#bulgaria is a shitshow of a country

[sw-enev]

Hey, there. So many of you probably won't understand this song but it's pretty much spreading hate against the LGBT+ community in Bulgaria. It's literally become a slur here to refer to trans and non-binary people as "genders" (they literally took the word from English and are using it to insult people even though it doesn't make sense grammatically 🤦‍♀️).

This same artist is even promoting a petition to ban "gender agenda/propaganda" from schools with the slogan "I just like the women without penises" (I've included a pic below). Honestly, I am usually against mass reporting but this is just annoying. They always say that LGBT+ are not discriminated against but can't keep us out of their damn mouths while spewing bible verses about how "God created us in his image, male and female"

[bonksoundeffect]

The born in Eastern Europe curse of knowing you were doomed from the start

[unnervinglyferal]

List of European countries and why I hate them, in alphabetical order:

Albania - I've never heard fucking anything about the people here, do you people even do anything save for having beef with everyone else in the Balkans. Fuck you.

Andorra - I don't think this place is even a real country. It's like the size of my dick. Fuck you.

Austria - You know what you did. Fuck you.

Belarus - Sucking Russia's dick just for the novelty of getting to be featured in their ongoing cringe compilation. An utter embarrassment. Fuck you.

Belgium - If there's two things I hate, it's colonialist brutality and the fucking smurfs. Fuck you.

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Despite all the rest of their shitshow, at least the rest of the Balkans can at least agree whether they're one country or two countries. Make up your minds. Fuck you.

Bulgaria - The best thing you've got going on is the yoghurt and even that isn't as good as the greek ones. Fuck you.

Croatia - Out of all the countries in Europe whose existence I had literally forgot about, this is the oldest and the largest. How do you trace your history back to the fucking antiquity and only barely seem to exist at all? Fuck you.

Cyprus - I actually had to google to check that Cyprus isn't just a part of Greece, but apparently you gained independence from the UK in 1960? How the fuck are you in Europe and get colonized by Europe. Fuck you.

Czech Republic - Your main export is utterly unpronounceable last names. There's a reason why you can't shouldn't be allowed to put five consonants in a row. Fuck you.

Denmark - Annoyingly smug golden retriever-ass mushy-faced fucks. If I pressed my open palm into a dane's face, it would ooze through my fingers because these mushy fucks don't have bones.

Estonia - The bitter, prettier and smarter sister to Finland who is passive-aggressively better at everything but still doesn't get the same attention. Finns show up to your shores to raid the booze stores, vomit on everything, and leave, and you just let them. Fuck you.

Finland - An entire nation of spoiled ivory tower whiners who just will not understand how good they have it. The entire country would die out by mass suicide if things ever got half as bad as they are in the rest of the world. Fuck you.

France - The only reason why the french aren't known as an equal mass of colonialist brutes as the brits are is the language barrier. They're just as stupid but you'll never know what they're thinking because they consider learning another language to be beneath them. Fuck you.

Georgia - The americans stole your name and put it on a state and you just fucking let them. Now we have to hear about their utter lack of understanding of geography every single time some shit happens at your borders. Fuck you.

Germany - I'm jewish. And looking at your involvement in Israel, I'm starting to think you people don't really even care that much whose side you're on, if there's a genocide happening anywhere, you just like to be included. Fuck you.

Greece - You have like 4000 years of recorded history verifying that you've spent that entire time thinking you're smarter and prettier than anyone else in the whole world. You specifically invented the word hubris to describe yourselves. Fuck you.

Hungary - I'm pretty sure that you guys are the reason why people think all of Europe is a backwards shithole. Fuck you.

Iceland - The only reason you people can dedicate all of your time in inbreeding ponies and people is because your climate is so miserable that nobody wants to move there. Fuck you.

Ireland - Your climate is just as wet and miserable as Iceland, but you still got colonized by the english. Fuck you.

