It's gonna be extremely funny when people find out that it's the Ligma Federation buying all these weapons

Elections in portugal today, I'm not looking at exit polls right now but I want to share a funny thing that's happening, there were media reports about people who intended to vote for the center right coalition called "democratic alliance" (AD) accidentally voting for an extra parliamentary even more right wing party called "national democratic alternative" (ADN) because they mistake ADN for AD, it's just silly but apparently its making AD people nervous because there are now several calls by figures from the coalition to RECOUNT THE VOTES THEY'RE STEALING (accidentally) THE VOTES. The national electoral commission already said they're not going to touch the issue today and it'd be pretty funny if the amount of votes lost to this party which isn't even in parliament (and might get in because of this) actually makes a difference in the final outcome.

Personally I think the media is overblowing this.

EDIT: Results are coming in, it's not good folks

EDIT2: Also the media wasn't overblowing the ADN thing they got, like, 100k votes while being completely unknown

Elections in portugal tomorrow, lots of my comrades are optimistic but personally I'm bracing for impact, the communist party has been hammered for 2 years for its anti-nato position on russia-ukraine and for opposing arms shipments, even now the media doesn't shut up about that even though the general secretary has been campaigning hard on wage increases and the cost of inflation all over the country. Plus the socialist party has been in power for 9 years so there's a lot of tiredness with the left, also there's a new eurocuck green party that certainly is going to take a chunk from the anti-EU left (BE and PCP). The far right will surely get 3th place with at least 10-12%, and the center right social democratic party made a coalition with the very right wing christian democrats which is not even in parliament anymore and also with, incredibly funnily, the monarchist party in a coalition called "Democratic Aliance" which is a rehash of an 80s coalition with the same name and parties, so far they say that they won't make a deal with the far right to govern but it's hard to see how there can be a right wing majority without the far right. The market radical liberals are probably going to maintain their 5%

The socialist party's leader has the reputation of being in the left wing of the party (and he was caught on hot mic during the debt crisis saying "I don't give a fuck about our creditors we can drop the atomic bomb and say let's not pay") but he's made the whole party support him by talking to the right and center while also saying he wants a left majority and make a deal with the left parties like in 2015-2019 with the "geringonça". If that happens so be it, it would be better than a right wing government, but I'm skeptical that the left parties can get the major parts of their program done though a socialist party government, like housing, wages and especially important for the communist party union laws.

Polls have the right and left very close but polling has failed bigly in the last elections not predicting the socialist party absolute majority.

I got a question for everyone here, in your country/region/state is the 4 day work week being talked about very often in the media or by center-left political figures?

I ask because for whatever reason this shit has really taken off here in Portugal to the point where they got my old former maoist uncle telling me "you're only going to be working 4 days soon!".

And I mean yeah I'm all for it, except that the way it's being pushed is not with "fuck the bosses we deserve to work less" and an associated mass movement (the communist friendly labour union approves it but they don't have the power alone to do it), it's with very technocratic arguments about productivity increases, sometimes mentioning the human worth of free time and recurring to the handful of limited experiments which are always successful, basically in the logic of "no class war here this is actually good for everyone!", which I don't know if that's true, feels like employers would 100% get fucked with this (unless they get to cut wages or increase work hours).

I already mentioned some of the reasons I'm skeptical this will ever actually be implemented anywhere, but another big one is that here in Portugal it's implicit in this idea of the 4 day work week that it has to be the center-left (often much closer to the center than the left) "socialist" party which has been in power for 9 years (and might get booted in next sunday's elections), and this is crazy because there's no way they would actually do this it doesn't matter how many studies are comissioned saying it's great policy that would favour anyone, like, WE WILL WORK LESS, idk how this can be discussed technocratically yes I'm sure some professions (mine included but probably not my way of working specifically) will 100% probably have increased productivity, but will everyone? To the point where the right and employers actually accept this? I can't see it.

So is the 4 day work week being discussed and debated positively in your country or is it still a fringe left idea?

Edit: Thank you all for the responses!

This is fake

Local media here is giving huge Ws to the ukranians because of some shit on the black sea, so what's going on are they doing well there? And how does it affect the rest of the front?

Why did I read this like Lois Grifin?

Radio War Nerd had Ben Aris on again to recap how the sanctions war is affecting Russia, the fastest growing economy in Europe.

Nuff said

Fethishizing violence is the easiest way to identify a childish leftist

Oh man this is going to make for a great bit

No way, Rachel Jake's podcast?

From al jazeera

“We believe that it is absolutely an attainable goal for the Israeli military forces to degrade and defeat Hamas’s abilities to conduct attacks inside Israel. It can be done militarily,” Kirby said.

“Are you going to eliminate the ideology? No. And are you likely going to erase the group from existence? Probably not.”