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.
How is the 17n guy doing? Still alive or?
Yeah he stopped the hunger strike eventually because the government didn't budge. Soon we'll probably all die due to massive wildfires though. At this point he should probably get out and do a terrorism ASAP.
Are they still paranoid about copycats?
Um, I don't think so? It's been a while since something similar to what they used to do happened.
I thought his transfer to high security prison was something of new democracy (or whatever the party is called?) paranoia about that? Or pure retaliation?
Retaliation, 17N has been history for like 15 years or so. Also slop for their voters. BTW 17N killed this prime minister's brother in law, who was also the father of the mayor of Athens, so obviously they were big on retaliation. Ironically they killed the least bad member of that family.