Marco Chitti

Why exactly do you need a coherent policy when you can just rotate your big hammer randomly over your head and hit whatever moves, than stop when you get tired and call it a victory to the cheering of half of the room?

Don't you know that Sun Tzu and Von Clausewitz are woke?

It pretty much has socialist aesthetic when it comes to government buildings.

And it's not like Western Europe has been governed by left-leaning parties for most of its modern history...

They formally abandoned Stalinism in 1956 (invasion of Hungary) and honestly never really were in practice even before where they governed locally. By the 1970s, they even abandoned the Soviet-led third international type of authoritarian communism pushing for the so-called "Euro-Communism"

But their coalition moved left (1960s and 70s) and right (1950s and 1980s) as a consequence of them needing to form coalitions to govern, with significant policy changes.

And the non-negligeable fact that the PCI was de facto banned from government under a not-so-veiled threat of US intervention.

That's largely because of the FPTP system, which collapses politics to the center and the management of the status quo.

In Italy, there was a saying that "we are going to die Democristiani", that is ruled by the forever centrist party.
I feel like I just moved to a country were "I'm going to die Liberal" is the best case scenario.

That's the inherent contradiction to be a left-leaning person in Canada. You feel thankful to the Liberals because they aren't the Conservatives, but you also deeply resent them for making any seriously progressive government impossible by their very existence.

Unfortunately too many people do not understand that not every country has the fiscal capacity of Scandinavia (or the US) and that in many places the so-called informal sector is a sizeable chunk of the economy which doesn't yield taxes.

The line between stupidy and opportunism can be pretty thin.

Also a "maybe the smartest people in the (media) room weren't that smart after all" moment.

It was a thing also in Italy back in the 1980s-90s.

It is indeed an apparently technically complex question but it is pretty clear who voted and supported this reform and why.

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That's already luxurious, top tier catering.

US and Canadian academics when they see the catering of an Italian or French conference.

Is a symptom of a PTSD

This might seems cute and effective, but remember that North American traffic engineers prohibit some movements from or into lateral streets only when they are under heavy stress.

It's a constitutional reform of some aspects of judiciary governance, notably by separating judges and posecutors career paths and by reforming how the CSM, a sort of parliament for the self-government of the judiciary, is elected, giving potentially more oversight capacity to the govt.

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Won't share what I voted, but in this era of governments trying to grab more power away from other constitutional checks and balances and looking at what's happening in the US with their hyperpoliticized judiciary, be assured I didn't vote to give the govt more oversight capacity over the judiciary.

Got a little gift in the mail.

Promptly filled and returned.

Yes. With buffer wagons usually. I think the latest London underground's trains were delivered by mainline rail too, in a freight consist through the Chunnel iirc.

For example: the new trains for Milan's metro spotted in various locations on mainline rail. It helps that older metro networks had direct rail connections. Not very common nowadays.

They often are. Not in North America though.

Look, the Americans turned fascists last time they had to pay a bit more for eggs.

That's enough to turn them into flesh-eating aliens if it lasts more than 3 weeks.

Icy St-Laurent

Icy tracks

Nope. Charlevoix.

The Good ICE.

Which book is this?