Italy - I've never met an italian who was capable of doing anything in a punctual and organized way. Imagining a whole country being run by italians seems impossible. Like having 15 cats successfully operating a tank. Fuck you.

Kosovo - What the fuck even is the Balkans. You guys don't even have your own language. Fuck you.

Latvia - Like Estonia without any of the good parts. Fuck you.

Liechtenstein - This isn't even a real country, this is just the quarantine containment where Switzerland ships the people who are too annoying for Switzerland. Fuck you.

Lithuania - The most boring of the Baltics. Fuck you.

Luxembourg - There is no way this place is fucking real. The fuck do you mean your citizens are called luxembourgers. The fuck do you mean your official language is luxembourgish. What the fuck is any of this. Fuck you.

Malta - Same thing as Liechtenstein, but for all surrounding countries around the Mediterranean sea. Fuck you.

Moldova - How and why is there a tiny-ass country the size of my dick on the border of the Balkans. How does this exist. Fuck you.

Monaco - This isn't a real country, it's a french ploy for tax evasion. Fuck you.

Montenegro - Oh won't you look at that, another teeny tiny Balkan country. Montenegrin is the stupidest name I've ever heard for a language, that sounds like a comedy bit. Fuck you.

Netherlands - Fuck your weed and fuck your bicycles. Fuck you.

North Macedonia - This also feels like a country they just made up just to make the list of European countries longer. Fuck you.

Norway - Fuck your oil and fuck you.

Poland - Your main export is far right politics and porn-addicted communist furry femboys. Fuck you.

Portugal - Spain but a little bit to the left. The only way to tell the spanish and the portugese apart is by whether they get mad when you call them spanish. Fuck you.

Romania - Get your fucking shit together. Fuck you.

Russia - Fuck you.

San Marino - Italy has two stupid little city-states as pets. This one is the one I hate less because it only contains tax evaders.

Serbia - The only thing I know about Serbia is A Serbian Film. Fuck that film and fuck you for making me remember it.

Slovakia - The wettest, saddest slavs of all the slavs of Europe. Fuck you.

Slovenia - Slovene is the second-stupidest name I've ever heard for a language. Fuck you.

Spain - I have no idea how the fuck a people who are as disorganized as italians managed to also be as competent as france and britain at colonialism. Fuck you.

Sweden - As smug and mushy as danes and as inbred as icelanders. Fuck you.

Switzerland - You know what you did. And continue doing. Fuck you.

Ukraine - You wouldn't be in this fucking situation if you hadn't trusted Soviet Union's pinky promise to never invade. A russian's promise is not worth the oxygen it wastes. You guys are cool but nonetheless, fuck you.

United Kingdom - Fuck you smug bastards for everything.

Vatican City - Italy has two stupid little city-states as pets. This one is the one I hate more because it contains the pope. Fuck you.

[homeosloven]

@balkansoul :)

This unofficial paper (sent to Charles Michel, pres of the European council, allegedly by Slovene PM Janša) was leaked by necenzurirano.si and later confirmed by various politicians of various countries. I'm not sure we know who exactly wrote it, but allegedly it was a collaborative effort between Croatia, Slovenia and others (the Slovene foreign minister confirmed the existence of other papers about the western Balkans with Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece and Cyprus co-signing). A member of the Bosnian presidency also confirmed that Slovene president Pahor asked them if they though it was possible to divide BiH in a peaceful way. In a matter of seconds, all hell broke loose, on all fronts. It was a diplomatic shitshow with Slovenia smack in the middle of it.

This is is what the region would look like (even tho idk where the west Macedonian + Corfú annexation came from)

I won't copypaste every article about it, go google some because balkan politicians and diplomats were quite furious when this came out...

