grandepequeno [he/him]

I don’t do it because here in portugal it’s very common to do it, and it feels gauche because they’re literally our biggest trading partner

The NFP getting first place was “good”, just not the outright win that people starved for good news and temperamentally excitable leftists were claiming it was, and it’s probably still too soon to tell whether it was worth bundling the left with the socialist party like that in the first place.

Still, electoralism and good municipal governance got the KPO a base in the city of Graz and seems to have turned their 0.7% in the last elections to a 2-3%, if they keep it up they might have better luck next time

From the latest Michael Roberts on Austria

The rise of the FPO is not new. The FPO was junior partner to the OVP in the government of the 2010s. But this fell apart when both parties were involved in a corruption scandal that brought down the government and its FPO chancellor in 2019.

Austria has only 9 million people, but over the past decade the country has taken in more refugees per capita than any other EU country, fueling the FPÖ’s resurgence. The FPO has now evolved into a kind of anti-migrant, anti-Islam ‘populist’ party, as seen elsewhere in Europe. The FPO wants to end immigration and ‘remigrate’ immigrants to their ‘home’ countries. “Remigration is long overdue!” proclaims Kickl. The FPO also hints at leaving the EU, or “Öxit,” an Austrian-style Brexit.

But as elsewhere in Europe, the rising support for hard right anti-immigration parties is as much to do with the stagnation in the major economies and high inflation eating into living standards. It can be said that if Germany has a cold, Austria will get the flu. And Germany is suffering from a very heavy cold for its economy right now. As a result, the spillover to Austria is heavy.

Austria’s real GDP growth is stagnating at best. Indeed, ironically, if it were not immigration (+6.3% in 2011-2020), real GDP would have fallen sharply, as the domestic population is shrinking and ageing. Austria will have the third highest old-age related costs in the European Union as a percentage of GDP by 2030.

Moreover, Austria is still experiencing high inflation, averaging 4.2% over the past 12 months, surpassing the EU average. Inflation remains high because Austria has been forced to reduce its imports of cheap Russian gas as part of EU sanctions against Russia over Ukraine. Austria is caught in the middle over trade with Russia and with Western Europe.

The economy was in outright recession in 2023. The Austrian central bank, the OeNB, now expects the economy to ‘stabilise’ this year, with real GDP up by just 0.3. Even that looks optimistic. Austria’s GDP fell 0.6% Q2 2024, following a downwardly revised 1% contraction in the previous Q1. Recession continues.

From the latest Michael Roberts on Austria

The rise of the FPO is not new. The FPO was junior partner to the OVP in the government of the 2010s. But this fell apart when both parties were involved in a corruption scandal that brought down the government and its FPO chancellor in 2019.

Austria has only 9 million people, but over the past decade the country has taken in more refugees per capita than any other EU country, fueling the FPÖ’s resurgence. The FPO has now evolved into a kind of anti-migrant, anti-Islam ‘populist’ party, as seen elsewhere in Europe. The FPO wants to end immigration and ‘remigrate’ immigrants to their ‘home’ countries. “Remigration is long overdue!” proclaims Kickl. The FPO also hints at leaving the EU, or “Öxit,” an Austrian-style Brexit.

But as elsewhere in Europe, the rising support for hard right anti-immigration parties is as much to do with the stagnation in the major economies and high inflation eating into living standards. It can be said that if Germany has a cold, Austria will get the flu. And Germany is suffering from a very heavy cold for its economy right now. As a result, the spillover to Austria is heavy.

Austria’s real GDP growth is stagnating at best. Indeed, ironically, if it were not immigration (+6.3% in 2011-2020), real GDP would have fallen sharply, as the domestic population is shrinking and ageing. Austria will have the third highest old-age related costs in the European Union as a percentage of GDP by 2030.

Moreover, Austria is still experiencing high inflation, averaging 4.2% over the past 12 months, surpassing the EU average. Inflation remains high because Austria has been forced to reduce its imports of cheap Russian gas as part of EU sanctions against Russia over Ukraine. Austria is caught in the middle over trade with Russia and with Western Europe.

The economy was in outright recession in 2023. The Austrian central bank, the OeNB, now expects the economy to ‘stabilise’ this year, with real GDP up by just 0.3. Even that looks optimistic. Austria’s GDP fell 0.6% Q2 2024, following a downwardly revised 1% contraction in the previous Q1. Recession continues.

From 0.7% in the last election

They’ve done very very well one specific locality(which is a big city). We’ll see in a few hours if that performance gets them into national parliament I really hopr it does

IIRC this mouth breather was never personally popular, people just wanted to vote out the tories

In other news, this sunday there are legislative election in Austria and the far-right FPO is leading the polls with 25-29%, here’s the new Michael Roberts on Austria. The communist party of Austria, which currently holds the mayorship in Austria’s second largest city of Graz, “could” re-enter parliament for the first time since 1959 since it’s polling at 3-4% and the treshold to enter parliament is 4%

So, like, from Satanyahu’s point of view, this is the time to accept a ceasefire and hostage deal right?

The whole personal point of continuing the wars for him is that he’s in trouble with the law and a lot of people didn’t like him, but now with these successes in Lebanon his party is leading the polls again, and the AJ+ guy on the latest chapo said that (and this was BEFORE killing Nasrallah) he was the most popular politician in Israel again, so if he starts moving towards accepting a ceasefire while he’s a ugh “”“hero”“” to israelis won’t that mean they’ll think twice before prosecuting the man who “saved northern israel”?

If Israel strikes Iran like this I’ll raise the probability to an 8

5, I really think the resistance knows that the US will 100% defend Israel militarily if they launch a real assault on it.

I switched from subs to dubs (whenever the option is available) years ago and a this point I couldn’t tell you there’s any difference in “quality”, it’s just a different way of watching the show, do you want to watch a show where people speak like cartoon characters but you don’t recognize it because you don’t speak the language and also you gotta read subtitles or do you want to watch a show where people speak like cartoon characters and you can recognize it because you speak english and it will be cringe until it’s not anymore.

Anyway Delicious in Dungeon was really good, Frieren I didn’t watch but I saw that they gave her a deep voice in the dub and that’s 10000% better than a young sounding voice for that character. Cowboy Bebop is famous for it’s superior dub. If you liked Dragon Ball you can pick one of the modern Fight/Battle animes like Demon Slayer, JJK or Mha.

There’s “March comes in like a lion” which is a drama about a kid who plays Shogi, which also has a great dub

What does he think about Portugal?

Omg I had to look up if this was real (literally googled “the curse the blessing”), he’s so fucking childish

Harry Potter is the exception

Good, the hold this party has (or used to had) on the youth fucking sucks, of course Die Linke is barely around anymore to pick them up but I’m always glad when green (in 2 ways) leftists wake up to reality about green parties (especially this one)

Why does the old version look more textured and detailed than the new?

I hope these guys settle it out

That can’t be accurate though right? Like, when you account for people entering the country (legally or illegally) is the population really still declining?

That would be BANGER

There is a guy on youtube who did an audiobook himself, though he switched versions of the translation mid-reading and says he’ll go back to redo the earlier chapters which is what I’m waiting before hearing it