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It's Greece, and while it's a draconic situation, they kinda brought it on themselves. Greece was close to a full systemic collapse, almost a failed state, brought on primarily by their distaste of working. I get it, I truly truly do, but there comes a point where the country can't sustain a population that's churning out babies to retire early.

They had some kind of rule that if you had X amount of babies, you could retire. Like 6 kids by the age of 25 and the state had to fund you for the rest of your life.

Also prior to the financial crisis of 2008 they had the highest public pension of any state in the EU, letting people retire normally in their early 50s.

Like, yeah... I get it. I hate working. I fucking loathe it. But they were spending trillions they didn't have, and the blowback from that has been felt over the past 15 years and will be felt for decades to come.
That’s certainly an interpretation of the Greek crisis. Another involves the IMF and their insistence on loans that primarily serve the interests of their banking institutions in prosperous European and North American countries to crush the economies of less prosperous ones to keep them in perpetual debt.
 
That’s certainly an interpretation of the Greek crisis. Another involves the IMF and their insistence on loans that primarily serve the interests of their banking institutions in prosperous European and North American countries to crush the economies of less prosperous ones to keep them in perpetual debt.
I'm basically just regurgitating what my bestie's been explaining to me over the years, she's greek. Maybe I shouldn't take her word as gospel.
 
This one is interesting. AOC, Warnock, and the Obamas gave great speeches.
After 40 years of active political life, it takes a lot for a speech to be interesting to me. And the utter acrimony on both sides just.... wears. I'm involved in a bit of the very local, but I will not pay attention to the national level until 2028 at the earliest. At 13, my first major jump into a political campaign, I was a firebrand. At 56, after multiple campaigns, including working directly for major parties, I find I no longer have the stomach for it. And honestly? Happier for it. No longer my kink.
 
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