Election Fever/Exiled socialists

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If my candidate doesn’t make it and the current president is reelected( this time openly supported by the far right) I am thinking of emigrating to another country. anyone willing to let me crash at their place for a few days or weeks till i get accustomed in your country and find some illegal work?: I can pay in sex or in massages depends, and im a fast learner when it comes to chores

that semi( semi because i will probably leave) serious comment aside, election fever seems to have swooped many countries. i dont even have time to follow the world news, and mot of the time im on the pc is to type stuff or to convince leftists and “liberals”(libertarians) to vote for the leftist candidate, or at least not vote for the current president. what’s going on in america? who has election fever? i can’t even sleep at night now, with the first round this Sunday and second round the following. phew… now i’m off soon for more lobbying in my university

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Liberals and libertarians are completely different, and if they’re leftist then they naturally would be voting for a leftist candidate.

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Are you talking about Bush getting reelected?

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The far right? Wow, harsh!

I’ll have a free corner in my lounge from the end of Feb (my bro is utilising it at the mo :unamused: ) you’d be more than welcome: minus the payment in sex or massages, but chores would be more than welcome: although my house is very minimalist, so the main chore we’d be doing is going for a drink in the local bar… :smiley:

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Oh man, see this is what getting tied to a family gets you, missing that drink at an English pub. Darn it. Oh well. at least I can open the fridge and pull a cold one out :laughing: I do wish my guys would practice minimalism, instead they practice packratism :laughing:

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Kris, you’d be more than welcome at mine, and there’s a pub or bar every 2nd building here, so a pub-crawl would surely be in order! :smiley: Just tell them you’re going out for a pint of milk, and then call them and tell them you’ll see them in a month… :laughing:

…think about it!

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That is so tempting. If I had the money and a passport it would be even more tempting. :laughing: :laughing:

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“liberals” in america is generally anyone slightly left leaning. plus libertarian doesn’t exist as a word in greek it means the same as liberal, in europe it is whoever is liberal in social issues and supports free market capitalism

ok mags dont be suprised if i ask to take up on your offer in the near future

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Kris / Stoned-K: just let me know when to be expecting you! :slight_smile:

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When I win the lottery you can expect me after that. Just for the brews it would be interesting to go there, Scotland and Ireland. Taste testing the many fine lipsmacking brews… if Guiness there tastes anything like it does here I will pass on that brew, thankyou. :laughing:

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Guiness here, is just as bad-tasting as the guiness everywhere! :-& I’m rooting for you to win that lottery, Kris! :wink:

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voting starts in 6 hours. i can’t sleep

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So why do people drink such a nasty thing? Our boy does he states he likes it. I must have given him defective taste buds. #-o

Yea, some pessimistic cold person told me I would actually have to buy tickets in order to get a chance at winning… HaH! If I am meant to win it I will. Now that is optimism at its highest :laughing:

I generally wait for the right gut feeling to try things of a gambling nature. It has limited pay offs. If I don’t wait, I may as well use my money as TP. :laughing:

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The incumbent president is out of round 2 :smiley:

now round 2 is between the 2 arch nemeses!

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I’m glad for you, Stoned-K, but was also looking forward to going on a few bar-crawls with you - well, we should still hook up whenever you’re in London! :wink: I like that we have common ancient ancestry! :smiley:

Will PM you my mobile no., but I don’t know what the UK dialling code is (I think it’s +44) :-k

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hehehe 6.5 hours till celebration. i worked my ass off in the pre election campaign this week. got a few converts in my neighbourhood( which is traditionally a “communist” stronghold). p.m it to me if you want :wink:

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Keep us posted kazak, what’s happening with the election? I’m a little nervous myself!

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Just PM’d you it! Feel free to text… :wink:

Sounds like all your hard work is paying off? Have a celebratory drink for me…

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Christofias Wins Cyprus Election

NICOSIA, Cyprus, Feb 24–Communist party leader Demetris Christofias won the presidential election in Cyprus on Sunday, a result set to give a major boost to efforts to reunify the island after 34 years of division.

Parliament speaker Christofias, 61, garnered 53.36 percent of the vote against 46.64 percent for conservative former Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides, according to final results of an election billed by the local media as one of the most crucial in the history of Cyprus.

Christofias has pledged to renew contacts with the rival Turkish Cypriots in a bid to end the partition of the strategic eastern Mediterranean island after negotiations stalled under outgoing president Tassos Papadopoulos.

Kasoulides, a 59-year-old MEP who won the first round a week ago when voters dumped Papadopoulos, had conceded defeat shortly before the final results were known.

Crowds outside the Nicosia headquarters of Christofias’s AKEL party were celebrating victory, waving Cyprus flags emblazoned with the logo “Just society” and shouting “AKEL, AKEL, AKEL” as car horns were blaring across the capital.

Christofias’s victory makes him the European Union’s sole communist head of state and makes Cyprus the only European country with a communist president apart from ex-Soviet Moldova – over 16 years after the Soviet Union collapsed.

Cyprus has been divided along ethnic lines since Turkish troops invaded in 1974 in response to a Greek Cypriot coup aimed at union with Greece. However, a UN peacekeeping force has been deployed on the island ever since communal unrest first broke in 1963.

Christofias – whose AKEL party is the largest in Cyprus – was barely 1,000 votes behind Kasoulides in the first round, but had since won the endorsement of three smaller parties that had backed Papadopoulos.

Cyprus has no post of prime minister and executive power rests essentially with the president who is elected for a five-year term.

Christofias and Kasoulides alike vowed to accelerate negotiations with the Turkish Cypriots, which were deadlocked under Papadopoulos’s leadership.

VICTORY!

Saw the historic celebratory speech!

Round 1 for all us commie scums :laughing:

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Congratulations!