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Controller of a vast Maltese network of diplomats and secretive organisations.
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@TheAleksee @OregonMapGuy Rural (but formerly home to some industry due to its proximity to rivers before the advent of electricity), German-speaking, and denominationally split about 50:50 due to a bizarre Lebanon-esque religious power-sharing agreement during the reformation.
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okay this canton is awesome
1971: 57% SP 🔴
1975: 65% SP 🔴
1979: 82% SVP 🟢
1983: 92% SVP 🟢
1987: 86% SVP 🟢
1991: 54% SP 🔴
1995: 84% SP 🔴
1999: 86% SP 🔴
2003: 67% SP 🔴
2007: 56% SP 🔴
2011: 62% BDP 🟡
2015: 52% BDP 🟡
2019: 63% BDP 🟡
2023: 43% SVP 🟢
OregonMapGuy, IQ 277@OregonMapGuy
This Canton votes overwhelmingly Socialist in the 90s
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@OregonMapGuy This may look goofy but it's just because they only have one seat in parliament. So PR effectively becomes a one-round FPTP vote and only two candidates run.
This combined with very strong Swiss incumbency advantage (basically guaranteed unanimous reelection) explains everything.
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Say THANK YOU to French-speaking Switzerland for bailing out this chud ass country for the 500th time everyone.
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The programme is obviously supposed to be the Rundschau but you can only tell because they wrote it out in the background, the studio is often all wrong.
The celebrity is a generic white guy in a suit with grey hair. My guess is UBS CEO Ermotti, or maybe a federal councillor?
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They're currently running a Swiss version of those scam ads with famous people getting dragged away at talk shows on here, but the AI is clearly not trained well enough on Swiss TV or Swiss celebrities so you can't even tell who it is they're trying to impersonate lol
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I've been playing 007 First Light and it's great!
Interestingly the main collectible is (Eastern) Swiss playing cards. I thought maybe that was a bizarre bit of country-specific localisation, but apparently James Bond is somehow connected to Swiss playing cards in the novels??
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Predicted future tl event: Online chud controversy and Elon Musk meltdown over Wikipedia editor consensus to label Iran war outcome "strategic Iranian victory" despite Vance insisting that it's somehow a massive negotiating success for the US (lol)
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@tombruhcks love the ominous foreshadowing from the poster in the background lol
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The Left Party in Germany adopted this name during the height of internet growth despite it not being a possible domain name.
chris / strutheo@Vestboy_Myst
booking.com shouldn't be allowed to keep using "booking.yeah" as a slogan if they aren't willing to host even a simple page there for the people curious enough to go look
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@left_plain Read it in French a while ago and no to all of these. A lot of it is about the world at the time of the Commune, so he doesn't really contribute a lot of new stuff. At the very end he lists some legacies of the commune and briefly cites Jiang Hongsheng's dissertation on Shanghai.
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over/under on anything about the New Caledonia/Kanak uprising, Ho Chi Minh's French education, Saionji Kimmochi, the '45 Trot Saigon commune, the presence of a late Qing eyewitness to the siege, the direct citation of its legacy in Yan'an & Shanghai?
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Kersplebedeb@kersplebedeb
(NEW!) The Paris Commune: A Global History leftwingbooks.net/products/the-p… The Paris Commune as world revolutionary event and laboratory for republican and socialist ideas.
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@CatRedFront @dougburzum the post I replied to literally mentioned it four times??
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@dougburzum @CatRedFront Social Democrat -> Mixed-member proportional with majority bonus
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@CatRedFront WHICH VOTING SYSTEM YOU SHOULD SUPPORT BASED ON IDEOLOGY:
Liberal -> Preferential
Communist -> FPTP
Anarchist -> Plurality block
Fascist -> Proportional
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@Hanasaku_Yuri And I'm not even much of a language learner! Just a regular Swiss guy with some Dutch family and a little more exposure to French than the average German Swiss. And I get five-ish languages just off that! Kind of crazy.
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@Hanasaku_Yuri Explaining my 4+ answer: Swiss German, German, English, French and Dutch.
So four or five depending on if you count Swiss German separately (which, considering Swiss diglossia and the lack of full mutual intelligibility with standard german maybe you should?)
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FOLLOWER POLL:
How many languages do you speak at *at least* a B1 level?
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@psychicautomata @gamergate2077 Honestly surprising that Silvio Gesell never became a bigger deal among online cranks. This is basically one of the main components of his odd monetary theory.
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@gamergate2077 replace universal money with multiple currencies is hilarious lmao
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4 of the 7 policies listed here were carried out by Nazi Germany lol.
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@ettingermentum You gotta respect how the post-credits Albanian citizenship ceremony scene perfectly set up the comedy spinoff starring Eric Adams
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The 2025 New York City mayoral election
Aki🏳️⚧️@aki_st4rz3
has a show ever not fumbled its finale?
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