Hot damn, I thought I was the only person with a George Soros tattoo! At least his doesn't have Yosemite Sam (enemy of liberty).

Trump is making poker players agreeable again

More on the Franco bull****

Wtf is Spain's deal? I had no idea Franco was buried in some huge ****ing space emperor tomb. Honestly I know almost nothing about the country as it exists today - are things really this bad there?

Damn, time for another Spanish Civil War.

¡Por Una Humanidad Libre!
¡¡Por La Anarquia!!

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Proud Boys are now an extremist group officially. Not quite Trump news, but I guess this is the thread for it.

*now

Yeah, typo.

There are people in Spain (mostly Catholic olds and young fascists) who wish that Franco's dictatorship was still alive. Others absolutely despise the regime and are grateful for democracy.

As for Spain, they've been in a ****ty economic situation since the bank crash. They haven't bounced back like much of the rest of the world has. They're more like Greece when it comes to that.

Another issue in Spain is that Catalonia has a pro-separatist political party in power and they tried to hold a referendum to separate from the crown which led to riots and protests against the Spanish police who sought to close down the voting booths there.

The demarcation between pro and anti Franco also has a strong geographical element, with a lineage from the conquistadors of Castilian Spain to Franco's Madrid.

Have a 15 year old pursuing an advanced "IB" degree. Her AP govt or social studies teacher is a full blown deplorable who doesn't even try to hide it.

Dude last week made them do a media bias assignment of some type and kid, being bold and well informed, focused on Fox News. Dude FAILED HER, 0%, stating he had used Fox in class as an example of unbiased news and that she should have known better.

She's literally #1 in her class of 600, hasn't ever had an A-, but this assignment was 10% of her grade meaning the 0% virtually assures she'll lose her status as top of the class. School is very low income, and I'm told these IB programs are internationally put at the schools to skew student performance numbers.

So yeah, dude might have assumed she had no support at home but dad and mom are both partners at a law firm and lost their ****ing **** upon hearing what happened. I'm so, so excited to hear how this plays out next week.

Wow 0%. Deplorables are so dumb and lack any kind of subtlety. No one gets 0% on completed assignments in high school. Students turn in utter garbage papers in high school, with half written at a third grade level, the other half written at a PhD level because it was plagiarised, and the student still gets a B-. Giving a zero clearly calls a job-threatening amount of attention to yourself. Hope the guy gets owned by some lib superior at the school.

What an utterly ridiculous story. Another one for the it's always projection bin. I bet the guy is real concerned about brainwashing on university campuses by liberal proffesors.

sign me up for the schadenfreude when this guy gets fired pls

So much this. Dude will be lucky if it ends at him getting fired.

speaking of schadenfreude, and at the risk of an aids-inducing literary derail, a german poker friend of mine told me once that it's actually not a common term/expression in germany.

Your poker friend is wrong.

Yeah, if you're not already, I encourage you to shop this story to liberal media outlets, this is incredibly compelling.

Sounds like a cool kid, I never would have had the balls to do that at 15.

DiB, that story is incredible. You're kid sounds smart and she's lucky to have parents like you. Please keep us posted as this develops.

He'll get a cush job at Fox or Breitbart.

This. You've stumbled upon a perfect example of the conservative projection that happens all day every day. Get this story in front of as many eyeballs as you can.

**** like that makes my blood boil

he's from ockfen, which is a pretty small town, yea? maybe something regional with the dialect going on here? i used the term one time and he looked at me funny and acted kinda dumbfounded and told me he'd never heard anyone say it before.

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Don‘t know what ockfen is supposed to be. Aachen?
But Schadenfreude definitely is a „common“ German word in that I would expect everyone to understand it. It might be of a slightly old-fashioned/ more poetic register, so fewer people will have it in their active vocabulary, but that doesn’t make it „uncommon“.

nah. https://www.google.com/maps/place/54...51!4d6.5878244

maybe that's what he was trying to say and it just came out wrong because he wasn't super fluent in english yet