• @ThisIsFineDotJpeg@sh.itjust.works
    1•12 hours ago

    Not countrywide, but in Philadelphia, PA, USA, there is a city-worker strike and there is now trash everywhere. The mayor defended her proposal to the union and said “If this means I’m gonna be a one-term mayor, so be it”. Wow what a great mayor (sarcasm). Defending the decision to pay people less? Lolol. Could’ve said “budget issues” or whatever… but wtf is this “idc if I lose the next election” attitude? Fuck this shit, primary them all.

    We could’ve had a progressive, but instead, the two progressives split the primary vote and this centrist/conservative democrat got nominated and elected. What a shitshow lmfao.

    Also she said she opposed stop and frisk, but then when she ran for mayor, she said she support stop and frisk to lower crime…

    Um… okay Mayor “Flip-Flop I can’t decide my political positions” Parker. Lol

    Anyways, this is just city drama, hopefully this isn’t too political for this comm.

  • I Cast Fist
    5•1 day ago

    Brazil: the big retirement fund steal (Fraude do INSS) and how the govt is acting to try and give the old people their money back.

    In an extremely predictable twist, the right-wing is doing everything they can to paint the fraud solely as the current govt’s fault, despite them being in control from 2016-2022, years during which said fraud was already running.

  • @Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org
    11•1 day ago

    Germany: After Germany started ramping up border controls, Poland has now started stopping and controlling people coming in from Germany in retaliation.

  • aquacat
    8•1 day ago

    Croatia:

    • Thompson 0.5mill people concert was yesterday in a country with less than 4mill people, so more than 20% of people attended the concert.
    • also it is one of the biggest concerts in the world if not the biggest by tickets sold.
    • sauce in english
  • @Treczoks@lemmy.world
    6•1 day ago

    Germany:

    • Current government promised to reduce taxation on electricity “for all, immediately”, but only reduced it for large companies instead.
    • The former minister of health did some odd deals to acquire masks at the beginnig of the pandemic, which now become public.
    • Border controls to reject immigrants has been an issue between Germany and Poland.
    • LibbEnglish
      4•1 day ago

      and therefore getting shot by police.

      USA, maybe?

      • @Treczoks@lemmy.world
        6•1 day ago

        No, Germany actually. Some 2m+ fish took objection to people swimming in the lake, and caused serious bite injuries. The fish was shot by the police who had arrived to help when it got close to other people who were just leaving the water.

        • LibbEnglish
          2•1 day ago

          I was (half) expecting to be able to tease you but, well, that’s not funny, my bad. I hope there was nothing that serious as far as the bites were concerned.

          Was the heat much higher than it usually is? Could that explain the resistivity of the fish? I’ve often wondered how the extreme heat waves would impact animals around us.

  • Justas🇱🇹
    4•1 day ago

    Political scandal involving our current prime minister and his funding sources, that seem like cutbacks or getting paid for money laundering.

      • Justas🇱🇹
        4•1 day ago

        The people who do the investigations are reputable if not always likeable. But we’ll see what the government investigation reveals.