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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #4995 on: February 28, 2017, 12:59:42 pm »

It is also a more or less accurate translation in the video, besides a one or two subtitling reductions I didn't like.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #4996 on: February 28, 2017, 04:30:17 pm »

Oh! And while I remember, I thought it might be an opportune time for some perspective. Namely, it is now 31 years since prime minister Olof Palme was assassinated. While recent years have been worrying, embarassing and enlightening, I must say that the great, Trump-brand peril being quite efficiently marketed is somewhat over-stated, all together. It is not unwarranted questions, nor is it an unwarranted attention, but one would think that the whole of the North was in danger of falling apart at any given moment. Well, at least such it is when-ever it is Trump that has set the current tone.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #4997 on: March 01, 2017, 06:31:51 am »

Baby step, but we're getting something that is looking like the embryo of a EU military HQ. The 30-strong " Military Planning and Conduct Capabilities" will apparently be in charge of commanding EU training missions in places like the Central African Republic.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #4998 on: March 01, 2017, 06:38:43 am »

What's even the point of a military when the only capable country just up and left? All they'll be able to train them at doing is surrendering and/or how to get other people to do your fighting for you.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #4999 on: March 01, 2017, 07:32:32 am »

Well, I wouldn't call Le Pen "doing well", she's still forecast to loose the second round by a lot. And I don't think Wilders would actually take the Netherlands out of the EU. It's one thing for the UK to do it, but the Netherlands, not being an island is much more integrated. It simply doesn't make sense.

I'm also unfamiliar with that Phantom Zone. I assume it's that place great ideas goes?

In other news: French candidate Fillion refuse to suspend his presidential campaign. He earlier had vowed to do so if he was indicted in the Penelopegate thing.
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« Reply #5000 on: March 01, 2017, 07:55:47 am »

That reminds me of a story that was on ABC TV (Australia's) MediaWatch show, this was a 90s thing. A local Murdoch-owned paper had run a story by an "independent research group" which proved that smoking doesn't cause cancer.

Well, how independent were they? It turned out that the main funders of the independent group were Rupert Murdoch and Phillip Morris corporation, and all the "researchers" who worked there were spouses of local conservative politicians.

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« Reply #5001 on: March 01, 2017, 09:34:18 am »

I'm also unfamiliar with that Phantom Zone. I assume it's that place great ideas goes?

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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #5002 on: March 02, 2017, 07:53:39 am »

In more sverige news, US journalist Tim Pool posted on his twitter about getting escorted out of Rinkeby after several men put on masks and started following his crew. Pool claims that a local police officer mentioned it was better if they left, and that groups were gathering and getting agitated after seeing his filming equipment (they were carrying sizeable filming equipment). He says he was escorted out of the district by police. While swedish police did say people got agitated when Pool started filming, with several young men pulling up their hoods and shouting at them, they have disputed Pool's claim of him being escorted out by police.

While Pool's claim is disputable, Rinkeby is a suburban area of Stockolm thats recently became a focus for riots, car burning and such things, seemingly over political comments in regards to Sweden's immigration policies. Some Rinkeby locals claim that the riots are the work of the same group of 30~40 people, and not the suburb's population in general, and while police is usualy quick to respond when called, it is unusually sluggish in its response when riots are taking place.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #5004 on: March 02, 2017, 09:02:45 am »

Are men allowed in the army yet in Sweden, or is it still a bastion of women only?
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #5005 on: March 02, 2017, 10:21:58 am »

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Sofia Hultgren, who turns 17 later this year and thus could be drafted in coming years, said many young Swedes viewed lengthy careers as military professionals as something odd and old-fashioned.
"I think many see it as something lame, something your father did, when there are so much other fun things to do," Hultgren, a student, told Reuters.
Still, she welcomed the reintroduction of military service and said she would consider such training even if she did not want to make it a career.
"I think this can give a feeling of comfort. Conscription strengthens our defense when we see so much ugliness in the world," she said.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #5006 on: March 02, 2017, 12:07:09 pm »

...And not a bloody buggery day too soon! It was awfully silly to get rid of it in the first place.

