Two things you can't joke about on this website without pissing off entire countries
- The Queen of the UK
- Australians eating their beloved national animal, the kangaroo
this is the dark secret of Australia
"This little bounce-ah is called a joey"
"So cute, what do y-"
"WAY EAT IM"
They just sell it at most of the grocery stores but if you say anything about it the Australian Game Meat Industry League will immediately put out an alert
If the SPD forms a government after the German election, which polls think is pretty likely right now, you would have social democrat-led coalitions in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Germany
4/5 would be flips within the past 3 years
Europe-at-large: Spain and Portugal. Are there others? Croatia has a center-left president but not the PM
With 82% of the vote counted, Argentina's libertarians are over 13% in the city of Buenos Aires. A political earthquake resultados.gob.ar/elecciones/3/5…
This is for the primary legislative elections today, there's a general election in November. But this is going to completely change the way they're perceived in the media. The spotlight may or may not be good for them
For context, most people thought the polls were way overestimating them here, but they seem to have been *underestimated.* 11% would have been considered shocking. Though not sure whether they'll trend up or down with the remaining 18% of the vote
Argentina TV news says self-described "anarcho-capitalist" Javier Milei might take *11% and third place* in the city of Buenos Aires in today's primary elections, which would be a shock to the country
The libertarian presidential candidate fell flat on his face in 2019's primary elections despite polling somewhat well prior to the vote. So many expected a repeat of that situation, and wondered whether they'd track at all
This would be the first confirmation that libertarians are a real force in Argentinian politics, though the general election will be the real test of their support