He was minister of finance for 6 months during the peak of the Greek financial crisis.

I’m guessing he had more urgent things to do.

Fly the flag of Quebec.

I’ve listened to Mélenchon when he came to Montreal, and I’ve listened to a few of his discours online afterwards. I did not hear any of the things you’re describing. I also don’t trust the accusations you’re making because it’s exactly the kind of shit neoliberal centrists have been accusing the Left of since the Iraq War, all the while actually doing all of the same things in practice. So I’m giving LFI the benefit of the doubt in general and I’m disappointed about this in particular.

Well that’s fucking disappointing for an LFI spokesperson to be saying.

That Wenders quote is incredibly stupid. It’s like saying literature or painting should stay out of politics.

<Gestures wildly at the entirety of western civilization>

The guy should be mocked about that phrase on every occasion.

It’s Varoufakis. And yes the whole affair is extremely ridiculous.

Whataburger whataboutism whataboutit.

Your analysis focuses on the “worse off” part of the inequality equation. You are seeing “worse off” people voting far right and you’re arguing for removing that option for them.

You are ignoring the “better off” part of the inequality equation. The reason why the discourse is flooded with right wing shit is not because the “worse off” people are racists. It’s because the “better off” people want them to be racists.

See, it doesn’t matter whether today’s economy is better than in the 1990s. What matters is that today’s “better off” people have way more political power than in the 1990s. Which they use by exercising their free speech by flooding the discourse with right wing shit. Which is also why your “banning” approach just won’t work: they will just shit on you stronger and you’ll lose the next election.

The economic strategy to actually tackle fascism is not to make the worse off less worse off. As you argue, they are less worse off now than before. But that’s looking it from the wrong side. The point is to cut down the much much better off so they no longer can translate their economic power to political power.

Focus on Sauron, not on the Haradrim. Saruman, not the Dunlendings.

I don’t like Olympic bean counting.

Good luck convincing Europeans to let go of their traditional cheeses and sausages.

These guys are behaving like imperial Proconsuls, rather than ambassadors.

Impeach and remove your dictator. Then we talk.

Let’s not keep you.

You’re being flippant but the truth is that the Green party is much closer to traditional Labour values than the neoliberal shits are.

So, don’t split the vote. Vote Green to keep the fascists out.

Which is why every single Labour voter should vote Green.

European xenophobia is just fucking pathetic. Pathetic. On the one hand we make a big stink about the rules based order and liberal values. And in the other we make a mockery of all of that to appease the worst among us. Pathetic.

Ukraine doesn’t have the luxury of not being on the table when the US and Russia talk, even if both are vile jackals.

If the US and Russia were talking about reshaping balances in the Arctic, Canada cannot stand in the sidelines.

Similarly, if the US and Turkey are talking about reshaping balances in the Eastern Mediterranean, Greece cannot stand on the sidelines.

Here’s the rub:

Turkey is expected to be represented in Washington and is considered a US partner in efforts to reshape balances in the Middle East and the wider region.

If Greece aligns with the rest of Europe, they are leaving Turkey a wide open lane to “reshape balances in the Middle East and the wider region” however they like. And as Carney said “if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu”.

I didn’t make fun of them though.

That’s how you got Irish Americans