Now. There is an explanation for it. If you remember the nineties, it is likely that you recall a strange zeitgeist of disarmament running through it, after the fall of the Soviet union. This ended up running away absolutely uncontrollably in parliament, along with migration. Since there was no enemy at the time, they reasoned, why keep an expensive standing army? It was re-orientated from a national defence force into a professional army trained for foreign service, such as in Afghanistan. Conscription, which since the early nineties was effectively voluntary, was abolished as part of it. Of course, now the dastardly Russians have ruined their plans by asserting themselves again, and they need to reverse twenty odd years of cutbacks, scrapping and reduction.

It is baby steps in the right direction, at least. There has been a few of those, recently. One can only hope. It is difficult to see how it will all turn out, but it is an admission, of a sort. It, along with the restricted migration policy, rather feels like an admission that the world that they envisaged failed to turn up, and that it is time to return to the one we are currently in.

Related to that, why, I am sure that all glorious, superior British teenagers are all thrilled and excited about a military career, and have no other prospects in mind but an officer's life, for the good of the realm, as opposed to the decadent degenerates of other lands... All a chav truly want is a uniform and a officer's commission, I am sure.

In more sverige news, US journalist Tim Pool posted on his twitter about getting escorted out of Rinkeby after several men put on masks and started following his crew. Pool claims that a local police officer mentioned it was better if they left, and that groups were gathering and getting agitated after seeing his filming equipment (they were carrying sizeable filming equipment). He says he was escorted out of the district by police. While swedish police did say people got agitated when Pool started filming, with several young men pulling up their hoods and shouting at them, they have disputed Pool's claim of him being escorted out by police.

While Pool's claim is disputable, Rinkeby is a suburban area of Stockolm thats recently became a focus for riots, car burning and such things, seemingly over political comments in regards to Sweden's immigration policies. Some Rinkeby locals claim that the riots are the work of the same group of 30~40 people, and not the suburb's population in general, and while police is usualy quick to respond when called, it is unusually sluggish in its response when riots are taking place.

I am unsure. American sources are what they are, currently, and I am quite certain that he might have spiced the incident up somewhat for some extra meme-appeal. The street thugs tend to dislike open film crews, it seems, so it is likely that it did happen, but I doubt that it was to the degree that the police had to personally escort them out and then lie and claim that they did not.

Further, the recent Rinkeby-disorder was caused by an arrest, rather than as a political re-action. It is the usual flash-point for disorders in these areas, one of those people is put under arrest, and his friends effectively throw a tantrum.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #5007 on: March 02, 2017, 12:15:43 pm »

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Sofia Hultgren, who turns 17 later this year and thus could be drafted in coming years, said many young Swedes viewed lengthy careers as military professionals as something odd and old-fashioned.
"I think many see it as something lame, something your father did, when there are so much other fun things to do," Hultgren, a student, told Reuters.
Still, she welcomed the reintroduction of military service and said she would consider such training even if she did not want to make it a career.
"I think this can give a feeling of comfort. Conscription strengthens our defense when we see so much ugliness in the world," she said.
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Well, it's the French judiciary, not the EU per se. The parliament just lifted her immunity, letting the French justice system go on with the charges, which is apparently standard procedure for the EP. I wish they'd press the embezzlement charges, this "publishing violent images" law is dumb as fuck.

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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #5008 on: March 02, 2017, 01:16:16 pm »

So are they just blatantly making an excuse to jail their most serious ideological opponent, or is there more to this? The fact that the incident in question happened more than a year ago doesn't make me think so.
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« Reply #5009 on: March 02, 2017, 01:17:42 pm »

Well, my bet is that the prosecutor will then drop the charge, like the previous time. Worst case, it'll just be a fine and nothing will change anyway.
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