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Image is of a crowd protesting in Athens.


Last week, on Friday, hundreds of thousands of Greeks poured into the streets to strike and protest on the second anniversary of the deadliest train crash in Greek history, in which 57 people died when a passenger train collided with a freight train. On this February 28th, public transportation was virtually halted, with train drivers, air traffic controllers, and seafarers taking part in a 24 hour strike - alongside other professions like lawyers, teachers, and doctors.

The train crash is emblematic of the decay of state institutions brought about from austerity being forced on Greece in the aftermath of the 2008 Great Recession, in which the IMF and the EU (particularly Germany) plundered the country and forced privatization. While Greece has somewhat recovered from the dire straits it was in during the early 2010s, the consequences of neoliberalism are very clearly ongoing. Mitsotakis' right-wing government has still not even successfully implemented the necessary safety procedures two years on, and so far, nobody has been convicted nor punished for their role in the accident. The austerity measures were deeply unpopular inside Greece and yet the government did not respond to, or ignored, democratic outcry.


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Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

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https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Leftist podcasters taking piss out of calling z-man dictator do be annoying, how the fuck a person outlawing political parties he don't like (including (chuddy) communists) (and pro russian is not fucking excuse, they are parties not militant movements, allegedly democracy allows for parties being elected who pursue different foreign policy), arresting them on treason if they criticize him, and extending his rule by pure fiat is not a dictator. And american prestige honestly citing 57 percent approval rating is just lmao.

[–] Leegh@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I already said this a couple of weeks ago, but it's funny how libs made fun of former President Yoon of South Korea for trying to do back in December what Zelenskyy has been successfully doing for the last 3 years.

Yet libs have no problem with Z-man doing it.

[–] Hermes@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Liberal's Advocate: Z not holding elections is way less entertaining than the circus around the Yoon coup attempt. Even here, people are way more interested in the Yoon coup because it was such a mess, I remember looking through the pile of jokes about it when it was happening. Z not holding elections is just boring, I barely see anyone talking about it, let alone making jokes.

[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ukraine continues to be a litmus test for leftists even after three years

[–] SupFBI@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Marvel and Harry Potter brain. There are good guys, and bad guys. We're always the good guys.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Trump vs Zelensky is like a switch triggered in people's brains and because it's Trump being mean to him that means Z-man is good. Fucking brainrot. It's happening everywhere. I even see "leftists" defending british military because JD Vance said we haven't been to war in 30 years. This shit causes people to turn off their brains or reveal deeply held nationalist thoughts.

[–] Lemister@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Its easier to parrot militant language than actually think militant. A lot of people still hope for the return of the "adults" - the return of a begin capitalistic society utopia where the empire has a humane face & gives them healthcare. The empire's enemy du jour is then an acceptable sacrifice to make.

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

While JD Vance was factually wrong in saying that the British military hasn't been at war for 30-40 years (they were involved in Iraq and Afghanistan), his underlying point was correct in that European armies are woefully unprepared, inadequate, understaffed and ill equipped for a war without US support, and thus no one takes European claims of "20k peacekeepers" seriously. The Gulf war and bombing of Yugoslavia should have been the warning signs for Europe. Iraq should have been their red line. But no, we are now here 22 years after Iraq and Europe has no plan, no sovereign project.

[–] niph@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

UK libs: "How dare they suggest Britain hasn't been to war? We've bombed several countries full of Slavic, brown, and Irish people who were unequipped to fight back."

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

real ww1 war credits moment (i.e. that everyone is extremely full of shit)

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You mean there are no honest and good sides in the inter-imperialist struggle for securing colonies and supremacy, and that the only way out is revolutionary socialism? If only anyone had written a book about this about 107 years ago...

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Sounds like a tankie, sorry, i will vote for my genocide-supporting socdem party