>>18110241. Regions are a problem in and of itself. They are too big to be a proper form of local government - with
local as in you can get by car/train/bus/horse/camel anywhere in the jurisdiction they cover in no more than an hour - and at the same time their size can push local politicos to ask for more autonomy - meaning
autonomy for them to keep their dirty deeds going, while effectively fucking the vast majority of people up.
2. Veneto - a modern made-up name obviously coming from Venice - is undoubtedly one of the most right-leaning parts of the country, they have a very strong small-business and petty-boss-oriented ideology, having obviously that kind of economic structure to begin with. They have been dominant for decades there, even if occasionally the local libs - what is called
centre-left here - can take control of some large towns.
No doubt they are very racist, at least in words. And they don't stop at uyghur$ and other
visible minorities, they often openly hurl insults at Southerners, which is not so uncommon in the North in general, but they also tend to blather about muh Most Serene Republic of Venice and show a superiority complex because of their relative economic wealth.
3. Tuscany is at best a very pale pink and lib region. Right-wingers talk about reds and communism whenever they perceive something that slightly put them off, even if it's just barely centrist liberalism. In truth, the old communist party used to be dominant in regional governments there and in a couple other bordering regions as long as it existed and the old party system was on, but when we entered the neoliberal era - the
democratic party started losing its grip on power - courtesy of systematically dismantling the public services and social protections they had previously enacted. That said, I'm not an expert on Tuscany, but in recent years, aside from the share of the vote going to the dp and its allies being in costant decline, right-wing parties have taken control of several cities on the municipal level.
>>1811042Too bad. It used to be the Warsaw Pact's Silicon Valley. Also, some amazing scenery, I remember a tv series about some strange ritualistic murder happening in the Rhodopes. Awesome landscape.
>>1811061If you mean libs, they'll only spew even more bullshit like "this wouldn't happen if Europe was stronger!" or "thank God for Europe, otherwise we would be like Hungary/Poland(not anymore, apparently)/Turkey/Belarus/Russia!". But if you mean anyone credibly oriented to the left, then pretty everything everywhere should do the trick. Just think about the lunatic asylum that is tv, with this 24/7 talk shows and the parade of disturbing individuals they put up.
>>1811062The Great Satan is the worst of the worst in every of its states. End of.
>>1811074Veneto is in some respect our Texas. And I'll leave it at that.
As far as spaghetti, they are without a doubt a better and tastier food than anything you usually have in your desolate and grim country, I bet. You are what you eat. And if you eat crap…
>>1811127I guess they are more picturesque because of their stereotypical character - loud and prone to very fun curses - and their tirades about muh past greatness of Venice, but Lombardy is equally bad. It's just that people there are tepid and quieter.
>>1811137I am of the opinion that anything between ten and one hundred thousand people being very publicly sent to the gulag for exactly ten years - I like my powers of ten - should dissuade basically everyone else from engaging in their usual shenanigans for a very long time.