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I'm still not used to how Europeans say "the government has collapsed&… | |
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@0xabad1dea With how this govt was running, it's likely nothing will change… | |
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@0xabad1dea Around the time of the 2008 financial crisis, Belgium didn't ha… | |
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@pndc this ties into the same fundamental terminology difference, because when … | |
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@0xabad1dea yeah it doesn't translate real well. "The government has d… | |
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@silhouette @0xabad1dea "Politicians get some PTO" | |
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to clarify a little further: when Europeans say "the government", the… | |
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@0xabad1dea I feel like in this sense a more accurate thing for us Europeans to… | |
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@kybernoita @0xabad1dea almost, it's the House (Tweede Kamer) that has coll… | |
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@0xabad1dea How about: The Cabinet has fallen | |
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@0xabad1dea not sure it actually even is an inconvenience in this case đ | |
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@0xabad1dea Quite. | |
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@0xabad1dea Yeah for us it's a synonym for "the cabinet coalition has … | |
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@0xabad1dea In basically all Europe, president doesn't have the ultimate po… | |
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@0xabad1dea At least in Dutch the distinction can be made between "regerin… | |
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@ochtendgrijs @0xabad1dea it's almost the exact same words/concepts in Swed… | |
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@0xabad1dea Yet too many Europeans can't tell the difference between the go… | |
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@buherator it is the other way around, Europeans understand fully well that the… | |
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@0xabad1dea oh yeah, I heard about what we could call the government x administ… | |
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@0xabad1dea Governments collapsing and new ones being formed should be the defa… | |
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@Infoseepage you're not wrong, but this is largely a difference in terminol… | |
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@0xabad1dea donât worry about that, itâll get better with time, Dutch colla… | |
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@xgebi @0xabad1dea Australia would like a word. | |
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@jkb even though the old one has limited responsibilities at that moment. @0xab… | |
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@jt_rebelo @buherator @0xabad1dea Government means different things in the US (… | |
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@Squig @jt_rebelo @buherator @0xabad1dea because of how often this happens in I… | |
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@xfranky @jt_rebelo @buherator @0xabad1dea I think it really is a different mea… | |
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@0xabad1deaYou probably should know that brawls and fist fights in parliaments … | |
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@[email protected] it just does that sometimes | |
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@0xabad1dea The French government often gets dissolved and I kind of love that … | |
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@outadoc @0xabad1dea That gave me flashbacks to Judge Doom dissolving in the Di… | |
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@0xabad1dea I honestly love that it can happen though, I think it's healthy… | |
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@0xabad1dea maybe even an event that can have positive connotations | |
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@0xabad1dea That would be the collapse of the civil service, who do all the act… | |
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@petealexharris we Americans don't really make that distinction; the masses… | |
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@0xabad1dea I think what we europeans call "government" is what you&#… | |
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@0xabad1dea the US debt ceiling being raised and the headlines when there's… | |
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@0xabad1dea though I admit "government has collapsed" sounds a bit mo… | |
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@0xabad1dea I think the closest American word is "administration". Th… | |
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@kybernoita @0xabad1dea "government" is generally not the same as &qu… | |
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This âŹď¸ @Squig thank you. @buherator @0xabad1dea | |
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@0xabad1dea Thatâs democracy for you. I still get weirded out by people whose… | |
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@0xabad1dea Yeah. I expect the distinction between having a dysfunctional legis… | |
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@Squig @jt_rebelo @buherator @0xabad1dea that makes sense | |
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@0xabad1dea I love how I learn today's news from this very mastodon post ďż˝… | |
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@0xabad1dea The same. I thought it was so weird to hear when I first moved to U… | |
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@0xabad1dea As European, you are correct. | |
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@0xabad1dea I remember being taught in school that before fascism Italy went th… | |
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@jt_rebelo @0xabad1dea Yes, the system works this way fortunately. But talk to … | |
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@buherator or raised the social budget (pensions, unemployment benefits, etc.).… | |
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@0xabad1dea i found out through this | |
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War doesn't sound very civil to me.@[email protected] | |
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@0xabad1dea We have recalibrated and we like it!Apocalypse only happens on the … | |
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@petealexharris @0xabad1dea In my experience, "government" doesnât … |