Hi I am not from the Balkans but I have a question! When will Janez destroy Bosnia

well he's entering his last year of government because I'll personally kill him if he gets reelected next year so he'll have to move fast. sometime in 2021 they're gonna buff up our military so I'd say he'll try to start the war around January 2022. maybe he'll delay the elections by a year or two bc of the state of emergency but at that point we can expect another national insurgency 🤔🤔

anyway the US, EU and Russia all said they oppose any further border meddling in the Balkans so this will hopefully remain just an embarrassment for the Slovene foreign ministry

[robedepourpre]

Madam Secretary and France

Look - I’m so pissed off I don’t even know where to start...

...

Ok - first of all, I’m a huge fan of Madam Secretary. Have been since day one. I love that it talks about politics and geopolitics, and that it does so in a generally pretty nuanced way. I love that the cast is somewhat diverse. I love that they depict a loving mariage between two over-40-yo characters. I love that they tackle complicated matters. I love that they still manage to inject some humor in all of it. So, yeah. Massive fan. Love it.

And I’m usually pretty ok with overlooking some stuff that could be considered borderline, be it about african countries or Europe or the ever-all-knowing Elizabeth McCord who can do no wrong, all in the name of watching and enjoying good and smart drama. And because I get how storytelling works.

But. But. The last episode, for good that it was, has me up in arms fuming with anger.

It’s the second time lately that MSec used France as an obstacle to be vanquished by the almighty Elizabeth on her way to the end-of-the-episode resolution. And I didn’t mind when it was selling planes to Iran before reinstating the ban, because that’s exactly the kind of stuff I’m pretty sure every country would do in the name of realpolitiks. So, yeah. Fair enough. Could have been Great Britain, but we do have some great planes.

However... HOWEVER ! How can you possibly imagine the kind of shitshow that the finale was ????? Who had the idea, and why would you do it ?????

First of all - what politician in its right goddamn mind, especially in this age of technology and recording and Big Brother is Watching You, would go HIMSELF to accept a suitcase of cash from a Russian oligarch ??? I mean come on, how STUPID would he have to be ?? And yes I get that it’s easier storytelling-wise, but it could have easily been a trusted aid and it would have been slightly more believable. And I’m not even gonna touch the sheer stupidity of the “Tell the Russian president he can call me anytime” comment.

Second, there is no impeachment process in France. There is a destitution process, and it requires a reunion of both chambers and a vote with a two-thirds majority. And it has never ever been used in the last 59 years (because our Connstitution is the fifth we have and it’s been lasting for 59 years). So, before you say “impeachment” like you’re talking about you’re president... Open wikipedia.

Third, the US is the country that had a problem with Russia tampering with its elections and now has a lunatic as president. We don’t. They tried, but it didn’t work. So, please - don’t spring your problems on us and  thank you very much.

Fourth, don’t get me wrong, I get the idea of wanting to explain the importance of NATO. I get it. I do. I even agree with the sentiment. But once again, don’t spring it on us. We KNOW what NATO stands for. We are working very hard to have a European Union for basically the same ideal. We DO remember WWII and the horrors it brought. If you need to remind your American audience why they should care about NATO - have Elizabeth explain it to Congress. Not standing in a room full of european flags telling the tale of the brave american soldier who once came to rescue Italy. And that alone convincing everyone to join the US in their defense of freedom. As if the EU wouldn’t have been screaming at France in such a situation. As if no other country in NATO would have a keen interest in keeping Russia at bay - when you have Estonia standing there who was under Russian rule not thirthy years ago. As if. As if the US is not the one questioning the role of NATO. We don’t need to be reminded.

Of course, I doubt the writers of the show care. They don’t write for the French girl watching on her computer. And I’m pretty sure the American fans of the show don’t give two fucks about my outrage, and they just may be right. It’s all fiction, isn’t it ? Nobody believes something like that would actually happen, Russia didn’t invade Bulgaria, and a new French president, not named Perrin, was just elected.

Still. It got me mad. And if you’re a fan, and you stumble unto this post and read until the end... Please spare a thought and check your american privilege.