Years of neoliberal reforms, corruption and degradation of firefighting equipment and institutions means we now have to endure multiple wildfires every fucking day. It's disgusting what's happening. And you can't blame it on the weather. "But, but, it was really hot, it reached 46 degrees a few days ago" oh yeah? It reached 48C about 40 years ago, and it goes above 40C almost every year in August, It's not a fucking excuse. "But but the wind" there was no fucking wind. Literally nothing. Yesterday it was 2 on the Beaufort scale, idk how much it is today but I'm looking outside and the branches are still. The media is constantly coming up with new dumbass excuses for the failures of the government. Greece doesn't have vast forests where it's very hard to spot a fire if it starts. There's no excuse why this should be happening.
It's absolutely horrible in Athens right now, there's a massive cloud of smoke which has covered everything, and houses are burning right outside the city. Also Euboea has a bunch of fires too, as do some other smaller islands. I don't know why but Euboea burns to the ground like 3 times every fucking year recently, we desperately need guillotines for everyone responsible.
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Oof, very big story. A lot of it comes down to their aging base, and also the fact that a lot of higher ranking members are compliant with just being a parliamentary party and care more about preserving that position and making sure they don't leak voters to some other leftist party than really doing anything. The easiest problem to understand for someone who doesn't know about Greece is that they are pretty bad when it comes to LGBT+. The rest I can't explain without context. The upside is that they are the only leftist party which has a great deal of representation in labor unions (actually they have their own separate unions which is kinda... Not very smart for a few reasons but whatever) although they've made mistakes there too. Between the parties in the parliament they are the best though.
KKE is kind of an oddity because it is one of, I think only a couple old guard communist parties which have survived and not changed completely in Europe.