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The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo denounced that "Argentina has fallen into tyranny and assumes a democratic facade that is not enough to cover its authoritarian face," after the repression generated near the Congress in the context of the Basic Law.

Detroit local media Mass shooting at Rochester Hills splash pad: What we know, don’t know so far

Tension increases around the Argentine Congress after the country's Senate approved the Milei government's economic reform project.

Greek results for the Euro-elections are both more of the same and somewhat unique.

On the communist side (there actualy being one is already somewhat unique) KKE ,love it or hate it (or more likely be somewhere in between), continued their steady rise hitting 9.3% (vs 7.5% in the parliamentary/presidential elections) last year and basicaly double the ~5% that they were stuck at over last decade. Yeah they arent on the forefront on LGBT issues to say it lightly (tho still not to be lumped with patsocs culture warriorism, spewing hate or Russian communist party levels of social conservativism) and yeah they weirdly have almost leftcom/maoist positions regarding the Russia-Ukraine war and China. But they have survived the waves of eurocommunism, opportunism,reformism, gladio and anti-communism that have swept through the European communist and socialist scene in the last 50 years and stand today, despite their issues, as arguably the most popular and active hardline ML party in "western democracies".

On the "center-left" /socdem side more of the same. Syriza after having eaten shit and imploded in the last 1-2 years continues to stay in useless territory and got ~15%. Tsipras resigned last year and then they literaly imported some better looking Pete Buttigieg - Beto O'Rourke dude from the US but with worse politics (reaganite, campaigned for Biden in 2008) and made him the leader. Like look at this . That caused some demsocs to split and form a new party "New Left" that got 2% or smth. PASOK continues to do nothing after being Pasokified and sits at like 11-12%. Sad to see since they had a kinda cool socdem regime aura in the 70s and 80s. Varoufakis continues enjoying his internationalist demsoc larp party at ~2.5% outside of parliament.I dont hate him or anything but like 90% of Greece does ,mostly unfairly tbh, but good luck with that.

Reminder that Greece also has an active and well organized anarchist and communist sphere outside of KKE and KKE aligned orgs and unions that doesnt care or doesnt do much in elections either but is also a factor in the relative balance of politics

On the far right there has been some rise but im convinced its much less so overall compared to most of Europe. The voter/supporter pool for far right, hard-nationalist/conservative parties has been at 15-20% for a decade now. Its just that there hasnt been a unified movement or party to exploit that and coalesce that support around them and even break through. Far right is actualy quite fractured in Greece with multiple ultra orthodox, alt right grifters or neonazi parties capturing 1-5% of the votes each and the rulling New Democracy party (not Maoist sadly, 80% Macron - 20% Le Pen) also capturing some % of the fascist base. And they cant as of now act together or have coherent plans and coalitions. In these elections a far right party Greek Solution (that despite its name isnt really commited golden dawn ultra-nazi as much as grifter-orthodox fascists) did managed to rise at 9.3% , matching KKE, but i believe its mostly due to circumstance. They were at 4.5% in last years elections and another fascist party that got 4.5% as well was banned from running now because of connections/being a continuation to Golden Dawn. So they got a bunch of those votes and some ultra nationalists moved from New Democracy to them as well. Overall i still see it as yet another reconfiguration of the existing far right base that just moves to and from different parties as if they are communicating vessells for the better part of a decade now and especially after golden dawn's ban. For example a completely evangelical tier orthodox brainworms party also got 3% and some alt right grifter chick run on incel stuff and being somewhat hot and also got 3%. These parties wont exist in 5 years time and others will have taken their place. Lastly i have to note that in the north part of Greece , Macedonia etc, far right is seeing a surge and the communist party despite also gaining, is being left behind. Thats mostly a function of the whole North Macedonia name debacle that has left many, many Greek nationalists there absolutely seething and maybe something of a movement may be forming.

Lastly the rulling party , New Democracy, got ~29%. A notable drop from last years elections where it dominated with 40%. A lot of their base probably didnt care ,they are increasingly unpopular for sure and also like i said some of their far right and nationalist base moved towards smaller more hard line far right parties in this occassion since to protest against some of the Ukraine war support, Macedonia name stuff and Turkey dialogue stuff . They'll prbably be back tho

Hexbear Euro 2024 watch: Day 2

This afternoon, vs. gave us a solid 3 - 1 for Switzerland, which confirmed its underdog status, we'll definitely keep them on our map!

vs. Bad Ex- ended 3 - 1 with my #1 Spain rule: When Spain plays one good half, the next half will probably suck.

Right now we have going up against , which Italy currently leads 2 - 1.

Free streams for Italy vs. Albania here:

https://v2.streameast.to/ - reddit link aggregator, #2 Crackstreams seems good

https://plentypass.com/footy-3

https://sportos.co/italy-vs-albania/ - let me know when a stream doesn't work

(this post is updated as the day progresses)

dumb finance question: why do people even become landlords, or invest in real estate at all? everything i read about it says that the stock market always outperforms the housing market

Ancap Update:

While Argentina's congress is debating the basic law, known as the star law of the country's president, Javier Milei, outside the building, demonstrators are gathering to protest against the law.

A vehicle was burned during the act. Opposition senators say the bill gives too many powers to Javier Milei.

The government defends the bill as a way of "restarting" Argentina's economy. The bill is expected to be voted on today. The expected score is very close, and it could be approved or rejected by just one vote.

The office of the President of the Republic of Argentina posted a controversial tweet, in which they congratulate the security forces for their work outside the congress in repressing the "coup attempt" by terrorist groups outside the congress.

Opposition senators and deputies called the post "delusional" and demanded a retraction. An unusual scene took place outside Argentina's congress, when the country's senate was meeting to vote on the General Framework Law.

A man hung himself naked outside the building in protest and drew attention.

Can we please get some Hexbear Euro 24 watching going? There must be a couple comrades who are kinda into soccer.

I just want Germany to lose, but their group is probably too easy and they'll make it into the quarter final or something, which sucks.

Settlers triggered by some simple fireworks lmao

The Pashinyan regime wants to all-in in being Western lapdogs:
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/tilting-toward-west--pashinyan-announces-intention-to-exit-c

Weird twitter bug. Viewing Nollagames (developers of noita) while logged out? Newest tweet shown is 2020. Makes it look like they literally do not post. In reality their last post was 2023, looks like they quit using it because of Musk as they're still actively updating on Steam.

Anyway I don't know why Twitter has just decided to pretend all their activity from 2020-2023 doesn't exist. This is probably occurring to others as well.