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Cake day: July 11th, 2020
  • invent_the_future@lemmygrad.mltoGenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•Fellow EU tankies, is the war drum being beaten in your country as well?
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    5 months ago

    media is busy with the upcoming elections here (Portugal) but tbh I don’t think I’ve heard the “defense” narrative being pushed ever, maybe some talk once in a blue moon about bringing back obligatory conscription but other than that I think it’s too much of a small country and quite peripheral for that talk to gain traction

    also there aren’t many pockets interested in - or capable of getting it, really - “defense” money, but the defense budget increased in 2023 I’m sure, some RRF money thrown in there as well

    on the other hand I’ve never heard talk about dismantling the very strategic American base in Azores, we’re still part of NATO (founding member!) and whoever holds the belief that we shouldn’t be is ridiculed, even though we joined during our fascist era

    I believe the common conception about “defense” here is: no more, no less

  • invent_the_future@lemmygrad.mltoGenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•Thoughts on Batushka band?
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    7 months ago

    don’t particularly like them but I’ve got a peculiar taste when it comes to metal

    they’re a curious band to bring out in a leftist forum, seeing as the OG lineup had some sort of falling out and the two remaining parties formed they’re own Batushka (so I’m not even sure which one is the one that you mention)

    they also walk a fine contradiction of being, as you say, “satanic”-associated but using liturgical music/chants and imagery in their albums (it’s part of the gimmick anyway and probably the reason they got somewhat popular)