Blog Like A Conservative: Greece Edition

5:56 pm EST October 4th, 2009 | Politics | 6 Comments

OMG the socialists totally pwned the conservatives in Greece, this totally means the entire world is moving left and anyone to the right of Ralph Nader better step off!

Actually, I don’t know anything about Greek politics (I don’t even like gyros). I don’t know if this is a move to the left or right, really. And even if it is, its generally not a move that maps onto our right-left paradigm (even our liberal party is quite to the right of Europe).

Next year, you’ll probably see a lot of this with the likely victory of the Conservatives in the UK. Of course, UK conservatives make Democrats look like Birchers. Don’t expect an end to the NHS or any other British social programs. At best, they’ll be tougher on immigration and “knife crime”.

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6 Responses to “Blog Like A Conservative: Greece Edition”

  1. Matt Osborne says:
    October 4, 2009 at 6:32 pm

    In Europe, a “conservative” is what we’d probably call a “liberal” in the US.

  2. jr says:
    October 4, 2009 at 7:06 pm

    Gyros are awesome

  3. Felix Helix says:
    October 4, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    Gyros are awesome.

    Sure they are.

  4. Wilbur says:
    October 4, 2009 at 10:07 pm

    That’s just the crappy processed gyros meat they have here in the US, Felix. You’ve gotta go to Greece to get the real gyros, which only involves slaughtering cute baby pigs and slathering on a tasty layer of pigshit.

    The Greek conservative party and the socialist party differ only in how corrupt and incompetent they are, and which one is ahead on those counts varies from year to year.

    Fun language fact: “gyros”, like “kudos” is singular.

  5. Felix Helix says:
    October 4, 2009 at 10:27 pm

    So what’s the plural? Gyroses? Gyrae?

    Mmmmmmmmmmmmm. Pigshit.

  6. Tyro says:
    October 4, 2009 at 10:28 pm

    So what’s the plural? Gyroses? Gyrae?

    Gyroi