Heyo my fellow autists! Spain news time!
Hospital's fucking fine. I'll link stats here, sumary, Houston, there are no problems.
So let's get to politics. Why god why. So. Some municipios open free as they see. Others open for excercize with limits. Limits set by age (adults from X to Y, eldery from Y to Z, kids from whatever to whichever. I didn't pay enough attention to see the hours. Overall morale is high af. Honestly. I keep saying it. If the politicians outside had been keeping their word, talking clear, and establishing clearcut dates they would not have nearly as many issues. I mean jesus christ this has been a mess of changes and improvisation. But people don't give a shit, because people know how it's going and that our idiots in charge are as unhappy about the lockdown as we are. It's a fucking wonder how much we can do when we're not busy fighting each other.
Biggest political news however is the complete and utter fucking downward spiral the spanish right has entered. They have effectively imploded to a simply inescapable degree. I am in contact with a group that up to a few days ago were staunch VOX supporters and at this point not only are they saying they have no clue if they'll even vote but I swear you'd have to see the fucking atmosphere. The right has no morale left. Their leaders have managed to destroy every last bit of lenience they had. Honestly, I hope we see some new party rise out of this, with no ex-PP baggage and without the crazyness. Maybe, just maybe, they can do it. Podemos did it for the left. Fingers crossed.
The group is not the only reason I have to think this. Here in spain there are routine census of who would win if the vote was made at a point. Of course these aren't actually that accurate. Partially due to the electoral fraud with the by mail bullshit. Partially due to the normal issues. Also in a big part because of how points are counted. Because it isn't 1 vote=1 point. It is some weird equation that amongat other things favor independist movements by giving points by autonomy, and also heavily favors the first and second party, in that order. But, that said. I took part on one today. And participants can see the result. Only partially because we only see the result of our group, but the groups are massive (only reason they are by group is due to census taking multiple days), and the result is that PSOE would get almost 50% and podemos over 29%, meaning a coalition of those 2 parties would effectively have absolute majority (>70%), which means they'd be able to rule alone even on constitutional matters. For all intent and purposes with only very minor exceptions they would be dictators for 4 years so long as they don't fight. More to the matter Vox got 11%, PP under 4%, and Ciudadanos 1%. I told you PP was plummeting. But even for Vox this is horrid. Ciudadanos is no surprise. They were a literal gay op to attempt to drain leftie vote for right wing politics. Only surprise is there's anyone still willing to vote for them.
Thing is... How could this NOT be the result? Today the right wing has been on TV for 2 reasons. First of, Diaz Ayuso (PP, chief of Junta de Andalucia. Basically Cuomo but spanish and with boobs.) Has been getting memed to hell and back over the last month due to the schoolmeals. I did not catch wind of this glorious shitfest till now and I am so sorry I did not learn about it before because it is hilarious.
You see. Public schools have meals for the kids. At least if they pay for them or have "becas comedor" saying they are poor enough to qualify for free food. You can imagine however that school being closed might put a fairly bit issue there. Thankfully spanish public schools do have protocols to send food home if there's issues. Like the kid getting sick for long periods of time, or natural disasters. That being said typically the food is still done in the school kitchens. But those are closed too. So, every autonomy has had to do their thing to fix it. Most autonomies have done relatively OK, either hiring someone competent or using public kitchens. Not madrid. Madrid has just hired the cheapest fucking option they could with no respect for quality. As you might imagine, that means the kids have been a whole month now eating nothing but fast food with coke! Yeah with coke, which at this point is a fucking meme in itself. Literally nothing but pizza and hamburger. And I mean... at least they like it I guess. But come on dude you can't feed the kids nothing but trash for months and expect not to have a massive spike in child obesity. Specially when it's the month they've spent quarantined home.
So anyway, ayuso has gotten a lot of shit over it. And has gotten offended by it, going on a demented rant about the mediterranean diet being communist propaganda (FUCKING SOMEHOW) and ending with "the kids like pizza. Not like the meals from Podemos, which are the same as in Venezuela, which is to say NOTHING!" Btw Cadiz is from podemos and I can assure you the kids from the province have been fed up to standards of mediterranean diet over here, as always, despite being one of the most impoverished provinces. Meanwhile madrid is one of the richest, so go fucking figure. But that aside, point is. How do you think the right wing has responded to this? Well poorly that's how. From adopting the typical "blame everything on Pablo Iglesias and treat him like he's the antichrist" shit that is the reason he got to prominence to begin with, to how she, as always accepts no responsibility, to so brazengly dismissing scientific data as communism, fucking somehow, again. She's Cuomo alright, and like him, she can't help but get everyone to hate her profoundly. She's had many other stunts throughout this, and they have ALL backfired. And people keep pointing out more and more than the PP and Vox love to use Venezuela as the bogeyman, but sure are happy to have businesses with fucking China, you know, the most authoritarian communist regime of today. Which is becoming a thorn in their side more and more with time.
As for the second point, while Ayuso went on her insane rant, today we also got to see Vox go absolutely buttfuck insane. Yet another of their insane rants claiming anti-corruption measures are "political persecution", trying to link everything to podemos once more despite how bad that makes them look (it's just the spanish version of Trump Derangement Syndrome really), and just endlessly rambling about 3 dozen topics at the same time like that somehow makes a point. Thing is, even when they do give a good point, they just immediately shank themselves. Here's the examples of today: they rambled about the fact spanish police spies on social media. Now, I'm the first one that really doesn't like that. You see, basically, spanish cops fight cybercrime such as telematic frauds and hackers and shit like that as much as all other cops. But they also for some fucking reason take the time to note emergent narratives such as conspiracy theories and warn of their basis and development to certain institutes so they can counter the narrative. I for one find this to be an abhorrent waste of time and money and absolutely insane level of lack of privacy. I mean for all intents and purposes they're just doing the same thing as kiwifarms except they get paid to do it. But there's a difference between anonymous autists doing it and the fucking CYBERPOLICE monitoring this shit.
Point is. Vox added criticism of this to their rambles. And I for one agree. Except they then claimed this was Podemos' doing, claimed they were censoring things, and claimed it was communist propaganda. Because what isn't communist propaganda nowadays. Now let's actually focus on the truth. First of, they don't censor anything, they only look, they don't pozload my negholep. (As I said. They literally get paid to be the farms. Lucky bastards.) This has nothing to do with comunism. (Did I even need to mention that?) And this was implemented by Aznar during his last term. Almost 2 decades ago. Aznar was from the PP, Podemos not only wasn't in the government at the time, IT DIDN'T EXIST, and Pablo Iglesias was a fucking teacher no one knew about back then. Thing is. Cops are one of the big voting blocks of the right. And they know this shit. Which is why as I said on the begining of this message, the right wing morale is basically non existent at this point. The voters are in the cycles of fucking grief by now. It's actually kind of sad. Quite simply, more and more every day they find themselves having to correct the politicians, and they're just done with it. Honestly today the group wasn't even irate or joking about it anymore, they were just straight up depressed. I am not part of the group I just get screencaps and snippets from one of the members who is a friend of mine, and fuck me, today they actually made me feel bad for the righties. I am glad they finally noticed the poiticians are fucking deranged. But they just looked defeated.
What’s up with the weird comparison to number of deaths in the Vietnam War too? That one‘s been making the NPC rounds and it makes zero sense to me, which is probably why they’re using it. Nonsensical is the name of their game.
