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Also the dirty owl is right, Italy is a fake 'country' made up of a million different Hill and Valley peoples who all hate each other bitterly. It's like 'Germany' in that way

I've only been to Sardinia, but I can highly recommend it, great nature and beaches, the food is hardy and pastoral, lots of goat cheese and heavy pasta dishes. One standout dish was Zuppa Gallurese, which is a stew/lasagna based on bread soaked in a rich broth and baked with tonnes of cheese. Their limoncello is also insanely good.

We did have the advantage of an italian friend who's from there and we rented a car to drive around the island which made things a lot smoother, so your mileage might vary, but check out some of the farm-restaurants and the old castles if you get there.

Is his uncle like a 4 foot tall railroad tycoon in a comically oversized tophat or something

:ultra-keir-starmer-in-a-maoist-beret: "I welcome the Starmer proposal to minecraft all the leftist elements in the party, but I call on them to go further. We must root out even the soc-dems and the lib-dems, perhaps even the slightly left of centre technocrats. Even the right-wingers in favour of modest social spending should be cast out."

Sounds the same as in Denmark, parties aren't really accountable to anyone but the party leadership and since advancement inside the party is based on nepotism and ass-kissing, no-one rocks the boat too much when leadership decides to pivot.

It's just wild to me sometimes that there's no real way to do something like a vote of no-confidence among rank and file members, outside of the party getting their status/funding revoked by the state on account of not receiving enough votes. (Of course the lib response is to 'change it from the inside if you don't like it', but that runs into the same issue again: if the internal party structure and culture promotes sycophants and weasel behaviour, nothing will change)

And now I realize yet again that I'm basically just rehashing what is to be done in a confused and less eloquent manner

Liberal politics is a fuck

and various crackpots, the most interesting is probably Ástþór Magnússon, who is running for the fourth time. He has this aura of madness around him and has had grand plans to turn Iceland into some center for international peace. He has always talked against any kind of warfare, especially the Iraq war. But is now especially unpalatable to most because he takes the side of Russia in its conflict against the west and has even suggested that Putin get the Nobel peace prize for the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. Maybe it's because he has a Russian wife but who knows

Don't political parties in the UK have some sort of charter or something that could be used to keep leadership accountable to their core values or can people just hijack them for whatever purpose? Like it seems so weird to have a party called Labour actively working against the interests of the working class.

I'm sure you're just giving liberal politicians too much credit by assuming that they aren't just craven slugs, willing participants in the hollowing out of society for profit. They don't believe things will get generally better from privatization, they believe things will get better for them specifically.

Now why the average liberal voter believes in this shit, it's probably just a mix of unconscious anti-communism and unexamined big-brain centrism that dictates that going to far either way would be too 'extreme' so a 'mixed' economy is by definition the best.

I'm sure they got that juche in them, but I also think public works projects just move very slowly here, there's only like one metro line in Hanoi for almost 9 million people and I don't think they've even completed the first one in Ho Chi Minh City yet after 12 years of construction.

Not that I can really point fingers, the Copenhagen metro began planning in '90, construction in like the mid 90's and the first line wasn't done until 2002 after something like a doubling of the budget and years of delays.

Yeah I'm sure Putin is calling up all the retiree-age ex-soviet gladio fighters to instigate the global proletarian revolution