From all the song, only 3 or 4 fucking countries are not singing on fucking english. Fucking disappointed.
Rant off

[Orange Wizard]

What's wrong with English? It's lingua franca. The language of everyone.

E: Speaking of Eurovision:

Spoiler: Warning: polandball (click to show/hide)

[Antsan]

I'm always surprised of how many people actually neither speak nor understand English. In a first world country where it's part of the school curriculum.

[Loud Whispers]

Refugees gonna cost Germany 100 gorillion shekels by 2020)


My sides have started their own space program

How do I always underestimate these things

[Sergarr]

Refugees gonna cost Germany 100 gorillion shekels by 2020)


My sides have started their own space program

How do I always underestimate these things

Officials based their estimates on 600,000 migrants arriving this year, 400,000 next year and 300,000 in each of the following years, the report said, adding that they expected 55 percent of recognized refugees to have a job after five years.

45 percent official (i.e. very optimistic) expected unemployment among recognized refugees

oh wow

also lol @ tide of refugees not decreasing to zero, even in official estimates. The gates of Elysium have been opened, and people now will eternally flock to the source of:

The report said that 25.7 billion euros ($29.07 billion) would be needed for jobless payments, rent subsidies and other benefits for recognized asylum applicants by the end of 2020.

benefits

also:

Another 5.7 billion euros would be needed for language courses and 4.6 billion euros would be required for measures to help migrants get jobs, it added.

I see no indoctrination & forced patriotism courses in this budget

where are the indoctrination & forced patriotism courses

it's the only way to make immigration actually work, as evident by USA's being the only country which allowed massive immigration and didn't get fucked up as a result

there's a reason why they force children at school to sing USA's national anthem every single day

[Loud Whispers]

We give forced progresiv courses, the USA does too

Also implying that they are not hard working factory technicians is haram please chekc yourself

[Orange Wizard]

>implying the US isn't fucked up

[Sergarr]

>implying the US isn't fucked up

>trasmitting this message through a USA-developed global communcation network and on USA-developed computer technology

seems like someone is not appreciating the POWER OF USA enough

10 more forced patriotism indoctrination sessions for you!

[TheBiggerFish]

there's a reason why they force children at school to sing USA's national anthem every single day

Pledge of Allegiance != National Anthem.  But yeah.

[Loud Whispers]

there's a reason why they force children at school to sing USA's national anthem every single day

Pledge of Allegiance != National Anthem.  But yeah.

We all see through Obama's ruse to capture the souls of American children, thanks to Sputnik bastion of freedom news