I got a comrade who’s over there right now, there’s a portuguese association called Red Routes that organizes groups to go visit stuff, including portugal, red tourism basically.
He just facetimed me to show me his bus going through Hanoi, pretty cool place, crazy amount of motorcycles compared to cars. Kinda regretting a little bit that I didn’t go with him.
Yes there is no reason, but portuguese people have a lot of resentment over not being “real europeans” so sometimes they pull shit like this
Your brother-in-law is a stoopid
Words of a mere provincial castilian, pay it no mind
Power is back on in some parts of Portugal. I’m getting word that apparently amidst mass suspicious of a russian attack provoked by an image of a fake news CNN Portugal article shared around whats app people were filling up supermarkets to buy non-perishables, water and toilet paper, same thing happened when covid started because of a whats app message saying covid caused extreme diarrhea.
Around me everything was pretty chill, a lot of work was canceled and it seems most people took it as a chance to touch grass and socialize, I walked around and a lot of cafes were well attended. Overall the blackout lasted 8 hours.
As for me I busted out my pirated nintendo 2ds to play kid icarus and I watched Jackie Brown. Since work was canceled today and Friday is worker day this will be a 3 day work week.
Still no power. Guess I wont be working today but also can’t ise my puter.
Also it’s 2:30 pm rn and it will only get dark at 8 pm, so plenty of time till we’re plunged into
Right now Portugal is. I mean, the center right here aren’t like texas republicans but they are cutting public services.
Not this one though so there might be some backlash
Probably can handle being ONE of its dumping grounds, but eventually it’s gonna have to say no to more people
Power outage in all of Portugal, something to do with “tension issues” in power distrolibutors (idk Im not an electrician)
I’m already hearing bazinga brains talking about PUTIN PUTIN PUTIN, wish I could line these people up in minecraft and…tell them they’re not that important
Total blackout in Portugal, Spain and some parts of France!!!
Guees who’s not working 2day 
He’d ask you about Persona 6
Tbf in the spanish civil war not every country did that. The soviets and the fascists did that. The liberal countries in fear of the fascists enforced a non-intervention policy that weighed heavier on the republicans who, because of said policy (just look at a map), had a much harder time getting aid from the soviets than the nationalists did from the fascists, even though the republic should’ve been their natural ally.
There aren’t any equivalents to the role the UK and France played in the spanish civil war in the Ukraine war honestly.
This still doesn’t mean that they were fighting as early as western claims said. But I remember when Putin was asked if some satellite images he was being shown were DPRK soldiers he said like “well if you have pictures of it that reflects something, no?”, at the time I assumed they were just koreans doing construction worked in kursk or in the donbass. Could be that the plan was always to eventually have them see some combat
Ok, I’ll do that no problem
Yesterday was Carnation Day in Portugal. I’m gonna pull a mainstream media and instead of talking about the thousands of people who marched down Liberty Avenue to celebrate, I’m going to focus only on a far-right protest that happened the same day and got pretty dramatic.
So a bunch of far-right groupings, including a small but old far-right party called “Ergue-te” (which means “Rise up”) scheduled a protest that would happen at the Martim Moniz plaza where they would march there and roast a pig, literally. Now, a lot of immigrants hang out and live there including from muslim countries so obviously this is supposed to be a provocation but, just to explain how dumb this is, if someone here is ever in Lisbon check out the plaza, it’s pretty much just a tourist spot, mostly because it’s outside a metro station and there are a lot foreign food restaurants around it, but aside from some subcontinent dudes hanging out in the garden just chilling, it’s really not that different from most of Lisbon and honestly it’s a place I always recommend to people who visit. So the whole thing is the far-right playing up xenophobic sentiments around people specifically from that region of the world, a lot of which do immigrate to Portugal for seasonal and other low-wage work.
So, because they asked for permission to protest the police had to evaluate whether they could do so safely so that the mayor’s office could approve it. At first, the police gave the ok, then when obviously they realized there would be a bunch of counter protests they backed out and gave the “Not ok”, so the Mayor unauthorized the protest. Now if this had been the far-right Chega party organizing this protest, that would be the end of it, they’d stick to yelling about how the government doesn’t even let you publicly roast a pig, they’re pretty politically astute unfortunately.
But these guys are extra crazy so they decided to hold the protest anyway, and in a rare sight, after pretty clearly provoking both the counter-protestors AND the police who were there to keep the counter-protestors from caving their heads in, well…
(CW: Police violence) Some got smacked, some got detained and some got arrested.
(CW: Hog violence) To show how blatant this thing was, here’s a clip of one of these guys caught on camera, pretty clearly infiltrating the counter-protest to start a fight and rile everybody up.
I only checked their twitters
there are so many Americans who would do this
With at least as many followers as him, I doubt it. Maaaaaaaaaaaybe Hasan and John Cena
oh please
Not so much the broader democratic party (their equivalent to the PSOE in this situation), I don’t think they have anything to learn here, but there have been plenty of situations where the Squad congressmembers have been in these situations where they could play hardball and withold their votes for something not to pass, but they have never done that
Lmao, one of the bolsonaristas chants in protests is “brazil is yellow, it will never be red” because of the flag and jersey color, it kiiiiiiinda rhymes in portuguese.
Anyway, obligatory PCdB anthem