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Old 12.08.2019, 07:53 PM   #42275
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This is the austrian president holding up a polar bear plushie. No particular reason for posting this. It's just weirdly adorable taken out of context.

 



And now for the context, if anyone wants to know: He used the plushie as a visual device to talk about the plight of many species due to the drastic climate change. I look at pictures like that and it's a stark contrast to the re-elected Conservative Party chancellor (the president being a former member of the Green Party, now a left-leaning independent that however does what the austrian president is expected to do - representation, being calm and collected, generally not interfere too much) who's just a neoliberal on steroids who had many disgusting flirtations with the far right. At least those far right fuckers have lost a good amount of votes during the last election, creating the possibility that the government will enter into a coalition with a party that's more, well, sane. So, there's that. No doubt that whoever will take the mantle will also certainly take the fall once another scandal surrounds that wannabe-Gordon Gekko though.


Now, with all that heavy context it's still an oddly adorable image.
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