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Korean website saying I should either confirm or get cancer.

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Classified · M
That makes me wonder a bit. 🤔 Are remarks about some Asian people being unable to say the r and instead say the l considered racist? 😅
SW-User
@Classified It is fact since those tones are not exsitant in our language
Elessar · 26-30, M
@Classified Hmm. I'm European and I can't say an R either, lol, at least how most people pronounce it. And like me, as far as I know, pretty much the entirety of France 🤔
Classified · M
@SW-User Okay 😄
@Elessar But the r is in the name of your country 👀
Elessar · 26-30, M
@Classified I'm Italian so nope, lol, only my R is French 👀
Classified · M
@Elessar Oh, I assumed you were French, because you referred to that 😅
But you had Berlusconi, right? So that means Italy does use the r.
Elessar · 26-30, M
@Classified Don't bring back those memories 😬😅
Classified · M
@Elessar Sorry, he was flamboyant, right? 😅
Elessar · 26-30, M
@Classified Judge by yourself (zoom on him, then Obama) 😅
Classified · M
@Elessar At least he looks happy 😅
Elessar · 26-30, M
@Classified Let's say he liked girls/women a bit 🙈 and Obama surely knew 😬
Classified · M
@Elessar Obama is fearing for his wife here? 😅
Elessar · 26-30, M
@Classified Knowing the guy, a totally inappropriate comment (well, even the gesture itself) during an official event wouldn't have surprised me too much. Some say he's our Trump, character/controversies wise
Elessar · 26-30, M
@Classified
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Have fun 🙈
Classified · M
@Elessar I don't really recall him that much, but I think we joked about him here. 😅
Classified · M
@Elessar Some things were just silly, 😂 but that trusting that unsuspecting persom from behind was really bad. 😅
Elessar · 26-30, M
@Classified Or leaving Merkel on hold, to make a phone call during an official meeting 🙈😅
Classified · M
@Elessar That was more funny to me though. 😅
Elessar · 26-30, M
@Classified Because he's not your P.M. in charge when this happened, trust me xD he'd be great as a comedian, but having the entire country represented formally by a guy like this is pure madness lol
Classified · M
@Elessar Did he just not care or was he oblivious?😅
Elessar · 26-30, M
@Classified I fear that was on purpose; he plays dumb and funny but isn't dumb, he managed to stay in power like 20 years, literally creating a cult around himself. 🙈 The problem is that people believed whatever he said without the slightest sense of criticism or doubt, which now is happening in other countries too and it hurts to see just as much (and now we're paying the bill of some of his politics as well, look at our debt) 😬
Classified · M
@Elessar So he's quite cunning. 🤔

And especially my nation trying to hold back the European funds. 😅
Elessar · 26-30, M
@Classified Oh my, yeah that debate turned extremely toxic as well 😬 the good thing about the U.S. being a federation is that they can handle this kind of stuff centrally (thinking of the money go brrr meme), over here unfortunately it takes eons to reach an agreement and at the end nobody will be happy.

Another problem here is also that the term "ESM" (/"MES") has been extremely politicized, to the point that two of the most prominent populist parties even falsely accused Conte of activating it back in April (who debunked them on public TV, calling them by name) so if we'll go for that route I fear we'll end up with either one or them both leading the next elections. And I'm not sure the current govt. would survive until the natural end of the term, if that'll happen. And aside from that, a lot of people fear Troika / another Greece scenario, so whoever decides to resort on ESM will be greatly penalized, in terms of support/votes.

I've no idea where the opposition plans to take out the money, probably like pretty much always they have nothing better to propose. 🙈
Classified · M
@Elessar An agreement with nobody happy? That sounds kinda grumpy 😅😅

Euhm, sorry for asking, but what is ESM? 😳

If there is no money, they can't get it from somewhere, right? 😅
Elessar · 26-30, M
@Classified That sounds kinda European xD

The European Stability Mechanism. Essentially something designed for a geographically limited and much smaller financial crisis potentially caused by something wrong in the country itself, not a pandemic affecting more or less intensely the entire Europe/world. 🙈

I'm not joking, I've heard more than someone literally saying "we should leave the Euro and print our own money" 😑 lol
Classified · M
@Elessar Over here the coalition usually at least says they're happy with the choices. 😋

That sounds like a good mechanism if it works 😅

That did work though. Let your own currency devaluate so everything would be cheap compared to other nations and hence you'd attract tourists. 😋