The first placed was the supposedly Center Left (Partido Socialista), the second was AD - a cohalition of the Center-Right "Partido Social Democrata" and the conservative party (to were the fascists migrated post Revolution) CDS - the third was the hard neoliberal party (Iniciativa Liberal) and the fourth was Chega.
The first 3 parties are neoliberals, curiously from softer to harder (if we ignore CDS, the junior party in AD, which is a traditional conservative party rather than neoliberal) and the 4th is towards the Fascist side of the rightwing.
The Iniciativa Liberal who got 3rd place is almost as far-right as the Chega, it's just that they're from the American-style ultra neoliberal side of the far-right whilst Chega is from the Fascist side, so they're less into moralism, nationalism and statism and more into privatise everything including the National Health Service, remove all regulations and cut the top tax rates - i.e. basically replace the European style social net with the American model on steroids.
Curiously both Chega and Iniciativa Liberal grew from nothing roughly at the same time, both a few years after Steve Bannon came to Europe with money from several very wealthy Americans very openly to "expand the far-right in Europe".
This was not at all a victory against the far right because the two far right parties, Iniciativa Liberal and Chega got more seats than ever before.
You would need to be seriously deluded to think that a party whose politics are those of the fat-cat rightwing of the American Democrat party (think Finance types and Tech Bros) in an European country like Portugal is to the left of anything but the new Fascists of Chega.
Citing an internal investigation, the Chinese ByteDance-owned app said its systems correctly identified the breach, but the ads were approved due to “human error” by a moderator.
This makes it so much worse. If it were "our algorithms didn't catch it" that'd be one thing, but "our algorithms caught it but we ran them anyway" reeks of malice.
Reads to me like "oh no, our automated verification is perfect, there was just one rogue human who has been punished/corrected/re-educated so there's no way this could ever happen again, case closed"
Don't blame the Americans. They don't see that we have our own slow crawl in a race to the bottom. The EU has recognised it and pays lip service, but that organ-grinder gotta spin, spin, spin...
...but yeah, regulation wise Europeans get a ton more representation. In the US representation means which talking mouthpiece is going to serve the instituons today, and then they go do a lil insider trading - as a treat.
Probably the first one, Putin knows it’s win or die at this point. I suspect the war will touch off when NATO creates a protective zone in western Ukraine. They can mix their F-16’s with Ukrainian ones. It will be a gunpowder fuse waiting for a spark.
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